Haw
Appearance
Haw or HAW may refer to:
Fruit
[edit]- many species of hawthorn (Crataegus)
- Haw flakes, Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn, Crataegus pinnatifida
- several species of Viburnum, including:
Places
[edit]- New Haw, a village in Surrey, England
- Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River in north central North Carolina
- Hawaii, United States
- Haverfordwest Aerodrome, in Pembrokeshire, Wales (IATA airport code)
People
[edit]- Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), English entomologist and botanist with standard author abbreviation Haw.
- Horace Tabor (1830–1899), American prospector, businessman and politician
Surname
[edit]- Brian Haw (1949–2011), protester in London's Parliament Square
- Chris Haw (born 1981), American writer
- Jack Haw (1902–1975), Australian rules footballer
- Jesse Haw (born 1971), American businessman and politician
- Johannes Haw (1871–1949), German Roman Catholic priest
- Robbie Haw (born 1986), English footballer
- Stephen G. Haw (born 1951), English botanist
- Haw Tua Tau (1941–1982), Singaporean hawker and convicted murderer
Characters
[edit]- Miriallia Haw, a fictional character in the anime Gundam SEED
Other uses
[edit]- Chin Haw, Chinese people who migrated to Thailand
- Haw wars (1865–1890), fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg)
- Hawaiian language
- Hawthorn railway station, Melbourne
- Supreme Court of Hawaii, in legal documents
- Heavy Airlift Wing, an international airlift organization
- Nictitating membrane, a transparent or translucent third eyelid on the eyes of some animals
- Sissipahaw or Haw people, a former tribe of the Siouan speaking Nations in the American Southeast
See also
[edit]- Haw. (disambiguation)
- Hawthorn (disambiguation)
- Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce, 1906–1946), Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II