A&W, AW, Aw, aW or aw may refer to:

Companies

  • A&W Restaurants
  • A&W Root Beer
  • A&W (Canada)
  • Addison-Wesley, publishers
  • Africa World Airlines, IATA code
  • Prefix for helicopters made by AgustaWestland
  • Alienware
  • Allied Waste Industries, Inc, stock symbol on NYSE
  • Armstrong Whitworth, a British manufacturing company

Media and entertainment

  • AW (album), 2025 album by Danish singer Annika
  • Accel World, a Japanese light novel series
  • Active Worlds, a 3D virtual reality platform
  • Another World (TV series), an American soap opera
  • Athletics Weekly, a monthly track and field magazine published in the United Kingdom
  • Aviation Week, magazine
  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, an action video game

People

  • A. H. Weiler (1908 – 2002), The New York Times film critic whose early reviews were signed with his initials A. W.
  • A. W. (poet), anonymous 16th century poet
  • Abraham Washington (A. W.), American professional wrestler and wrestling commentator
  • Alan Walker (born 1997), English-Norwegian music producer and DJ
  • Aw (father), honorific title in the Harari and Somali languages
  • Aw (surname), a Cantonese surname
  • John-Allison Weiss, an American singer-songwriter formerly known as A. W.
  • Andy Warhol, a leading figure in the pop art movement.

Places

  • Ahrweiler (district), Germany, vehicle registration code
  • Aruba (ISO 3166-1 2-letter country code AW)

Science and technology

  • .aw, the internet top level domain country code for Aruba
  • Airwatt, a unit of the effectiveness of vacuum cleaners
  • Aw, categorization for tropical savanna climate in the Köppen classification system
  • AW, in German email subject line, equivalent to Re:
  • aw, or attowatt, an SI unit of power
  • aw, or water activity, the relative availability of water in a substance

Other uses

  • Agencja Wywiadu, the Polish foreign intelligence service
  • Ahnapee and Western Railway, A&W
  • Arctic Warfare, a sniper rifle
  • Anthony Wayne Local School District, an American school district in Ohio
  • Aviation Warfare Systems Operator, a rating in the United States Navy
  • Aw, a digraph in Latin-script
  • A US Navy hull classification symbol: Distilling ship (AW)

See also

  • Av