HP may refer to:

Businesses, groups, organisations

  • Hewlett-Packard, an American technology company founded in 1939 and split in 2015
  • HP Inc., the descendant company formed in 2015 from the split, focusing on PCs and printing
  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise, a new company created as a result of the split in 2015, focusing on corporate systems
  • HP Foods, British food products company
  • Handley Page, an aircraft company
  • Hindustan Petroleum, Indian petroleum company, subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation
  • America West Airlines (1981–2006), an American airline (IATA code HP)
  • Amapola Flyg (2004–present), a Swedish airline (IATA code HP)
  • HP Books, an imprint of the Penguin Group
  • Populist Party (Turkey) (Halkçı Parti), a political party in Turkey between 1983 and 1985

Brands, products, items

  • Aero Adventure Aventura HP, an ultralight amphibian aircraft
  • China Railways HP, heavy freight train steam locomotive
  • Hilton-Pacey HP (car), a British 1920s 3-wheeled cyclecar automobile
  • HP Sauce, British sauce named after Houses of Parliament
  • Hy-Tek HP, a single-engined high-wing trike aircraft
  • Ilford HP, cubic-grained black-and-white photographic film series, and photographic film prefix
  • Walther HP, handgun

Places

  • Harrison Plaza, a shopping mall in the Philippines that closed down in 2019
  • Heart Peaks, a volcano in Canada
  • Himachal Pradesh, a state in India
  • HP postcode area, UK
  • High Point, North Carolina, US

People and characters

  • Hadi Prabowo (born 1960), Indonesian politician
  • Hal Porter (1911–1984), Australian author
  • Harry Pearson (audio critic) (1937–2014), American audio critic
  • Harry Potter (character), a fictional character in J.K. Rowling's Wizarding World fictional universe

Arts, entertainment, media

  • Harry Potter, a novel series by J.K. Rowling
  • Hello Project (H!P), a J-pop idol brand under Japanese music company Up-Front Group
  • Horse-Power: Ballet Symphony, a 1932 ballet composed by Carlos Chávez
  • Hot Package, a TV show created by Adult Swim
  • HP: To the Highest Level Na!, a 2005 Philippine TV sitcom
  • "HP" (song), a 2019 song by Maluma

Science, engineering, technology

  • Horsepower, a unit of power
  • Haptoglobin, a protein
  • Hypersensitivity pneumonitis, a respiratory inflammation
  • High precipitation supercell, a thunderstorm classification
  • Hilbert polynomial of a graded algebra
  • Horizontal pitch unit, 0.2 inches, used to specify rack-mounted equipment width
  • H/P, hacking/phreaking
  • Heat pump, a machine that transfers thermal energy between spaces

Other uses

  • Half-pay, former UK pay for military personnel not on active service
  • Haltepunkt, German for "railway halt"
  • Higher Power, a concept in Alcoholics Anonymous and in similar twelve-step organisations
  • Hire purchase, a type of sales-instalment plan
  • Hit points or health points in video games, often used in role-playing genre culture.
  • Hollow-point bullet, a type of round
  • Home page, the main page of a website
  • Howiesons Poort, a stone-age technology period in Africa

See also

  • HP Garage, museum of Hewlett-Packard's history
  • H&P (disambiguation)
  • HPS (disambiguation)