MSP often refers to:

  • Minneapolis–Saint Paul, the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul and the surrounding area — the most populated area in Minnesota, U.S.
  • Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, U.S. (IATA airport code and common name MSP)
  • Saint Paul Union Depot, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S. (Amtrak station code MSP)

MSP may also refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • LoanSphere MSP, a mortgage servicing platform application provided by Black Knight Financial Services
  • Managed service provider, a third-party company that remotely manages a customer's IT infrastructure and end-user systems
  • Matchstick Productions, a company producing videos of extreme sports, especially skiing
  • Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a scientific publisher based in Berkeley, California
  • Men's Studies Press, an academic publisher registered in Harriman, Tennessee
  • Moscow Finnish School (Moskovan suomalainen peruskoulu)
  • Movimento Sviluppo e Pace, an Italian NGO
  • MSP Estúdios, a Portuguese company that publishes comics
  • Multi-Sided Platform, an organization that enables interaction between two or more groups of agents, for example through a two-sided market

Government and politics

Police forces

  • Malabar Special Police, a paramilitary unit of the State Police of Kerala, India
  • Maine State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maine
  • Maryland State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Maryland
  • Massachusetts State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Massachusetts
  • Michigan State Police, state police agency for the U.S. state of Michigan
  • Minnesota State Patrol, state police agency for the U.S. state of Minnesota

Political parties

  • Movement of Society for Peace (French: Mouvement de la société pour la paix, Arabic: Harakat Moudjtamaa As-Silm حركة مجتمع السلم, formerly called Hamas حماس), an Algerian political party
  • National Salvation Party (Milli Selamet Partisi), Islamist political party in Turkey
  • Social Patriot Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Social Patriota), Chilean fascist organization.

Prisons

  • Maine State Prison, a former prison in Thomaston, Maine
  • Michigan State Prison, a former prison in Jackson, Michigan
  • Mississippi State Penitentiary, in Parchman, Mississippi
  • Missouri State Penitentiary, a former prison in Jefferson City, Missouri
  • Montana State Prison, in Deer Lodge, Montana

Other uses in government and politics

  • Main-Spessart, code used on German vehicle registration plates
  • Minerals Security Partnership, a transnational association to secure a stable supply of raw materials
  • Medical Services Plan of British Columbia, government-administered single-payer health insurance scheme in the Canadian province of British Columbia
  • Medicare Savings Program
  • Member of the Scottish Parliament
  • Ministerio de Salud Pública, Uruguayan ministry of public health

Train stations

  • Marina South Pier MRT station, a MRT station in Singapore (MRT station abbreviation MSP)
  • Midway station (Minnesota), a former train station in St. Paul, Minnesota, United States

Science and technology

Biology, ecology, and medicine

  • Macrophage-stimulating protein, a protein that in humans is encoded by the MST1 gene
  • Major sperm protein, the most abundant protein in nematode sperm
  • Marine spatial planning, a process of making decisions about sustainable use of marine resources
  • Merozoite surface protein, used in malaria research
  • Methylation-specific PCR, a method for detecting methylated DNA sequence
  • Multiple sex partners, engaging in sexual activities with two or more people

Computing and information technology

  • Max/MSP, max signal processing
  • Message Send Protocol, an application-layer computing protocol used to send a short message between networking nodes on a computer network
  • Message Submission Program or smmsp in Sendmail e-mail systems
  • Microsoft Installer Patch Files, files downloaded from updating applications installed with Microsoft Installer and which have the .msp file extension
  • Microsoft Points, the currency used on the Xbox Live and Zune marketplaces
  • Microsoft Project, a project-management software program developed and sold by Microsoft
  • Microsoft Student Partners, an organization of university students interested in careers in technology and showing a willingness to help others learn about Microsoft technology
  • Microsoft Surface Pro
  • Minimum spanning tree, a graph theory problem
  • MSP (file format), a pre-bmp picture format readable in the oldest versions of Microsoft Paint
  • TI MSP430, a mixed-signal microcontroller family from Texas Instruments

Other uses in science and technology

  • Mechanically separated poultry, a paste-like meat product
  • Micro-spectrophotometer, an instrument used to measure the UV, visible, and near-infrared spectra of microscopic objects
  • Millisecond pulsar, in astronomy, a pulsar with a rotational period in the range of 1-10 milliseconds
  • Mineral separation plant, a processing plant for heavy minerals
  • Monosodium phosphate, a chemical compound of sodium with a phosphate counterion
  • MSP Groza silent pistol, a double-barreled firearm designed in the Soviet Union in 1972

Other uses

  • Manic Street Preachers, Welsh rock band formed in 1986
  • Meadowbrook State Parkway, in New York
  • Minimum Support Price, regulated agriculture commodity price in India
  • Maastricht Science Programme, Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Maastricht University
  • MovieStarPlanet, online video game