PW may refer to:

Arts and media

  • PW (rapper) (born 1992), English hip-hop artist
  • Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker, a 2010 video game
  • Pauly-Wissowa, a short name for the Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft
  • Pee Wee (singer) (born 1988), Mexican American singer and actor
  • Perfect World (video game), an online roleplaying game
  • Persistent world, a type of virtual world
  • Philadelphia Weekly, a newspaper
  • Practical Wireless, a UK-based amateur radio magazine
  • Production Workshop, a Brown University theater
  • Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine
  • Palworld, a 2024 survival video game

Businesses and organizations

  • Warsaw University of Technology, Politechnika Warszawska, a university in Poland
  • Price Waterhouse, an accounting firm
  • Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace manufacturer
  • Protest Warrior, a political activist group
  • Physics Wallah, an online and offline education platform

Transportation

  • Pacific Western Transportation, a bus transport company
  • Providence and Worcester Railroad (reporting mark PW)
  • Precision Air (IATA code PW), a current Tanzanian airline
  • German Wings (IATA code PW), a 1983-1990 German airline
  • Pacific Western Airlines (IATA code PW), a 1946-1987 Canadian airline

Places

  • Palau (ISO code PW), an island nation
  • Puerto Williams, a port in Chile

Science and technology

  • .pw, the Internet domain for Palau
  • Password, a code for authentication
  • Pathetic Writer, a word processor software application
  • Pennyweight, a unit of mass
  • Petawatt (PW), a unit of power
  • Picowatt (pW), a unit of power
  • Precipitable water, a meteorological measure of the amount of water in the atmosphere
  • Pseudo-wire, in computer networking and telecommunications

Other uses

  • P. W. Botha (1916–2006), prime minister of South Africa
  • Prisoner of war, a legal status in warfare
  • Paul Walker (1973-2013), actor known for the Fast And Furious franchise.
  • Kotwica, a World War II emblem of the Polish Underground State and Armia Krajowa.