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Swift may refer to:

Astronomy

  • Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit dedicated to X-ray astronomy and the study of gamma-ray bursts
  • Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
  • Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos
  • 5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid

Biology

  • Swift (bird), a family of birds
  • Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini
  • Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus Sceloporus
  • Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus Liolaemus
  • Swift moth, of the family Hepialidae
  • Swift fox, a species of North American fox

People

  • Swift (surname)
  • Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer
  • Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter
  • Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12

Fictional characters

  • Jack Swift, a character in the 2004 video game Red Dead Revolver
  • Tom Swift, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910
  • Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954
  • Swift Alternetter, a character in the film Cars
  • Swift (character), comic-book character from The Authority
  • Swift Wind, a fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
  • Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs

Places

  • River Swift, a river in England
  • Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois
  • Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota
  • Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota
  • Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri
  • Swift Memorial College (1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US
  • Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia

Transport

Aircraft

  • Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design
  • Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft
  • Globe GC-1 Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951
  • Swift S-1, a Polish sailplane
  • Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II

Land

  • Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus
  • Suzuki Swift, a Japanese hatchback
  • Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US
  • Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US
  • Swift card, a public transport smartcard-based ticketing scheme operated by Transport for West Midlands in Birmingham, United Kingdom

Water

  • Swift Boat (disambiguation)

Organizations

  • SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
  • SWIFT code
  • ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking
  • Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm
  • Swift & Company, a meat processing company
  • Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team

Sport

  • Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club
  • Dungannon Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
  • Linfield Swifts, Northern Irish reserves football team
  • Markethill Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
  • Ballysillan Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
  • Bangor Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
  • St James Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
  • New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team

Transportation companies

  • Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer
  • Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans
  • Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England
  • Swift Transportation, a US trucking company

Computing and telecommunication

  • Acer Swift, a thin and lightweight line of laptops by Acer
  • Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component
  • Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc.
  • Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
  • Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X
  • Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux
  • SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for Data Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard

Military

  • HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy
  • Swift Boats, used by the US Navy in the Vietnam War
  • Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy
  • HMS Swift, several ships of British Royal Navy
  • Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War
  • .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge

Other uses

  • Structured What If Technique, in risk management
  • Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn
  • Swift, a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
  • Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
  • Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
  • Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions
  • Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States
  • Justice Swift (disambiguation)