Cal

Cal may refer to:

People

Given name

• Cal Abrams (1924-1997), Major League Baseball player
• Cal Crutchlow (born 1985), English motorcycle road racer
• Cal Dooley (born 1954), former member of the U.S. House of Representatives for California
• Cal Eldred (born 1967), retired Major League Baseball pitcher
• Cal Farley (1895-1967), founder of Boys Ranch, called by some "America's Greatest Foster Father"
• Cal Gardner (1924-2001), National Hockey League player
• Cal Hubbard (1900-1977), Hall of Fame collegiate and professional football player and Hall of Fame baseball umpire
• Cal Jones (1933-1956), collegiate football player
• Cal McLish (1925-2010), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Cal McVey (1849-1926), early professional baseball player
• Cal Murphy (1932–2012), Canadian football coach, general manager and scout
• Cal O'Reilly (born 1986), National Hockey League player
• Cal Ripken, Jr. (born 1960), Major League Baseball Hall of Fame retired shortstop and third baseman
• Cal Ripken, Sr. (1935-1999), Major League Baseball coach and manager
• Cal Schenkel (born 1947), artist specialising in album cover design
• Cal Smith (born 1932), American country music singer and guitarist
• Cal Stoll (1923-2000), American football player and coach
• Cal Tjader (1925-1982), American Latin jazz musician
• Cal Worthington (born 1920), American car dealer

Surname

• David Cal (born 1982), Spanish sprint canoer

Fictional characters

• Judge Cal, a fictional character in the Judge Dredd comic strip in 2000 AD

Places

• California, United States
• Çal, a district and town in southwest Turkey renowned for its Çalkarası grapes and wines

Arts and entertainment

• Cal (novel), a 1983 novel by Bernard MacLaverty, about a young Irish Catholic named Cal involved with the IRA
• "Cal" (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
• Cal (film), a 1984 film
  • Cal (album), the soundtrack album by Mark Knopfler

Other uses

• cal (Unix), a standard program on Unix that prints an ASCII calendar of the given month or year
• Calanthe, an orchid genus abbreviated cal. in horticulture
• Calcium hydroxide, also known as "cal"
• caliber, a measurement of the interior diameter of a tube, often in reference to rifles or pistols
• Cal Yachts, originally the Jensen Marine Corporation, founded in 1957
• University of California, Berkeley, nicknamed Cal
• calorie, unit of energy
• Carolinian language ISO 639-3 code

CAL

• CAL Actor Language, a dataflow language
• Client Access License, a proprietary software license distributed by software companies such as Microsoft
• Café au lait spot, a pigmented birthmark
• Cakewalk Application Language (CAL), a scripting language used with Cakewalk Pro Audio software
• Cal Air International, an airline based in the United Kingdom, began as the charter arm of British Caledonian
• CAL Cargo Air Lines, a cargo airline based in Israel
• CAL (Joss family), programming language
• CAL (Quark Framework), programming language
• CAL (software) (Command Application Launcher), an application launcher for Microsoft Windows
• ClearCase Automation Library, a programming interface of IBM Rational ClearCase
• Calipatria State Prison in California, United States
• Campbeltown Airport, IATA airport code
• Cape-Atlantic League, a high school athletic conference in New Jersey, United States
• Capital allocation line, a graph created by investors to measure the risk of risky and risk-free assets
• Center for Applied Linguistics, a non-profit organization that researches language and culture
• Center for Army Leadership, a subordinate organization of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Center
• Cercle artistique de Luxembourg, an artist association in Luxembourg
• China Airlines, ICAO airline code
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, also known as "chronic airway limitation" (CAL)
• Client Access License, operating systems and software licence scheme
• Continental Airlines, an American airline with the New York Stock Exchange symbol of "CAL"
• Copyright Agency Ltd, an Australian copyright agency principally aimed at allowing educational institutions to use copyright material for educational purposes at a single annual cost
• Cyberathlete Amateur League, online electronic sports league
• Electronic learning, also called "computer-assisted learning" or "computer aided learning"
• FN CAL, a Belgian assault rifle made by Fabrique Nationale
• Charlotte Abigail Lux, a character, mostly referred to by her initials, in the Doctor Who episodes "Silence in the Library" and "Forest of the Dead"
• Cincinnati Academic League, a high school quiz bowl league
• Cray Assembly Language

See also

• Calvin (disambiguation)
• 40 Cal., a rapper from Harlem, born Calvin Alan Byrd in New York City, United States