HB

HB may refer to:

• HB (car), a 1920s automobile
• HB (cigarette), a German brand of cigarettes
• Hofbräuhaus, a brewery in Munich
• HB Ice Cream, an Irish brand
• HB (band), a Finnish symphonic metal musical group
• H-B Woodlawn, a secondary education program (from the combination of the Hoffman-Boston and Woodlawn programs) in Arlington, Virginia
• HB grading for lead pencil
• "2HB", a song by Roxy Music
• Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia

Abbreviations or acronyms

• Hathaway Brown School
• Half-board (hotel term that indicates breakfast and dinner are included in the price)
• Hansestadt Bremen (code used on German license plates)
• Happy Birthday
• Huntington Beach, California, a city in southern California
• Hawke's Bay Region, a region of New Zealand
• Hansestadt Bremen, federal state of Germany.
• Havnar Bóltfelag, football team in the Faeroe Islands
• Half-Back, an Australian Rules football position
• Halfback (American football), an American football position
• Handball (disambiguation), a number of sports
• House Bill, a legislative bill originating from the House
• A pencil classification code for a medium grade lead
• A level in the Brinell scale hardness test
• Helbreath, a 1999 massively multiplayer online role-playing game
• Hampton and Branchville Railroad
• Helplessness Blues, the second album of the American indie folk band Fleet Foxes
• Husband
• Hellboy
• Hose barb
• Horizontal branch in astro physics
• Hamilton Bradshaw, a London-based private equity firm
• Hepatitis B
• Hemoglobin
• Hanna-Barbera, a cartoon studio, later renamed Cartoon Network Studios
• H-B Woodlawn, a public school in Arlington County, Virginia
  • H-B Woodlawn Chamber Singers
• H-b index, an extension of the h-index used in determining academic impact

People

• H. B. Acton (1908–1974), a political philosopher
• H. B. Bailey (1936–2003), a NASCAR driver
• H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), an Australian politician
• H. B. Reese (1879–1956), a candy maker
• H. B. Warner (1875–1958), a motion picture executive