Haw

Haw may refer to:

• The Haw or Sissipahaw people, a former tribe of the Siouan speaking Nations in the American Southeast.
• Haw, the nictitating membrane on the eyes of some animals
• HAW, the ISO 639 language code for the Hawaiian language
• Haw and gee, directional commands to a draft animal
• Haw wars (1865–1890), fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand.
• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences

The fruit of several shrubs:

• many species of hawthorn (Crataegus)
• several species of Viburnum including:
  • Viburnum rufidulum
  • Viburnum prunifolium
  • Viburnum nudum
• Haw flakes, Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn

Places:

• New Haw, a village in Surrey
• Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River in north central North Carolina
• Haw River Valley AVA

People:

• Brian Haw (1949–2011), protester in London's Parliament Square
• Haw. in botanical nomenclature stands for Adrian Hardy Haworth, an English entomologist and botanist

See also:

• Hawthorn (disambiguation)