Hotspur
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Hotspur is the name or nickname of:
- Sir Henry Percy (1364–1403), known as Harry Hotspur, eldest son of the 1st Earl of Northumberland and prominent English commander during the Anglo-Scottish wars and the Glendower uprising.
Several things have been named after Sir Henry Percy's nickname:
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- A character based on him in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1
- The football club Holyhead Hotspur F.C.
- The football club Pietà Hotspurs F.C.
- The football club Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
- General Aircraft Hotspur, a WW2 glider
- British Railways class 7 "Britannia" locomotive 70011
- HMS Hotspur, several British ships
- British Army version of the Land Rover Tangi, an armoured Land Rover used in Northern Ireland
- The Hotspur (comics), former British boys' weekly comic and annual published by D. C. Thomson & Co.
- Hotspur (Eclipse comic book), a three-issue comic book series
- Hotspur Primary School, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Hotspur, a Dachshund who was born with paralyzed hindlimbs in 1936.
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