HR

HR, Hr or hr may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• H. R. Pufnstuf, a children's television series
• Haibane Renmei, an anime series
• Halo Reach, a 2010 video game from Bungie Studios
• Hannibal Rising (film), a 2007 thriller featuring the Hannibal Lecter character
• Homestar Runner, a flash animated Internet cartoon
• HR (radio series), a comedy drama written by Nigel Williams and directed by Peter Kavanagh about the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague; it starred Nicholas le Prevost and Jonathan Pryce, and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 13 Feb 2009

Business and finance

• 'High Risk', the lowest level of credit rating in some systems
• Ukrainian hryvnia, the currency of Ukraine
• Human resource management, in the sense of personnel services in organisations

Government and politics

• Hampton Roads, a region of south-eastern Virginia
• Haryana (IN-HR), a state in northern India
• High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (High Representative), the foreign policy chief of the European Union
• .hr - Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Croatia (ISO 3166-2:HR; Croatian: Hrvatska)
• United States House of Representatives and all bills originating from it

People

• H. R. (b. 1956), lead singer of Bad Brains
• Harley Race (b. 1943), retired pro wrestler, current promoter
• Harold Reynolds (b. 1960), former major league baseball player, current commentator
• Henry Rollins (b. 1961), American singer-songwriter, spoken word artist, actor, activist and publisher
• Himesh Reshammiya (b. 1973), Indian composer, singer and actor
• Hrithik Roshan (b. 1974), Indian actor

Publications

• Hispanic Review, an academic journal published by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

Science, technology and engineering

• Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR), a speech coding system for GSM developed in the early 1990s
• Hayati-Roberts link frame convention (HR), a coordinate representation for a robotic device
• Hazard ratio, the effect of an explanatory variable on the hazard or risk of an event
• Heart rate (HR), a measure of the number of heart beats per minute (bpm)
• Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (H-R diagram or HRD, also known as a colour-magnitude diagram or CMD), used in understanding stellar evolution in astronomy and astrophysics
• High-Resolution High-Definition (HRHD, HR, HRHDTV or HR.HDTV), referring to an image resolution derived from high-definition video
• Homologous recombination, in genetics, the process in which genetic material is exchanged between two similar or identical strands of DNA
• hour (hr, although h is more common)
• HR (gene) (Hairless homolog (mouse)), a gene which encodes a protein whose function has been linked to hair growth
• HR (software), a program that automatically forms mathematical theories by searching for sequences of numbers
• Hypersensitive response, a mechanism used by plants to prevent the spread of infection by microbial pathogens
• HR, a star catalogue symbol standing for Harvard observatory, Revised photometry
• <hr/> - an HTML element that creates a 'horizontal rule' or dividing line
• Hydroxyethylrutoside, a class of drugs

Society

• Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting) (HR), public broadcaster for the German state (Bundesland) of Hessen
• 'HR', abbreviation of 'human remains', a term used by entities such as funeral homes
• Human Rights, "Rights" and "Freedoms" to which all humans are entitled

Sports and entertainment

• Home run, in the sport of baseball (see also Home run (disambiguation))

Transportation

• Heritage railway, a term used for a railway which is run as a tourist attraction
• Highland Railway, one of the smaller British railways before the Railways Act of 1921
• 'HR', IATA airline designator for Hahn Air
• 'HR', 1960s car model of Australian automaker Holden