Pound

Pound may refer to:

• Pound (mass), various units of mass
• Pound-force, a unit of force
• Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries (further disambiguation)
  • Pound sign, £
• Number sign or pound sign, #

In geography:

• Pound, Virginia
• Pound, Wisconsin
• Pound (town), Wisconsin

In other uses:

• Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad rails
• Pound (village), a high-walled, lockable structure in most medieval British villages
• Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
• Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
• Pound (band), an American rock band
• Pound (magazine), a Canadian hip-hop magazine
• Pound (film), a 1970 film
• Dog pound, a temporary home for pet animals

People

• Cuthbert W. Pound (1864–1935), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1932–1934
• Dick Pound (born 1942), Canadian sports official
• Dudley Pound (1877–1943), British naval officer
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American modernist poet and critic
• Louise Pound (1872–1958), American educator
• Olivia Pound (1874–1961), American educator
• Omar Pound (born 1926-2010), Anglo-American writer, son of Ezra Pound
• Robert Pound (1919–2010), physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment
• Roscoe Pound (1870–1964), American legal scholar
• Stephen Pound (born 1948), British politician
• Stephen Bosworth Pound (1833–1911), American senator and judge
• Thaddeus C. Pound (1833–1914), Wisconsin politician

See also

• Pound Ridge, New York
• Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland
• Buffalo pound, an enclosed space for capturing and killing buffalo
• Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
• Pound cake, a type of dessert cake
• Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
• Sharp (music), ♯