Sax

 

sax, Sax or SAX may refer to:

Places

• Sax, Alicante, a municipality in Spain
• Saxmundham, UK - a colloquial short form used in East Suffolk
• Sax, a village in the Sennwald municipality in Switzerland

People

• Sax, later "Sax-Hohensax", name a house of barons originally at Hohensax castle
• Adolphe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone
• Dave Sax, Major League Baseball player
• Emil Sax
• Geoffrey Sax, sometimes credited as Geoff Sax, film and television director
• George D. Sax, Business entrepreneur, drive-in bank innovator
• Gyula Sax, a Hungarian chess player
• Karl Sax, American botanist and geneticist
• Steve Sax, Major League Baseball player
• Lincoln Thompson, reggae musician, was known as Sax

Abbreviations

• short for Saxophone, a musical instrument
• BeppoSAX catalogue (SAX) - also called BX and 1SAX
• SAX, the Bratislava Stock Exchange stock index
• SAX, a satellite for X-ray astronomy of the Italian Space Agency
• Simple API for XML, a method of reading data files in computing
• SaX, the SUSE Linux tool for configuring graphics hardware (SuSE advanced X Window System-configuration)
• the Saxony Hotel, Miami Beach, FL
• Team Saxo Bank, the professional cycling team (formerly CSC / CSC Saxo Bank)
• Salicylic acid, by trade name Sax
• South African Express, a South African regional airline

See also

• Doctor Sax, a novel by Jack Kerouac
• Sachs (disambiguation)
• Sachse, Texas
• Saks (disambiguation)
• Saxe (disambiguation)
• Seax or scramseax, an ancient Germanic single edged knife
• Zaks, a building toy
• Zax (disambiguation)