Hood

Hood may refer to:

People

• Hoodlum, a street tough

• Adam Hood, musician
• Admiral Hood, any of several officers (of that name) of the Royal Navy
• Alan Hood
• Alex Hood
• Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
• Alexander Hood (captain)
• Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries
• Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon
• Baby Bonnie Hood, fictional character
• Basil Hood
• Bill Hood
• Bruce Hood
• Cherry Hood
• Christopher Hood
• Daniel Hood
• Darla Hood
• Dave Hood
• David Hood
• Dakota Hood
• Dennis Hood
• Gavin Hood
• Glenda Hood, the secretary of state for Florida
• Graham Hood, Canadian middle-distance runner
• Gwenyth Hood
• Harry Hood
• Horace Hood
• Hugh Hood
• James Hood
• Jim Hood
• Jimmy Hood
• Joey Hood
• John Hood
• John Hood (naval officer)
• John Bell Hood (1831–1879), a Confederate general during the American Civil War
• Kate Hood
• Kit Hood
• Leroy Hood, an American biologist involved in sequencing the human genome
• Morag Hood
• Peter Hood
• Raymond Hood, an early twentieth-century architect
• Red Hood, fictional character in DC Comics
• Red Riding Hood, fairy tale character
• Robin Hood, an English folk hero from medieval legends
• Roderick Hood
• Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
• Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport
• Samuel Hood (admiral)
• Sean Hood
• Stuart Hood
• Thomas Hood, British poet and humorist
• Thomas Hood (mathematician), British mathematician and physician.
• Tom Hood
• T~Nap

Places

• In the United States:
  • Fort Hood, a US Army post near Killeen, Texas
  • Hood College, a liberal arts college in Frederick, Maryland
  • Mount Hood is the tallest mountain in Oregon
    • Mount Hood, Oregon, an unincorporated community named after the mountain
    • Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon, the name of the post office that serves Mount Hood, Oregon
  • Hood County, Texas
  • Hood Canal a fjord off Puget Sound in Washington state
  • Any of several places named Hood River (disambiguation)
  • A slang to for neighborhood or ghetto

Things

Science

• Hood (anatomy), a flap of skin behind the head of a cobra
• Fume hood, a piece of laboratory safety equipment
• Clitoral hood, the outer layer of skin surrounding the clitoris
• hereditary osteo-onychodysplasia

Other

• HMS Hood (51), British battlecruiser sunk by the Germans in the Battle of Denmark Strait, 1941
  • HMS Hood (disambiguation), other ships of the same name
• Hood (headgear), a type of head covering
• An article of Academic dress
• Bondage hood, a sex toy
• HP Hood, an American food manufacturer (especially focusing on dairy products)
• Lens hood, a device used to block light from creating glare in photographs.
• Hood (vehicle), the covering over the engine compartment in a motor vehicle (aka 'bonnet in UK)
• Hood (soft top), the retractable soft roof of a convertible vehicle
• HOOD method, a software design method
• street slang for 'neighborhood', especially high-crime urban areas
• Range hood, an exhaust system for a stove or cooktop
• Hood (novel), a 1995 novel by Emma Donoghue
• "Hood", a youth independent of any paramilitary group, U.T.H Up.The.Hoods (Northern Ireland)
• Hood, early maker of steam cars in Lanark, Illinois
• Hood (band), a British band
• Hoods (band), an American band
• The Hood, a character in the Thunderbirds (TV series) series
• Hood (comics), a Marvel Comics character