Haw

Haw or HAW may refer to:

Fruit

• many species of hawthorn (Crataegus)
  • Haw flakes, Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn, Crataegus pinnatifida
• several species of Viburnum, including:
  • Viburnum rufidulum
  • Viburnum prunifolium
  • Viburnum nudum

Places

• New Haw, a village in Surrey, England
• Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River in north central North Carolina
  • Haw River Valley AVA
• Hawaii, United States
• Haverfordwest Aerodrome, in Pembrokeshire, Wales (IATA airport code)

People

• Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), English entomologist and botanist with standard author abbreviation Haw.
• Horace Tabor (1830–1899), American prospector, businessman and politician

Surname

• Brian Haw (1949–2011), protester in London's Parliament Square
• Chris Haw (born 1981), American writer
• Jack Haw (1902–1975), Australian rules footballer
• Jesse Haw (born 1971), American businessman and politician
• Johannes Haw (1871–1949), German Roman Catholic priest
• Robbie Haw (born 1986), English footballer
• Stephen G. Haw (born 1951), English botanist
• Haw Tua Tau (1941–1982), Singaporean hawker and convicted murderer

Characters

• Miriallia Haw, a fictional character in the anime Gundam SEED

Other uses

• Chin Haw, Chinese people who migrated to Thailand
• Haw wars (1865–1890), fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand
• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg)
• Havelland Waste Management Company Ltd. (German: HAW Havelländische Abfallwirtschaftsgesellschaft mbH)
• Hawaiian language
• Supreme Court of Hawaii, in legal documents
• Heavy Airlift Wing, an international airlift organization
• Nictitating membrane, a transparent or translucent third eyelid on the eyes of some animals
• Sissipahaw or Haw people, a former tribe of the Siouan speaking Nations in the American Southeast

See also

• Haw. (disambiguation)
• Hawthorn (disambiguation)
• Lord Haw-Haw (William Joyce, 1906–1946), Nazi propaganda broadcaster to the United Kingdom during World War II