Hondo

Hondo may refer to:

Places

• Rio Hondo (disambiguation), the name of several locations

Canada:

• Hondo, Alberta, an unincorporated community

Japan:

• Hondo, Kumamoto, a former city, merged into the new city of Amakusa in 2006
• Honshū, Japan's main island, historically called Hondo (本土, main island)

United States:

• Hondo, New Mexico, an unincorporated community
• Hondo, Texas, a city
• Hondo Creek, Texas

Arts and entertainment

• Hondo (film), 1953 Western film starring John Wayne
  • Hondo (novel), novelization of the film by Louis L'Amour
  • Hondo (TV series), a 1967 television version
• Hondo Ohnaka, a character on the Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series
• Piston Hondo, in the Nintendo Punch-Out!! video game series

People

As a nickname

• Charles C. Campbell (general) (born 1948), United States Army
• John Havlicek (born 1940), U.S. basketball player with the Boston Celtics
• Frank Howard (baseball) (born 1936), U.S. baseball player and coach

As a surname

• Daniel Hondo (born 1982), former cricketer and current rugby union player from Zimbabwe
• Danilo Hondo (born 1974), German professional cyclist
• Douglas Hondo (born 1979), Zimbabwean cricketer
• Med Hondo (born 1936), Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
• Santiago Hondo (born 1974), Equatoguinean former footballer
• Yasuji Hondo (本堂 保次) (1918–1997), Japanese baseball player and manager

Other uses

• Cyclone Hondo, a 2008 Indian Ocean cyclone
• Hondo (guitar company)
• Hondo Railway, a short railroad west of San Antonio, Texas
• Hondō, the Main Hall of worship of some Japanese Buddhist temples
• HONDO, computational chemistry software program
• Hondo (an alternate spelling of "honda"), an eyelet at the end of a lariat rope through which the other end runs to make a loop