Swift
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Swift may refer to:
Zoology
- Swifts, birds in the order Apodiformes
- Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini
- Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus Sceloporus
- Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus Liolaemus
- Swift moths, of the family Hepialidae
Physics and astronomy
- Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, NASA spacecraft in low-earth orbit, to study γ-ray bursts
People
- Allan Swift (born 1935), U.S. politician
- Bill Swift (born 1961), baseball player
- Bill Swift (1930s pitcher) (1908–1969), baseball player
- Catherine Swift, President and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business
- Charles Swift, defense counsel for Salim Ahmed Hamdan
- Clive Swift (born 1936), British actor
- David Swift (born 1933), British actor
- Edward D. Swift, U.S. astronomer
- George R. Swift (1887–1972), U.S. politician
- Graham Swift (born 1949), British novelist
- Gustavus Franklin Swift (1839–1903), U.S. entrepreneur, founder of Swift & Company meatpacking plants
- Henry Adoniram Swift (1823–1896), U.S. politician
- Innis P. Swift (1882–1953) American World War II general
- Jane Swift (born 1965), U.S. politician
- Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Irish author, satirist, political pamphleteer and cleric
- Joseph Gardner Swift (1783–1865), American army officer
- Katherine Swift (1956-2004) Artist and ceramicist
- Kay Swift (1897–1993), American composer
- Lewis Swift (1820–1913), U.S. astronomer
- Morrison I. Swift (1856-1946) U.S. social theorist, organizer and activist.
- Philetus Swift (1763–1828), New York politician
- Parton Swift (1876–1952), New York politician and judge
- Patrick Swift (1927–83), Irish painter
- Richard Swift (disambiguation), several people
- Robert Swift (born 1985), basketball player
- R.B. Swift, American journalist
- Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), U.S. rapper in D12
- Stephanie Swift, adult actress
- Stromile Swift (born 1979), basketball player
- Taylor Swift (born 1989), American country music singer-songwriter and actress
- Todd Swift (1966), Canadian poet
- William Swift (born 1848), governor of Guam and USN Rear Admiral
Fiction
- Tom Swift
- Tom Swift, Jr.
- Swift Alternetter, character in the movie Cars
- Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
- Swift (comics), comic book character from The Authority
Transport
- Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design
- Globe Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951
- HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy
- S-1 Swift, a Polish sailplane
- Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II
- Swift boat, also known as Fast Patrol Craft, used by the U.S. Navy in the Vietnam War
- Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft
- Leyland Swift, a British midibus
- Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
- Suzuki Swift, a car
- Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL
- Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, USA
- Swift Engineering, an American race car manufacturer
- Swift Racing Cars, a British racing car manufacturer
- Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans
- Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England
Banking
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
- ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking
Software and information technology
- Swift, an open source XMPP client written in C++
- AVL (Engineering Firm) SWIFT, a multi-purpose thermofluid software package using 3D Computational fluid dynamics
- Swift, OpenStack's distributed storage component
- Swift, the ARMv7 CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X
Other uses
- Swift, California, former town in El Dorado County
- Swift County, Minnesota
- Swift & Company, meat processing company
- Swift, the newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
- Operation Swift in the Vietnam War, 1967
- Swift (band), band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- The Swift, Christian band on the Rocketown Records label
- Swifts F.C., defunct English football club
- Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a skein of yarn
- Swift Transportation, American truckload motor shipping carrier
- .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge
- New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team
- Swifts, a Russian aerobatic team performing on jet fighters
- Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 Supreme Court of the United States case
- The Swifts is a historic Australian house in the Sydney suburb of Darling Point.