Swift (disambiguation)
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Swift may refer to:
[edit] Animals
- Swift, birds in the order Apodiformes, which they formerly shared with the hummingbirds
- Common name for moths of the family Hepialidae.
[edit] People
People whose family name is or was Swift include
- Allan Swift (born 1935), U.S. politician
- 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 and Company, meatpacking plants
- Henry Adoniram Swift (1823-1896), U.S. politician
- Jane Swift (born 1965), U.S. politician
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745), Irish author and author of Gulliver's Travels
- Lewis Swift (1820-1913), U.S. astronomer
- Robert Swift (born 1985), basketball player
- Swift (born Ondre Moore), U.S. Rapper in D12
- Stromile Swift (born 1979), basketball player
- Suzanne Swift
- Todd Swift (1966), Canadian poet
- William Swift (born 1848), governor of Guam and U.S.N. Rear Admiral
[edit] Fictional characters
- Tom Swift
- Tom Swift, Jr.
- Swift, comic book character from The Authority
[edit] Air- and sea vessels
- Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design.
- 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.
[edit] Banking
- Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT).
- ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking.
[edit] Cars and automobile industry
- Suzuki Swift, a car.
- Swift Engineering, an American race car manufacturer.
- Swift Motor Company of Coventry, England.
[edit] Software and information technology
- Swift (web browser), a KHTML based web browser for Windows
- AVL SWIFT, a multi-purpose thermofluid software package using 3D Computational Fluid Dynamics.
- SWIFT software, a health and social care software product produced by Anite in the UK
- Swiftek, a computer service company in Largo (not the Key), Florida, USA [1]
[edit] Other uses
- Operation Swift in the Vietnam War, 1967.
- Swift (band), a band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
- Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, a NASA spacecraft.
- Swiftel, Australia. Now known as People Telecom.
- Swift, a serif typeface.
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