Dow

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Dow may refer to:

People

• Herbert Henry Dow, the founder of Dow Chemical Company
• Charles Dow, the founder of Dow Jones & Co
• James R Dow, professor of German language
• Neal S. Dow, noted prohibitionist
• Tony Dow, an actor most famous as the older brother, Wally, in the Leave it to Beaver TV series

In business

• Dow Chemical Company, a manufacturer of plastics and other chemicals
• Dow Corning
• Dow Jones & Company, a financial publisher
• Dow Jones Industrial Average, an index of major US stocks
• Dow Jones–AIG Commodity Index, a commodity price index
• Dow Breweries, a former Quebec brewing company

In other uses

• Dow people, an Indian tribe in Brazil, from the Maku family
• Dow, a character in the Fusion comics series

The acronym DOW may refer to:

• Day of week, an abbreviation often used in date formats
• Declaration of war
• Deep ocean water, a marine term
• Died of wounds, a military casualty classification
• Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, a strategy game
• Doppler On Wheels, an experimental portable Doppler radar device used for meteorological research
• United States Department of War, an extinct department now part of the United States Department of Defense

[edit] See also

• Dhow, a sailing ship