Swift (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Animals 2 People 3 Fiction 4 Air, sea, and spacecraft 5 Banking 6 Automobile industry 7 Software and information technology 8 Miscellenea

Swift may refer to:

[edit] Animals

• Swifts, birds in the order Apodiformes
• Swift lizards, of the genus Sceloporus
• Swift moths of the family Hepialidae
• Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini

[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 & Company meatpacking plants
• Henry Adoniram Swift (1823–1896), U.S. politician
• Jane Swift (born 1965), U.S. politician
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Irish author, satirist and cleric.
• Kay Swift (1897–1993), American composer
• Lewis Swift (1820–1913), U.S. astronomer
• Richard Swift, various including:
  • Richard Swift (composer) (1927–2003), American composer and music theorist
  • Richard Swift (musician) (fl. 2000s), American singer-songwriter
  • Richard Swift (politician) (1811–1872), Irish politician, MP for County Sligo 1852–1857
• Robert Swift (born 1985), basketball player
• Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), U.S. rapper in D12
• Stephanie Swift, adult actress
• Stromile Swift (born 1979), basketball player
• Suzanne Swift
• Taylor Swift, American country music singer
• Todd Swift (1966), Canadian poet
• William Swift (born 1848), governor of Guam and U.S.N. Rear Admiral

[edit] Fiction

• Tom Swift
• Tom Swift, Jr.
• Swift (comics), comic book character from The Authority

[edit] Air, sea, and spacecraft

• 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
• Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft
• NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, an orbiting robotic observatory
• Swiftfuel is an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel.

[edit] Banking

• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
• ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking

[edit] 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 WebKit 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

[edit] Miscellenea

• Swift & Company, a meat processing company
• Swifts Nightclub
• Operation Swift in the Vietnam War, 1967
• Swift (band), a band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• The Swift, a Christian band on the Rocketown Records label
• Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, a NASA spacecraft
• Swift, a serif typeface
• SWIFT Bus Rapid Transit planned for Snohomish County, Washington, USA
• Swifts F.C., defunct English football club
• Swift (textiles), a tool used to hold a skein of yarn.