Swift

Swift may refer to:

Arts and media

Fictional characters

Jack Swift, in the 2004 video game Red Dead Revolver
Jonathan Swift, alter ego of Blue Streak (Jonathan Swift), in Marvel Comics
Logan Swift, in The Edge of the Night
Margaret Swift-Bejarano, played by Dana Delany
Philip Swift, in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Tom Swift, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910
Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954
Swift (character), comic-book character from The Authority
Swift Alternetter, in the film Cars
Swift Otter, played by Brett Halsey
Swift Paul, in Blaze and the Monster Machines
Swift Saber Qi Liu, nickname of Qi Laoliu character in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils
Swift Wind, a fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
Swift Wolf, played by Miguel Ángel Landa
Miss Swift, in Cardiacs

Other uses in arts and media

Swift, a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle

Military

HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the US Navy
- Swift Boats, used by the US Navy in the Vietnam War
Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy
HMS Swift, several ships of British Royal Navy
Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War
.220 Swift, a rifle cartridge

Organizations

Sport

Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club
Berlin Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
Dungannon Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
Linfield Swifts, Northern Irish reserves football team
Markethill Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
Ballysillan Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
Bangor Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
St James Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club
New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team
Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team

Transportation companies

Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer
Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans
Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England
Swift Transportation, a US trucking company

Other organizations

SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
- SWIFT code or ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking
Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm
Swift & Company, a meat processing company
Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team

People

Given name

Surname

Swift (surname)
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer
Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter

Nickname, stage name, or epithet

Ashot the Swift (died 939), Georgian prince
Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12
J-Swift (born 1971), Spanish-born American record producer
K-Swift (1978–2008), American DJ, MC, radio personality and entrepreneur, musician, singer, rapper and record producer
R-Swift (born 1981), American musician, rapper and singer
Swift Nick, nickname of John Nevison (1639–1684), English highwayman
Swift Runner, nickname of Maris Bryant Pierce (1811–1874), Seneca Nation chief, lawyer and teacher
Swift Walker, nickname of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard (1802–1886), American pioneer

Places

River Swift, a river in England
Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota
Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota
Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri
Swift Memorial College (1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US
Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia

Science and technology

Astronomy

Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit dedicated to X-ray astronomy and the study of gamma-ray bursts
Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos
5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid

Biology

Swift (bird), a family of birds
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 moth, of the family Hepialidae
Swift fox, a species of North American fox

Computing and telecommunication

Acer Swift, a thin and lightweight line of laptops by Acer
Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component
Swift (programming language), developed by Apple Inc.
Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X
Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux
SWIFT (system for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution), a Data Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard

Vehicles

Aircraft

Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design
Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft
Globe GC-1 Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951
Swift S-1, a Polish sailplane
Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II

Land

Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus
Suzuki Swift, a Japanese hatchback

Water

Swift Boat (disambiguation)

Other uses in science and technology

Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn
.220 Swift, a rifle cartridge
SWIFT code or ISO 9362, a standard for business identifier codes, issued by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication
Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions
Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel

Transit

Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US
Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US
Swift card, a public transport smartcard-based ticketing scheme operated by Transport for West Midlands in Birmingham, UK

Other uses

Structured What If Technique, in risk management
Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions
Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Swift (disambiguation)

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