Swift

Swift may refer to:

• Swift (bird), birds in the order Apodiformes

Arts and entertainment

Music

• Taylor Swift, American country and pop singer-songwriter
• Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12
• The Swift, a Christian band
• Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs

Publications

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

Organizations

• Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), data on transactions between banks etc.
• Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm
• Swift & Company, a meat processing company
• 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

Places

United States

• Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois
• 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

Elsewhere on Earth

• River Swift, England

Outer space

• Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
• Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos
• 5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid

Science

• Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit
• 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

Computing

• Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component
• Swift (programming language), a 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, a thermofluid software package by AVL
• Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux

Technology

• Structured What If Technique (SWIFT), a risk analysis method
• SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for DAta Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard

Sport

• Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club
• New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team

Transportation

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 car
• Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US
• Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US

Military

• HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States 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

People

• Swift (surname)
  • Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet, philpsohpher, and priest.
  • Morrison I. Swift, American social theorist, organizer and activist.

Fictional characters

• 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 Alternetter, a character in the film Cars
• Swift (character), comic-book character from The Authority
• Swift Wind, is fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power

Other uses

• Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia
• Structured What If Technique, in risk management
• ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking
• Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn
• .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge
• Swift card, a smart card utilising near field communication used on public transport in and around Birmingham, UK

See also

• Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
• Swift fox, a species of North American fox
• Swift Boat (disambiguation)
• 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)