Swift

Swift may refer to:

Zoology

• Swifts, birds in the order Apodiformes
• 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 moths, of the family Hepialidae

Physics and astronomy

• Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission, NASA spacecraft in low-earth orbit, to study γ-ray bursts

People

People whose family name is or was Swift include:

• Allan Swift (born 1935), U.S. politician
• Bill Swift (1930s pitcher) (1908–1969), baseball player
• Bill Swift (born 1961), baseball player
• Catherine Swift, President and CEO of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business
• 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
• Innis P. Swift (1882–1953) American World War II general
• Jane Swift (born 1965), U.S. politician
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745), Irish author, satirist, political pamphleteer and cleric
• Joseph Gardner Swift (1783–1865), American army officer
• Katherine Swift (artist)(1956-2994) Artist and ceramicist
• Kay Swift (1897–1993), American composer
• Lewis Swift (1820–1913), U.S. astronomer
• Philetus Swift (1763–1828), Acting NY Lt. Gov. 1817
• Patrick Swift (1927–83), Irish painter
• Richard Swift (disambiguation), various including:
  • Richard Swift (composer) (1927–2003), American composer and music theorist
  • Richard Swift (musician) (fl. 2000s), American singer-songwriter
• Robert Swift (born 1985), basketball player
• R.B. Swift, American journalist
• Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), U.S. rapper in D12
• Stephanie Swift, adult actress
• Stromile Swift (born 1979), basketball player
• Taylor Swift (born 1989), American country music singer-songwriter and actress
• Todd Swift (1966), Canadian poet
• William Swift (born 1848), governor of Guam and U.S.N. Rear Admiral

Fiction

• Tom Swift
• Tom Swift, Jr.
• Swift Alternetter, character in the movie Cars
• Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
• Swift (comics), comic book character from The Authority

Transport

• Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design
• Globe Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951
• 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
• Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
• Suzuki Swift, a car
• Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL
• Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, USA
• Swift Engineering, an American race car manufacturer
• Swift Racing Cars, a British racing car manufacturer
• Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans
• Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England

Banking

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

Software and information technology

• Swift, a Twitter app for Android.
• AVL (Engineering Firm) 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
• Swift, OpenStack's distributed storage component
• Swift is an Extensible_Messaging_and_Presence_Protocol XMPP-client. [1]

Other uses

• Swift, California, former town in El Dorado County
• Swift & Company, meat processing company
• Swift, the newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
• Operation Swift in the Vietnam War, 1967
• Swift (band), band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• The Swift, Christian band on the Rocketown Records label
• Swift, a serif typeface
• Swifts F.C., defunct English football club
• Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a skein of yarn
• Swift Sports Optics, maker of binoculars and scopes
• Swift Transportation, American truckload motor shipping carrier
• .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge
• New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team