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Haw or HAW may refer to:
Fruit
- many species of hawthorn (Crataegus)
- several species of Viburnum including:
- Haw flakes, Chinese sweets made from the fruit of the Chinese hawthorn, Crataegus pinnatifida
Places
- New Haw, a village in Surrey
- Haw River, a tributary of the Cape Fear River in north central North Carolina
- Hawaii, United States
- Haverfordwest Aerodrome, in Pembrokeshire, Wales
People
- Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), English entomologist and botanist with standard author abbreviation Haw.
- Horace Tabor (1830–1899), American prospector, businessman and politician
Surname
- Brian Haw (1949–2011), protester in London's Parliament Square
- Chris Haw (born 1981), American writer
- Jack Haw (1902–1975), Australian rules footballer
- Johannes Haw (1871–1949), German Roman Catholic priest
- Robbie Haw (born 1986), English footballer
- Stephen G. Haw (born 1951), English botanist
Other uses
- Chin Haw, Chinese people who migrated to Thailand
- Haw wars (1865–1890), fought against Chinese quasi-military forces invading parts of Tonkin and Thailand
- Gee and haw, directional commands to a draft animal
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (German: Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg)
- Hawaiian language
- Heavy Airlift Wing, an international airlift organization
- Historians Against the War, an American peace organization
- Nictitating membrane, a transparent or translucent third eyelid on the eyes of some animals
- Supreme Court of Hawaii, in legal documents
- Sissipahaw or Haw people, a former tribe of the Siouan speaking Nations in the American Southeast.
See also
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