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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

For people with the given (first or middle) name Swift, see Swift (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

For military vessels, see § Military.

• Swift Boat (disambiguation)

Other uses in science and technology

For military technology, see § Military.

• 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

For vehicles, see § Vehicles.

• 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)