Hondo may refer to:

Places

Rio Hondo (disambiguation) Río Hondo (Spanish for "deep river") or Hondo River may refer to: Rivers *Rio Hondo (Belize), a river which forms much of the border between Belize and Mexico * Hondo River (Comerío, Puerto Rico) * Hondo River (Hormigueros, Puerto Rico) *Rio Hond ...

, the name of several locations, derived from the Spanish word for "deep"

Canada

* Hondo, Alberta, an unincorporated community

United States

Hondo, New Mexico Hondo is an unincorporated community in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. It is located about thirty-five miles downstream (east) from Ruidoso Downs, where the Rio Bonito and Rio Ruidoso rivers join together to form the Rio Hondo. It ...

, an unincorporated community *

Hondo, Texas Hondo is a city in and the county seat of Medina County, Texas, United States. According to the 2010 Census, the population was 8,803. It is part of the San Antonio Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Original inhabitants of the area, now M ...

, a city * Hondo Creek, Texas

Japan

Hondo, Kumamoto was a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1954. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 40,838 and the density of . The total area was . On March 27, 2006, Hondo was merged with the city of Ushibuka ...

, a former city, merged into the new city of Amakusa in 2006 * Honshū, Japan's main island, historically called

Arts and entertainment

* ''Hondo'' (film), 1953 Western film starring John Wayne ** ''Hondo'' (novel), novelization of the film by

Louis L'Amour Louis Dearborn L'Amour (; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels (though he called his work "frontier stories"); however, he also wrote hi ...

** ''Hondo'' (TV series), a 1967 television version

People

As a nickname

* Charles C. Campbell (general) (1948-2016), United States Army *

John Havlicek John Joseph Havlicek ( ; April 8, 1940 – April 25, 2019) was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA championships, four of them coming in his first four seasons with ...

(1940–2019), U.S. basketball player with the Boston Celtics *

Frank Howard (baseball) Frank Oliver Howard (born August 8, 1936), nicknamed "Hondo", "The Washington Monument" and "The Capitol Punisher", is an American former player, coach and manager in Major League Baseball who played most of his career for the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

(born 1936), U.S. baseball player and coach

As a surname

Ammi Hondo Ammi Hondo (born January 2, 1997) is a Japanese para-alpine skier. Hondo was born without fingers on her left hand. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in the downhill competition. She also participated in ...

(born 1997), Japanese para-alpine skier * Daniel Hondo (born 1982), former cricketer and current rugby union player from Zimbabwe *

Danilo Hondo Danilo Hondo (born 4 January 1974) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. He won the German National Road Race in 2002. He competed in the men's team pursuit at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was banned from professional cycling a ...

(born 1974), German professional cyclist * Douglas Hondo (born 1979), Zimbabwean cricketer * , Japanese voice actress *

Med Hondo Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid Hondo; 4 May 1935 – 2 March 2019) was a Mauritanian-born French director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Considered a founding father of African cinema, he is known for his controversial films dealing with issu ...

(1936-2019), Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor *

Santiago Hondo Santiago Martín Hondo Ndongo (born 4 October 1974), known as Santi, is an Equatorial Guinean former footballer who played as a centre-back for lower division clubs in the Community of Madrid, Spain and for the Equatorial Guinea national te ...

(born 1974), Equatoguinean former footballer * , Japanese baseball player and manager

Fictional characters

* Hondo MacLean, a character in the cartoon ''M.A.S.K.'' (TV series) *

Hondo Ohnaka This incomplete list of characters from the ''Star Wars'' franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official ''Star Wars'' canon, as of the changes made by Lucasfilm in April 2014. Following its acquisition by The Walt Dis ...

, a pirate in the ''Star Wars'' universe *

Piston Hondo is a series of boxing video games created by Genyo Takeda and Makoto Wada, and published by Nintendo. The main protagonist and player character of the series is Little Mac, a short boxer from the Bronx who climbs the ranks of the fictional Wor ...

, in Nintendo's ''Punch-Out!!'' video game series * Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, in ''S.W.A.T.'' (1975 TV series) and ''S.W.A.T.'' (2003 film) * Sgt. Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson Jr., in ''S.W.A.T.'' (2017 TV series)

Other uses

Cyclone Hondo Intense Tropical Cyclone Hondo was the strongest and longest lived tropical cyclone to develop during the 2007–08 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. The third tropical cyclone and first intense tropical cyclone of the season, Hondo dev ...

, a 2008 Indian Ocean cyclone *

Hondo (guitar company) Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by IMC, and later Musicorp, that produced a range of entry level to high-end acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs primarily based on those of classic models such as the ...

Hondo Railway The Hondo Railway is a Class III shortline railroad that operates about of trackage to the west of San Antonio, Texas. Roughly half of the railroad's track () is terminal trackage leased from Texas Liquid Terminal, Inc. It was formed in 2006, an ...

, a short railroad west of San Antonio, Texas * Hondō, the Main Hall of worship of some Japanese Buddhist temples *

HONDO Hondo may refer to: Places * Rio Hondo (disambiguation), the name of several locations, derived from the Spanish word for "deep" Canada * Hondo, Alberta, an unincorporated community United States * Hondo, New Mexico, an unincorporated co ...

, computational chemistry software program * Hondo, an eyelet at the end of a

lariat A lasso ( or ), also called lariat, riata, or reata (all from Castilian, la reata 're-tied rope'), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when pulled. It is a well-known tool of the Spanish an ...

rope through which the other end runs to make a loop {{disambiguation, geo, surname Japanese-language surnames