Sharp or SHARP may refer to:

Acronyms

SHARP (helmet ratings) SHARP (the Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme) is a British government quality ratings scheme for motorcycle helmets, established in 2007, with the objective of improving motorcycle safety on UK roads. Helmets which are selected for ...

(Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme), a British motorcycle helmet safety rating scheme * Self Help Addiction Recovery Program, a charitable organisation founded in 1991 by Barbara Bach and Pattie Boyd * Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention, a US Army program dealing with sexual harassment * Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, an anti-racist Trojan skinhead organization formed to combat White power skinheads *

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) formed in 1991 in the United States on the initiative of scholars Jonathan Rose, Simon Eliot, and others. Its members study the history of books and the "composition, mediati ...

Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform SHARP, short for Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform, was an experimental aircraft using beam-powered propulsion designed by the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC) and built by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies ...

, a 1980s beamed-power aircraft * Super High Altitude Research Project, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity gun

Companies

I. P. Sharp Associates I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA) was a major Canadian computer time-sharing, consulting and services firm of the 1970s and 1980s. IPSA is well known for its work on the programming language APL, an early packet switching computer network named IPSA ...

, a former Canadian computer services company *

Sharp Airlines Sharp Airlines is a regional airline founded in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia in 1990. Sharp operates scheduled airline services in the southern states of Australia. Its main bases are Essendon Airport, Adelaide Airport and Launceston Airport. ...

, an Australian regional airline *

Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Since 2016 it has been majority owned by the Taiwan-based Foxconn Group. Sharp employs more than 5 ...

, a Japanese electronics manufacturer *

Sharp Entertainment Sharp Entertainment is a television production company based in Manhattan, New York. Founded by Matt Sharp in 2003, they have produced thousands of hours of programing in reality television. They produce TLC's top rated television franchise, ''90 ...

, an American TV program producer *

Sharp HealthCare Sharp HealthCare is a not-for-profit regional health care group located in San Diego. Sharp includes four acute care hospitals, three specialty hospitals, three affiliated medical groups, and a health plan. Sharp has approximately 2,600 physicians, ...

, a hospital system in San Diego, California **

Sharp Memorial Hospital Sharp Memorial Hospital is a hospital in San Diego, California, in the United States. Opened in 1955, Sharp Memorial is Sharp HealthCare's largest hospital and the system's only designated Level II trauma center. Located in Serra Mesa, the hosp ...

, San Diego **

Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center is a hospital in Chula Vista, California, USA, founded as a General Community Hospital in 1975, on Medical Center Drive, under the name Community Hospital of Chula Vista. In 1992, Sharp Chula Vista Medical Cent ...

, Chula Vista, California *

Sharp Solar Sharp Solar, a subsidiary of Sharp Electronics, is a solar energy products company owned by Sharp Corporation and based in Osaka, Japan. Products The company produces thin film modules and mono and poly-crystalline silicon solar cells. Sharp's ...

, a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and films

Music

* Sharp (music), a musical notation sign () *

Sharp (band) Sharp were an English new wave band active during the mid 1980s, featuring former Jam members Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. They released one standalone single, in 1986. History After the Jam broke up in 1982, Bruce Foxton pursued a solo car ...

, English band featuring ex-Jam members *

Sharp (South Korean band) Sharp (stylized as S#arp; ) were a South Korean co-ed pop vocal group that was active from 1998 to 2002. The group initially consisted of Lee Ji-hye, Seo Ji-young, Jang Seok-hyun, John Kim and Oh Hee-jong. John and Hee-jong left the group after ...

, pop music group *

The Sharp The Sharp were a Melbourne three-piece pop, rockabilly band which formed in 1991 with Allan Catlin on double bass and lead vocals, Piet Collins on drums and Charlie Rooke on guitar and lead vocals. They issued two studio albums, '' This Is the S ...

, Australian pop/rock band * ''Sharp'' (Angela Winbush album) * ''Sharp'' (Etnica album), 2004

People and fictional characters

Sharp (surname) Sharp is an English language surname, cognate to the German '. It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin ' 'ditch', Russian ' 'to scrape'. Recorded variations of the surname include Sharp, Sharpe, Shairp, Sharps and ...

, a list of people and fictional characters * Sharp Delany (c. 1739–1799), American Revolutionary War colonel and member of the legislature of Pennsylvania *

Sharp Räsänen Sharp Räsänen (born 17 February 1999) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for KuPS Kuopion Palloseura (or KuPS) is a Finnish football club, based in the ninth most populated city of Finland, Kuopio. KuPS plays in Finland's Pr ...

(born 1999), Finnish footballer * Sharp, e.g. card sharp, a swindler at games of chance and skill

Places and geographical features

Antarctica

Sharp Glacier Sharp Glacier is a glacier flowing north to the head of Lallemand Fjord, close east of the Boyle Mountains, in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) from surveys and air photos, 1948–59. Named by United Kingdom Ant ...

, Graham Land *

Sharp Peak, Livingston Island Sharp Peak is a sharp rocky peak rising to 500 m in the northeast of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The peak is surmounting Rose Valley Glacier to the northwest and Debelt Glacier ...

, South Shetland Islands, a hill * Sharp Valley, on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula *

Mount Sharp (Antarctica) Mount Sharp () is a mountain over 3,000 m, standing 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Mount Barden in the north part of the Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica. It surmounts Zhenda Glacier to the north and Sabazios Glacier to the east. T ...

, Sentinel Range, West Antarctica

United States

Sharp, Missouri Sharp is an unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri, United States. The village location is one-quarter mile south of US 160 U.S. Route 160 (US 160) is a 1,465 mile (2,358 km) long east–west United States highway in ...

, an unincorporated community * Sharp County, Arkansas *

Sharp Burial Ground The Sharp Burial Ground, also known as the Albany Avenue Cemetery, is located on Albany Avenue (NY 32) in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a small burying ground used during the middle decades of the 19th century, before larger rural cem ...

, Kingston, New York * Sharp Mountain, Pennsylvania, a ridgeline

Outer space

* Sharp (crater), a crater on the moon *

Mount Sharp Mount Sharp, officially Aeolis Mons (), is a mountain on Mars. It forms the central peak within Gale (crater), Gale crater and is located around , rising high from the valley floor. Its ID in the United States Geological Survey's Gazetteer of ...

, a small mountain on Mars *

5426 Sharp 5426 Sharp, provisional designation , is a bright Hungaria asteroid and suspected binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2–3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 February 1985, by American astronomer ...

, an asteroid

Other places

Sharp Glacier (Greenland) Sharp Glacier ( da, Sharp Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality. This glacier was named by Robert Peary after Benjamin Sharp (1858 – 1915), zoologist of the Philadelphi ...

Sharp Island Sharp Island or Kiu Tsui Chau () is the largest island in the Kiu Tsui Country Park located at Port Shelter of Sai Kung, Hong Kong. The area is most known for fishing, swimming as well as diving. Sharp Island is under the administration of ...

, Hong Kong *

Sharp Island (Ontario) Sharp Island or Kiu Tsui Chau () is the largest island in the Kiu Tsui Country Park located at Port Shelter of Sai Kung Peninsula, Sai Kung, Hong Kong. The area is most known for fishing, swimming as well as diving. Sharp Island is under the a ...

Georgian Bay Georgian Bay (french: Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion. It is located entirely within the borders of Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east of the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. To ...

, Canada *

Sharp Peak Sharp Peak ( Chinese: 蚺蛇尖), or Nam She Tsim, is a hill inside Sai Kung East Country Park, north of Tai Long Wan, in the Sai Kung Peninsula in Hong Kong. It is particularly well known for its well-defined sharp peak, which rises to a heigh ...

, a hill in Hong Kong

Publications

* ''Sharp'' (magazine), a Canadian magazine * ''

Sharp Daily ''Sharp Daily'' is a Chinese-language free daily tabloid newspaper, published in Taipei, Taiwan, and previously in Hong Kong, by Next Digital. Taiwan edition Launched on 24 October 2006 as a rival to ''Cola News'' (可樂新聞 Pinyin:Kělèxi ...

'', a free newspaper published in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Titles

Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke, (17 August 1916 – 2 May 1994) was a British businessman and Member of the House of Lords. Career Eric Sharp began his career 1948 as Principal in the Ministry of Power. He was 1948–1950 the UK deleg ...

(1916–1994) *

Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp Evelyn Adelaide Sharp, Baroness Sharp, GBE (25 May 1903 – 1 September 1985) was a British civil servant. She was the first woman to hold the position of Permanent Secretary, the most senior civil servant in a Ministry, at the Ministry of Ho ...

(1903–1985), British civil servant *

Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages, Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and r ...

(born 1938) *

Sharp baronets There have been three baronetcies created for persons with the surname Sharp, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. The Sharp Baronetcy, of Scotscraig in the County of Fife, was created in the Baro ...

, three titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Other uses

Sharp (automobile) Two automobiles were manufactured during the Brass Era car, Brass Era of automobiles. The earliest was the Sharp Arrow built by the Sharp Arrow Automobile Company in Trenton, New Jersey, Trenton New Jersey from 1908 to 1910. The second was the S ...

* Sharp (flour), a flour made from hard wheat *

Sharp (science) A hypodermic needle (from Greek ὑπο- (''hypo-'' = under), and δέρμα (''derma'' = skin)), one of a category of medical tools which enter the skin, called sharps, is a very thin, hollow tube with one sharp tip. It is commonly used w ...

, also called a hypodermic needle * Sharp (set theory) * ''Sharp'' (TV series) *

Sharp Gymnasium The Frank and Lucille Sharp Gymnasium is a 1,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Houston, Texas. It was built in 1963 and is home to the Houston Christian University Huskies basketball and volleyball teams. Sharp Gymnasium served as the temporary hom ...

, a multi-purpose arena in Houston, Texas, United States, home to the Houston Baptist University Huskies basketball and volleyball teams *

Sharp Scale Sharp or SHARP may refer to: Acronyms * SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme), a British motorcycle helmet safety rating scheme * Self Help Addiction Recovery Program, a charitable organisation founded in 199 ...

, a measure of paper opacity * Sharp, a type of sewing needle * Sharp, a mathematics term often applied to upper and lower bounds; see

Mathematical jargon The language of mathematics has a vast vocabulary of specialist and technical terms. It also has a certain amount of jargon: commonly used phrases which are part of the culture of mathematics, rather than of the subject. Jargon often appears in l ...