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 *

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, an Australian regional airline * Sharp Corporation, 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, a hospital system in San Diego, California ** Sharp Memorial Hospital, 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 Center ...

, Chula Vista, California * Sharp Solar, 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 afte ...

, 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 ...

, 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, as a defender. References 1997 births Living people Finnish footballers Kuopion Palloseura players SC Kuopio Futis-98 players AC Oulu ...

(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 ...

, 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 Gla ...

, 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 between Caulfield and Tecumseh at the head of Hickory Stump Hollow Hickory Stump Hollow is a valley in southe ...

, an unincorporated community * Sharp County, Arkansas * Sharp Burial Ground, Kingston, New York * Sharp Mountain, Pennsylvania, a ridgeline

Outer space

* Sharp (crater), a crater on the moon * Mount Sharp, 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, 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, Canada * Sharp Peak, 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:Kě ...

'', 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 dele ...

(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 (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) * 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 ...