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, an Australian regional airline * Sharp Corporation, a Japanese electronics manufacturer * Sharp Entertainment, an American TV program producer * Sharp HealthCare, a hospital system in San Diego, California ** Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego ** 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), English band featuring ex-Jam members * Sharp (South Korean band), pop music group * The Sharp, Australian pop/rock band * Sharp (Angela Winbush album), ''Sharp'' (Angela Winbush album) * Sharp (Etnica album), ''Sharp'' (Etnica album), 2004

People and fictional characters

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

Places and geographical features

Antarctica

* Sharp Glacier, Graham Land * Sharp Peak, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, a hill * James Ross Island#Named features, Sharp Valley, on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula * Mount Sharp (Antarctica), Sentinel Range, West Antarctica

United States

* Sharp, Missouri, 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, an asteroid

Other places

* Sharp Glacier (Greenland) * Sharp Island, Hong Kong * Sharp Island (Ontario), List of islands in Georgian Bay, Georgian Bay, Canada * Sharp Peak, a hill in Hong Kong

Publications

* Sharp (magazine), ''Sharp'' (magazine), a Canadian magazine * ''Sharp Daily'', a free newspaper published in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Titles

* Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke (1916–1994) * Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp (1903–1985), British civil servant * Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford (born 1938) * Sharp baronets, 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), also called a hypodermic needle * Sharp (set theory) * Sharp (TV series), ''Sharp'' (TV series) * Sharp Gymnasium, a multi-purpose arena in Houston, Texas, United States, home to the Houston Baptist University Huskies basketball and volleyball teams * Sharp Scale, a measure of paper opacity * Sharp, a Bodkin needle, type of sewing needle * Sharp, a mathematics term often applied to upper and lower bounds; see Mathematical jargon#sharp, Mathematical jargon