Shaw may refer to:
Places
Australia
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Shaw, Queensland
Shaw is a Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. In the , Shaw had a population of 550 people.
History
Shaw is situated in the traditional Manbarra, Wulgurukaba Indigenous Australian, Abo ...
Canada
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Shaw Street, a street in Toronto
England
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Shaw, Berkshire
Shaw is a suburban village in Berkshire, England. It is located to the north of Newbury, near the village of Donnington. It is in the parish of Shaw-cum-Donnington.
Shaw House
The Elizabethan country house, called Shaw House, is located here. ...
, a village
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Shaw, Greater Manchester, a location in the parish of Shaw and Crompton
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Shaw, Swindon, a
suburb of Swindon
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Shaw, Wiltshire
Shaw is a village in the civil parish of Melksham Without, Wiltshire, England. It is about northwest of Melksham on the A365 Melksham to Box road, where the B3353 diverges to Corsham.
History
The manor of Shaw was recorded in the 13th centu ...
, a village near Melksham
Philippines
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Shaw Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in
Metro Manila
Metropolitan Manila (often shortened as Metro Manila; fil, Kalakhang Maynila), officially the National Capital Region (NCR; fil, link=no, Pambansang Punong Rehiyon), is the capital region, seat of government and one of three List of metrop ...
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Shaw Boulevard station
Shaw Boulevard station (also called Shaw for short) is an elevated Manila Metro Rail Transit (MRT) station situated on Line 3. The station is located in the Mandaluyong portion of Ortigas Center and is named after Shaw Boulevard, since the stati ...
, a station of the
MRT-3
, locale = Metro Manila, Philippines
, start =
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United States
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Shaw, Kansas, an unincorporated community
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Shaw, Mississippi
Shaw is a city in Bolivar and Sunflower counties, Mississippi, United States, located in the Mississippi Delta region. The name was derived from an old Indian tribe northeast of this region. The population was 1,952 at the 2010 census.
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Mount Shaw
Mount Shaw is a mountain located in the towns of Moultonborough and Tuftonboro in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. It is part of the remains of an ancient volcanic ring dike. With a summit elevation of , it is the highest of the O ...
, a summit in the Ossipee Mountains of New Hampshire
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Shaw Creek (Ohio) Shaw Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of Ohio.
Shaw Creek was named for Jonathan Shaw, Sr., a pioneer settler who built a mill on Shaw Creek in 1814.
See also
*List of rivers of Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of th ...
, a stream in Ohio
*Shaw, Tennessee, now known as
Burwood, Tennessee
Burwood, Tennessee is an unincorporated community in southwestern Williamson County, Tennessee.
History
The hamlet was "originally named Williamsburg, later Shaw and ultimately Burwood."
In the middle decades of the 20th century, Burwood was a r ...
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Shaw, West Virginia, a ghost town
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Shaw, Washington, D.C.
Shaw is a central neighborhood in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. Shaw and the U Street Corridor historically have been the city's black social, cultural, and economic hub, witness to Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and numerous ri ...
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Shaw, St. Louis
Shaw is a List of neighborhoods of St. Louis, neighborhood in St. Louis, Missouri. It is bordered on the North by Interstate 44, the east by S. Grand Blvd, the west by Tower Grove Ave and the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and the south by Tower Gro ...
, Missouri, a neighborhood
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Shaw Air Force Base, US Air Force base in South Carolina
People
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Shaw (name)
Shaw is most commonly a surname and rarely a given name.
British name
The name is of English and Scottish origin. In some cases, the surname is an Americanization of a similar-sounding Ashkenazic Jewish surname. In England and Scotland, the nam ...
, people with "Shaw" as given name or surname
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Shao Shao (; Cantonese Romanisation: Shiu; Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Shaw) is a common Chinese family name. It is the 86th most populous family name in China. It corresponds to last name So in Korean; "Thiệu" or "Thiều" in Vietnamese; “Zau” in Wu Chines ...
, Chinese surname, also spelled "Shaw"
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Clan Shaw
Clan Shaw is a Highland Scottish clan and is a member of the Chattan Confederation.Way, George and Squire, Romily. (1994). ''Collins Scottish Clan & Family Encyclopedia''. (Foreword by The Rt Hon. The Earl of Elgin KT, Convenor, The Standing Cou ...
of Tordarroch, a Scottish clan
Education
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Shaw Academy
Shaw Academy is a privately owned online education organisation based in Dublin, Ireland. Founded in 2013, it provides pre-recorded online courses.
History
Shaw Academy was founded by James Egan and Adrian Murphy in 2013.
By January 2016, S ...
, an Irish online training and higher education institution
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Shaw High School (disambiguation) Shaw High School can refer to:
* Shaw High School (Alabama) in Mobile
* Shaw High School (Georgia) in Columbus
*Shaw High School (Ohio) in East Cleveland
*Shaw High School (now McEvans Warriors K-12 School) in Shaw, Mississippi
*Archbishop Shaw Hig ...
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Shaw Junior High School
Shaw Junior High School, now known as Asbury Dwellings, is an historic structure located in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It has been listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites and on the National Register of Histor ...
, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
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Shaw College (disambiguation) Shaw College may refer to:
*Shaw College (Hong Kong), a part of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
*Shaw College of Detroit, a former college in Detroit
*Shaw College, a former name of Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi
See also
*Shaw Unive ...
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Shaw College (Hong Kong)
Shaw College () is the fourth constituent college to be established at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. It is located in the northwest area of the CUHK campus, facing Tolo Harbour.
History
The college is named after its patron, Sir Run Run ...
, a college of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Shaw College of Detroit Shaw College at Detroit was an institution of higher education in Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of governme ...
, a former college
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Shaw University
Shaw University is a private Baptist historically black university in Raleigh, North Carolina. It is affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA. Founded on December 1, 1865, Shaw University is the oldest HBCU to begin offering courses in ...
(est. 1865), an American historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina
Entertainment
* ''Shaw Family'', a fictional crime/spy family from ''Fast&Furious'', see
List of The Fast and the Furious characters
''Fast & Furious (also known as The Fast and the Furious)'' is an American action film series centered on a series of action films that are largely concerned with street racing, heists, spies, and family.
The following is a list of characters ...
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Shaw Brothers Studio (1958–2011), formerly the largest film production company in Hong Kong
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Shaw Organisation
Shaw Organisation is a film distribution company and cinema chain founded by brothers Runme Shaw and Run Run Shaw who went to Singapore in the 1920s to expand their family business founded by Runje Shaw. The company originally operated as a dis ...
(est. 1924), a Singapore film distributor and chain of movie theatres
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Shaw Festival (est. 1962), a Canadian theatre festival
Organizations
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D. E. Shaw & Co. (est. 1988), an American hedge fund, private equity and technology development firm
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Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications Inc. is a Canadian telecommunications company which provides telephone, Internet, television, and mobile services. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Shaw provides home telecommunications services primarily in Alberta and Br ...
(est. 1966), Canadian telecommunications company, based in Calgary
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ShawCor (est. 1930s), a global energy services firm based in Houston, Texas
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The Shaw Group
The Shaw Group is a pipe and module fabrication firm specializing in induction bending.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, Shaw employs approximately 700 people across its offices and operations in North America and the Middle East.
History
Sha ...
(est. 1987), a diversified American Fortune 500 corporation (now acquired by CB&I)
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Shaw Industries
Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is one of the world's largest carpet manufacturers with more tha$6 billion in annual revenueand approximately 22,000 employees worldwide.Prem C. Jain, ''Buffett Beyond Value: Why Warren Buffett Looks to Growth and Mana ...
(est. 1946), an American flooring manufacturer
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Shaw Media (United States), an American newspaper publisher
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Shaw's and Star Market, an American grocery group
Other uses
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Shaw (woodland)
A shaw is a strip of woodland usually between 5 and 15 metres (15 and 50 feet) wide.
Shaws commonly form boundaries between fields or line a road. They are usually composed of natural woodland (rather than being a planted avenue) and often have ...
, a strip of woodland, usually separating fields or lining a road
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Shaw alphabet
The Shavian alphabet (; also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonemic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling using the Latin alphabet. It wa ...
, another name for the Shavian alphabet, an alternative for the Latin alphabet for the English language
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Shaw Landing, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
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Shaw Park
Shaw Park (formerly CanWest Global Park) is a baseball stadium in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It is located adjacent to The Forks, near the city's downtown, and is home to the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association.
Features
Shaw Park h ...
, a baseball stadium in Winnipeg, Canada
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Shaw Tower (disambiguation) Shaw Tower or ''variation'', may refer to:
* Shaw Tower (Vancouver), an office and residential complex in BC, Canada; regional HQ of ''Shaw Communications''
* Shaw Monument, aka "Shaw Tower", in Preswick, South Ayrshire, Scotland
* Shaw Tower, Sing ...
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Justice Shaw (disambiguation)
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Shawe (disambiguation)
Shawe is the surname of:
* Bonnie Lythgoe (born 1949), née Shawe, British dancer and theatre producer and director
* Charles Shawe (1878–1951), English cricketer
* John Shawe (disambiguation)
* Phillip Shawe (1889–1945), Australian crickete ...
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