GW may refer to:

People

George Washington George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Appointed by the Continental Congress as commander of th ...

, the first president of the United States * Gene Wilder, American actor and comedian

Places

Gawok railway station Gawok Station (GW) is a class III railway station located in Luwang, Gatak, Sukoharjo Regency; at an altitude of +118 meters, including in the Operational Area VI Yogyakarta. The station is not far from Gawok traditional market. The station build ...

, a railway station in Indonesia (station code) * George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River * Guinea-Bissau, by ISO country code

Education

*George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. **GW Law School in Washington, D.C. **George Washington University School of Business, GW Business School **George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science, GW School of Engineering & Applied Science **George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Arts and media

* GateWorld, an English-language fan-news webpage * ''Gazeta Wyborcza'', a Polish newspaper *''Ghost Whisperer'', a CBS television show, 2005–2010 * Ghostwriter, a person hired to author texts that are credited to another person *''Golden Words'', a student publication of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario * ''Guild Wars'', an episodic series of multiplayer online role-playing games

Science and technology

* .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau * GW approximation, in physics, an estimate of the self-energy of a many-body system * GW-BASIC, a dialect of BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft * Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power, equal to 10⁹ watts * Global warming * Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves ** A prefix to the name of a particular List of gravitational wave observations, gravitational wave observation * GW, an alternative signifier for the human gene MASTL

Other uses

* Games Workshop, a publicly traded company that makes war games * Gateway (disambiguation) * ''Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke'', a German catalogue of incunabula * Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays {{disambiguation