HB or Hb may refer to:

Academia

H-b index The ''h''-index is an author-level metric that measures both the productivity and citation impact of the publications, initially used for an individual scientist or scholar. The ''h''-index correlates with obvious success indicators such as win ...

, an extension of the h-index used in determining academic impact * H-B Woodlawn, a secondary education program in Arlington, Virginia, US *

Hathaway Brown School Hathaway Brown, commonly referred to as HB, is an all-girls private school located in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The school serves pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students. Hathaway Brown is a member of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, ...

, an all-girls private school in Shaker Heights, Ohio, US

Arts and media

HB (band) HB was a Christian symphonic metal band, formed in Forssa, Finland in 2002. They recorded a demo, four albums in Finnish with English versions for three of them, three singles, and a live DVD filmed at the Maata Näkyvissä Festival Maata ...

, a Finnish Christian symphonic metal musical group * Hanna-Barbera, a cartoon studio, later folded into Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios * Heaven Below, an American rock band *

Helluva Boss ''Helluva Boss'' is an American adult animated web series created by Vivienne "VivziePop" Medrano. It revolves around the misadventures of the employees of I.M.P., an assassination company in Hell. The pilot was released on November 25, 2019 ...

, an adult animated TV show

Businesses and brands

HB (car) HB (taken from the initials of the designer Helmer Berglund) was a car made in two or three copies at ''Berglunds mekaniska verkstad'' at about 1925. On the prototype they used a three-cylinder engine, but the production models had a four-cylinder e ...

, a 1920s automobile *

HB (cigarette) Haus Bergmann is a German brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco. The name ''HB'' is derived from the name of the Dresdner cigarette factory ''Haus Bergmann'', which was acquired by BAT in 1932. Hist ...

, a German brand of cigarettes *

HB Construction HB Construction is a private, family-owned construction company, a general contracting firm, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded in 1991 by Ken Harrington. The company's CEO is Jason Harrington. HB is one of the largest privately owned co ...

, a private US general contractor construction business *

HB Ice Cream HB Ice Cream (originally an initialisation of both Hughes Brothers and Hazelbrook Farm) is an ice cream brand in Ireland and is part of the Unilever Group's Heartbrand ice cream brand. It manufactures most of the Heartbrand's ice cream range, as w ...

, an Irish brand *

Asia Atlantic Airlines Asia Atlantic Airlines ( th, เอเชีย แอตแลนติก แอร์ไลน์ส, was a charter airline headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. It was a subsidiary of the Japanese travel agency H.I.S. (travel agency), H.I.S. ...

(IATA code HB) * Hamilton Bradshaw, a London-based private equity firm *

Hampton and Branchville Railroad The Hampton and Branchville Railroad is a South Carolina railroad that has served the western part of the state since the 1920s. The Hampton and Branchville Railroad is a successor of the Hampton and Branchville Railroad and Lumber Company, which ...

(H&B) *

Holland & Barrett Holland & Barrett (H&B) is a multinational chain of health food shops with over 1,300 stores in 16 countries, including a substantial presence in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, ...

(H&B), a UK health food shop chain *

Hasbro Hasbro, Inc. (; a syllabic abbreviation of its original name, Hassenfeld Brothers) is an American multinational conglomerate holding company incorporated and headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Hasbro owns the trademarks and products of K ...

, an American toy company

Places

* Bremen (state) (license plate: HB), a German state *

Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia The Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia ( hr, Hrvatska Republika Herceg-Bosna) was an unrecognized geopolitical entity and quasi-state in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proclaimed on 18 November 1991 under the name Croatian Community of Herzeg-Bos ...

* Hawke's Bay Region, a region of New Zealand * Hermosa Beach, California, a city in southern California, US * Hubei (Guobiao abbreviation HB), a province of China * Huntington Beach, California, a city in southern California, US * Switzerland and Liechtenstein (List of aircraft registration prefixes, aircraft registration prefix), distinguished by use of emblems * Zürich Hauptbahnhof (often shortened to HB), the central train station in Zürich, Switzerland

Science and technology

* HB pencil (hard black), a classification of pencils * HB, a flammability rating as set forth in UL 94 * Horizontal branch, in astrophysics * HB, a level in the Brinell scale hardness test

Medicine

* Heart block, cardiovascular system disease that involves the heart's electrical conduction system * Hemoglobin (Hb), group of iron-containing proteins found in most animals which primary function is to carry oxygen to the tissues * Hepatitis B, a human viral infection * His bundle, a specialized collection of cells in the vertebrate heart

Sport

* Half-back line, the positions of three players in Australian rules football * Halfback (American football), an American football position * Half back (association football), another name for a midfielder * Handball (disambiguation), a number of sports * Havnar Bóltfelag, a football team in the Faroe Islands * Herfølge Boldklub, a football team in Denmark * Holstebro Boldklub, a football team in Denmark

People

* H. B. Acton (1908–1974), political philosopher * H. B. Bailey (1936–2003), NASCAR driver * H. B. Higgins (1851–1929), Australian politician * H. B. Reese (1879–1956), candy maker * H. B. Warner (1875–1958), motion picture executive

Politics

* Herri Batasuna, defunct far-left Basque nationalist political party in Spain

Other uses

* Half-board, a housing arrangement in which the host provides only a breakfast and dinner meals