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Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to: * SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks ** SWIFT code * Swift (programming language) * Swift (bird), a family of birds It may also refer to:


Organizations

* SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks * Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm * Swift & Company, a meat processing company * Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team


Transportation companies

* Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer * Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans * Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England * Swift Transportation, a US trucking company


Places

* River Swift, a river in England * Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois * Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota * Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota * Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri


Astronomy

* Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon * Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos * 5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid * Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit


Biology

* Swift (bird), a family of birds * Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini * Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus ''Sceloporus'' ** Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus ''Liolaemus'' * Swift moth, of the family Hepialidae * Swift fox, a species of North American fox


Computing and telecommunication

* Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component * Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc. * Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory * Swift (SoC) platform by Philips * Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X * Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux * SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for Data Radio Channel , DAta Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard


Transportation


Aircraft

* Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design * Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft * Globe GC-1 Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951 * Swift S-1, a Polish sailplane * Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II


Land

* Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus * Suzuki Swift, a car * Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US * Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US


Water

* Swift Boat (disambiguation)


Military

* HSV-2 Swift, HSV-2 ''Swift'', a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy ** Swift Boats, used by the US Navy in the Vietnam War * Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy * HMS Swift, HMS ''Swift'', several ships of British Royal Navy * Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War


Music

* Taylor Swift, American country and pop singer-songwriter * Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12 * Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs


Sport

* Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club * New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team


People

* Swift (surname) ** Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer **Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter


Fictional characters

* Tom Swift, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910 * Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954 * Swift Alternetter, a character in the film ''Cars'' * Swift (character), comic-book character from ''The Authority'' * Swift Wind, is fictional character from ''She-Ra: Princess of Power''


Other uses

* Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia * Structured What If Technique, in risk management * ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking * Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn * .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge * Swift card, a card on public transport in Birmingham, United Kingdom * ''Swift'', a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation * Swift (comic), ''Swift'' (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to ''Eagle''


See also

* Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel * Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions * ''Swift v. Tyson'', an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States * Justice Swift (disambiguation) {{Disambiguation