Sharp or SHARP may refer to:

Acronyms

* SHARP (helmet ratings) (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 Barbara Bach, Lady Starkey (born Barbara Goldbach in 1947) is an American actress and model. She played the Bond girl Anya Amasova in ''The Spy Who Loved Me''. She is married to former Beatles drummer Ringo Starr. Early life Bach is a nati ...

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Pattie Boyd Patricia Anne Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model and photographer. She was one of the leading international models during the 1960s and, with Jean Shrimpton, epitomised the British female look of the era. Boyd married George Harri ...

Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention SHARP is a proactive U.S. Army program which aims to end sexual harassment and assault in the service. Sexual harassment is a crime in the armed forces, under the UCMJ Article 134 by executive order on 26 January 2022.Jeff Schogo(26 January 2022) ...

, a US Army program dealing with sexual harassment *

Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP) are anti-racist skinheads who oppose white power skinheads, neo-fascists and other political racists, particularly if they identify themselves as skinheads. SHARPs aim to reclaim the original multicultura ...

, an anti-racist Trojan skinhead organization formed to combat White power skinheads * Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing * Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform, a 1980s beamed-power aircraft *

Super High Altitude Research Project The Super High Altitude Research Project (Super HARP, SHARP) was a U.S. government project conducting research into the firing of high-velocity projectiles high into the atmosphere using a two-stage light-gas gun, with the ultimate goal of propellin ...

, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity gun

Companies

* I. P. Sharp Associates, a former Canadian computer services company * Sharp Airlines, an Australian regional airline *

Sharp Corporation is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products, headquartered in Sakai-ku, Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Since 2016 it has been majority owned by the Taiwan-based Foxconn Group. Sharp employs more than 5 ...

, a Japanese electronics manufacturer * Sharp Entertainment, an American TV program producer * Sharp HealthCare, a hospital system in San Diego, California **

Sharp Memorial Hospital Sharp Memorial Hospital is a hospital in San Diego, California, in the United States. Opened in 1955, Sharp Memorial is Sharp HealthCare's largest hospital and the system's only designated Level II trauma center. Located in Serra Mesa, the hospi ...

, San Diego ** Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, California *

Sharp Solar Sharp Solar, a subsidiary of Sharp Electronics, is a solar energy products company owned by Sharp Corporation and based in Osaka, Japan. Products The company produces thin film modules and mono and poly-crystalline silicon solar cells. Sharp's ...

, a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and films

Music

Sharp (music) In music, sharp, dièse (from French), or diesis (from Greek) means, "higher in pitch". More specifically, in musical notation, sharp means "higher in pitch by one semitone (half step)". Sharp is the opposite of flat, which is a lowering of pit ...

, 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'' (Etnica album), 2004

People and fictional characters

* Sharp (surname), a list of people and fictional characters *

Sharp Delany Sharp Delany (c. 1739–1799), was a colonel in the American Revolutionary War a legislator and the first Collector of Customs in Philadelphia, appointed by George Washington. Biography Sharp Delany’s place of birth is in dispute. Often state ...

(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 card sharp (also cardsharp, card shark or cardshark, sometimes hyphenated) is a person who uses skill and/or deception to win at poker or other card games. "Sharp" and "shark" spellings have varied over time and by region. The label is no ...

, 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 * 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 County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 17,264. The county seat is Ash Flat. The county was formed on July 18, 1868, and named for Ephraim Sharp, a state legislator from the ...

Sharp Burial Ground The Sharp Burial Ground, also known as the Albany Avenue Cemetery, is located on Albany Avenue (NY 32) in Kingston, New York, United States. It is a small burying ground used during the middle decades of the 19th century, before larger rural cem ...

, Kingston, New York *

Sharp Mountain Sharp Mountain or Sharp Ridge (historically also spelled Sharpe) in eastern central Pennsylvania in the United States is a ridgeline (fold) of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians cut through on its east-side in the Tamaqua gap by the Little Schuylk ...

, Pennsylvania, a ridgeline

Outer space

Sharp (crater) 240px, Lunar Orbiter 4 image Sharp is a lunar impact crater located to the west of the Sinus Iridum bay of the Mare Imbrium, beyond the Montes Jura range. To the southwest is the crater Mairan. Because of its location and foreshortening, Sharp ...

, 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),

Georgian Bay Georgian Bay (french: Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion. It is located entirely within the borders of Ontario, Canada. The main body of the bay lies east of the Bruce Peninsula and Manitoulin Island. To ...

, Canada * Sharp Peak, a hill in Hong Kong

Publications

* ''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 Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Indo-Iranian languages, Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and r ...

(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) '' Sharp'' flour is made from hard wheat. It is a term used by millers in Fiji and is in common usage throughout the populace as evidenced by newspaper reports whenever the price of flour changes, with the new price of sharp listed. Sharp is used as ...

, a flour made from hard wheat * Sharp (science), also called a hypodermic needle *

Sharp (set theory) In the mathematical discipline of set theory, 0# (zero sharp, also 0#) is the set of true formulae about indiscernibles and order-indiscernibles in the Gödel constructible universe. It is often encoded as a subset of the integers (using Gödel n ...

* ''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 type of sewing needle * Sharp, a mathematics term often applied to upper and lower bounds; see Mathematical jargon