Ford commonly refers to: *

Ford Motor Company Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational corporation, multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States. It was founded by Henry Ford and incorporated on June 16, 1903. T ...

, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford *

Ford (crossing) A ford is a shallow place with good footing where a river or stream may be crossed by wading, on horseback, or inside a vehicle getting its wheels wet. A ford may occur naturally or be constructed. Fords may be impassable during high water. ...

, a shallow crossing on a river Ford may also refer to:

Ford Motor Company

Henry Ford Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American Technological and industrial history of the United States, industrialist and business magnate. As the founder of the Ford Motor Company, he is credited as a pioneer in making automob ...

, founder of the Ford Motor Company *

Ford Foundation The Ford Foundation is an American private foundation with the stated goal of advancing human welfare. Created in 1936 by Edsel Ford and his father Henry Ford, it was originally funded by a $25,000 (about $550,000 in 2023) gift from Edsel Ford. ...

, established by Henry and Edsel *

Ford Australia Ford Motor Company of Australia Limited (known by its trading name Ford Australia) is the Australian subsidiary of Automotive industry in the United States, United States–based automaker Ford Motor Company. It was founded in 1925 as an Austral ...

Ford Brasil Ford Motor Company Brasil Ltda. is the Brazilian subsidiary of American automaker Ford Motor Company, founded on 24 April 1919. The operation started out importing the Ford Model T cars and the Ford Model TT trucks in kit form from the United ...

Changan Ford Changan Ford (; full name Changan Ford Automobile Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese automotive manufacturing company headquartered in Chongqing. It is a 50/50 joint venture between local Changan Automobile and US-based Ford Motor Company. The company's pri ...

Ford Motor Company of Canada Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited (Canadian French, French: ''Ford du Canada Limitée'') was founded on August 17, 1904, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling Ford cars in Canada. It was originally known as the Walkerville Wagon Works a ...

, Canadian subsidiary *

Ford of Britain Ford Motor Company Limited,The Ford 'companies' or corporate entities referred to in this article are: * Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, incorporated 16 June 1903 * Ford Motor Company Limited, incorporated 7 December 1928. Current ...

Ford of Europe Ford of Europe GmbH is a subsidiary company of Ford Motor Company founded in 1967 in Cork (city), Cork, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, with headquarters in Cologne, Germany. History Ford of Europe was founded in 1967 by the merger of Ford of Bri ...

, the successor of British, German and Irish subsidiaries *

Ford Germany Ford-Werke GmbH is a German-based car manufacturing company headquartered in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a fully-owned subsidiary of American Ford Motor Company. It operates two large manufacturing facilities in Germany, a Cologne Body ...

* Ford India *

Ford Lio Ho Ford Lio Ho Motor () is a Taiwanese-based automaker and the primary dealer of Ford vehicles in Taiwan, formed in 1972. It is 70 percent owned by Ford Motor Company. The remaining 30 per cent is owned by investors in the former Lio Ho Automotive I ...

* Ford New Zealand *

Ford Motor Company Philippines Ford Group Philippines, Inc. (FGPI) is a Philippine-based subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. It was primarily focused on manufacturing automobiles for local and regional markets from 1998 until 2012. It built the Ford Escape, Ford Laser/Lynx, Fo ...

Ford Romania Ford Otosan Romania SRL, commonly referred to as Ford Romania, is an automobile manufacturing company operated by Ford Otosan, located in Craiova, Romania. The company was established in 2008 after Ford's purchase of Daewoo Automobile Romania. In ...

Ford SAF Ford France (formerly, Ford SAF, Ford S.A. (corporation), Société Anonyme Française) is the France, French subsidiary of the United States, American automaker Ford Motor Company, which existed as a manufacturer under various names between 1916 ...

, the French subsidiary between 1916 and 1954 *

Ford Motor Company of South Africa Ford Motor Company of Southern Africa (Pty.) Ltd. is an automobile and commercial vehicle manufacturer with corporate headquarters in Pretoria. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Company. auf der Website der Ford Motor Compan ...

Fordson Fordson was a brand name of tractors and trucks. It was used on a range of mass-produced general-purpose tractors manufactured by Henry Ford & Son Inc from 1917 to 1920, by Ford Motor Company (U.S.) and Ford Motor Company Ltd (U.K.) from 1920 ...

, the tractor and truck manufacturing arm of the Ford Motor Company *

Ford Vietnam Ford Vietnam Limited is the Vietnamese joint venture between Ford Motor Company (75%) and local Song Cong Diesel Company (25%), established in 1995. Ford's investment is credited with helping industrialize Vietnam. Ford Vietnam has its headquarte ...

* Ford World Rally Team (aka Ford Motor Co. Team prior to 2005), Ford Motor Company's full factory World Rally Championship team (1978–2012) *

Ford Performance Ford Performance (formerly Ford Racing) is the high-performance division of the Ford Motor Company and the multinational name used for its motorsport and racing activity. History * 1896 – Henry Ford reached a top speed of 20 mph in his ...

Henry Ford & Son Ltd Henry Ford & Son Limited (commonly referred to as Ford Ireland) is the Irish subsidiary of the Automotive industry in the United States, United States–based automaker Ford Motor Company. It formerly operated an assembly plant for motor vehicles a ...

, Ireland *

List of Ford vehicles Ford Motor Company sells a broad range of vehicles under the Ford marque worldwide. The following list does not include other marques owned or formerly owned by Ford, such as Lincoln, Mercury, Edsel and Merkur. Current production vehicles ...

, models referred to as Ford

Arts and entertainment

* ''The Ford'' (painting), a 1644 painting by Claude Lorrain * Ford, a religious figure in Aldous Huxley's ''

Brave New World ''Brave New World'' is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931, and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hier ...

'' * Ford and Mistress Ford, characters in William Shakespeare's ''

The Merry Wives of Windsor ''The Merry Wives of Windsor'' or ''Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor'' is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. The Windsor of the play's title is a ref ...

'' * Ford Cruller, a character in ''

Psychonauts ''Psychonauts'' is a 2005 platformer, platform game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Majesco Entertainment for Microsoft Windows, Xbox (console), Xbox and PlayStation 2. Set in a Retrofuturism, retro-futuristic version of t ...

'' * Ford Fairlane, a character in ''

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane ''The Adventures of Ford Fairlane'' is a 1990 American mystery action comedy film directed by Renny Harlin and written by David Arnott, James Cappe, and Daniel Waters based on a story by Arnott and Cappe. The film stars comedian Andrew Dic ...

'' named after an automobile manufactured by the Ford Motor Company *

Ford Prefect (character) Ford Prefect (also called Ix) is a character in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' by the British author Douglas Adams. His role as Arthur Dent's friend – and rescuer, when Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a hyperspace ...

, in Douglas Adams' ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' * Kira Ford, a ''Power Rangers Dino Thunder'' character * Judge J.J. Ford, a character in '' The Westing Game'' * Grunkle Ford, a character in the animated series ''

Gravity Falls ''Gravity Falls'' is an American Mystery fiction, mystery television comedy, comedy animated television series created by Alex Hirsch for Disney Channel and Disney XD. The series follows the adventures of Dipper Pines (Jason Ritter) and his twi ...

Businesses and organizations

* Edward E. Ford Foundation, American education philanthropy group *

Ford Hospital and Research Centre Ford Hospital and Research Centre (FHRC) was established in Patna, Bihar, India in Year 2008 and officially inaugurated by Chief Minister of Bihar Shri Nitish Kumar on 24 August 2010, with the sole objective of providing advance healthcare serv ...

, Bihar, India * Ford Hotel, a historic hotel in central Toronto, Ontario, Canada * Ford Instrument Company *

Ford Library (disambiguation) Ford Library may refer to: *Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, at the University of Michigan *Henry Ford Centennial Library, the main branch of the Dearborn Public Libraries *Ford Library, the library of Duke University's Fuqua School of Business ...

, several libraries *

Ford Models Ford Models, originally the Ford Modeling Agency, is an American international modeling agency based in New York City. It was established in 1946 by Eileen Ford and her husband Gerard W. Ford. History 20th century Eileen and Jerry began the bu ...

, an American modeling agency * The Ford Meter Box Company, an American manufacturer *

Ford's Theatre Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863. The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where ...

, Washington D.C., U.S. *

Ford Tractor Company Ford Tractor Company was a Minneapolis-based company active from 1916 to 1917, that built tractors to facilitate "horseless farming". History Ford Tractor Company was incorporated on March 15, 1915, by W. Baer Ewing and Paul W. Ford. Prior to ...

, a manufacturer of tractors in 1916–17, not related to Ford Motor Company *

Forum for the Restoration of Democracy – Asili The Forum for the Restoration of Democracy–Asili (FORD–Asili) is a political party in Kenya. Asili means 'original' in Swahili. FORD-Asili has its origins in the original Forum for the Restoration of Democracy. In August 1992, the original F ...

, a Kenyan political party *

Forum for the Restoration of Democracy – Kenya Forum for the Restoration of Democracy–Kenya (FORD–Kenya) is a Kenyan political party. The party has sat in the government of Kenya once, under the National Rainbow Coalition, from 2003 to 2007, having ended forty years of one party (Kenya A ...

, a Kenyan political party * Forum for the Restoration of Democracy – People, a Kenyan political party

People

* Ford (surname), a surname (and list of people with the name) **

Gerald Ford Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr.; July 14, 1913December 26, 2006) was the 38th president of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977. A member of the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, Ford assumed the p ...

, 38th president of the United States from 1974 to 1977

People with the given name

Ford Madox Brown Ford Madox Brown (16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) was a British painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often William Hogarth, Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his mos ...

(1821–1893), English painter * Ford Carr, Kansas state legislator *

Ford Madox Ford Ford Madox Ford (né Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox Hueffer ( ); 17 December 1873 – 26 June 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals ''The English Review'' and ''The Transatlantic Review (1924), The Transatlant ...

(1873–1939), English author * Ford C. Frick, (1894–1978), American sportswriter and baseball executive * Ford E. Stinson (1914–1989), Louisiana state legislator * Ford Quint Elvidge (1892–1980), second Civilian Governor of Guam *

Ford Rainey Ford Rainey (August 8, 1908 – July 25, 2005) was an American film, stage, and television actor.Myrna Oliver ''Los Angeles Times'', July 26, 2005. Early life Rainey was born in Mountain Home, Idaho, the son of Vyrna (née Kinkade), a teacher, ...

(1908–2005), American actor

Places

Antarctica

* Ford Ice Piedmont *

Ford Island (Windmill Islands) Ford Island is a rocky Antarctic island, long, between O'Connor and Cloyd Islands in the southern part of the Windmill Islands. It was first mapped from air photos taken by USN Operation Highjump and Operation Windmill in 1947 and 1948. It wa ...

* Ford Massif * Ford Nunataks * Ford Peak *

Ford Ranges The Ford Ranges () are a collection of mountain groups and ranges standing east of Sulzberger Ice Shelf and Block Bay in the northwest part of Marie Byrd Land, Antarctica. Location The Ford Ranges lie along the coast of Marie Byrd Land to the s ...

* Ford Rock * Ford Spur

United Kingdom

* Ford, Argyll * Ford, Buckinghamshire * Ford, Derbyshire * Ford, Chivelstone, a hamlet in South Hams, Devon *

Ford, Plymouth Ford is a Victorian-built area of Plymouth, Devon Devon ( ; historically also known as Devonshire , ) is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is bordered by the Bristol Channel to the north, Somerset and Dorset to the east, the ...

, Devon, a suburb * Ford, East Devon, a

location In geography, location or place is used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ambiguous bou ...

in Devon * Ford, Holbeton, a

in South Hams, Devon * Ford, Torridge, a

in Devon * Ford, Gloucestershire * Ford, Herefordshire * Ford, Merseyside **

Ford (ward) Ford is a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton Ward (politics), ward in the Bootle (UK Parliament constituency), Bootle Parliamentary constituency that covers the northern part of the locality of Litherland and all of Ford, Merseyside, Ford. Councillors ...

** Ford railway station (Merseyside) * Ford, Northumberland * Ford, Pembrokeshire, a parish of Hayscastle *

Ford, Shropshire Ford is a village and civil parish in Shropshire, England. The civil parish population at the 2011 census was 890. Ford lies west of the county town of Shrewsbury, just off the A458 road and near to the River Severn, at . The Royal Mail po ...

* Ford, Mendip, a

in Somerset * Ford, Somerset West and Taunton, a

* Ford, Staffordshire, a

* Ford Estate, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear *

Ford, West Sussex Ford is a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. It is centred south by south-west of Arundel and west of Worthing. The civil parish very gently slopes to the east, where it has the public track alongside the Ri ...

** Ford railway station ** HM Prison Ford * Ford, North Wiltshire * Ford, Salisbury, a hamlet of

Laverstock Laverstock is a village and civil parish on the north-east and east outskirts of Salisbury in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire, England. The parish is shaped like a figure 7 and incorporates Ford hamlet, the eastern half of the former manor of ...

United States

Ford, Georgia Ford is an extinct town in Bartow County, Georgia, Bartow County, in the U.S. state of Georgia (U.S. state), Georgia. History A post office called Ford was established in 1888, and remained in operation until 1907. The community has the name of ...

Ford, Kansas Ford is a city in Ford County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 203. History Ford was founded ''circa'' 1885. It was named for Col. James Hobart Ford, a notable Union colonel and brevet brigad ...

Ford, Kentucky Ford is an unincorporated community located in Clark County, Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. ...

* Ford, Virginia * Ford, Washington *

Ford, Wisconsin Ford is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 276 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated community of Polley is located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, ...

* Ford Block, a historic commercial building in Oneonta, Otsego County, New York *

Ford Center (Evansville) The Ford Center is a multi-use indoor arena in downtown Evansville, Indiana, with a maximum seating capacity of 11,000. It officially opened in November 2011 and is mainly used for basketball, ice hockey, and music concerts. It is home to the E ...

, an indoor arena in Evansville, Indiana *

Ford Field Ford Field is a domed American football stadium located in Downtown Detroit. It primarily serves as the home of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL), the Michigan Panthers of the United Football League (UFL), the Mid-Americ ...

, a stadium in Detroit, Michigan *

Ford Hospital (Nebraska) The Ford Hospital, also called the Fifth Avenue Hotel, is located in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1916 by Home Builders Incorporated, the hospital was a privately operated facility built and operated by Dr. Michael J. Ford. Operating until ...

, active in the 1920s, Omaha, Nebraska *

Ford Island Ford Island () is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island, Marín's Island, and Little Goats Island; its native Hawaiian name is ''Mokuumeume''. The island had an area of ...

, Hawaii

Elsewhere

* Ford, County Wexford, Ireland, a village

Sports

* Ford Cup (disambiguation), in junior hockey * Ford Cup (tennis)

Other uses

* Ford (mango), a mango cultivar from Florida * Ford circle, in mathematics * '' Ford v Quebec (AG)'', a landmark Supreme Court of Canada case on freedom of expression *

Douglas F4D Skyray The Douglas F4D Skyray (later redesignated F-6 Skyray) is an American carrier-based supersonic fighter/interceptor designed and produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was the first naval fighter to exceed the speed of sound in level fli ...

, nicknamed Ford, an American jet fighter of the 1950s and 1960s * , the name of several ships * ''Gerald R. Ford''-class aircraft carrier, or ''Ford''-class, a group of American ships ** USS ''Gerald R. Ford'', the lead ship of the USS ''Gerald R. Ford'' class aircraft carrier