Sharp or SHARP may refer to:

Acronyms

SHARP (helmet ratings) SHARP (the Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme) is a Government of the United Kingdom, British government quality ratings scheme for motorcycle helmets, established in 2007, with the objective of improving motorcycle safety on Roads in ...

(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 and

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 Harris ...

* Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention, a US Army program dealing with sexual harassment * Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, 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, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity gun * SIGINT High Altitude Replenishment Program (SHARP)

Companies

* I. P. Sharp Associates, a former Canadian computer services company *

Sharp Airlines Sharp Airlines is a regional airline founded in Hamilton, Victoria, Hamilton, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia in 1990. Sharp operates scheduled airline services in the southern states of Australia. Its main bases are Essendon Airport, ...

, an Australian regional airline *

Sharp Corporation is a Japanese electronics company. It is headquartered in Sakai, Osaka, and was founded by Tokuji Hayakawa in 1912 in Honjo, Tokyo, and established as the Hayakawa Metal Works Institute in Abeno-ku, Osaka, in 1924. Since 2016, it is majority o ...

, a Japanese electronics manufacturer ** Sharp Solar, a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and filma *

Sharp Entertainment Sharp Entertainment, LLC is a television production company based in Manhattan, New York. Founded by Matt Sharp in 2003, they have produced thousands of hours of programming in reality television. They produce TLC's top rated television franchi ...

, an American TV program producer * Sharp HealthCare, a hospital system in San Diego, California ** Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego ** Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, California

Music

Sharp (music) In music, sharp – eqv. (from French) or (from Greek ) – means higher in pitch. The sharp symbol, ♯, indicates that the note to which the symbol is applied is played one semitone higher. The opposite of sharp is flat, indicating a ...

, a musical notation sign () *

Sharp (English band) Sharp were an English new wave band active during the mid-1980s, featuring former Jam members Bruce Foxton and Rick Buckler. They released one standalone single, in 1986. History After the Jam broke up in 1982, Bruce Foxton pursued a solo ...

, 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) Sharp is an English language surname, cognate to the German '. It is also akin to words which have the sense of scraping, e.g. Latin ' 'ditch', Russian ' 'to scrape'. Recorded variations of the surname include Sharp, Sharpe, Shairp, Sharpes, ...

, a list of people and fictional characters *

Sharp Delany Sharp Delany (-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 stated to have ...

(c. 1739–1799), American Revolutionary War colonel and member of the legislature of Pennsylvania *

Sharp Räsänen Sharp Räsänen (born 17 February 1999) is a Finnish professional footballer who plays for KuPS, as a defender. References 1997 births Living people Finnish men's footballers Kuopion Palloseura players SC Kuopio Futis-98 players AC ...

(born 1999), Finnish footballer * Sharp, e.g.

card sharp A card sharp (also card shark, sometimes hyphenated or spelled as a single word) is a person who uses skill or deception to win at card games (such as poker). "Sharp" and "shark" spellings have varied over time and by region. The label is not a ...

, a swindler at games of chance and skill

Places and geographical features

Antarctica

Sharp Glacier Sharp Glacier is a glacier flowing north to the head of Lallemand Fjord, close east of the Boyle Mountains, in Graham Land. Mapped by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) ...

, Graham Land *

Sharp Peak, Livingston Island Sharp Peak is a sharp rocky peak rising to 500 m in the northeast of Vidin Heights on Varna Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica Antarctica () is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent ...

, South Shetland Islands, a hill * Sharp Valley, on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula *

Mount Sharp (Antarctica) Mount Sharp () is a mountain over 3,000 m, standing 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Mount Barden in the north part of the Sentinel Range in Western Antarctica. It surmounts Zhenda Glacier to the north and Sabazios Glacier to the east. ...

, Sentinel Range, West Antarctica

United States

Sharp, Missouri Sharp is an unincorporated community in Ozark County, Missouri Missouri (''see #Etymology and pronunciation, pronunciation'') is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of ...

, an unincorporated community * Sharp County, Arkansas * Sharp Burial Ground, Kingston, New York * Sharp Mountain, Pennsylvania, a ridgeline

Outer space

* Sharp (crater), a crater on the Moon * Mount Sharp, a small mountain on Mars *

5426 Sharp 5426 Sharp, provisional designation , is a bright Hungaria asteroid and suspected Binary asteroid, binary system from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 2–3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 16 February 1985, by A ...

, an asteroid

Other places

* Sharp Glacier (Greenland) * Sharp Island, Hong Kong * Sharp Island (Ontario),

Georgian Bay The Georgian Bay () 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 its northwest is t ...

, Canada * Sharp Peak, a hill in Hong Kong

Publications

* ''Sharp'' (magazine), a Canadian magazine * ''

Sharp Daily ''Sharp Daily'' is a Chinese-language free daily tabloid newspaper, published in Taipei, Taiwan, and previously in Hong Kong, by Next Digital. Taiwan edition Launched on 24 October 2006 as a rival to ''Cola News'' (可樂新聞 Pinyin:Kělè ...

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

Sharp series The sharp series is a series of spectral lines in the atomic emission spectrum caused when electrons descend from higher-energy s orbitals of an atom to the lowest available p orbital. The spectral lines include some in the visible light, and they ...

, a series of spectral lines * Sharp (set theory) * ''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 The language of mathematics has a wide vocabulary of specialist and technical terms. It also has a certain amount of jargon: commonly used phrases which are part of the culture of mathematics, rather than of the subject. Jargon often appears in ...