Swift or SWIFT most commonly refers to:
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SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
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Swift (programming language)
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Swift (bird), a family of birds
It may also refer to:
Organizations
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SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks
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Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm
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Swift & Company, a meat processing company
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Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team
Transportation companies
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Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer
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Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans
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Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England
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Swift Transportation, a US trucking company
Places
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River Swift, a river in England
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Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois
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Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota
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Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota
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Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri
Astronomy
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Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon
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Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos
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5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid
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Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit
Biology
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Swift (bird), a family of birds
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Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini
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Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus Sceloporus
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Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus Liolaemus
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Swift moth, of the family Hepialidae
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Swift fox, a species of North American fox
Computing and telecommunication
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Acer Swift, a thin and lightweight line of laptops by Acer
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Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component
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Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc.
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Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory
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Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X
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Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux
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SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for Data Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard
Transportation
Aircraft
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Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design
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Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft
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Globe GC-1 Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951
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Swift S-1, a Polish sailplane
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Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II
Land
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Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus
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Suzuki Swift, a Japanese hatchback
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Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US
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Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US
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Swift card, a public transport smartcard-based ticketing scheme operated by Transport for West Midlands
Water
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Swift Boat (disambiguation)
Military
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HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy
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Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy
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HMS Swift, several ships of British Royal Navy
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Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War
Sport
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Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club
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New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team
People
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Swift (surname)
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Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12
Fictional characters
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Jack Swift, a character in the 2004 video game Red Dead Revolver
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Tom Swift, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910
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Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954
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Swift Alternetter, a character in the film Cars
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Swift (character), comic-book character from The Authority
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Swift Wind, a fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
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Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs
Other uses
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Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia
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Structured What If Technique, in risk management
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ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking
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Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn
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.220 Swift, a rifle cartridge
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Swift card, a card on public transport in Birmingham, United Kingdom
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Swift, a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation
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Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
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Swift Memorial College (1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US
See also
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Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel
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Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions
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Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States
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Justice Swift (disambiguation)
