# Swift

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, 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 (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
* Swift card, a public transport smartcard-based ticketing scheme operated by Transport for West Midlands

### Water

* Swift Boat (disambiguation)

## Military

* 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, several ships of British Royal Navy
* Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War

## 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
* Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12

### Fictional characters

* Jack Swift, a character in the 2004 video game Red Dead Revolver
* 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, a fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power
* Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs

## 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), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle
* Swift Memorial College (1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US