# Punch

Punch commonly refers to:
* Punch (combat), a strike made using the hand closed into a fist
* Punch (drink), a wide assortment of drinks, non-alcoholic or alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice
Punch may also refer to:

## Places

* Punch, U.S. Virgin Islands
* Poonch (disambiguation), often spelt as Punch, several places in India and Pakistan

## People

* Punch (surname), a list of people with the name
* Punch (nickname), a list of people with the nickname
* Punch Masenamela (born 1986), South African footballer
* Punch (rapper), 21st century American rapper Terrence Louis Henderson Jr.
* Punch (singer), South Korean singer Bae Jin-young (born 1993)

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional entities

* Mr. Punch (also known as Pulcinella or Pulcinello), the principal puppet character in the traditional Punch and Judy puppet show
* Mr. Punch, the masthead image and nominal editor of Punch, largely borrowed from the puppet show
* Mr. Punch, a fictional character in Neil Gaiman's graphic novel, The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch (1994)
* Punch, a DC Comics villain and partner of Jewelee's in Punch and Jewelee
* Punch/Counterpunch, a fictional character in The Transformers

### Films

* Punch (1994 film), a boxing film starring Donald Sutherland
* Punch (2002 film), a Canadian film
* Punch (2011 film), a South Korean film
* Punch (2022 film), a New Zealand film starring Tim Roth
* Punch, a 1996 American short film starring Sacha Baron Cohen

### Music

* Punch (band), an American punk band
* Punch Records, a UK music and arts development agency
* Punch (album), a 2008 album by Punch Brothers featuring Chris Thile
* Punch, a 2013 album by indie-pop group Autoheart

### Periodicals

* Punch (Danish magazine), an illustrated conservative Danish satirical magazine (1873–1894)
* Punch (magazine), a former British weekly magazine of humour and satire
* Adelaide Punch (1878–1884), a satirical magazine published in Adelaide, South Australia
* Japan Punch (1862–1887), a satirical magazine published in Yokohama, Japan
* Melbourne Punch (1855–1925), a satirical magazine published in Melbourne, Australia
* Sydney Punch (1864–1888), a satirical magazine published in Sydney, Australia
* The Punch (Australia), news website (2009–2013)
* The Punch, Nigerian daily newspaper

### Television

* Punch (TV series), a 2014 South Korean television drama series
* Punch, a station identification for the television station BBC Choice, used in 1998
* Punch! (TV series), a Canadian animated comedy series
* Producciones PUNCH (often shortened to PUNCH), a Colombian programadora from 1956 to 2000
* "Punch (Space Ghost Coast to Coast)", an episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast

### Other

* Punch!, a 2005 manga by Rie Takada
* Punch, a drinks website owned by Vox Media

## Tools

* Punch (numismatics), an intermediate used in the process of manufacturing coins
* Punch (tool), a tool used to drive objects such as nails, to pierce workpieces, or to form an impression of the tip on a workpiece
* Punch (typography), a steel pattern used in casting metal type
* Hole punch, a common office tool used to create holes in sheets of paper
* Leather punch, a specialized tool for making holes in leather

## Other uses

* Punch (cigar), the name of two brands of premium cigar
* Punch Taverns, a United Kingdom pub company
* Dodona (genus), a group of butterflies commonly known as the Punches, in particular:
** Dodona eugenes, a Dodona commonly known as the Punch
* Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH), a NASA constellation of 4 microsatellites to study the Sun
* Tata Punch, an Indian SUV manufactured by Tata Motors since 2021