Hondo
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Hondo
Places
[edit]- Rio Hondo (disambiguation), the name of several locations, derived from the Spanish word for "deep"
Canada
[edit]- Hondo, Alberta, an unincorporated community
United States
[edit]- Hondo, New Mexico, an unincorporated community
- Hondo, Texas, a city
- Hondo Creek, Texas
Japan
[edit]- Hondo, Kumamoto, a former city, merged into the new city of Amakusa in 2006
- Honshū, Japan's main island, historically called Hondo (本土, main island)
Arts and entertainment
[edit]- Hondo (film), 1953 Western film starring John Wayne
- Hondo (novel), novelization of the film by Louis L'Amour
- Hondo (TV series), a 1967 television version
People
[edit]As a nickname
[edit]- Charles C. Campbell (general) (1948-2016), United States Army
- John Havlicek (1940–2019), U.S. basketball player with the Boston Celtics
- Frank Howard (baseball) (born 1936), U.S. baseball player and coach
As a surname
[edit]- Ammi Hondo (born 1997), Japanese para-alpine skier
- Daniel Hondo (born 1982), former cricketer and current rugby union player from Zimbabwe
- Danilo Hondo (born 1974), German professional cyclist
- Douglas Hondo (born 1979), Zimbabwean cricketer
- Kaede Hondo (本渡 楓, born 1996), Japanese voice actress
- Med Hondo (1936-2019), Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- Santiago Hondo (born 1974), Equatoguinean former footballer
- Yasuji Hondo (本堂 保次, 1918–1997), Japanese baseball player and manager
Fictional characters
[edit]- Hondo MacLean, a character in the cartoon M.A.S.K. (TV series)
- Hondo Ohnaka, a pirate in the Star Wars universe
- Piston Hondo, in Nintendo's Punch-Out!! video game series
- Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, in S.W.A.T. (1975 TV series) and S.W.A.T. (2003 film)
- Sgt. Daniel "Hondo" Harrelson Jr., in S.W.A.T. (2017 TV series)
- Chief Warrant Officer Four Bernie "Hondo" Coleman, in Top Gun: Maverick (2022 film)
Other uses
[edit]- Cyclone Hondo, a 2008 Indian Ocean cyclone
- Hondo (guitar company)
- Hondo Railway, a short railroad west of San Antonio, Texas
- Hondō, the Main Hall of worship of some Japanese Buddhist temples
- HONDO, computational chemistry software program
- Hondo, an eyelet at the end of a lariat rope through which the other end runs to make a loop