Shaw Explained

Shaw may refer to:

Places

Australia

• Shaw, Queensland

Canada

• Shaw Street, a street in Toronto

England

• Shaw, Berkshire, a village
• Shaw, Greater Manchester, a location in the parish of Shaw and Crompton
• Shaw, Swindon, a suburb of Swindon
• Shaw, Wiltshire, a village near Melksham

Philippines

• Shaw Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in Metro Manila
  • Shaw Boulevard station, a station of the MRT-3

United States

• Shaw, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Shaw, Mississippi, a city
• Mount Shaw, a summit in the Ossipee Mountains of New Hampshire
• Shaw Creek (Ohio), a stream in Ohio
• Shaw, Tennessee, now known as Burwood, Tennessee
• Shaw, West Virginia, a ghost town
• Shaw, Washington, D.C., a neighborhood
• Shaw, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood
• Shaw Air Force Base, US Air Force base in South Carolina

People

• Shaw (name), people with "Shaw" as given name or surname
• Shao, Chinese surname, also spelled "Shaw"
• Clan Shaw of Tordarroch, a Scottish clan

Education

• Shaw Academy, an Irish online training and higher education institution
• Shaw High School (disambiguation)
  • Shaw Junior High School, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.
• Shaw College (disambiguation)
  • Shaw College (Hong Kong), a college of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Shaw College of Detroit, a former college
• Shaw University (est. 1865), an American historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina

Entertainment

• Shaw Family, a fictional crime/spy family from Fast&Furious, see List of The Fast and the Furious characters
• Shaw Brothers Studio (1958–2011), formerly the largest film production company in Hong Kong
• Shaw Organisation (est. 1924), a Singapore film distributor and chain of movie theatres
• Shaw Festival (est. 1962), a Canadian theatre festival
• Astro Shaw (est. 2005), the largest film production, distribution and marketing in Malaysia

Organizations

• D. E. Shaw & Co. (est. 1988), an American hedge fund, private equity and technology development firm
• Shaw Communications (est. 1966), Canadian telecommunications company, based in Calgary
• ShawCor (est. 1930s), a global energy services firm based in Houston, Texas
• The Shaw Group (est. 1987), a diversified American Fortune 500 corporation (now acquired by CB&I)
• Shaw Industries (est. 1946), an American flooring manufacturer
• Shaw Media (United States), an American newspaper publisher
• Shaw's and Star Market, an American grocery group

Other uses

• Shaw (woodland), a strip of woodland, usually separating fields or lining a road
• Shaw alphabet, another name for the Shavian alphabet, an alternative for the Latin alphabet for the English language

See also

• • • Shaw Landing, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community
• Shaw Park, a baseball stadium in Winnipeg, Canada
• Shaw Tower (disambiguation)
• Justice Shaw (disambiguation)
• Shawe (disambiguation)