Sharp

Sharp or SHARP may refer to:

Acronyms

• SHARP (helmet ratings) (Safety Helmet Assessment and Rating Programme), a British motorcycle helmet safety rating scheme
• Self Help Addiction Recovery Program, a charitable organisation founded in 1991 by Barbara Bach and Pattie Boyd
• Sexual Harassment/Assault Response & Prevention, a US Army program dealing with sexual harassment
• Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice, an anti-racist Trojan skinhead organization formed to combat White power skinheads
• Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
• Stationary High Altitude Relay Platform, a 1980s beamed-power aircraft
• Super High Altitude Research Project, a 1990s project to develop a high-velocity gun
• SIGINT High Altitude Replenishment Program (SHARP)

Companies

• I. P. Sharp Associates, a former Canadian computer services company
• Sharp Airlines, an Australian regional airline
• Sharp Corporation, a Japanese electronics manufacturer
• Sharp Entertainment, an American TV program producer
• Sharp HealthCare, a hospital system in San Diego, California
  • Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego
  • Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center, Chula Vista, California
• Sharp Solar, a manufacturer of photovoltaic cells and films

Music

• Sharp (music), a musical notation sign (♯)
• Sharp (English band), English band featuring ex-Jam members
• Sharp (South Korean band), pop music group
• The Sharp, Australian pop/rock band
• Sharp (Angela Winbush album)
• Sharp (Etnica album), 2004

People and fictional characters

• Sharp (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
• Sharp Delany (c. 1739–1799), American Revolutionary War colonel and member of the legislature of Pennsylvania
• Sharp Räsänen (born 1999), Finnish footballer
• Sharp, e.g. card sharp, a swindler at games of chance and skill

Places and geographical features

Antarctica

• Sharp Glacier, Graham Land
• Sharp Peak, Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, a hill
• Sharp Valley, on James Ross Island, Antarctic Peninsula
• Mount Sharp (Antarctica), Sentinel Range, West Antarctica

United States

• Sharp, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Sharp County, Arkansas
• Sharp Burial Ground, Kingston, New York
• Sharp Mountain, Pennsylvania, a ridgeline

Outer space

• Sharp (crater), a crater on the Moon
• Mount Sharp, a small mountain on Mars
• 5426 Sharp, an asteroid

Other places

• Sharp Glacier (Greenland)
• Sharp Island, Hong Kong
• Sharp Island (Ontario), Georgian Bay, Canada
• Sharp Peak, a hill in Hong Kong

Publications

• Sharp (magazine), a Canadian magazine
• Sharp Daily, a free newspaper published in Taiwan and Hong Kong

Titles

• Eric Sharp, Baron Sharp of Grimsdyke (1916–1994)
• Evelyn Sharp, Baroness Sharp (1903–1985), British civil servant
• Margaret Sharp, Baroness Sharp of Guildford (born 1938)
• Sharp baronets, three titles, one in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and two in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom

Other uses

• Sharp (automobile)
• Sharp (flour), a flour made from hard wheat
• Sharp sand
• Sharp (science), also called a hypodermic needle
• Sharp series, a series of spectral lines
• Sharp (set theory)
• Sharp (TV series)
• Sharp Gymnasium, a multi-purpose arena in Houston, Texas, United States, home to the Houston Baptist University Huskies basketball and volleyball teams
• Sharp Scale, a measure of paper opacity
• Sharp, a type of sewing needle
• Sharp, a mathematics term often applied to upper and lower bounds; see Mathematical jargon

See also

• Helgi the Sharp (Ringerike), a figure in Norse mythology
• Helgi the Sharp (Zealand), a figure in Norse mythology
• Sharp House (disambiguation)
• Sharp Resolution, a 1617 resolution taken by the States of Holland and West Friesland
• Sharp v. Murphy, a US Supreme Court case decided in 2020
• Sharpe (disambiguation)
• Sharps (disambiguation)