Hondo

Hondo

Places

• Rio Hondo (disambiguation), the name of several locations, derived from the Spanish word for "deep"

Canada

• Hondo, Alberta, an unincorporated community

United States

• Hondo, New Mexico, an unincorporated community
• Hondo, Texas, a city
• Hondo Creek, Texas

Japan

• 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

• 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

As a nickname

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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