Shaw

Shaw may refer to:

In places in the US:

• Shaw, Mississippi, a city
• Shaw, Washington, D.C., a neighborhood
• Shaw, St. Louis, Missouri, a neighborhood

In places in the UK:

• Shaw, Berkshire, England
• Shaw, Wiltshire, England
• Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester, England

In business:

• Shaw Brothers Studio, an early film company in Hong Kong
• Shaw Communications Inc., a Canadian cable television provider
• The Shaw Group, an American engineering corporation
• Shaw Industries, an American carpet manufacturer
• Shaw's Supermarkets, an American grocery group
• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, an international law firm
• D. E. Shaw & Co. group, an American investment and technology development firm

Other:

• Shaw University, a historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina
• Shaw, a strip of woodland, usually separating fields or lining a road; probably the origin of many of other uses

People with the surname Shaw:

• George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Irish playwright
• George C. Shaw, Philippine-American War Medal of Honor recipient
• George Shaw (1751–1813), English botanist and zoologist
• Robert Gould Shaw (1837–1863), Colonel of the 54th Massachusetts regiment
• Frederick H. Shaw or Federico H. Shaw (1864–1924), a British citizen and Spanish politician, responsible for setting up the Spanish social security system
• Shaw (surname)

People with the given name Shaw:

• Shaw Clifton, 18th General of The Salvation Army

See also

• Shaw Festival, a major Canadian theatre festival