# Hondo

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**Hondo** may refer to:

## Places

- [Rio Hondo (disambiguation)](/source/Rio_Hondo_(disambiguation)), the name of several locations, derived from the Spanish word for "deep"

### Canada

- [Hondo, Alberta](/source/Hondo,_Alberta), an unincorporated community

### Japan

- [Hondo, Kumamoto](/source/Hondo,_Kumamoto), a former city, merged into the new city of Amakusa in 2006
- [Honshū](/source/Honshu), Japan's main island, historically called Hondo (本土, *main island*)

### United States

- [Hondo, New Mexico](/source/Hondo,_New_Mexico), an unincorporated community
- [Hondo, Texas](/source/Hondo,_Texas), a city
- [Hondo Creek](/source/Hondo_Creek), Texas

## Arts and entertainment

- [*Hondo* (film)](/source/Hondo_(film)), 1953 Western film starring John Wayne - [*Hondo* (novel)](/source/Hondo_(novel)), novelization of the film by [Louis L'Amour](/source/Louis_L'Amour) - [*Hondo* (TV series)](/source/Hondo_(TV_series)), a 1967 television version

## People

### As a nickname

- [Charles C. Campbell (general)](/source/Charles_C._Campbell_(general)) (1948–2016), United States Army
- [Hondo Crouch](/source/Hondo_Crouch) (1916–1976), Texas rancher-folklorist-humorist
- [John Havlicek](/source/John_Havlicek) (1940–2019), U.S. basketball player with the Boston Celtics
- [Frank Howard (baseball)](/source/Frank_Howard_(baseball)) (born 1936), U.S. baseball player and coach

### As a surname

- [Ammi Hondo](/source/Ammi_Hondo) (born 1997), Japanese para-alpine skier
- [Daniel Hondo](/source/Daniel_Hondo) (born 1982), former cricketer and current rugby union player from Zimbabwe
- [Danilo Hondo](/source/Danilo_Hondo) (born 1974), German professional cyclist
- [Douglas Hondo](/source/Douglas_Hondo) (born 1979), Zimbabwean cricketer
- [Kaede Hondo](/source/Kaede_Hondo) (本渡 楓, born 1996), Japanese voice actress
- [Med Hondo](/source/Med_Hondo) (1936–2019), Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor
- [Santiago Hondo](/source/Santiago_Hondo) (born 1974), Equatoguinean former footballer
- [Yasuji Hondo](/source/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.](/source/M.A.S.K._(TV_series))*
- [Hondo Ohnaka](/source/Hondo_Ohnaka), a pirate in the *[Star Wars](/source/Star_Wars)* universe
- [Piston Hondo](/source/Piston_Hondo), in Nintendo's *Punch-Out!!* video game series
- Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, in the *[S.W.A.T.](/source/S.W.A.T._(1975_TV_series))* franchise
- [Chief Warrant Officer Four](/source/Chief_warrant_officer_(United_States)) Bernie "Hondo" Coleman, in *[Top Gun: Maverick](/source/Top_Gun:_Maverick)*

## Other uses

- [Cyclone Hondo](/source/Cyclone_Hondo), a 2008 Indian Ocean cyclone
- [Hondo (guitar company)](/source/Hondo_(guitar_company))
- [Hondo Railway](/source/Hondo_Railway), a short railroad west of San Antonio, Texas
- Hondō, the [Main Hall](/source/Main_Hall_(Japanese_Buddhism)) of worship of some Japanese Buddhist temples
- **HONDO**, [computational chemistry](/source/Computational_chemistry) software program
- Hondo, an eyelet at the end of a [lariat](/source/Lariat) rope through which the other end runs to make a loop

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