GW may refer to:

People

* George Washington, the first president of the United States * Gene Wilder, American actor and comedian

Places

* Gawok railway station, a railway station in Indonesia (station code) * George Washington Bridge across the Hudson River * Guinea-Bissau, by ISO country code

Education

*George Washington University, in Washington, D.C. **GW Law School in Washington, D.C. **George Washington University School of Business, GW Business School **George Washington University School of Engineering and Applied Science, GW School of Engineering & Applied Science **George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C.

Arts and media

* GateWorld, an English-language fan-news webpage * ''Gazeta Wyborcza'', a Polish newspaper *''Ghost Whisperer'', a CBS television show, 2005–2010 * Ghostwriter, a person hired to author texts that are credited to another person *''Golden Words'', a student publication of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario * ''Guild Wars'', an episodic series of multiplayer online role-playing games

Science and technology

* .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau * GW approximation, in physics, an estimate of the self-energy of a many-body system * GW-BASIC, a dialect of BASIC programming language developed by Microsoft * Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power, equal to 10⁹ watts * Global warming * Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves ** A prefix to the name of a particular List of gravitational wave observations, gravitational wave observation * GW, an alternative signifier for the human gene MASTL

Other uses

* Games Workshop, a publicly traded company that makes war games * Gateway (disambiguation) * ''Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke'', a German catalogue of incunabula * Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays {{disambiguation