Hondo

Places

Rio Hondo (disambiguation) Río Hondo (Spanish for "deep river") or Hondo River may refer to: Rivers *Rio Hondo (Belize), a river which forms much of the border between Belize and Mexico *Hondo River (Comerío, Puerto Rico) *Hondo River (Hormigueros, Puerto Rico) *Rio Hondo ...

, 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 Hondo is a city in and the county seat of Medina County, Texas, United States. According to the 2020 Census, its population was 8,289. It is part of the San Antonio metropolitan statistical area. History Hondo was the scene of two bank robber ...

, a city *

Hondo Creek Hondo Creek is a tributary of the Frio River in Texas that rises in Bandera County northwest of Tarpley and runs approximately 67 miles to its mouth near Pearsall, Texas. The creek crosses through three counties including Bandera, Medina, and ...

, Texas

Japan

Hondo, Kumamoto was a city in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. The city was founded on April 1, 1954. As of 2003, the city had an estimated population of 40,838 and the density of . The total area was . On March 27, 2006, Hondo was merged with the city of Ushibuka ...

, a former city, merged into the new city of Amakusa in 2006 *

Honshū , historically known as , is the largest of the four main islands of Japan. It lies between the Pacific Ocean (east) and the Sea of Japan (west). It is the seventh-largest island in the world, and the second-most populous after the Indonesian ...

, Japan's main island, historically called

Arts and entertainment

* ''Hondo'' (film), 1953 Western film starring John Wayne ** ''Hondo'' (novel), novelization of the film by

Louis L'Amour Louis Dearborn L'Amour (; né LaMoore; March 22, 1908 – June 10, 1988) was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known West ...

** ''Hondo'' (TV series), a 1967 television version

People

As a nickname

* Charles C. Campbell (general) (1948-2016), United States Army * Hondo Crouch (1916–1976), Texas rancher-folklorist-humorist *

John Havlicek John Joseph Havlicek (often nicknamed Hondo) ( ; April 8, 1940 – April 25, 2019) was an American professional basketball player who spent his entire career with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A swingman, Hav ...

(1940–2019), U.S. basketball player with the Boston Celtics *

Frank Howard (baseball) Frank Oliver Howard (August 8, 1936 – October 30, 2023), nicknamed "Hondo", "the Washington Monument" and "the Capital Punisher", was an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played most ...

(born 1936), U.S. baseball player and coach

As a surname

Ammi Hondo is a Japanese para-alpine skier. Hondo was born without fingers on her left hand. She won a bronze medal at the 2019 World Para Alpine Skiing Championships in the downhill competition. She also participated in the women's super combined and ...

(born 1997), Japanese para-alpine skier * Daniel Hondo (born 1982), former cricketer and current rugby union player from Zimbabwe *

Danilo Hondo Danilo Hondo (born 4 January 1974) is a German former professional road bicycle racer. He won the German National Road Race in 2002. He competed in the men's team pursuit at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was banned from professional cycling an ...

(born 1974), German professional cyclist * Douglas Hondo (born 1979), Zimbabwean cricketer * , Japanese voice actress *

Med Hondo Med Hondo (born Mohamed Abid; 4 May 1935 – 2 March 2019) was a Moroccan-born French director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Considered a founding father of African cinema, he is known for his controversial films dealing with issues such a ...

(1936-2019), Mauritanian film director, producer, screenwriter and actor *

Santiago Hondo Santiago Martín Hondo Ndongo (born 4 October 1974), known as Santi, is an Equatorial Guinean former footballer who played as a centre-back for lower division clubs in the Community of Madrid, Spain and for the Equatorial Guinea national tea ...

(born 1974), Equatoguinean former footballer * , Japanese baseball player and manager

Fictional characters

* Hondo MacLean, a character in the cartoon '' M.A.S.K.'' *

Hondo Ohnaka This incomplete list of characters from the ''Star Wars'' franchise contains only those which are considered part of the official ''Star Wars'' canon, as of the changes made by Lucasfilm in April 2014. Following its acquisition by The Walt Di ...

, a pirate in the ''

Star Wars ''Star Wars'' is an American epic film, epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the Star Wars (film), eponymous 1977 film and Cultural impact of Star Wars, quickly became a worldwide popular culture, pop cu ...

'' universe *

Piston Hondo is a series of boxing video games created by Genyo Takeda and Makoto Wada, and published by Nintendo. The main protagonist and player character of the series is Little Mac (Punch-Out!!), Little Mac, a short boxer from the Bronx who climbs the r ...

, in Nintendo's ''Punch-Out!!'' video game series * Lt. Dan "Hondo" Harrelson, in the '' S.W.A.T.'' franchise * Chief Warrant Officer Four Bernie "Hondo" Coleman, in '' Top Gun: Maverick''

Other uses

Cyclone Hondo Intense Tropical Cyclone Hondo was the strongest and longest lived tropical cyclone to develop during the 2007–08 South-West Indian Ocean cyclone season. The third tropical cyclone and first intense tropical cyclone of the season, Hondo deve ...

, a 2008 Indian Ocean cyclone *

Hondo (guitar company) Hondo was an American guitar company and brand owned by IMC, and later Musicorp, that produced a range of entry level to high-end acoustic guitars, electric guitars and basses with designs primarily based on those of classic models such as the F ...

Hondo Railway Hondo Railway is a Class III shortline railroad formed in 2006 that operates about of trackage near Hondo, Texas, about 30 miles west of San Antonio, Texas. It entered into a definitive agreement on August 20, 2024, subject to regulatory appro ...

, a short railroad west of San Antonio, Texas * Hondō, the Main Hall of worship of some Japanese Buddhist temples * HONDO,

computational chemistry Computational chemistry is a branch of chemistry that uses computer simulations to assist in solving chemical problems. It uses methods of theoretical chemistry incorporated into computer programs to calculate the structures and properties of mol ...

software program * Hondo, an eyelet at the end of a

lariat A lasso or lazo ( or ), also called reata or la reata in Mexico, and in the United States riata or lariat (from Mexican Spanish lasso for roping cattle), is a loop of rope designed as a restraint to be thrown around a target and tightened when ...

rope through which the other end runs to make a loop {{disambiguation, geo, surname Japanese-language surnames