Hondo
# Hondo

Hondo may refer to:

## 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
