Ham (disambiguation)

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Ham is a cut of meat from an edible mammal's rear, usually from a pig.

Ham may also refer to:

Other common meanings

• Ham, an amateur radio operator
• Ham (son of Noah), a Biblical figure

Literature

• The main setting in J. R. R. Tolkien's book Farmer Giles of Ham
• The nickname of Theodore Marley Brooks, one of Doc Savage's assistants
• Ham, the nickname of Neanderthals in the science fiction novel Manifold: Origin
• Hammaglystwythkbrngxxaxolotl, also known as "Ham the Weather Wizard" in the Badger comic book

Music

• HAM (band), an Icelandic rock band
• "H•A•M", the first single off the album Watch the Throne by Kanye West and Jay-Z

Places

• -ham, in the United Kingdom and Ireland, a suffix used in place names meaning farm or homestead

Belgium

• Ham, Belgium, a municipality

France

• Ham (Cergy), a small village to the south of Cergy, near Paris
• Canton of Ham, in the départment of the Somme
  • Ham, Somme, a commune in the canton
• Le Ham, Manche, a commune
• Le Ham, Mayenne, a commune

United Kingdom

• Ham, a hamlet and the main settlement on the island of Foula in the Shetlands, Scotland
• Ham, Caithness, Scotland
• Ham, Kent, England, a hamlet
• Ham, London, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
• Newham, London, formed of East Ham and West Ham
• Ham, Plymouth, a ward in the city of Plymouth, England
• Ham, Wiltshire, a civil parish and village, England
• Ham Island, River Thames, Berkshire, England

United States

• Ham Lake (Hubbard County, Minnesota)
• Ham Lake (Morrison County, Minnesota)
• Winterham, Virginia, a community also known as Ham

Acronyms

• Harvard Art Museums, part of Harvard University
• Helsinki Art Museum
• His Apostolic Majesty
• Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
• Hold And Modify, a screenmode of the Commodore Amiga computer
• Homotopy analysis method

Codes

• Hamburg Airport's IATA code
• station code of Hamlet (Amtrak station), North Carolina, United States
• Chapman code for Hampshire
• ham, ISO 630-3 code for the Hewa language of Papua New Guinea

People

• Ham (surname)
• Ham Lambert (1910–2006), Irish cricketer and rugby union player

Other uses

• Ham (chimpanzee), the first hominid launched into outer space
• Ham-class minesweeper, a former British Royal Navy class
• Tailor's ham, a curved mold for pressing garments
• The opposite of email spam
• , which denotes the group of Hamiltonian symplectomorphisms of

See also

• Ham-sur-Heure-Nalinnes, Belgium, a municipality
• Ham-Nord, Quebec, Canada
• Ham-Sud, Quebec, Canada
• East Ham and West Ham in the London Borough of Newham
• Ham-en-Artois, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
• Ham-sur-Meuse, a commune in Ardennes, France
• Ham-les-Moines, a commune in Ardennes, France
• Ham-sous-Varsberg, a commune in Moselle, France
• Hams, California, United States, an unincorporated community
• South Hams
• Hamm (disambiguation)