Swift may refer to:

Astronomy

• Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, a NASA spacecraft in low-Earth orbit dedicated to X-ray astronomy and the study of gamma-ray bursts

• Swift (lunar crater), a crater on the Moon

• Swift (Deimian crater), a crater on Deimos

• 5035 Swift (1991 UX), a Main-belt Asteroid

Biology

• Swift (bird), a family of birds

• Swift butterflies, several genera in the skipper butterfly tribe Gegenini

Swift lizards, iguanian lizards typically of the genus Sceloporus

• Snow swift lizards, of the iguanian genus Liolaemus

• Swift moth, of the family Hepialidae

• Swift fox, a species of North American fox

People

Swift (surname)

• Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer

• Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter

  Ashot the Swift (died 939), Georgian prince

• J-Swift (born 1971), Spanish-born American record producer

• K-Swift (1978–2008), American DJ, MC, radio personality and entrepreneur, musician, singer, rapper and record producer

• R-Swift (born 1981), American musician, rapper and singer

• Swift (rapper) (born Ondre Moore), US rapper in D12

• Swift Berry (1887–1967), American forestry expert and politician

• Swift Burch (1969–2025), American and Canadian gridiron football player

• Swift Nick, nickname of John Nevison (1639–1684), English highwayman

• Swift Runner, nickname of Maris Bryant Pierce (1811–1874), Seneca Nation chief, lawyer and teacher

• Swift Walker, nickname of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard (1802–1886), American pioneer

Fictional characters

• Jack Swift, a character in the 2004 video game Red Dead Revolver

• Jonathan Swift, alter ego of Blue Streak (Jonathan Swift), character in Marvel Comics

• Logan Swift, character in The Edge of the Night

• Margaret Swift-Bejarano, character played by Dana Delany

• Philip Swift, character in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

• Tom Swift, the central character in five series of books of juvenile science fiction and adventure novels, first appearing in 1910

• Tom Swift Jr., following in the tradition of the earlier Tom Swift novels, first appearing in 1954

• Swift (character), comic-book character from The Authority

• Swift Alternetter, a character in the film Cars

• Swift Otter, character played by Brett Halsey

• Swift Paul, character in Blaze and the Monster Machines

• Swift Saber Qi Liu, nickname of Qi Laoliu character in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils

• Swift Wind, a fictional character from She-Ra: Princess of Power

• Swift Wolf, character played by Miguel Ángel Landa

• Miss Swift, character in Cardiacs

Middle name

• Briggs Cunningham (1907–2003; born Briggs Swift Cunningham II), American entrepreneur and sportsman

• Charles Lillicrap (1887–1966), British naval architect

• Christopher Dickey (1951–2020), American author, journalist and news editor

• Dick Steane (1939–2007, born Richard Swift Steane)

• Edward Swift Isham (1836–1902), American lawyer and politician

• F. S. Wolcott (1882–1967; born Fred Swift Wolcott), American entertainment businessman and cotton planter

• Frank Swift Bourns (1866–1935), American ornithologist and medical doctor

• Frank Swift Chase (1886–1958), American painter

• Franklin Swift Billings (1862–1935), American businessman and politician

• Harold Kaye (1882–1953), English cricketer

• Helen S. Mitchell (1895–1984), American biochemist and nutritionist

• Helen Swift Neilson (1869–1945), American writer and art collector

• Herbert S. Carter (1869–1927), American physician and writer

• J. G. Swift MacNeill (1849–1926; born John Gordon Swift MacNeill), Irish politician

• Julia Swift Orvis (1872–1949), American college professor, pacifist and author

• Lemuel Punderson (1824–1910), American engraver and printer

• Martin S. Auer (1918–1991), American businessman and politician

• Mary Swift Lamson (1822–1909), American educator and writer

• Patricia Swift Blalock (1914–2011), American librarian, social worker and civil rights activist

• Susan J. Swift Steele (1822–1895), American social reformer

• William Swift Daniell (1865–1933), American painter

• Winston Swift Boyer (born 1954), American photographer

• Zephaniah Swift Moore (1770–1823), American academic administrator and educator

• Zephaniah Swift Spalding (1837–1927), American businessman, soldier and sugar plantation owner

Places

• River Swift, a river in England

• Swift, Illinois, an unincorporated community in northeastern Illinois

• Swift County, Minnesota, a county in west-central Minnesota

• Swift, Minnesota, an unincorporated community in northern Minnesota

• Swift, Missouri, a ghost town in southeastern Missouri

• Swift Memorial College (1883–1952) in Rogersville, Tennessee, US

• Swifts, Darling Point, a mansion in Sydney, Australia

Transport

Aircraft

• Aériane Swift, a Belgian sail plane design

• Comper Swift, a British 1930s single-seat sporting aircraft

• Globe GC-1 Swift, an American two-seat light airplane produced from 1946 to 1951

• Swift S-1, a Polish sailplane

• Supermarine Swift, a British jet fighter built after World War II

Land

• Leyland Swift, a British mid-sized bus

• Suzuki Swift, a Japanese hatchback

• Skokie Swift, now known as the CTA Yellow Line, between Chicago and Skokie, IL, US

• Swift Bus Rapid Transit, in Snohomish County, Washington, US

• Swift card, a public transport smartcard-based ticketing scheme operated by Transport for West Midlands in Birmingham, United Kingdom

Water

• Swift Boat (disambiguation)

Organizations

SWIFT, an international organization facilitating transactions between banks

• SWIFT code

• ISO 9362, the SWIFT/BIC code standard in banking

  Swift Engineering, an American engineering firm

• Swift & Company, a meat processing company

• Swifts (aerobatic team), a Russian aerobatic team

Sport

• Swifts F.C., a defunct English football club

• Berlin Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club

• Dungannon Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club

• Linfield Swifts, Northern Irish reserves football team

• Markethill Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club

• Ballysillan Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club

• Bangor Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club

• St James Swifts F.C., a Northern Irish football club

• New South Wales Swifts, an Australian netball team

Transportation companies

• Swift Cooper, a British racing car manufacturer

• Swift Leisure, a British manufacturer of caravans

• Swift Motor Company, of Coventry, England

• Swift Transportation, a US trucking company

Computing and telecommunication

• Acer Swift, a thin and lightweight line of laptops by Acer

• Swift (distributed storage), OpenStack's distributed storage component

• Swift (programming language), a programming language developed by Apple Inc.

• Swift (parallel scripting language), a programming language for parallel computing developed at the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

• Swift, the ARM architecture CPU core in the Apple A6 and Apple A6X

• Swift, an XMPP client for Windows, Mac and Linux

• SWIFT – System for wireless infotainment forwarding and teledistribution: former abbreviation for Data Radio Channel (DARC) subcarrier messaging standard

Military

HSV-2 Swift, a non-commissioned catamaran leased by the United States Navy

• Swift Boats, used by the US Navy in the Vietnam War

• Swift-class coastal patrol craft, patrol vessels built for the Republic of Singapore Navy

• HMS Swift, several ships of British Royal Navy

• Operation Swift, in the Vietnam War

• .220 Swift, a rifle cartridge

Other uses

• Structured What If Technique, in risk management

• Swift (textiles), tool used to hold a hank of yarn

• Swift, a newsletter of the James Randi Educational Foundation

• Swift (comic), a Hulton Press publication related to Eagle

• Swiftfuel, an ethanol-derived replacement for leaded gasoline airplane fuel

• Swift water rescue, a subset of technical rescue dealing in white water river conditions

• Swift v. Tyson, an 1842 case in the Supreme Court of the United States

• Justice Swift (disambiguation)