title: Hamp
text: # Hamp
  
  Hamp may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Lionel Hampton (1908–2002), American jazz musician
  * Hampton Hamp Pool (1915–2000), American football player
  * Elijah Hampton Hamp Tanner (1927–2004), American football player, head coach and scout
  * Hamp Atkinson (1933–2016), American politician
  * Hamp Swain (1929–2018), American radio disc jockey
  * Eric P. Hamp (1920–2019), American linguist
  * Johnnie Hamp, British retired television producer
  * Sheila Ford Hamp (born 1951), American businessperson, principal owner and chairperson of the Detroit Lions of the National Football League
  * Sven-Erik Hamp, Swedish periodontist who classified dental furcation defects
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Hamp, a version of the Mitsubishi A6M Zero Japanese World War II fighter airplane
  * A suburb of Bridgwater in North Petherton, a civil parish in Somerset, England
  * HAMP gene, which codes for the Hepcidin protein
  * Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), a US government home loan modification program
  * Hamp, To open a bag then shake introducing air to open
  