title: Hondo
text: # 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
  