HAP

Hap or HAP can mean:

As a nickname

• Hap Arnold (1886-1950), World War II American Air Force general
• Hap Collard (1898-1968), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Hap Day (1901-1990), National Hockey League (NHL) player, coach, and general manager, member of the Hockey Hall of Fame
• Hap Emms (1905-1988), NHL player, coach, general manager and team owner
• Hap Farber (born 1948), American football player
• Harrison Farber, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Boston University
• Frank S. Farley (1901-1977), American politician
• Hobart R. Gay (1894-1983), US Army lieutenant general
• Hap Hadley (1895-1976), American artist
• Hap Holmes (1892-1941), NHL goaltender
• Emil Huhn (1892-1925), American Major League Baseball player
• Louis Kuehn (1901-1981), American diver and 1920 Olympic champion
• Harry McSween (born 1945), Professor of Planetary Geoscience and Distinguished Professor of Science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville
• Hap Marre, American soccer player of the 1910s
• Herb Mitchell (ice hockey) (1895-1969), Canadian NHL player
• Hap Moran (1901-1994), National Football League halfback
• Hap Kliban (1935-1990), American cartoonist
• Hap Myers (1887-1967), Major League Baseball first baseman
• Hap Myers (ice hockey) (born 1947), NHL defenceman
• Hap Palmer (born 1942), American children's musician
• Harold Ridley (Jesuit) (1939-2005), Roman Catholic priest and President of Loyola College in Maryland
• Hap Sharp (1928-1993), American race car driver
• Henry Augustus Pearson Torrey (1837–1902), professor of philosophy
• Khairul Fahmi Che Mat (born 1989), Malaysian goalkeeper

Fictional characters

• Harry "Hap" Loman, in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman
• Hap, in the 1989 film Always, played by Audrey Hepburn
• Hap Collins, in novels and stories by Joe R. Lansdale - see Hap and Leonard
• Hap Shaugnessy, on the Canadian TV comedy series The Red Green Show
• Hap Smith, in the 1952 film Jumping Jacks, played by Jerry Lewis

HAP

• Hazardous air pollutant
• Health Administration Press, the publishing subsidiary of the American College of Healthcare Executives professional association
• Hetalia: Axis Powers, comic series of Hidekaz Himaruya
• High-altitude platform, a quasi-stationary aircraft
• High Assurance Platform, a National Security Agency framework for securing computing platforms
• Hardware Assisted Paging, a Xen abstract paging layer for Intel's Extended Page Table and AMD's Nested Page Tables
• Health Alliance Plan, a nonprofit, regional health plan based in Detroit
• Hospital-acquired pneumonia
• Hospital and Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania
• Humanitarian Accountability Partnership, an international self-regulatory body for the humanitarian sector
• Human Affinity Platform, an IT project involving human personality analysis and predictive algorithms
• Hydroxylapatite, a mineral form of calcium apatite
• Hypoxia-activated prodrugs, experimental cancer drugs

Other uses

• alternate name for the bull-deity Apis (Egyptian mythology)
• Hap, a Thomas Hardy sonnet
• Haplochromine cichlids, especially aquarium species
• hap, ISO 639-3 code for the Hupla language of the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands

See also

• Haps (disambiguation)