Hoo

Hoo is used in placenames in the east of England to indicate coastal peninsulas and promontories. It appears in:

• Fort Hoo, a fort on an island in the River Medway, Kent
• Hoo St Werburgh and Cliffe-at-Hoo on the Hoo Peninsula in Kent
• Hoo, Suffolk, a village and a civil parish in Suffolk
• The Hundred of Hoo Academy, a secondary school in Rochester, Kent
• Hundred of Hoo Railway, a railway line on the Hoo peninsula in Kent
• Luton Hoo, a country house in Bedfordshire, England
• St Mary Hoo, a village and civil parish in Kent, England
• Hoo Peninsula, north Kent, England
• Sutton Hoo, an Anglo-Saxon cemetery, Suffolk

Hoo is also used as a surname:

• Kho Ping Hoo (1926–1994), Indonesian author of Chinese descent
• Sim Wong Hoo (born 1955), CEO and Chairman of Creative Technology
• Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings (ca 1396–1455), member of the ancient "Hoo" or "de Hoo" family of England
• Brandon Soo Hoo (born 1995), American teen actor who had a role in the 2008 Ben Stiller film Tropic Thunder

Hoo may also refer to:

• Hoo (film), an Indian film
• Fenghuang, called Hōō in Japanese
• Wan-Hoo, a lunar crater on the Moon's far side