HR

Look up HR, hr, or .hr in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

HR, Hr or hr may refer to:

Arts and media

Film and television

• H.R. Pufnstuf, a children's television series from 1969
• HR, a 2013 television drama starring Alicia Silverstone
• HR, a criminal organisation in the American TV series Person of Interest

Other media

• HR (girl group), Japan
• Hessischer Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting), Germany

Fictional characters

• H. R. Wells, a character from The Flash television series

Business and finance

• Human resources, personnel
• Human resource management
• Ukrainian hryvnia, currency

Government and politics

• High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union
• United States House of Representatives

Languages

• hr (ISO 639-1 code) for the Croatian language
• ⟨hr⟩, a two-letter combination used in some languages
  • Reduction of /hr/ to /r/ in Old/Middle English

People

• H.R. (born 1956), lead singer of American band Bad Brains

Places

• HR (ISO 3166-1 code) for Croatia
• HR postcode area, UK, covering six post towns around Hereford, England
• IN-HR (ISO 3166 code) for Haryana, a state in North India

Religion

• HR, an honorific abbreviating His Reverence or Her Reverence

Science and technology

Biology and medicine

• HR (gene), encoding protein hairless
• Haemodynamic response, delivery of blood to tissues
• Heart rate
• Homologous recombination, in genetics
• Hypersensitive response, of plants to infection
• Hydroxyethylrutoside, a class of drugs

Computing

• <hr>, an HTML element
• .hr, Internet code for Croatia
• HR (software), mathematical theory generator
• Half Rate (HR or GSM-HR), a speech coding system

Other uses in science and technology

• Hazard ratio
• Hertzsprung–Russell diagram (H-R, HRD), in astronomy and astrophysics
• High-resolution high-definition (HRHD, HR, HRHDTV or HR.HDTV) image resolution
• Hour (hr)
• HR, Bright Star Catalogue prefix
• Nissan HR engine

Sports

• Home run in baseball

Transportation

• Former Scots Highland Railway
• Hahn Air, IATA airline code
• Holden HR, a car 1966-1968
• Haryana Roadways State Transport, India