Ash may refer to:

Sciences

• The unburnable solid remains of a fire or the residual ash produced by incineration
• Volcanic ash, rocky powder material ejected from a volcano
• Fly ash and Bottom ash, coal combustion products
• * Ash (analytical chemistry), one of the components in the proximate analysis of biological materials, consisting mainly of carbonates and bicarbonates of metals
• Ash tree, any tree of the genus Fraxinus
• Mountain Ash, any of various trees not in the Fraxinus genus

Humanities

• Ash Williams, the anti-hero of the Evil Dead trilogy
• Ash Ketchum, the main character of the Pokémon anime
• Ash, the phantom guardian of Marona in Phantom Brave
• Science Officer Ash, the science officer of the Nostromo in the 1979 film Alien
• Ash Crimson, the latest main character in the King of Fighters game series.
• Ashe, a character in Final Fantasy XII.
• Ash, the protagonist of Avalon

• Ash (band), a Northern Ireland rock band
• Ash (metal band), an American black metal band

Linguistics:

• Æ, a letter from Old English commonly called "ash"
• near-open front unrounded vowel, the sound that æ (lowercase ash) corresponds to in the International Phonetic Alphabet
• A Jewish family name related to Eisenstadt

Other:

• Archaic Sealed Heat, a forthcoming video game for the Nintendo DS, by Mistwalker
• Ash (comic), created by Joe Quesada and Jimmy Palmiotti, published by Event Comics

People and figures

See Ash (surname)

• Aishwarya Rai, actress from India popular by the nickname of Ash
• Ash (band), North Irish band.
• Ash (god), a hawk-god of the Sahara Desert in Egyptian mythology
• Ash (wrestler), a Canadian wrestler commonly known as "the Antihero" or "the Canadian Casanova"

Places

• Ash-cum-Ridley, near Sevenoaks, Kent, England
• Ash (near Sandwich), Kent, England
• Ash, Derbyshire, England
• Ash (near Taunton), Somerset, England
• Ash (near Yeovil), Somerset, England
• Ash, Surrey, England
• Ash (near Salway), Dorset, England
• Ash (near Stourpaine), Dorset, England
• Ash, Devon, England

In the United States:

• Ash, Texas in Houston County, Texas
• Ash, Missouri in Monroe County, Missouri
• Ash, North Carolina in Brunswick County, North Carolina
• Ash, Ohio in Licking County, Ohio
• Ash, Washington in Walla Walla County, Washington
• Ash, Oregon in Douglas County, Oregon
• Ash, West Virginia in Mason County, West Virginia
• Ash, Georgia in Paulding County, Georgia

As an acronym (ASH)

• Almquist shell, a command-line interface for computers running some variants of the Unix operating system
• alt.suicide.holiday, a Usenet newsgroup
• Action on Smoking and Health, an anti-smoking charitable organisation
• American Society of Hematology ^*
• The National Rail code for Ash railway station near Guildford, United Kingdom. External links: ; ; .
• The NATO reporting name of the Bisnovat R-4 air-to-air missile
• The airport code for Boire Field in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA
• The American School of the Hague

See also

• Ashes
• Ashley; Ash can be considered to be a nickname for that name.

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