• -hou
  -hou
  -hou is a suffix found commonly in Channel Islands and Norman names. It is the Norman language version of the Old Norse holmr, meaning a small island, and often found anglicised elsewhere as "holm". It can still be found in modern Scandinavian languages, e.g...
  
  , a Norman suffix for "small island"
• Hō
  Ho
  Ho, HO, or variations, may refer to:* Ho, Denmark, a town* Ho, Ghana, a town* Ho , Japanese kana* Ho language, spoken primarily in India* Ho people, primarily in the Indian state of Jharkhand...
  
  , an album by Maximum the Hormone
• Houston, Texas
  Houston, Texas
  Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States, and the largest city in the state of Texas. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million people within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of , which is the ...
  
  
• William P. Hobby Airport
  William P. Hobby Airport
  William P. Hobby Airport is a public airport in Houston, Texas, located from Downtown Houston. The airport covers and has four runways. Hobby Airport is Houston's oldest commercial airport and was the city's primary air terminal until the opening of Houston Intercontinental Airport in 1969...
  
  's IATA code
• Hou (侯), a rank of Chinese nobility
  Chinese nobility
  Chinese sovereignty and peerage, the nobility of China, were an important feature of traditional social and political organization of Imperial China. While the concepts of hereditary sovereign and peerage titles and noble families were featured as early as the semi-mythical, early historical...
  
   and a Chinese surname
  Chinese surname
  Chinese family names have been historically used by Han Chinese and Sinicized Chinese ethnic groups in mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and among overseas Chinese communities. In ancient times two types of surnames, family names and clan names , existed.The colloquial expressions laobaixing...
  
  
• Hou (title)
  Hou (title)
  Hou is a tile for ancient Chinese ruler, which may equivalent to King/Queen or Emperor/Empress.The Chinese character Hou is an ideogrammic compounds, in oracle bone script it is written the same as Si as the combination of mouth and hand. Hou usually refers to female rulers in oracle bone script...
  
  (后), title in ancient China equivalent to King/Queen or Emperor/Empress
• Hou (currency) (Chinese: 毫), also known as Jiao (Chinese: 角), a unit of currency in Greater China
  Greater China
  Greater China is a term used to refer to mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. As a "phrase of the moment", the precise meaning is not entirely clear, and people may use it for only the commercial ties, only the cultural actions, or even as a euphemism for the Two Chinas, while others may...
  
  
• Hou, a town in Aalborg Municipality
  Aalborg Municipality
  Aalborg Municipality is a municipality in Region Nordjylland on the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality straddles the Limfjord, the waterway which connects the North Sea and the Kattegat east-to-west, and which separates the main body of the Jutland peninsula from the island...
  
  , Denmark
• Hou, a town in Odder Municipality
  Odder municipality
  Odder municipality is a municipality in Region Midtjylland on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark just south of Aarhus and is a part of the greater Aarhus area. The municipality includes the islands of Alrø and Tunø, and covers an area of 225 km². It has a total population...
  
  , Denmark

Notable people with the surname Hou (侯)

• Hou Yaowen
  Hou Yaowen
  Hou Yaowen , or Hou Yuewen was a Chinese xiangsheng actor.-Biography:...
  
  , actor
• Hou Junji
  Hou Junji
  Hou Junji was a major general and chancellor of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, particularly known for his campaigns against Gaochang and Tuyuhun...
  
  , Tang Dynasty general
• Hou Yifan
  Hou Yifan
  Hou Yifan is a Chinese chess prodigy. She is the reigning Women's World Chess Champion, the youngest ever to win the title, as well as the youngest female player ever to qualify for the title of Grandmaster.At the age of 12, Hou became the youngest player ever to participate in the FIDE Women's...
  
  , chess player
• Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien
  Hou Hsiao-Hsien is an award-winning film director and a leading figure of Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement.-Biography:...
  
  , film director
• Yi-Jia Susanne Hou, violinist
• Hou Bin
  Hou Bin
  Hou Bin , born in Jiamusi, Heilongjiang Province, in 1975, is a Chinese athlete who specialises in the high jump.He lost his left leg in an accident at the age of nine. He subsequently became a Paralympian, and represented China at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta. He won gold in the high...
  
  , athlete