Hilton

Hilton or Hylton may refer to:

Companies

  • Hilton Worldwide Holdings, Inc., a global hospitality company based in the United States that owns several hotel chains and subsidiary companies containing the Hilton name
  • Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, an American non-profit charitable foundation, established in 1944 by hotel entrepreneur Conrad N. Hilton
  • Ladbrokes, a British-based gambling company, known as Hilton Group plc from May 1999 to February 2006

Places

Australia

Canada

Norway

  • Hilton, a farm near Kløfta, Ullensaker, known as the birthplace of Augustus Hilton, father of American hotelier Conrad Hilton

South Africa

United Kingdom

England

Scotland

United States

Vietnam

  • Hanoi Hilton, a former prison in Hanoi

Schools

People

Other uses

  • Bangkok Hilton (1989), an Australian television miniseries
  • Chip Hilton Player of the Year Award, presented to a basketball player who has demonstrated personal character both on and off the court
  • Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the largest humanitarian award in the world
  • Eckmann–Hilton argument, an argument in mathematics about two monoid structures on a set where one is a homomorphism for the other
  • The Hanoi Hilton (film) (1987), a Vietnam War film which focuses on the experiences of American prisoners of war who were held in the Hanoi Hilton
  • Hilton Flight, a horse ridden in international show jumping by Richard Spooner
  • Hilton International Stakes, a Group 2 Australian thoroughbred horse race
  • Hilton Quota, the quota applied to beef imported from certain countries into the European Union
  • Hilton v. Guyot (1895), a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the court described the factors to be used when considering the application of comity
  • Hilton's law, an observation on topological anatomy
  • Hilton's white line, a boundary in the anal canal
  • Hylton v. United States (1796), a U.S. Supreme Court case involving judicial review
  • I Want To Be a Hilton (2005), a weekly NBC reality television series that was hosted by Kathy Hilton
  • London Hilton bombing, a 1975 explosion at the Hilton Hotel in London, England
  • Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing, a 1978 explosion outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia
  • "The Milton Hilton", the local nickname of the Otago Corrections Facility prison in Milton, New Zealand

See also

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