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Pound may refer to:

Units

• Pound (currency), a unit of currency in various countries (further disambiguation)
• Pound sign, £
• Pound-force, unit of force
• Pound (mass), various units of mass or weight
• Number sign (#), sometimes referred to as as the "pound sign"
• Pound (rail), a unit of size for railroad (train) rails

People

• Cuthbert W. Pound (1864-1935), Chief Judge of the NY Court of Appeals 1932-1934
• Dick Pound, Canadian sports official
• Dudley Pound, British naval officer
• Ezra Pound, American modernist poet and critic
• Louise Pound, American educator
• Olivia Pound, American educator
• R. V. Pound, physicist, eponym of the Pound-Rebka experiment
• Roscoe Pound, American legal scholar
• Stephen Pound, British politician
• Stephen Bosworth Pound, American senator and judge
• Thaddeus C. Pound, Wisconsin politician

Places

United States

• Pound Ridge, New York
• Pound, Virginia
• Pound, Wisconsin
• Pound (town), Wisconsin

Elsewhere

• Pound Loney, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Other

• Pound (village), a high-walled, lockable structure featured in most medieval British villages, used for temporary holding
• Dog pound, a temporary home for pet animals
• Buffalo pound (archaic), an enclosed space, for capturing and killing large numbers of buffalo
• Canal pound, the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks
• Pound cake, a type of dessert cake
• Pound (greeting), a greeting in which two individuals touch fists
• Pound (networking), an open-source reverse proxy and load balancing program
• Tha Dogg Pound, a music group
• Pound (band), an American rock band
• Pound (magazine), a Canadian hip-hop magazine
• A Sharp (music) (♯), a musical symbol (from resemblance to # used as a pound sign)
• Pound (film), a 1970 film

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