White hand
White Hand or Whitehand may refer to:
Organizations
- Mano Blanca ("White Hand"), officially Movimiento de Acción Nacionalista Organizado (Movement of Organized Nationalist Action), was a Guatemalan right-wing, anti-communist terrorist organisation
- White Hand (military organization), a secret, unofficial military organization in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes
- White Hand Gang, a collection of the various anti-Italian Irish gangs in the New York area from the early 1900s to 1925
People
- Humbert I, Count of Savoy (died 1047/48), nicknamed "the White-handed"
- Guillaume aux Blanches Mains (1135–1202), French cardinal and archbishop whose epithet translates to "White Hands"
Fictional entities
- Gilbert Whitehand, a lesser known member of Robin Hood's merry men
- The White Hand, a fictional white supremacist group in Elly Griffiths' fifth Ruth Galloway novel, A Dying Fall (2012)
Other uses
- White hand sign, a medical sign observed as a visible whitening of skin on the hand
- White Hands Campaign, an initiative promoting women's rights in the Arabic world
- White-handed (disambiguation)
See also
- Gareth, one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, nicknamed "Beaumains", sometimes translated as "Fair Hands"
- Hands, a 1990 American political advertisement, also known as "White Hands"
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