Hex

Hex usually refers to:


 * A curse or supposed real and potentially supernaturally realized malicious wish
 * Hexadecimal, a base-16 number system often used in computer nomenclature

Hex, HEX, or The Hex may also refer to:

Magic

 * Hex sign, a barn decoration originating in Pennsylvania Dutch regions of the United States
 * Hex work, a Pennsylvania Dutch (German) folk magic system also known as pow-wow

Engineering and technology

 * Hex key, a tool also known as a hex wrench or Allen wrench, used to drive fasteners
 * Hex key, a number sign (#) key on telephones (regional term used in Singapore and Malaysia)
 * High-energy X-rays, sometimes abbreviated "HEX-rays"
 * Hexcentric, an item of climbing protection equipment
 * Heat exchanger, a device for heat transfer
 * Hypersonic Flight Experiment, a planned mission of the Indian Space Research Organisation
 * Intel HEX, a computer file format
 * Uranium hexafluoride, a compound used in nuclear fuel refinement
 * Hex color, a six-digit, three-byte hexadecimal number used in computing applications to represent colors

Businesses and services

 * Hex'Air, an airline based in southern France
 * Heathrow Express, a train service in London
 * Nasdaq Helsinki, formerly the Helsinki Stock Exchange

Games and sport

 * Hex, a hexagonal tile of a hex map, used in war and strategy board games
 * Hex (board game), a mathematical strategy game played on a hexagonal grid or rhombus
 * Hex (climbing), an item of rock climbing equipment used to arrest a fall
 * Hex (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Amiga and Atari ST
 * Hex: Shards of Fate, an MMO trading card game by Cryptozoic Entertainment
 * Hex – The Legend of the Towers, a Vekoma Madhouse ride at the Alton Towers Resort, England
 * The Hexagonal (CONCACAF), final round of FIFA World Cup qualifiers for North America, Central America, and the Caribbean
 * Hex, pseudonym of the puzzle writers Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon
 * The Hex (video game), a 2018 computer game by the creator of Pony Island

Places

 * Hex River, a tributary of the Breede River in South Africa
 * Hex River, a tributary of the Elands River in South Africa
 * Hexham railway station, Northumberland, England

Books

 * Hex (1998 novel), a dystopian novel for young adults by Rhiannon Lassiter
 * Hex, a 2011 science fiction novel by Allen Steele
 * HEX (2013 novel), a Dutch horror novel by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, published in English in 2016

Fictional characters

 * Hex (Ben 10), a villain in the Ben 10 franchise
 * Hex (Discworld), a computer in Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels
 * Hex Schofield, a companion of the Seventh Doctor in a series of Doctor Who audio plays
 * Hex, an illusionist and escapologist in the Marvel Comics series ClanDestine
 * Hex, an undead dark elf necromancer in the Netflix animated series Skylanders Academy
 * HEX, an evil organization in the novel InterWorld
 * Jonah Hex, a DC Comics character
 * The Hex Girls, a fictitious musical group in the Scooby-Doo franchise

Film, television and stage

 * HEX, in WandaVision is a nickname for the city of Westview
 * Hex (1973 film), a 1973 film starring Keith Carradine, Gary Busey, Dan Haggerty, and Hillarie Thompson
 * Hex, a 1980 Hong Kong film directed by Kuei Chih-Hung
 * Hex (2015 film), a 2015 film directed by Clarence Peters
 * Hex, a 2018 film directed by Rudolf Buitendach
 * Hex (musical), a 2021 musical based on the Charles Perrault version of Sleeping Beauty
 * Hex (TV series), a 2004–2005 supernatural/horror drama on British television
 * Jonah Hex (film), a 2010 film based on a DC Comics character
 * Mr. Hex, a 1946 Bowery Boys comedy film
 * Stephanie Bendixsen (born 1985), presenter for Australian TV show Good Game, known by the gamertag Hex

Musical artists

 * Hex, an indie rock duo formed in 1988 by Steve Kilbey and Donnette Thayer
 * Hex (VJ group), a British-based multimedia group active in the 1990s which later became Hexstatic
 * Hex Hector (born 1965), American dance remixer

Songs and albums

 * Hex (Bark Psychosis album), 1994
 * Hex (Hex album), 1989, by the indie rock duo Hex
 * Hex (Jon McKiel album), 2024
 * Hex (Poison Girls album), 1979
 * Hex, a 2003 album by the Los Angeles-based rock band Bigelf
 * Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method, a 2005 album by the band Earth
 * "Hex" (song), by Rezz and 1788-L
 * "Hex", a 2014 song co-written by Wax Motif and Tommy Trash