Holography inspired stringy hadrons (HISH) is a set of models that describe
hadrons: mesons, baryons, glueballs and exotic hadrons as strings in four
dimensional 
at space-time. The models are based on a \map" from stringy
hadrons of curved holographic conning backgrounds. In the rst part of
the talk I will review the \derivation" of the models. I will start with a
brief reminder of the passage from the original AdS=CFT correspondence
to the string/gauge duality of certain favored conng holographic models. I
will then describe the string congurations in these holographic backgrounds
that correspond to Wilson lines, mesons, baryons, glueballs and exotics. Key
ingredients of the four dimensional picture of hadrons are the \string end-
point mass" and the \baryonic string vertex". I will determine the classical
trajectories of the HISH spectra. I will review the current understanding of
the quantization of these hadronic strings. The computation of HISH decay
width of hadrons will be described. In the last part of the talk I will sum-
marize the comparison of the outcome of the HISH models with the PDG
data about mesons and baryons. I will present the values of the tension,
masses and intercepts extracted from best ts to hadron spectra and write
down certain predictions for higher excited hadrons. I will present attempts
to identify glueballs. The decay width of certain hadrons will be compared
with the theoretical calculation. I will suggest a window to the landscape of
tetra-quarks and other exotic hadrons.