Bo

Not to be confused with B0 (disambiguation) (B followed by zero).

Bo or BO may refer to

People

• Bo (given name), name origin, plus people with the name
• Bo (surname), name origin, plus people with the surname
  • Bo (Chinese name), Chinese family names
• Bo (title), a Chinese title typically translated as "count"
• Bo people (China), a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China famous for hanging coffins; of which only a small remnant-descendant group is known to survive, with only limited elements of their previous culture
• Bo people of Laos, see List of ethnic groups in Laos
  • Bo language, extinct language spoken by the Bo people in Laos
• Bo people (Andaman), recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands
  • Their extinct Aka-Bo language
• Bo Jackson, American football and baseball player
• Robert Belinsky, baseball player
• Barack Obama, US President
• Beneficial owner

Shorthand

Medicine

• Bacterial overgrowth, medical disorder of malabsorption
• Bowel obstruction
• Bronchiolitis obliterans
• Body odor

Math and science

• BO, in mathematics, the classifying space of the orthogonal group
• In chemistry and physics, the Born–Oppenheimer approximation

Transportation

• BO, the reporting marks for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
• BO, IATA airline code for Bouraq Indonesia Airlines
• BO, UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement 0-4-0 in the Whyte notation, consisting of two independently powered axles and hence four wheels

Language and country codes

• bo, the language code for Standard Tibetan in ISO 639-1
• Belarus (BO), FIPS Pub 10-4 and obsolete NATO digram country code
• Bolivia (BO), WMO and ISO 2-letter country code
  • .bo, ccTLD for Bolivia

Organizations

• Biarritz Olympique (BO), French rugby union club
• Business Objects (company)
• Beneficial owner

Culture

• Body odor
• Box office
• Böhse Onkelz, German rock band
• Bo (film), Belgian film, directed by Hans Herbots

Software

• Call of Duty: Black Ops, a first-person shooter video game
• Back Orifice, remote administration software

Places

• Bő, village in Hungary
• Bø (disambiguation), various places in Norway
• Bo, Sierra Leone, a city
• Bo-Kaap, area of Cape Town, South Africa
• Bo Rai, township and district in Trat Province, Eastern Thailand
• Le Bô, commune in the Calvados département of France

Religion and culture

• Táin Bó, genre of early Irish literature
• Bojagi, or bo, Korean wrapping cloth
• Bō, east Asian quarterstaff, staff weapon used in the martial art Bōjutsu
• Bo (parsha), fifteenth weekly Torah reading
• Sacred fig, aka Bo tree, the sacred fig under which Siddhartha Gautama was enlightened
• Kol Bo, Jewish ritual and civil laws

Fictional characters

• Bo Duke, one of the main characters from The Dukes of Hazzard television series
• Face of Boe, Doctor Who character
• Bo' Rai Cho, character from Mortal Kombat
• Little Bo Peep, character from a nursery rhyme
• Bo Peep, a character from the Toy Story series.
• Bo Sheep, a character on the comic strip US Acres
• Bo Brady, popular and long serving character from Days of Our Lives
• Bo, what everyone calls an orphan named Boniface in Cornelia Funke's novel, The Thief Lord
• Bo, a cartoon character in Muse magazine
• Bo Sinclair, a character in the movie, House of Wax (2005 film)
• Bo, main character in the Lost Girl TV series.

Other

• Bankon language, also known as Bo, Abo, Abaw, a language in Cameroon
• Bo (dog), Portuguese Water Dog belonging to Barack Obama
• Bo' Selecta!, British comedy
• BABO, also BA:BO, 2008 South Korean film
• Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, first in the Legacy of Kain video game series
• Bo (film), a Belgiam film starring Ella-June Henrard as an underage escort; directed by Hans Herbots.

See also

• Pages that begin with "Bo"
• BOH (disambiguation)
• B&O (disambiguation)