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Bo (given Name)
Bo is a mainly Swedish/Danish masculine given name, derived from the Old Norse verb ''búa'' ("to reside"). A variant of Bo is the Swedish ''Bosse''. Bo is uncommon as a surname. Bo is also short for names including Beaufort, Beauregard, Bonita, or Bonnie; it is also a less common shortening of the name Robert, which is usually shortened to Bob. It can also be a shortening of the name James, which is usually shortened to Jimmy, Jim, or Jimbo. Notable people Given name * Bo Anderson, birth name of American Brazilian DJ and producer Maga Bo * Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish poet *Bo Bichette (born 1998), Major League Baseball player *Bo Boustedt (1868–1939), Swedish Army Lieutenant General * Bo Bowling (born 1987), American football player *Bo Carpelan (1926–2011), Finnish poet and author * Bo Danske, 13th-century Danish philosopher * Bo Ericson (athlete) (1919–1970), Swedish hammer thrower *Bo Goldman (born 1932), American writer, Broadway playwright, and screenwriter *Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, Finland to the east, and is connected to Denmark in the southwest by a bridgetunnel across the Öresund. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country, the third-largest country in the European Union, and the fifth-largest country in Europe. The capital and largest city is Stockholm. Sweden has a total population of 10.5 million, and a low population density of , with around 87% of Swedes residing in urban areas in the central and southern half of the country. Sweden has a nature dominated by forests and a large amount of lakes, including some of the largest in Europe. Many long rivers run from the Scandes range through the landscape, primarily ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Boustedt
Lieutenant General Bo Ivar Boustedt (22 August 1868 – 24 October 1939) was a Swedish Army officer. Boustedt's senior commands include regimental commander of Västernorrland Regiment and Uppland Infantry Regiment, chief of the Military Office of the Land Defence, commanding officer of the Eastern Army Division, Commandant General of Stockholm Garrison and Chief of the General Staff. Early life Boustedt was born on 22 August 1868 in Fuxerna Parish, Älvsborg County, Sweden, to captain Axel Boustedt and his wife Amanda Bergius. Boustedt was commissioned as an officer in Bohuslän Regiment in 1891 with the rank of ''underlöjtnant''. He was then teacher at ''Billströmska folkhögskolan'' in Tjörn from 1892 to 1898. Career He was promoted to lieutenant in 1895 and served as lieutenant of the General Staff in 1903 and as captain there in 1904. Boustedt served as teacher at the Swedish Infantry Gunnery School in 1904, and as teacher at the Royal Swedish Army Staff College from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Melton
Miles Bokeem Melton (born May 18, 1999) is an American football wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Rutgers Scarlet Knights football, Rutgers, and was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft. Early life and high school career Melton grew up in Mays Landing, New Jersey and attended Cedar Creek High School (New Jersey), Cedar Creek High School. As a senior, Melton caught 51 receptions for 766 yards and nine touchdowns and also rushed for 451 yards and seven touchdowns. He was rated a four-star recruit and committed to play college football at Rutgers from over 30 scholarship offers, including Michigan, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Virginia Tech, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maryland, and Pitt. College career Melton played in 11 games as a freshman and had four receptions for 83 yards. He played in all 12 of Rutgers' games and caught 28 passes for 245 yards in his sophomore season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Ljungberg
Bo Alexander Ljungberg (21 November 1911 – 19 March 1984) was a Swedish athlete. He won two silver medals in the pole vault at the European Championships and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics as both a pole vaulter and a triple jumper. Career Bo Ljungberg won gold in the pole vault at the 1933 International University Games in Turin, clearing 3.90 m. At the following year's European Championships, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's Gustav Wegner; he also competed in the triple jump, placing 8th with 14.01 m. He also took part in both events at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; in the triple jump he managed 14.35 m and placed eighteenth, while in the pole vault he again cleared 4.00 m and shared sixth place with ten others. At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more. In 1939 This year also marks the start of the Second World War, the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Larsson
Bo-Göran "Bosse" Larsson (born 5 May 1944) is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and striker. Best remembered for his time with Malmö FF, he also represented VfB Stuttgart and Trelleborgs FF during his career. A full international between 1964 and 1978, he won 70 caps for the Sweden national team and scored 17 goals. He also represented Sweden at the 1970, 1974, and 1978 FIFA World Cups. Club career Most of his club career he played for Malmö FF where he won the league championship several times. Between 1966 and 1969 he was an appreciated professional for VfB Stuttgart scoring 21 times in 88 games. As the best player in the team and loved by the supporters he was also awarded "Athlete of the Year" in 1969 by the city of Stuttgart. According to many he had a by far too short career as a professional player, but his wife Anita never settled to life in Germany, which made him move back home to Malmö that same summer. He was awarded with Guld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Johansson
Bo "Bosse" Johansson (born 28 November 1942) is a Swedish former football player and current football coach. Biography Johansson was a player for fourteen years with Kalmar FF and Lindsdals IF, though he did not win any trophies as a player. In 1977, he was appointed coach for his former club of Kalmar FF, a job he held for two years before switching to local rivals Öster IF. He would remain there for three years, leading Östers IF to back-to-back Swedish Allsvenskan championships in 1980 and 1981. Bo Johansson went on to coach Norwegian club FK Jerv, Greek club Panionios NFC, and started an international career coaching the Iceland national team. He would have to wait 13 years for his next title, until 1994 when he led Danish team Silkeborg IF to the national Danish Superliga championship. In 1996, he was appointed Danish national team coach, taking over from Richard Møller Nielsen who had managed the Danish team to the 1992 European Championship (Euro 1992) title, but h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Horvat
Bowie William Horvat (born April 5, 1995) is a Canadian professional ice hockey centre and captain of the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected ninth overall in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft. During his junior career in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), he won the Wayne Gretzky 99 Award as playoff MVP in 2013, as well as two J. Ross Robertson Cup titles with the London Knights. Internationally, he has played for Team Canada at the 2012 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, 2012 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament (under-18), 2014 IIHF U20 Championships and the 2018 IIHF World Championship. Early life Horvat was born on April 5, 1995, in London, Ontario, to Tim and Cindy Horvat. He grew up in Rodney, Ontario, a 90-minute drive from Detroit, Michigan, and attended a number of Detroit Red Wings ice hockey games as a child. Bo and his younger brother Cal would often practise playing hockey in the family basement throughout their childhoods, until Horvat moved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Holmberg
Bo Lindor Holmberg (17 November 1942 – 11 February 2010), born in Härnösand, Västernorrlands län, Sweden, was a Swedish politician, Governor of Södermanland, and husband of former Minister for Foreign Affairs Anna Lindh. Biography Holmberg's first major political assignment was as a Commissioner of the Västernorrland County Council from 1976 to 1982. In 1982, he was made Minister for Municipal Affairs in the newly elected Social Democrat Government, and in the following year Minister for Civil Service Affairs, on which post he remained until 1988. He then served as a Member of the Parliament for his home constituency of Västernorrland until being appointed Governor of Södermanland on 1 July 1996. His term ended in 2005. Holmberg was married to Lindh from 1991 until she was assassinated in 2003. They had two sons, David and Filip. Holmberg died on 11 February 2010 at age 67. See also *List of Södermanland Governors, Government of Sweden The Government of the Ki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Hansson
Bo Hansson (10 April 1943 – 23 April 2010) was a Swedish musician best known for his four instrumental progressive rock studio albums released throughout the 1970s. Early life and musical career Hansson spent his early life in a remote village in the pine forests of northern Sweden, but a change in his parents' fortunes forced a move to Stockholm and they were forced to leave the young Hansson behind, in the care of family friends. As a teenager he joined his parents in Stockholm, where he soon became interested in the burgeoning rock and roll scene and taught himself to play the guitar, before joining the band Rock-Olga. After the rock and roll craze gave way to jazz and blues in the late fifties, he joined 'Slim Notini's Blues Gang' as a guitarist. Hansson was able to move on and form his own blues group The Merrymen, who supported The Rolling Stones on an early Scandinavian tour. In 1966, Hansson saw American jazz organist Jack McDuff perform at Stockholm's Gyllene Cir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Hamburger
Bo Hamburger (born 24 May 1970 in Frederiksberg) is a Danish former professional road racing cyclist. He retired in 2006. Biography After ending his career, Hamburger started a building company and a bike shop. He was the leading directeur sportif for in 2013 and 2014. Doping He was fired from Team CSC in 2001, after a positive EPO test. He was later cleared legally since the B test was below the limit, but still higher than normal. Since then, the Danish Cycle Union refused to let Hamburger represent Denmark. Hamburger fought the exclusion through legal means. In his book ''Den største pris - en cykelrytters bekendelser'' (''The Greatest Cost - Confession of a Cyclist'') released in Denmark on 7 November 2007, he admitted to using EPO and human growth hormone from 1995 to 1997. His name was also on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Goldman
Robert "Bo" Goldman (born September 10, 1932) is an American screenwriter and playwright. He has received two Academy Awards for his screenplays of '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' (1975) and ''Melvin and Howard'' (1980). Early life and education Goldman was born into a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Lillian (Levy), a hat model, and Julian Goldman. Goldman's father was a Broadway producer, and owned a chain of well known eastern department stores called The Goldman Stores, and as an early pioneer of "time payments", his business thrived. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a close friend and also his attorney. ''Goldman Store'' ads typically featured men in business suits and fashionably dressed women in furs. While this was an old strategy for appealing to those with dreams of upper-class status, the ad copy explicitly addressed middle-income customers. ''"He makes only $3,000 a year,"'' blazoned one Goldman ad, ''"But is worth $112,290!"'' Julian loved the theatre, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo Ericson (athlete)
Bo Evert Ericson (28 January 1919 – 14 February 1970) was a Swedish hammer thrower who won a gold medal at the 1946 European Athletics Championships in Oslo with a throw of 56.44 metres. He was also a finalist at the 1948 Olympics in London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ..., but he finished in sixth place with a throw of 52.98 metres. Ericson twice broke the Swedish national record for the hammer throw–in 1941 with a throw of 56.66 metres and, secondly, in 1947 with a throw of 57.19 metres–and held the record outright from 1941 until 1955. He was a ten-time winner of the hammer throw at the Swedish national championships. References 1919 births 1970 deaths Athletes from Gothenburg Swedish male hammer throwers Olympic athletes for Swed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
