Bo or BO may refer to

Arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

* Box office, where tickets to an event are sold, and by extension, the amount of business a production receives *'' BA:BO'', 2008 South Korean film * ''Bo'' (film), a Belgian film starring Ella-June Henrard and directed by Hans Herbots

Gaming

*'' Call of Duty: Black Ops'', a first-person shooter video game *'' Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain'', first in the Legacy of Kain video game series

Music

Bo (instrument) The bo () is a percussion instrument originating in China, a type of cymbal. It consists of two plates that are clashed together. It is a concussion idiophone. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one from nineteenth century China. Both parts ...

, a Chinese cymbal * Bo, a Greek rapper.

Religion

*Bo or Bodhi Tree *

Bo (parsha) Bo ( — in Hebrew, the command form of "go," or "come," and the first significant word in the parashah, in ) is the fifteenth weekly Torah portion (, ''parashah'') in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the third in the Book of Exodus ...

, fifteenth weekly Torah reading

Ethnic groups

Bo people (China) The Bo people () are an ancient extinct people from the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of Southern China. They are famous for their hanging coffins. They were one of the various now extinct peoples from Southern China known collectively in Chinese re ...

, a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China *Bo people of Laos, see

List of ethnic groups in Laos The following is a list of ethnic groups in Laos. Classification Specialists are largely in agreement as to the ethnolinguistic classification of the ethnic groups of Laos. For the purposes of the 1995 census, the government of Laos recognized 14 ...

* Bo people (Andaman), a recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands

Human names

* Bo (given name), name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname * Bo (surname), name origin, plus a list of people with the surname ** Bo (Chinese surname), Chinese family names ** Bő (genus), Hungarian medieval noble clan * Bø (disambiguation), which includes several people with the surname *

Htun Aeindra Bo Htun Eaindra Bo ( my, ထွန်းအိန္ဒြာဗို, ; also Htun Aeindra Bo; born 1 May 1966) is a three-time Myanmar Academy Award winning actress and singer. The Mogok native began her film career in 1991, and has achieved fame ...

, Burmese actress and singer born Mi Mi Khine in 1966 * Lisa del Bo, Belgian singer born Reinhilde Goossens in 1961 *Bo Dupp, a ring name, along with

Otto Schwanz William Murray Happer (born October 4, 1972) is an American professional wrestling, professional wrestler and Personal trainer, trainer, best known by his ring name Otto Schwanz. He competed primarily in the Carolinas since the mid-2000s, and has ...

, of American professional wrestler William Happer (born 1972) *

Björgvin Halldórsson Björgvin Helgi Halldórsson (Alternate names: Bó Halldórsson, Björgvin Halldórsson or Bó Hall) (born 16 April 1951) is an Icelandic pop singer from Hafnarfjörður. He represented Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the song ...

, Icelandic singer also known as "Bo"

Science

Biology and medicine

Bacterial overgrowth Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), also termed bacterial overgrowth, or small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome (SBBOS), is a disorder of excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine. Unlike the colon (or large bowel), which is r ...

, a medical disorder of malabsorption * Bowel obstruction * Body odor or B.O. * Bronchiolitis obliterans * BO strain of the '' Caenorhabditis elegans'' var. ''Bergerac'' model worm * '' Ficus religiosa'', a.k.a. Bo-Tree, a species of Asian fig

Mathematics, chemistry and physics

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

Places

Bő Bő is a village in Sárvár District of Vas County, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukrain ...

, Hungary, a village * Bø (disambiguation), various places in Norway * Bo, Chanthaburi, Thailand * Bo, Hòa Bình, Vietnam * Bo, Sierra Leone, a city * Bo, Yaba, Burkina Faso *

Le Bô Le Bô () is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions ...

, a commune in the Calvados departement, France *

Palazzo Bo The Bo Palace (Italian: Palazzo del Bo), is the historical seat of University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Ita ...

, or "Il Bo", the historic seat of the University of Padua in Italy *Bo (, ''Bó''), the original capital of the Tang King who founded China's Shang Dynasty, and its accurate location is still disputed. Two strong candidates are

Yanshi Shang City Yanshi District () is a district in the prefecture-level city of Luoyang in western Henan province, China. Yanshi lies on the Luo River and is the easternmost county-level division of Luoyang. History After the Zhou conquest of Shang in mid-11th ...

and

Zhengzhou Shang City The Zhengzhou Shang City () is an archaeological site of the Bronze Age Erligang culture in Zhengzhou, Henan, China. Studies give it 4 chronological phases from 1630 to 1400 BC. The excavation of the site is of great importance in understanding ...

Transportation

* Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (reporting mark BO) *

Bouraq Indonesia Airlines Bouraq Indonesia Airlines, often shortened to Bouraq Airlines or just Bouraq, was an airline headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, which operated mostly domestic passenger flights out of its bases at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and Sul ...

(IATA airline code BO) *BO, UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement 0-4-0, in the Whyte notation

Other uses

* Bó (bank), a banking brand in the United Kingdom * Bō, or east Asian quarterstaff, a staff weapon used in the martial art Bōjutsu * Bō, a Japanese honorific suffix *

Bo (dog) Bo (October 9, 2008 – May 8, 2021) was a pet dog of the Obama family, the first family of the United States from 2009 until 2017. President Barack Obama and his family were given the male Portuguese Water Dog as a gift after months of specula ...

(2008–2021), a pet belonging to U.S. President Barack Obama *

Bo (title) The nobility of China was an important feature of the traditional Social structure of China, social structure of History of China#Ancient China, Ancient China and History of China#Imperial China, Imperial China. While the concepts of Inheritance ...

, a Chinese title typically translated as "count" * '' Bo Bedre'', Danish lifestyle and interior design *

Bojagi A bojagi (, sometimes shortened to ) is a traditional Korean wrapping cloth. Bojagi are typically square and can be made from a variety of materials, though silk or ramie are common. Embroidered bojagi are known as subo, while patchwork or scrap b ...

or ''bo'', a Korean wrapping cloth * Bojangles (disambiguation) *

Bo School The Bo Government Secondary School commonly known as Bo School is a secondary school located on a property in the center of Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone. The school was founded in 1906 at the behest of the British colonial govern ...

, a secondary school in Bo, Sierra Leone *

Back Orifice Back Orifice (often shortened to BO) is a computer program designed for remote administration, remote system administration. It enables a user to control a computer running the Microsoft Windows operating system from a remote location.Richtel, M ...

, remote administration software *

Barrel of Oil A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth. For historical reasons the volumes of some barrel units ...

, sometimes used in place of ''bbl'' *

Beneficial owner Beneficial owner is a legal term where specific property rights ("use and title") in equity belong to a person even though legal title of the property belongs to another person. Beneficial owner is subject to a state's statutory laws regulating i ...

, in property law *

Biarritz Olympique Biarritz Olympique Pays Basque (; ), usually known simply as Biarritz, is a French professional rugby union team based in the Basque city of Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine which competes in the Pro D2, the second division of French rugby. Biarritz p ...

, a French rugby union club *

Business Objects (company) Business Objects (BO, BOBJ, or BObjects) was an enterprise software company, specializing in business intelligence (BI). Business Objects was acquired in 2007 by German company SAP AG. The company claimed more than 46,000 customers in its final e ...

, an enterprise software company * Bolivia (ISO 3166-1 country code) ** .bo, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bolivia * Bo language (disambiguation) *"bo", Standard Tibetan ISO 639-1 language code