Bo or BO may refer to

Arts and entertainment

Film, television, and theatre

Box office A box office or ticket office is a place where ticket (admission), tickets are sold to the public for admission to an event. Patrons may perform the transaction at a countertop, through a hole in a wall or window, or at a Wicket gate, wicke ...

, 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), fifteenth weekly Torah reading

Ethnic groups

* Bo people (China), a nearly extinct minority population in Southern China *Bo people of Laos, see List of ethnic groups in Laos *

Bo people (Andaman) The Bo were one of the ten indigenous tribes of the Great Andamanese people, originally living on the western coast of North Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean. The tribe spoke a distinctive Bo language, closely related to the other Great Andama ...

, a recently extinct group in the Andaman Islands

Human names

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, ...

, name origin, plus a list of people and fictional characters with the name or nickname *

Bo (surname) Bo or Bó as a surname may refer to: * Achillina Bo, birth name of Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992), Italian-born Brazilian modernist architect * Armando Bó (1914–1981), Argentine film actor, director, producer, screenwriter and score composer, fathe ...

, name origin, plus a list of people with the surname **

Bo (Chinese surname) Bo is a set of several Chinese family names, including , , , , etc. Among these names, is the 213th most common surname in China at present, shared by at least 430,000 Chinese citizens,Bő (genus) Bő was the name of a ''gens'' (Latin for "clan"; ''nemzetség'' in Hungarian) in the Kingdom of Hungary, which initially possessed landholdings and villages in Somogy County. Among other families, the Túz de Lak noble family descended from them. ...

, Hungarian medieval noble clan *

Bø (disambiguation) Bø may refer to the following: Places Norway Of places in Norway, Bø most commonly refers to: * Bø, Telemark, a municipality in Telemark county in Southern Norway, population 5,977. Home of the main campus of the University of South-Eastern ...

, which includes several people with the surname * Htun Aeindra Bo, Burmese actress and singer born Mi Mi Khine in 1966 *

Lisa del Bo Lisa del Bo (born Reinhilde Goossens on 9 June 1961 in Mopertingen, Belgium) is a Belgian singer who is popular in her own country and also in Germany. Lisa del Bo is a Flemish singer who often sings in the Dutch language but has been known to re ...

, Belgian singer born Reinhilde Goossens in 1961 *Bo Dupp, a ring name, along with Otto Schwanz, of American professional wrestler William Happer (born 1972) * Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer also known as "Bo"

Science

Biology and medicine

* Bacterial overgrowth, a medical disorder of malabsorption *

Bowel obstruction Bowel obstruction, also known as intestinal obstruction, is a mechanical or Ileus, functional obstruction of the Gastrointestinal tract#Lower gastrointestinal tract, intestines which prevents the normal movement of the products of digestion. Eith ...

Body odor Body odor or body odour (BO) is present in all animals and its intensity can be influenced by many factors (behavioral patterns, survival strategies). Body odor has a strong genetic basis, but can also be strongly influenced by various diseases ...

or B.O. *

Bronchiolitis obliterans Bronchiolitis obliterans (BO), also known as obliterative bronchiolitis, constrictive bronchiolitis and popcorn lung, is a disease that results in obstruction of the smallest airways of the lungs (bronchioles) due to inflammation. Symptoms include ...

* BO strain of the ''

Caenorhabditis elegans ''Caenorhabditis elegans'' () is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek ''caeno-'' (recent), ''rhabditis'' (ro ...

'' var. ''Bergerac'' model worm * ''

Ficus religiosa ''Ficus religiosa'' or sacred fig is a species of Ficus, fig native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina that belongs to Moraceae, the fig or mulberry family. It is also known as the bodhi tree, pippala tree, peepul tree, peepal tree, pipa ...

'', 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 mathematics, the orthogonal group in dimension , denoted , is the Group (mathematics), group of isometry, distance-preserving transformations of a Euclidean space of dimension that preserve a fixed point, where the group operation is given by ...

* In chemistry and physics, the

Born–Oppenheimer approximation In quantum chemistry and molecular physics, the Born–Oppenheimer (BO) approximation is the best-known mathematical approximation in molecular dynamics. Specifically, it is the assumption that the wave functions of atomic nuclei and electro ...

Places

* Bő, Hungary, a village *

, various places in Norway *

Bo, Chanthaburi Bo ( th, บ่อ, ) is a ''tambon'' (subdistrict) of Khlung District, in Chanthaburi Province, Thailand. In 2017 it had a total population of 7,213 people. Administration Central administration The ''tambon'' is subdivided into 10 administra ...

, Thailand *

Bo, Hòa Bình Bo is a town and the capital of the Kim Bôi District of Hòa Bình Province, in the northwestern region of Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Sout ...

, Vietnam *

Bo, Sierra Leone Bo, also commonly referred to as Bo Town, is the second largest city in Sierra Leone by landscape/geographical location (after Freetown) and the largest city in the Southern Province. Bo is the capital and administrative centre of Bo District. Th ...

, a city *

Bo, Yaba Bo is a village in the Yaba Department of Nayala Province in north-western Burkina Faso Burkina Faso (, ; , ff, 𞤄𞤵𞤪𞤳𞤭𞤲𞤢 𞤊𞤢𞤧𞤮, italic=no) is a landlocked country in West Africa with an area of , bordered by Ma ...

, Burkina Faso * Le Bô, a commune in the Calvados departement, France * Palazzo Bo, 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 and Zhengzhou Shang City.

Transportation

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was the first common carrier railroad and the oldest railroad in the United States, with its first section opening in 1830. Merchants from Baltimore, which had benefited to some extent from the construction of ...

(reporting mark BO) * Bouraq Indonesia Airlines (IATA airline code BO) *BO, UIC classification for the railroad locomotive wheel arrangement

0-4-0 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four coupled wheels, all of which are driven. The wheels on the earliest four-coupled locomotives were ...

, in the Whyte notation

Other uses

Bó (bank) Bó was a banking brand that operated in the United Kingdom between November 2019 and May 2020. Bó operated as a trading division of National Westminster Bank, part of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, later renamed NatWest Group. History In ...

, a banking brand in the United Kingdom *

Bō A ''bō'' (棒: ぼう), ''bong'' (Korean), ''pang'' (Cantonese), ''bang'' (Mandarin), or ''kun'' (Okinawan) is a staff weapon used in Okinawa. ''Bō'' are typically around and used in Okinawan martial arts, while being adopted into Japanese ar ...

, or east Asian quarterstaff, a staff weapon used in the martial art Bōjutsu *

, a Japanese honorific suffix * Bo (dog) (2008–2021), a pet belonging to U.S. President Barack Obama * Bo (title), a Chinese title typically translated as "count" * ''

Bo Bedre ''Bo Bedre'' (Danish: ''Live Better'') is a monthly lifestyle and interior design magazine published in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the first interior design magazine in the country. The magazine has Norwegian and Finnish edi ...

'', Danish lifestyle and interior design * Bojagi or ''bo'', a Korean wrapping cloth *

Bojangles (disambiguation) Bojangles may refer to: People nicknamed "Bojangles" * Bill Robinson (1877–1949), American dancer and actor * Ron Atkinson (born 1939), former British football player and manager Media * ''Bojangles'' (film), a 2001 TV-movie about Robinson a ...

* Bo School, a secondary school in Bo, Sierra Leone * Back Orifice, remote administration software * Barrel of Oil, sometimes used in place of ''bbl'' * Beneficial owner, in property law * Biarritz Olympique, a French rugby union club * Business Objects (company), an enterprise software company *

Bolivia , image_flag = Bandera de Bolivia (Estado).svg , flag_alt = Horizontal tricolor (red, yellow, and green from top to bottom) with the coat of arms of Bolivia in the center , flag_alt2 = 7 × 7 square p ...

(ISO 3166-1 country code) ** .bo, Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Bolivia *

Bo language (disambiguation) Bo language can refer to: *Bo language (Laos) (Maleng) *Bo language (India) (Aka-Bo) *Bo language (New Guinea) *Bo language (Mali) (Bomu) *Bankon language (Cameroon), also known as ''Bo language'' *Barkul language (Nigeria), also known as ''Bo-Ruku ...

*"bo",

Standard Tibetan Lhasa Tibetan (), or Standard Tibetan, is the Tibetan dialect spoken by educated people of Lhasa, the capital of the Tibetan Autonomous Region of China. It is an official language of the Tibet Autonomous Region. In the traditional "three-branch ...

ISO 639-1 language code