Bok or BOK may refer to:

Places

Bok (lunar crater) Bok is a lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. To the southeast is the crater Sniadecki; to the north is McKellar, and further to the west is De Vries De Vries is one of the most common Dutch surnames. It indi ...

, on the Moon's far side * Bok (Martian crater) * Bok, Khash, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran * Bok, Orašje, a village near Orašje, Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina *

1983 Bok 1983 Bok ( ''prov. designation'': ) is a dark background asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt. It was discovered on 9 June 1975, by American astronomer Elizabeth Roemer at the Catalina Station of the UA's Steward Observatory in ...

, an asteroid *

Brookings Airport Brookings Airport is a public-use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) northeast of the central business district of Brookings, a city in Curry County, Oregon, United States. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated ...

, IATA code BOK

People

* Bok (surname) * Johannes

Bok de Korver Johannes Marius ("Bok") de Korver (27 January 1883 in Rotterdam – 22 October 1957 in Rotterdam) was a football player from the Netherlands, who twice won a bronze medal with the Netherlands national football team at the Summer Olympics: in 1 ...

(1883–1957), Dutch footballer * Bok van Blerk (born Louis Andreas Pepler, 1978), South African musician

Arts, entertainment, and media

* Bok, the title of the Vahnatai leaders in the '' Avernum'' video games * Bok, an animated gargoyle from the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''

The Dæmons ''The Dæmons'' is the fifth and final serial of the eighth season of the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in five weekly parts on BBC1 from 22 May to 19 June 1971. In the serial, the alien ...

Businesses

Bank of Kaohsiung The Bank of Kaohsiung (BOK; ) is a public bank headquartered in Zuoying District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The bank was established on 13 January 1982. Organizational structures * Credit Management Department * Risk Management Department * ...

, a commercial bank in Taiwan * Bank of Khartoum, a commercial bank in Sudan *

Bank of Khyber The Bank of Khyber is a provincial government bank owned by Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and based in Peshawar, Pakistan, with 216 branches all over the country. History It was set up as a state-owned, regional bank in 1991 along with the ...

, a provincial government-owned bank in Peshawar, Pakistan *

Bank of Korea The Bank of Korea (BOK; ) is the central bank of the Republic of Korea and issuer of Korean Republic won. It was established on 12 June 1950 in Seoul, South Korea. The bank's primary purpose is price stability. For that, the bank targets in ...

, the South Korean central bank *

BOK Financial Corporation BOK Financial Corporation — pronounced as letters, "B-O-K" — is a financial services holding company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Offering a full complement of retail and commercial banking products and services across the American Mid ...

, headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Science and technology

BOK (gene) Bok (Bcl-2 related ovarian killer) is a protein-coding gene of the Bcl-2 family that is found in many invertebrates and vertebrates. It induces apoptosis, a special type of cell death. Currently, the precise function of Bok in this process is unk ...

, full name BCL2-related ovarian killer *

Bok Prize The Bok Prize is awarded annually by the Astronomical Society of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science to recognise outstanding research in astronomy by honoring a student at an Australian university. The prize consists of the Bok Meda ...

, awarded by the Astronomical Society of Australia *

Bok Telescope The Bok Telescope (also known as the 90-inch) is the largest telescope operated solely by Steward Observatory. It finds much use from astronomers from University of Arizona, Arizona State University, and Northern Arizona University, with instrumen ...

, Arizona, United States

Other uses

* Body of knowledge, the complete set of concepts, terms and activities that make up a professional domain * BOK Center, an arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States *

Derek Bok Public Service Prizes The Derek Bok Public Service Prize is one of the prizes awarded by Harvard University during the annual commencement which happens in May. The award which is a cash prize along with a citation, medal given to graduating Harvard Extension School stu ...

, awarded at Harvard University, United States *

Edward W. Bok Technical High School The Edward W. Bok Technical High School was a public high school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, designed by Irwin T. Catharine and named after literary figure, Edward William Bok, editor of the Ladies' Home Journal. It was completed in February ...