Bosco may refer to:

People

Given name Bosco

* Bosco (drag queen) (born 1993), Drag Queen *

Bosco Lin Chi-nan Bosco Lin Chi-nan is a Chinese prelate of the Catholic Church who was bishop of Tainan from 2004 to 2020. He was auxiliary bishop of Kaohsiung from 1992 to 2004. Biography Bosco was born in Hualien, Taiwan on 14 May 1943. He was ordained a Catho ...

(born 1943), Taiwanese bishop *

Bosco Frontán Silvio Bosco Frontán Vega (born March 24, 1984 in Paysandú, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan soccer player currently playing for Deportivo Pasto in the Colombian Categoría Primera A. He scored a goal in the 2006 tournament final between Querétaro ...

(born 1984), Uruguayan soccer player * Bosco Hogan (born 1949), Irish actor *

Bosco Lowe Bosco Lowe (born March 27, 1943) is an American former stock car racing and ARCA driver who mainly competed in the NASCAR Busch Grand National Series, as well as its predecessors, the Sportsman Division, and the Late Model Sportsman Division. Bi ...

(born 1943), American car race driver * Bosco Mann (born 1974), American record producer *

Bosco McDermott John Bosco McDermott (born 1936 in Dunmore, County Galway) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played Gaelic football with his local clubs Dunmore and Williamstown and was a member of the Galway Galway ( ; ga, Gaillimh, ) is a City ...

(born 1936), Irish former sportsperson *

Bosco Ntaganda Bosco Ntaganda (born 5 November 1973) is a convicted war criminal and the former military chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP), an armed militia group operating in the North Kivu province of the Democrati ...

(born 1973), Congolese warlord *

Bosco Pérez-Pla Bosco Pérez-Pla de Alvear (born 26 September 1987) is a Spanish field hockey player who plays as a defender for Men's Belgian Hockey League, Belgian Hockey League club KHC Leuven, Leuven. He also played a total of 142 times for the Spain men's ...

(born 1987), Spanish field hockey player * Bosco Puthur (born 1946), Syro-Malabar Catholic bishop * Bosco Saraiva (born 1959), Brazilian politician * Bosco da Silva (born 1937), Hong Kong field hockey player * Bosco Sodi (born 1970), Mexican artist *

Bosco Tjan Siaufung "Bosco" Tjan (曾学锋, January 21, 1966 – December 2, 2016) was a Chinese-American psychologist and neuroscientist. He was a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts & Scien ...

(1966-2016), Chinese-American psychologist and neuroscientist * Bosco Wong (born 1980), Hong Kong actor

Middle name Bosco

Jean Bosco Mwenda Jean-Bosco Mwenda, also known as Mwenda wa Bayeke (1930 – September 1990), was a pioneer of Congolese fingerstyle acoustic guitar music. He was also popular in other African countries, particularly in East Africa, and in the late 1950s and early ...

(1930–1990), Congolese guitarist *

João Bosco de Freitas Chaves João Bosco de Freitas Chaves or simply Bosco (born November 14, 1974 in Escada-PE), is a retired Brazilian goalkeeper. Career According to Brazilian football magazine Placar, Bosco played 149 times in Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, suffered 19 ...

(born 1964), Brazilian footballer * John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai (1935-2011), Thai priest * Juan Bosco Maino Canales (disappeared 1976), Chilean political activist

Surname Bosco

Douglas H. Bosco Douglas Harry Bosco (born July 28, 1946) is an American lawyer, politician, and newspaper owner from California. He is a former U.S. Representative, serving in Congress as a Democrat from 1983 to 1991. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, ...

(born 1946), American politician *

Giacinto Bosco Giacinto Bosco (1905–1997) was an Italian jurist, academic and politician from the Christian Democrats. He held various ministerial posts from 1960 to 1972. After retiring from politics he served as a judge at the Court of Justice of the Europe ...

(1905–1997), Italian jurist, academic and politician * Giovanni Bartolomeo Bosco (1793–1863), Italian magician * Henri Bosco (1888–1976), French writer * João Bosco (born 1946), Brazilian musician *

John Bosco John Melchior Bosco ( it, Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco; pms, Gioann Melchior Bòsch; 16 August 181531 January 1888), popularly known as Don Bosco , was an Catholic Church in Italy, Italian Catholic priest, educator, writer and saint of the 19t ...

(1815–1888), aka Don Bosco, Italian priest and founder of the Salesian Society * Philip Bosco (1930–2018), American actor * Robbie Bosco, American football quarterback for Brigham Young University * Sacro Bosco (c. 1195-c. 1256), English monk and astronomer * Yuri Bosco (1930–2019), Russian sculptor

Places

Italy

Bosco (Albanella) Albanella is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of south-western Italy. It is located 51 kilometers from the city of Salerno. The town slogan is , which translates to "the land of the olive trees" in English. ...

, a civil parish of the municipality of Albanella (SA), Campania * Bosco (Rovito), a civil parish of the municipality of Rovito (CS), Calabria *

Bosco (San Giovanni a Piro) San Giovanni a Piro ( Cilentan: ''San Giuanni'') is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Salerno in the Campania region of southern Italy. Geography The town is located on a hill on the road linking Marina di Camerota to Policastro Bussentino. ...

, a civil parish of the municipality of San Giovanni a Piro (SA), Campania * Bosco Chiesanuova, a municipality of the Province of Verona, Veneto *

Bosco Marengo Bosco Marengo (; pms, Ël Bòsch ) is a town and ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Alessandria in the Italian region Piedmont, located about southeast of Turin and about southeast of Alessandria. Bosco Marengo borders the following ...

, a municipality of the Province of Alessandria, Piedmont * Boscoreale, a municipality of the Province of Naples, Campania *

Boscotrecase Boscotrecase () is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Naples in the Italian region Campania, located about 20 km southeast of Naples. Boscotrecase, which many considered a resort, sat on the southern slopes of Mount Vesuv ...

, a municipality of the Province of Naples, Campania * Castelnuovo Don Bosco, a municipality of the Province of Asti, Piedmont *

San Giorgio in Bosco San Giorgio in Bosco is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about northwest of Padua. San Giorgio in Bosco borders the following municipalities: Campo San Mart ...

, a municipality of the Province of Padua, Veneto * Sommariva del Bosco, a municipality of the Province of Cuneo, Piedmont

Switzerland

* Bosco/Gurin, a municipality of the Canton Ticino

United States

Bosco, Kentucky Hueysville, also known as Bosco, is an unincorporated community in Floyd County, Kentucky, United States. It has a post office with a ZIP Code of 41640. Hueysville is located on Salt Lick Creek Road (former Kentucky Route 7) west of Kentucky Ro ...

* Bosco, Louisiana

Arts, entertainment, and media

Artists and performers

* Bosco (drag queen), performing name of Christopher Constantino, a drag performer from Seattle and contestant on season 14 of ''RuPaul's Drag Race''

Fictional characters

* Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus, a ''The A-Team'' character *

Maurice 'Bosco' Boscorelli ''Third Watch'' is an American television drama series which first aired on NBC from 1999 to 2005 and followed the lives of an ensemble cast of characters portraying police officers of the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and firefighter ...

, a ''Third Watch'' character * Agent Sam Bosco, a ''The Mentalist'' character * Sergeant Bosco, a ''Bob's Burgers'' character

Television

* ''Bosco'' (TV series), a 1970s-1980s Irish programme * ''

Bosco Adventure is an anime television series produced by Nippon Animation, mainly inspired by a book " Storie del Bosco" of the Italian writer Tony Wolf, and other books of this author. The series was very popular in Europe in the late 1980s and early 1990 ...

'', an anime television series

Other uses

Bosco (grape) Bosco is a white Italian wine grape variety that is grown predominantly in the Liguria region of northwest Italy. It is a permitted variety in the ''Denominazione di origine controllata'' (DOC) wine of Cinque Terre where it is often the primary com ...

* Bosco Chocolate Syrup *

Bosco the dog Bosco Ramos was a dog elected honorary mayor of the unincorporated community of Sunol, California, United States. He was a black Labrador retriever and Rottweiler mix, usually known simply as "Bosco". Bosco defeated two humans to win the hon ...

, a dog elected honorary mayor of Sunol, California * BOSCO-Uganda, a non-profit internet connectivity organization * , a Russian sportswear brand