Boz is a
given name
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nickname, and
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
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People with the given name
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Boz (king)
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Boz (died 380) was the king of the Antes, an early Slavic people that lived in parts of present-day Ukraine. His story is mentioned by Jordanes in the ''Getica'' (550–551); in the preceding years, the Ostrogoths under Ermanaric had ...
(died c. 380), king of the Antes, in what is now Ukraine
People with the nickname or stage name
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Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote some of his early works under this pen name
* William
Boz Scaggs
William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. An early bandmate of Steve Miller in The Ardells and the Steve Miller Band, he began his solo career in 1969, though he lacked a major hit until h ...
(born 1944), American singer, songwriter and guitarist
* Raymond
Boz Burrell (1946–2006), English singer and bass guitarist
* Martin
Boz Boorer (born 1962), English guitarist and songwriter
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Brian Bosworth (born 1965), American football player and actor nicknamed "the Boz"
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Mark Bosnich (born 1972), Australian former football goalkeeper and sports pundit, cohost of the television sports show ''Bill & Boz''
People with the surname
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Alina Boz (born 1998), Turkish-Russian actress
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Lucian Boz (1908–2003), Romanian literary critic, essayist, novelist, poet and translator
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Mahmut Boz (born 1991), Turkish footballer
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Meryem Boz
Meryem Boz (born 3 February 1988) is a Turkish volleyball player. She is and plays as an opposite . She was chosen MVP of the CEV Tokyo Volleyball European Qualification 2020.
Career
Boz played for Fenerbahçe in the 2012 FIVB Club World C ...
(born 1988), Turkish volleyball player
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Murat Boz (born 1980), Turkish pop singer
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Nevval Boz
Muhsine Neval Boz real name Mahsune Dguvebe (died 4 November 1993) was a Turkish woman who was killed, according to some as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis, who died in a mysterious plane crash. She was k ...
(died 1993), Turkish woman killed, possibly as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis
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Soner Boz
Soner Boz (born 12 January 1968) is a retired Turkish football striker.
While at Kocaelispor he scored in the first leg of the 1997 Turkish Cup Final against his former club Trabzonspor, which helped his team to a 2-1 aggregate win.
Honours Clu ...
(born 1968), Turkish former footballer
Fictional characters
* Boz Bishop, in seasons 3-6 of the American television series ''
Nash Bridges
''Nash Bridges'' is an American police procedural television series created by Carlton Cuse. The show stars Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit (SIU).
The seri ...
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* Murray "Boz" Bozinsky, in the 1980s American television series ''
Riptide''
* Johnny Boz, in the film ''
Basic Instinct''
* Officer Boz, in the 2021 film ''
Spiral
In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving farther away as it revolves around the point.
Helices
Two major definitions of "spiral" in the American Heritage Dictionary are:[Boz (disambiguation)
Boz may refer to:
Geography
* Boz, Ain, a French commune
* Boz (Mureș), a river in Hunedoara County, Romania
* Boz (Secaș), a river in Alba County, Romania
* Boz, a village in Doștat Commune, Alba County, Romania
* Boz, a village in Brănișca ...]
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Turkish-language surnames
Nicknames