POU or pou may refer to:

People

Pou (surname) Pou () is a Catalan surname; a topographic name for someone who lived by a well, ''pou'' ‘well’ (Latin ''puteus'' ‘well’, ‘pit’). Notable people with the name include: * The New Orleans physician at the center of the Anna Pou case * ...

, a surname * Chu Pou (303–350), Chinese general and politician *

Pou Temara Sir William Te Rangiua "Pou" Temara (born 1948) is a New Zealand academic. He is professor of Māori language and tikanga Māori (practices) at Waikato University and a cultural authority on (oratory), ''whakapapa'' (genealogy) and ''karakia' ...

(born 1948), New Zealand Māori academic

Codes

* POU, IATA airport code and FAA location identifier for

Hudson Valley Regional Airport Hudson Valley Regional Airport , formerly known as Dutchess County Airport, is a county-owned public-use airport located on State Route 376 in the Town of Wappinger, Dutchess County, New York, United States, four miles (6 km) south of the ce ...

, New York, United States * POU, Amtrak station code for

Poughkeepsie station Poughkeepsie station is a Metro-North Railroad and Amtrak stop serving the city of Poughkeepsie, New York. The station is the northern terminus of Metro-North's Hudson Line, and an intermediate stop for Amtrak's several Empire Corridor trains. ...

, a rail station in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States * pou, deprecated ISO 639-3 code for the Southern

Poqomam language Poqomam is a Mayan language, closely related to Poqomchiʼ. It is spoken by 50,000 or so people in several small pockets in Guatemala, the largest of which is in Jalapa department. Distribution Poqomam is spoken in the following municipalities ...

, spoken in Guatemala

Other uses

* ''Pou'' (video game), a 2012 video game *

Pou (deity) Tangaroa (Takaroa in the South Island) is the great of the sea, lakes, rivers, and creatures that live within them, especially fish, in Māori mythology. As Tangaroa-whakamau-tai he exercises control over the tides. He is sometimes depicted a ...

, a Moriori deity. *

POU domain POU (pronounced 'pow') is a family of proteins that have well-conserved homeodomains. Etymology The acronym POU is derived from the names of three transcription factors: * the Pituitary-specific Pit-1 * the Octamer transcription factor prot ...

, the conserved region in the POU family of proteins * Point of use (POU) water treatment equipment, also called portable water purification {{disambiguation