Po or PO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Po (Kung Fu Panda) Master Ping Xiao Po (simply Po; born as Li Lotus) or also known as in the franchise "Kung Fu Panda", is the title character and protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise, primarily voiced by Jack Black and Mick Wingert. He is an anthropom ...

, the protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise * Po, one of the titular ''

Teletubbies ''Teletubbies'' is a British children's television series created by Anne Wood and Andrew Davenport for the BBC. The programme focuses on four differently coloured characters known as the Teletubbies, named after the television screens on th ...

'' * Po, a character in the novel ''

Graceling ''Graceling'' is a young adult fantasy novel written by American author Kristin Cashore, her literary debut. The book earned a place on the Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year for 2008 and received generally favorable reviews. It was follo ...

'' by Kristin Cashore

Music

* Po (instrument), a percussion instrument * Pocket Operator, a series of drum machines and synthesizers by

Teenage Engineering Teenage Engineering is a Swedish consumer electronics company and manufacturer founded in 2005 by Jesper Kouthoofd, David Eriksson, Jens Rudberg and David Möllerstedt and based in Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and Li ...

Po! Po! are an indie rock band formed in Leicester, England in 1987, with releases dating up to 1998 on Rutland Records, Sunday Records in the US and Elefant Records in Spain. History Po! was originally formed by Ruth Miller (vocals and guitar), wi ...

, a British musical group * P.O., short for ''

Pretty. Odd. ''Pretty. Odd.'' is the second studio album by American pop rock band Panic at the Disco. Recorded at the Studio at the Palms in Paradise, Nevada with additional production at Abbey Road Studios in London with producer Rob Mathes, the album was ...

'', an album by Panic! At the disco

Economics

Purchase order A purchase order is a commercial document and first official offer issued by a buyer to a seller, indicating types, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services. It is used to control the purchasing of products and services from externa ...

, a document issued from a buyer to a seller *

Postal order A postal order or postal note is a type of money order usually intended for sending money through the mail. It is purchased at a post office and is payable at another post office to the named recipient. A fee for the service, known as poundage, ...

, a financial instrument for sending money by mail *

Pareto optimality Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a situation where no action or allocation is available that makes one individual better off without making another worse off. The concept is named after Vilfredo Pareto (1848–1923), Italian civil engine ...

, a concept in economics * Principal Only, a type of

collateralized mortgage obligation A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) is a type of complex debt security that repackages and directs the payments of principal and interest from a collateral pool to different types and maturities of securities, thereby meeting investor need ...

Product owner Scrum is a framework for project management with an initial emphasis on software development, although it has been used in other fields including research, sales, marketing and advanced technologies. It is designed for teams of ten or fewer m ...

, a popular role in Agile development methodology

Businesses and organisations

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Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans The ''Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans'' (PO) was an early French railway company. It merged with the ''Chemins de fer du Midi'' to form the ''Chemins de fer de Paris à Orléans et du Midi'' (PO-Midi) in 1934. In 1938 the PO-Midi ...

'', a defunct French railway company, and one of the principal components of the SNCF *

Petrol Ofisi Petrol Ofisi A.Ş. is a fuel products distribution and lubricants company in Turkey. It is owned by Dutch Vitol Group. Vitol completed its acquisition of Petrol Ofisi from OMV AG in June 2017. Petrol Ofisi had 1900+ fuel stations in 2022 in Turke ...

, a petroleum distribution company * Pilkington Optronics, a multinational optronics manufacturer *

Polar Air Cargo Polar Air Cargo Worldwide Inc., a subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings, is a cargo airline based in Purchase, New York, United States. It operates scheduled all-cargo services to North America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Its main b ...

(IATA code), an airline * ''

Platforma Obywatelska Civic Platform ( pl, Platforma Obywatelska, PO)The party is officially the Civic Platform of the Republic of Poland (''Platforma Obywatelska Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej''). is a political party in Poland. It is currently led by Donald Tusk. It w ...

'' (Civic Platform), a Polish political party *

Post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

, a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system *

Pensions Ombudsman The Pensions Ombudsman is the official ombudsman institution responsible for investigating complaints regarding pensions in the United Kingdom. The Pensions Ombudsman is a non-departmental public body stewarded by the Department of Work and Pe ...

, the official ombudsman institution for investigating complaints regarding pensions in the UK *

PhysicsOverflow PhysicsOverflow is a physics website that serves as a post-publication open peer review platform for research papers in physics, as well as a collaborative blog and online community of physicists. It allows users to ask, answer and comment on gra ...

, a post-publication open peer review platform and question & answer forum

Military ranks

Petty officer A petty officer (PO) is a non-commissioned officer in many navies and is given the NATO rank denotation OR-5 or OR-6. In many nations, they are typically equal to a sergeant in comparison to other military branches. Often they may be superior ...

, a non-commissioned naval rank *

Pilot officer Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countri ...

, a commissioned air force rank

People

Po Beg Po or PO may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Po (Kung Fu Panda), the protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise * Po, one of the titular ''Teletubbies'' * Po, a character in the novel ''Graceling'' by Kristin Cashore M ...

, 8th-century Turkic female ruler *

Fernão do Pó Fernão do Pó (; ''fl.'' 1472), also known as Fernão Pó, Fernando Pó or Fernando Poo, was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer of the West African coast. He was the first European to see the islands in the Gulf of Guinea around 14 ...

, 15th-century Portuguese explorer *

Kimberly Po Kimberly Po (born October 20, 1971) is a former professional tennis player from the United States. In her career, she won the mixed doubles title at Wimbledon in 2000, partnering Donald Johnson. She also was a runner-up at the US Open in women' ...

(born 1971), US tennis player *

Teresa del Po Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or re ...

(1649–1716), Italian painter *

P.O Pyo Ji-hoon (born February 2, 1993), better known by his stage name P.O, is a South Korean rapper, singer and actor. He is the youngest member of the boy group Block B and its sub-unit Bastarz. Early life and education P.O was born Pyo Ji-hoon ...

, stage name of Pyo Ji-hoon, South Korean rapper and member of the boy group Block B

Places

Europe

Po (river) The Po ( , ; la, Padus or ; Ancient Ligurian: or ) is the longest river in Italy. It flows eastward across northern Italy starting from the Cottian Alps. The river's length is either or , if the Maira, a right bank tributary, is included. Th ...

, a river in Italy *

Pô (department) Pô was a department of the French Consulate and of the First French Empire in present-day Italy. It was named after the river Po. It was formed in 1802, when the Subalpine Republic (formerly the mainland portion of the Kingdom of Sardinia) w ...

, a department of the First French Empire in present Italy *

PO postcode area The PO postcode area, also known as the Portsmouth postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 34 postcode districts in southern England, within 24 post towns. These cover south-east Hampshire (including Portsmout ...

, a group of UK postal districts around Portsmouth, England *

Poo (Cabrales) Poo ( ast, Po) is one of nine parroquias in Cabrales, a municipality of the autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain. It has an area of 10.28 km², and a population of 214INE2015) all in the same settlement. Poo is located 158 meters ...

(Asturian: ''Po''), a municipality in Asturias, Spain

Other places

* Pô Department, a department and commune in Burkina Faso ** Pô, the village in this departement * Po, Chiang Rai, a village in Thailand * Deland,Florida, a city in America * A river in Virginia, USA; joins the Mat, the Ta, and the Ni Rivers to form the

Mattaponi River The Mattaponi River is a tributary of the York River estuary in eastern Virginia in the United States. History Historically, the Mattaponi River has been known by a variety of names and alternate spellings, including ''Mat-ta-pa-ment'', Matapa ...

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

.po In distributed programming, a portable object is an object which can be accessed through a normal method call while possibly residing in memory on another computer. It is portable in the sense that it moves from machine to machine, irrespective ...

, a filename extension *

Petaoctet The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of s ...

(Po), a unit of information storage *

, a role in Scrum, a software development strategy

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

Polonium Polonium is a chemical element with the symbol Po and atomic number 84. Polonium is a chalcogen. A rare and highly radioactive metal with no stable isotopes, polonium is chemically similar to selenium and tellurium, though its metallic character ...

, symbol Po, a chemical element *

Propylene oxide Propylene oxide is an acutely toxic and carcinogenic organic compound with the molecular formula CH3CHCH2O. This colourless volatile liquid with an odour similar to ether, is produced on a large scale industrially. Its major application is its us ...

, an organic compound *

Phosphorus monoxide Phosphorus monoxide is an unstable radical inorganic compound with molecular formula P O. Phosphorus monoxide is notable as one of the few molecular compounds containing phosphorus that has been detected outside of Earth. Other phosphorus cont ...

(PO), an unstable radical inorganic compound *

Projective orthogonal group In projective geometry and linear algebra, the projective orthogonal group PO is the induced action of the orthogonal group of a quadratic space ''V'' = (''V'',''Q'')A quadratic space is a vector space ''V'' together with a quadratic form ''Q''; ...

, an action in projective geometry and linear algebra * ''

Per os Oral administration is a route of administration where a substance is taken through the mouth. Per os abbreviated to P.O. is sometimes used as a direction for medication to be taken orally. Many medications are taken orally because they are in ...

'' or peroral, meaning "by mouth", i.e. oral administration of a medication

Other uses

* ''Po'' (clothing), a traditional Korean overcoat * ''Po'' (food), dried meat and fish in Korean cuisine *

Po (lateral thinking) ''Po'' is a word that precedes and signals a provocation. A provocation is an idea which moves thinking forward to a new place from where new ideas or solutions may be found. Etymology The term po was created by Edward de Bono as part of a lat ...

, part of a lateral thinking technique created by Edward de Bono * Po (panda), son of Yang Yang, a giant panda at Zoo Atlanta * ''Po'' (spirit), one of the elements of the spirit in ancient Chinese religion * Po language, or Bo language, of New Guinea *

Chamber pot A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom. It was common in many cultures before the advent of indoor plumbing and flushing toilets. Names and etymology "Chamber" is an older term for bedroom. The chamber pot ...

, in British slang *

Probation officer A probation and parole officer is an official appointed or sworn to investigate, report on, and supervise the conduct of convicted offenders on probation or those released from incarceration to community supervision such as parole. Most probati ...

or parole officer *

Putout In baseball statistics, a putout (denoted by ''PO'' or ''fly out'' when appropriate) is awarded to a defensive player who (generally while in secure possession of the ball) records an out by one of the following methods: * Tagging a runner wit ...

, in baseball statistics * ''Po'', the former name of the 2016 film ''

A Boy Called Po ''A Boy Called Po'' (also known as ''Po'') is a 2016 American drama film directed by John Asher and written by Colin Goldman, based on a true story starring Christopher Gorham, Julian Feder, and Kaitlin Doubleday. When his wife dies of cancer, an ...