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 ''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) The bo () is a percussion instrument originating in China, a type of cymbal. It consists of two plates that are clashed together. It is a concussion idiophone. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one from nineteenth century China. Both parts h ...

, a percussion instrument * Pocket Operator, a series of drum machines and synthesizers by Teenage Engineering *

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 document issued from a buyer to a seller * Postal order, a financial instrument for sending money by mail * Pareto optimality, 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

* '' Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans'', 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 Pilkington is a Japanese-owned glass-manufacturing company which is based in Lathom, Lancashire, United Kingdom. In the UK it includes several legal entities and is a subsidiary of Japanese company NSG Group. Prior to its acquisition by NSG i ...

, a multinational optronics manufacturer * Polar Air Cargo (IATA code), an airline * '' Platforma Obywatelska'' (Civic Platform), a Polish political party * Post office, a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system * Pensions Ombudsman, 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 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 (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, 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, 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 Pô is a city in southern Burkina Faso. It is the capital of the province of Nahouri. The main ethnic group (making about 60% of the inhabitants) is the Kasséna, a group close to the Gurunsi. It is said to have been founded in around 1500 and ...

, the village in this departement *

Po, Chiang Rai Po ( th, ปอ) is a village and ''tambon'' (subdistrict) of Wiang Kaen District, in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, l ...

, 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, symbol Po, a chemical element * Propylene oxide, an organic compound * Phosphorus monoxide (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'' 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) 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 ...

, 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 Bo (Po, Sorimi) is a possible Left May language of New Guinea, in Sandaun and East Sepik Provinces. It is essentially undocumented, and its status as a separate language is unconfirmed. It is spoken in Bo, Kaumifi, Kobaru, and Nigyama Umarita vi ...

, or Bo language, of New Guinea * 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''