BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* BB numbers, in the catalogue of works by

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

* "BB", a chant supporting Big Brother in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' * ''BB'', a 2017 album by Mod Sun * BB, a character in '' Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers'' * Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel '' Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases'' * ''Big Brother'' (franchise), a TV reality competition * BB, production code for 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial '' The War Machines''

Businesses and organizations

* BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of OmniScriptum * BB Microlight, a Hungarian aircraft manufacturer * Banco do Brasil, a Brazilian financial services company * Bavarian Peasants' League (''Bayerischer Bauernbund''), a former German political party *

BlackBerry Limited BlackBerry Limited, formerly Research In Motion (RIM), is a Canadian software company specializing in secure communications and the Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT). Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of Interactiv ...

(stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company * Borderland Beat, a news blog covering the Mexican drug war * Boys' Brigade, a Christian youth organization

People

* BB, pseudonym of author and artist Denys Watkins-Pitchford * BB, monogram of artist Bessie Bamber * BB, American rapper and member of CUZZOS * B. B. King (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter *

BB Trickz Belize Nicolau Kazi (born 2000), known professionally as BB Trickz (stylized as Bb trickz), is a Spanish rapper. She began rapping in 2023, releasing her first two extended plays (EPs)—''Trickstar'' and ''Sadtrickz''—that year. Her music is k ...

(Belize Nicolau Kazi, born 2000), Spanish rapper * Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French actress often referred to by her initials BB * Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) art historian, nickname BB *

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...

(1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister, nickname BB * Bipasha Basu (born 1979), Indian actress, nickname BB

Places

* BB postcode area, Blackburn, England *

Barbados Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...

(ISO 3166 code BB) ** .bb, top-level domain for Barbados

Science

* Branch and bound, a method for solving optimization problems * Busy beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine * Beta blocker, medication used to manage arrhythmias

Transportation

Air

* BB Airways, a former Nepalese airline * Balair, a defunct Swiss airline, IATA airline code BB *

Seaborne Airlines Seaborne Virgin Island Inc, operating as Seaborne Airlines, is a FAR Part 121 airline headquartered in Carolina, Puerto Rico, near the territory's capital of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. It operates a seaplane shuttle service between Saint ...

, IATA airline code BB

Rail

Buckingham Branch Railroad Buckingham Branch Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad operating over 275 miles (443 km) of historic and strategic trackage in Central Virginia. Sharing overhead traffic with CSX and Amtrak, the company's headquarters are in Dill ...

, reporting mark BB, in Virginia, U.S. * Bürgenstock Funicular (''Bürgenstock-Bahn''), a Swiss funicular railway * NZR B^B class, a New Zealand locomotive class * B-B, a classification of AAR wheel arrangement of railway locomotives * B (New York City Subway service), known as BB before 1967

Other uses in transportation

* Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer, an Italian sports car * Toyota bB, a car sold in Japan * BB, classification of battleships of the United States Navy

Other uses

* BB (ammunition), ammunition for a BB gun * Base on balls in baseball, commonly known as a walk * BB cream, a type of cosmetic