Bess

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Bess or BESS may refer to:

Contents 1 People 2 In science 3 In business 4 Other uses

[edit] People

• Davone Bess, wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League
• Elizabeth I (1533-1603), also known as Good Queen Bess
• Elizabeth "Bess" Truman (1885-1982), former First Lady of the United States and wife of Harry S. Truman
• Elizabeth Raleigh (1565-1647), aka Bess or Elizabeth Throgmorton, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I
• Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), the 3rd surviving daughter of John Hardwick of Hardwicke in Derbyshire

[edit] In science

• Bess (content-control software), a brand of web filtering software made by Secure Computing Corporation that is usually used in libraries and schools
• BESS, a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon, which started in 1993
• Bess beetle, a family, Passalidae, of beetles

[edit] In business

• Bess Press, a Hawaii-based publisher that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture
• Brown Bess, a nickname of unknown origin for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives

[edit] Other uses

• Basic Enlisted Submarine School, commonly known as BESS, the United States Navy's school for enlisted submariners
• Tropical Storm Bess, a name for multiple storms: one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, and ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific
• Bess the Boreal Owl, from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky.

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