Boke
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Boke may refer to:
- Boké, a city in Lower Guinea
- Boke (woreda), a district in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia
- Böke, a form of Mongolian wrestling
- Boke, the "simple-minded" character in a Manzai team, a form of Owarai kombi (Japanese comedy act)
- Boke no mi or Japanese quince, a flowering shrub
- Bokeh or Boke, a photographic term, also of Japanese origin, used to describe the out-of-focus quality of a lens
- BOKE or Bhoke, a railway station in India
- Boke Press, the personal press of Joe Brainard and Kenward Elmslie
[edit] People
- Ariq Böke, grandson of Genghis Khan and claimant to the Mongol Empire
- Chilger Boke, possible father (instead of Genghis Khan) of Jochi
- Abba Boke, first king of the Kingdom of Gomma in the Gibe region of Ethiopia
- Bope Mobinji Boke, ruler of Kuba (present-day Congo) from 1916 to 1919
- Uncle Boke, the uncle of author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. described in Colored People
[edit] Fictional
- Boke, several characters in the works of Vladimir Nabokov
- Mr. Boke, a detective in Flight of Faviel by Robert Ernest Vernède
- Boke, a role of Howard Keel in The Small Voice
- Boke, a pet dog in Judo Boy
- Miss Ethel Boke, a character in the novel Seventeen by Booth Tarkington
- Boke Kellum, Western TV star in Dan Jenkins' Semi-Tough
- Boke-gaeru ("stupid frog"), Natsumi Hinata's epithet for Sergeant Keroro in Sgt. Frog
[edit] See also
- Democratic Centre of Boka (Democratski Centar Boke), a political party in Montenegro
- Oboke and Koboke, two valleys in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan
- "Fuyōi na Boke to Yasashisa ga Fukō o Yobu", an episode of Hayate the Combat Butler
- "Bolden Boke Boy", a song by Will Oldham
- Boak, a surname
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