Boz

Boz may refer to:

people

• Boz (long "o"), an early pen name of Charles Dickens, and the name under which he published his first work, Sketches by Boz. The name came from "the nickname of a pet child, a younger brother, whom I had dubbed Moses, in honour of The Vicar of Wakefield, which, being pronounced Bozes, got shortened into Boz."
• The Boz (short "o"), the nickname of the former American Football player and sometime actor Brian Bosworth.
• Boz, singer and bass guitarist Boz Burrell.
• Boz Scaggs, born William Royce Scaggs (1944), is an Ohio-born Texan singer, songwriter and guitarist. He recorded his first solo album Boz in 1965.
• BoZ, fictional rock band loosely based on Japanese band B'z, from the anime and manga Shaman King by Hiroyuki Takei.

places

• Boz, a village in Doştat Commune, Alba County, Romania
• Boz, a village in Brănişca Commune, Hunedoara County, Romania
• Boz is a commune of the Ain département in France

other

• Boz is the Armenian name for whore (original meaning of the word was different and apparently referred to red, reddish, redhead, bright...)
• Boz is the Persian word for goat
• Boz Pity, a planet in Star Wars Episode III where Quinlan Vos took his clone army.
• BOZ is a class of literal constant in Fortran (Binary-Octal-Hexadecimal strings).
• BOZ is a Peruvian wetsuit brand.