BB

BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

• BB, abbreviation for a catalogue of works by Béla Bartók
• BB (album), by Mod Sun (2017)
• "BB Talk", 2015 song by Miley Cyrus
• BB (Transformers), a character in the franchise
• BB, pseudonym of author and artist Denys Watkins-Pitchford
• BB, an AAlib ASCII art demo for MS-DOS and Linux
• BB, the signatory monogram of the artist Bessie Bamber
• Les B.B., a Canadian band from Quebec
• Baahubali (franchise), an Indian historical epic media franchise, often abbreviated as BB
• BattleBots, a robot combat TV show
• Beast Boy, a comic book character
• Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
• Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Big Brother (TV series), home living reality TV popularity contest show
• Billy Butcher, supporting character and final antagonist of The Boys comic book series
• BB, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The War Machines
• Balloon Boy, an animatronic character in Five Nights at Freddy's
• BB-8, a robot in the Star Wars franchise
• Breaking Bad
• Bugs Bunny

Businesses and organizations

• BB 2000 Ltd, publisher of British Birds
• BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing
• BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
• Balair (IATA airline code)
• Banco do Brasil S.A., largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets
• Bavarian Peasants' League or BB, a former German political party
• BlackBerry Limited (stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company
• Borderland Beat, an English-language news blog covering the Mexican Drug War
• Boys' Brigade, a Christian youth organization
• Seaborne Airlines, IATA airline code

People

• B. B. King (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter
• Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French actress
• Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister
• Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905–1990), British children's author's pseudonym
• Bipasha Basu (born 1979), Indian actress, referred to by the shorthand B. B.
• Balayya Babu or BB, nicknames of Indian actor Balakrishna (born 1960)
  • Balakrishna-Boyapati, Indian actor and director duo, known as BB, cf. BB3

Places

• BB postcode area, Blackburn, England
• Barbados (ISO and NATO 2-letter country code BB)
  • .bb, the top-level domain for Barbados
• Bourbon County, Kansas (state county code)
• Brandenburg, Germany (ISO 3166-2 code BB)

Science

• Branch and bound, a general algorithm for finding optimal solutions
• Busy beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine
• Beta blocker, medication used to manage arrhythmias and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack

Transportation

• BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
• Bürgenstock-Bahn, a funicular railway in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden
• Toyota bB, a car sold in Japan
• NZR Bb class, a New Zealand locomotive class
• Balair (IATA airline code BB, 1925-2001)
• Seaborne Airlines (IATA airline code BB, 1992-present)
• Buckingham Branch Railroad (reporting mark BB)
• A US Navy hull classification symbol: Battleship (BB)
• B (New York City Subway service), known as BB before 1967
• B-B, a classification of AAR wheel arrangement of railway locomotives

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
• Bed and breakfast or B&B, a style of accommodation
• BBCode, a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards

See also

• B-flat (disambiguation) (B♭)
• B&B (disambiguation)
• Bebe (disambiguation)
• Beebee (disambiguation)
• Bibi (disambiguation)