Pro is an abbreviation meaning "

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and sk ...

". Pro, PRO or variants thereof may also refer to:

People

Miguel Pro José Ramón Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez, also known as Blessed Miguel Pro, SJ (January 13, 1891 – November 23, 1927) was a Mexican Jesuit priest executed under the presidency of Plutarco Elías Calles on the false charges of bombing and atte ...

(1891–1927), Mexican priest * Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter * Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African retired footballer * Derek Minor (PRo; born 1984), hip-hop singer * Mike Awesome (1965–2007), a.k.a. The Pro, American wrestler Michael Lee Alfonso *

Pro Wells Provonsha Wells is an American football tight end for the Philadelphia Stars of the United States Football League (USFL). He played college football at Milford Academy (2016), Northwest Mississippi Community College (2017), and TCU (2018–2020 ...

, American football player

Occupations

Prostitute Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in Sex work, sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, n ...

, slang abbreviation * Public relations officer

Linguistics

* PRO (linguistics) ("big PRO") * pro (linguistics) ("little pro")

Political parties

* ', (Progressive Party), Chile * ' (Republican Proposal), Argentina * ' (

Party for a Rule of Law Offensive The Party for a Rule of Law Offensive, Rule of Law State Offensive Party,, Party for the Promotion of the Rule of Law, Law and Order Offensive Party, or Party of Law and Order Offensive (german: Partei Rechtsstaatlicher Offensive),''Rechtsstaat'' i ...

), former German party

Organizations

* ', the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation * Performance rights organisation *

Producer Responsibility Organisation In the field of waste management, extended producer responsibility (EPR) is a strategy to add all of the environmental costs associated with a product throughout the product life cycle to the market price of that product. Extended producer res ...

Professional Referee Organization Professional Referee Organization (PRO) is the organization responsible for managing the referee and assistant referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada, working alongside the United States Soccer Federat ...

, for North American soccer * Provincial Research Organization, Canadian initiatives * Public.Resource.Org, public domain publisher

Science and technology

* PRO (category theory), in mathematics *

.pro The domain name pro is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. Its name is derived from ''professional'', indicating its intended use by certified professionals. History In October 2000 Jason Drummond came up with ...

, a top-level Internet domain *

pro- This is a list of common affixes used when scientifically naming species, particularly extinct species for whom only their scientific names are used, along with their derivations. *a-, an-: ''Pronunciation'': /ə/, /a/, /ən/, /an/. ''Origin'' ...

, a prefix used in taxonomy *

Patient-reported outcome A patient-reported outcome (PRO) is a health outcome directly reported by the patient who experienced it. It stands in contrast to an outcome reported by someone else, such as a physician-reported outcome, a nurse-reported outcome, and so on. PR ...

, in clinical trials *

Pressure-retarded osmosis Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) is a technique to separate a solvent (for example, fresh water) from a solution that is more concentrated (e.g. sea water) and also pressurized. A semipermeable membrane allows the solvent to pass to the concentra ...

Proline Proline (symbol Pro or P) is an organic acid classed as a proteinogenic amino acid (used in the biosynthesis of proteins), although it does not contain the amino group but is rather a secondary amine. The secondary amine nitrogen is in the p ...

, an amino acid * Protein Ontology, a

Protein Information Resource The Protein Information Resource (PIR), located at Georgetown University Medical Center, is an integrated public bioinformatics resource to support genomic and proteomic research, and scientific studies. It contains protein sequences databases H ...

database

Entertainment

Pasadena Roof Orchestra The Pasadena Roof Orchestra (PRO) is a contemporary band from England that specialises in the jazz and swing genres of music of the 1920s and 1930s, although their full repertoire is considerably wider. The orchestra has existed since 1969, a ...

, England * ''The Pro'' (TV series), with Rob Lowe * ''The Pro'' (comics)

Other uses

SIG Pro The SIG Pro is a series of semi-automatic pistols developed by SIG Sauer in Exeter, New Hampshire. It became the first polymer-frame handgun from SIG Sauer and one of the first pistols to feature a built-in universal accessory rail and interchan ...

, a pistol series * Public Record Office, UK *

Pro TV PRO TV (, often stylized as PRO•TV as of 2017) is a Romanian free-to-air television network, launched on 1 December 1995 as the fourth private TV channel in the country (after TV SOTI, Antena 1, and the now-defunct Tele7ABC). It is owned by CME ...

, Romania