BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* BB numbers, in the catalogue of works by

Béla Bartók Béla Viktor János Bartók (; ; 25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century; he and Franz Liszt are regarded as Hunga ...

* "BB", a chant supporting Big Brother in ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' * ''BB'', a 2017 album by

Mod Sun Derek Ryan Smith (born March 10, 1987), known professionally as Mod Sun (stylized as MOD SUN or MODSUN), is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and musician from Bloomington, Minnesota. He has released five solo studio albums, three EPs, and ...

* BB, a character in '' Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers'' * Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel '' Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases'' * ''Big Brother'' (franchise), a TV reality competition * BB, production code for 1966 ''Doctor Who'' serial ''

The War Machines ''The War Machines'' is the tenth and final serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'', which was first broadcast in 4 weekly parts from 25 June to 16 July 1966. The serial is set in London in th ...

Businesses and organizations

* BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of OmniScriptum *

BB Microlight BB Microlight is a Hungarian aircraft manufacturer based in Baja, Hungary. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of ultralight trike An ultralight trike or paratrike is a type of powered hang glider where flight control is by ...

, a Hungarian aircraft manufacturer *

Banco do Brasil Banco do Brasil S.A. (, ) is a Brazilian financial services company headquartered in Brasília, Brazil. The oldest bank in Brazil, and among the oldest banks in continuous operation in the world, it was founded by John VI, King of Portugal, on ...

, a Brazilian financial services company *

Bavarian Peasants' League The Bavarian Peasants' League (, or BB) was an agrarian political party in Bavaria, Germany, from 1893 to 1933. It has also been known in English as the Bavarian Farmers' League. The BB represented the farming interests in the Landtag of Bavar ...

(''Bayerischer Bauernbund''), a former German political party *

BlackBerry Limited BlackBerry Limited, formerly Research In Motion (RIM), is a Canadian software company specializing in secure communications and the Internet of things, Internet of Things (IoT). Founded in 1984, it developed the BlackBerry brand of Interactiv ...

(stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company *

Borderland Beat Borderland Beat is an English language news blog that reports on the Mexican drug war. The blog was started in 2009 by an anonymous individual using the pseudonym Buggs. Borderland Beat's reporters are mostly based in the U.S. and Mexico. Their m ...

, a news blog covering the Mexican drug war *

Boys' Brigade The Boys' Brigade (BB) is an international interdenominational Christianity, Christian youth organisation, conceived by the Scottish businessman William Alexander Smith (Boys' Brigade), Sir William Alexander Smith to combine drill and fun acti ...

, a Christian youth organization

People

* BB, pseudonym of author and artist

Denys Watkins-Pitchford Denys James Watkins-Pitchford Order of the British Empire, MBE (25 July 1905 – 8 September 1990) was an English naturalist, artist and author under the pen name 'BB'. He won the 1942 Carnegie Medal for Writing, Carnegie Medal for ''The Little G ...

* BB, monogram of artist Bessie Bamber * BB, American rapper and member of CUZZOS * B. B. King (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter *

BB Trickz Belize Nicolau Kazi (born 2000), known professionally as BB Trickz (stylized as Bb trickz), is a Spanish rapper. She began rapping in 2023, releasing her first two extended plays (EPs)—''Trickstar'' and ''Sadtrickz''—that year. Her music is k ...

(Belize Nicolau Kazi, born 2000), Spanish rapper *

Brigitte Bardot Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( ; ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., is a French former actress, singer, and model as well as an animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with Hedonism, hedonistic life ...

(born 1934), French actress often referred to by her initials BB *

Bernard Berenson Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book ''The Drawings of the Florentine Painters'' was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large ...

(1865–1959) art historian, nickname BB *

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...

(1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister, nickname BB *

Bipasha Basu Bipasha Basu (born 7 January 1979) is an Indian actress. Primarily known for her work in Hindi films, she List of awards and nominations received by Bipasha Basu, has received a Filmfare Awards, Filmfare Award. In the 2000s and 2010s, she was ...

(born 1979), Indian actress, nickname BB

Places

BB postcode area The BB postcode area, also known as the Blackburn postcode area, is a group of thirteen postcode districts in north-west England, within nine post towns. These cover east Lancashire, including Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Barnoldswick, Cli ...

, Blackburn, England *

Barbados Barbados, officially the Republic of Barbados, is an island country in the Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies and the easternmost island of the Caribbean region. It lies on the boundary of the South American ...

(ISO 3166 code BB) ** .bb, top-level domain for Barbados

Science

Branch and bound Branch and bound (BB, B&B, or BnB) is a method for solving optimization problems by breaking them down into smaller sub-problems and using a bounding function to eliminate sub-problems that cannot contain the optimal solution. It is an algorithm ...

, a method for solving optimization problems *

Busy beaver In theoretical computer science, the busy beaver game aims to find a terminating Computer program, program of a given size that (depending on definition) either produces the most output possible, or runs for the longest number of steps. Since an ...

class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine *

Beta blocker Beta blockers, also spelled β-blockers, are a class of medications that are predominantly used to manage abnormal heart rhythms ( arrhythmia), and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack ( secondary prevention ...

, medication used to manage arrhythmias

Transportation

Air

BB Airways BB Airways was a Nepalese airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was established and started operations in September 2012. The airline's hub was Tribhuvan International Airport, from where it flew to three international destinations. The airlin ...

, a former Nepalese airline * Balair, a defunct Swiss airline, IATA airline code BB *

Seaborne Airlines Seaborne Virgin Island Inc, operating as Seaborne Airlines, is a FAR Part 121 airline headquartered in Carolina, Puerto Rico, near the territory's capital of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan. It operates a seaplane shuttle service between Saint ...

, IATA airline code BB

Rail

Buckingham Branch Railroad Buckingham Branch Railroad is a Class III short-line railroad operating over 275 miles (443 km) of historic and strategic trackage in Central Virginia. Sharing overhead traffic with CSX and Amtrak, the company's headquarters are in Dill ...

, reporting mark BB, in Virginia, U.S. * Bürgenstock Funicular (''Bürgenstock-Bahn''), a Swiss funicular railway * NZR B^B class, a New Zealand locomotive class * B-B, a classification of

AAR wheel arrangement The AAR wheel arrangement system is a method of classifying locomotive A locomotive is a rail transport, rail vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. Traditionally, locomotives pulled trains from the front. However, Push–pu ...

of railway locomotives *

B (New York City Subway service) The B Sixth Avenue Express is a rapid transit service in the B Division (New York City Subway), B Division of the New York City Subway. Its route emblem, or "bullet", is colored , since it uses the IND Sixth Avenue Line in Midtown Manhattan. T ...

, known as BB before 1967

Other uses in transportation

* Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer, an Italian sports car *

Toyota bB The Toyota bB is a mini MPV produced by the Japanese car company Toyota. The first generation launched in 2000, and the second generation was jointly developed with Daihatsu from 2005. The car has been badge engineered and sold as the Daihatsu M ...

, a car sold in Japan * BB, classification of battleships of the United States Navy

Other uses

BB (ammunition) An air gun or airgun is a gun that uses energy from compressed air or other gases that are mechanically pressurized and then released to propel and accelerate projectiles, similar to the principle of the primitive blowgun. This is in contr ...

, ammunition for a BB gun *

Base on balls A base on balls (BB), better known as a walk, occurs in baseball when a batter receives four pitches during a plate appearance that the umpire calls '' balls'', and is in turn awarded first base without the possibility of being called out. The bas ...

in baseball, commonly known as a walk * BB cream, a type of cosmetic