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. It may refer to:

People with the given name

* Boz (king) (died c. 380), king of the Antes, in what is now Ukraine

People with the nickname or stage name

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and Social criticism, social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by ...

(1812-1870) wrote some of his early works under this pen name * William

Boz Scaggs William Royce "Boz" Scaggs (born June 8, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He was a bandmate of Steve Miller (musician), Steve Miller in the Ardells in the early 1960s and a member of the Steve Miller Band from 1967 to 196 ...

(born 1944), American singer, songwriter and guitarist * Raymond

Boz Burrell Raymond "Boz" Burrell (1 August 1946 – 21 September 2006) was an English musician. Originally a vocalist and guitarist, Burrell is best known for being the vocalist and bassist of King Crimson from 1971 to 1972 and the original bassist of B ...

(1946–2006), English singer and bass guitarist * Martin

Boz Boorer Martin James "Boz" Boorer (born 19 May 1962 in Edgware, Middlesex, England) is an English guitarist and producer. He founded the new wave rockabilly group the Polecats, and starting in 1991 had a 30-year collaboration with singer Morrissey as c ...

(born 1962), English guitarist and songwriter * Brian Bosworth (born 1965), American football player and actor nicknamed "the Boz" *

Mark Bosnich Mark John Bosnich (; born 13 January 1972) is an Australian former professional association football, soccer player who played as a goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper, and sports pundit. He played in England for Premier League clubs ...

(born 1972), Australian former football goalkeeper and sports pundit, cohost of the television sports show ''Bill & Boz'' *

Andrew Bosworth Andrew "Boz" Bosworth (born January 7, 1982) is an American business executive who has been chief technology officer at Meta since January 2022. After graduating from Harvard University in 2004, he worked as a developer on Microsoft Visio for ...

, an American technology executive and current Chief Technology Officer at Meta

People with the surname

Alina Boz Alina Boz (; born 14 June 1998) is a Russian-born Turkish actress. She gained recognition for her work as Eda in the Netflix series '' Aşk 101'' and Mahur Türel in the TV series '' Maraşlı''. Early life Alina Boz was born on 14 June 1998 in ...

(born 1998), Turkish-Russian actress * Lucian Boz (1908–2003), Romanian literary critic, essayist, novelist, poet and translator *

Mahmut Boz Mahmut Boz (born 16 April 1991) is a Turkish people, Turkish association football, footballer who plays as a Defender (association football), defender for TFF Third League club Anadolu Üniversitesi. ReferencesOsmanlıspor'da garip transfer yur ...

(born 1991), Turkish footballer * Meryem Boz (born 1988), Turkish volleyball player *

Murat Boz Murat Boz (born 7 March 1980) is a Turkish people, Turkish singer, songwriter and actor. Boz began his solo career by releasing his first single, "Aşkı Bulamam Ben", in 2006. In the following year his first studio album titled ''Maximum (Mura ...

(born 1980), Turkish pop singer *

Nevval Boz Muhsine Neval Boz real name Mahsune Dguvebe (died 4 November 1993) was a Turkish woman who was killed, according to some as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis, who died in a mysterious plane crash. She was k ...

(died 1993), Turkish woman killed, possibly as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis * Soner Boz (born 1968), Turkish former footballer

Fictional characters

* Boz Bishop, in seasons 3-6 of the American television series ''

Nash Bridges ''Nash Bridges'' is an American police procedural television series created by Carlton Cuse. The show stars Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit (SIU). The seri ...

'' * Murray "Boz" Bozinsky, in the 1980s American television series '' Riptide'' * Johnny Boz, in the film ''

Basic Instinct ''Basic Instinct'' is a 1992 erotic thriller film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. Starring Michael Douglas, Sharon Stone, George Dzundza, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Wayne Knight, the film follows the detective Nick ...

'' * Officer Boz, in the 2021 film ''

Spiral In mathematics, a spiral is a curve which emanates from a point, moving further away as it revolves around the point. It is a subtype of whorled patterns, a broad group that also includes concentric objects. Two-dimensional A two-dimension ...

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