Obi or OBI may refer to:

People

Obi (name) Obi is a surname and a given name. People bearing the name include: Surname: *Anthony Obi (1952-2022), Nigerian army officer and politician *Chike Obi (1921–2008), Nigerian politician and mathematician *Jide Obi (born 1962), Nigerian musician *Jo ...

, a list of people with either the surname or given name *

Mikel John Obi Mikel John Obi (born John Michael Nchekwube Obinna; 22 April 1987), also known as John Obi Mikel, is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. Mikel began his career with local club Plateau United, before ...

(born 1987), Nigerian footballer also known as Mikel John Obi and John Obi Mikel * Saint Obi (1965–2023), Nigerian actor and film director * Obi Cubana (born 1975), Nigerian businessman *

Peter Obi Peter Gregory Obi (; born 19 July 1961) is a Nigerian politician and businessman who was the Governor of Anambra State under President Olusegun Obasanjo from 17 March 2006 to 3 November 2006, when he was impeached. He was reinstated on 9 Febru ...

(born 1961), Nigerian politician and businessman *

Obi Toppin Obadiah Richard Toppin Jr. ( ; born March 4, 1998) is an American professional basketball player for the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A power forward, he played college basketball for the Dayton Flyers men's bask ...

(born 1998), American basketball player *

Chido Obi Chidozie Obi-Martin (born 29 November 2007), commonly known as Chido Obi, is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Manchester United. Early life Obi was born in Glostrup, a Copenhagen suburb, to Nigeri ...

(born 2007), Danish footballer

Places

* Obi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, a Local Government Area * Obi, Nigeria, a town and Local Government Area in Benue State *

Obi Islands The Obi Islands (also known as Ombirah, Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Obi'') are a group of 42 islands in the Indonesian province of North Maluku, north of Buru and Ceram, and south of Halmahera. With a total area of 2,817.72 km2, they had a pop ...

, Indonesia ** Obi (island), also called Obira, the largest of the Obi Islands *

Ob (river) The Ob (; ) is a major river in Russia. It is in western Siberia, and with its tributary the Irtysh forms the world's seventh-longest river system, at . The Ob forms at the confluence of the Biya and Katun which have their origins in the Alta ...

, Russia, also known as Obi * 6669 Obi, an asteroid

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Obliteration by incorporation In sociology of science, obliteration by incorporation (OBI) occurs when at some stage in the development of a science, certain ideas become so universally accepted and commonly used that their contributors are no longer cited. Eventually, its ...

, a concept in sociology of science: when a discovery, or a theory, is no longer directly attributed to its author because it is considered common knowledge * Ontology for Biomedical Investigations, an international cross-domain ontology effort * Operation Blessing International * Optical Borehole Imaging, a system to visually inspect and record images of the walls of a borehole, detecting breakouts and investigating the stratigraphy, or the structure, of the rock in sedimentary, or igneous, geological formations * Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, software owned by Oracle Corporation *

Order of British India The Order of British India was an Order (honour), order of merit established in 1837 by the British East India Company, East India Company for "long, faithful and honourable service". The company's powers were removed after the Indian Mutiny, ...

Orion Bus Industries Orion International was a North American bus manufacturer based in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada operated a subsidiary of Daimler Buses North America, a division of German automaker Daimler AG. The company had its main manufacturing plant in ...

, formerly Ontario Bus Industries, a bus manufacturer *

Our Boys Institute Our Boys Institute (OBI) was a junior branch of YMCA in South Australia, catering for boys aged 13–18, a forerunner to the various youth groups which flourished in the first half of the twentieth century such as the Boys' Brigade, Scouting, e ...

, a junior chapter of the YMCA in Adelaide, South Australia

Other uses

Obi (sash) An is a belt of varying size and shape worn with both kimono, traditional Japanese clothing and keikogi, uniforms for budō, Japanese martial arts styles. Originating as a simple thin belt in Heian period Japan, the developed over time into a ...

, a sash worn with a kimono or with the uniforms used by practitioners of Japanese martial arts **

Obi (martial arts) Many Japanese martial arts feature an as part of their exercise outfit. Such an ''obi'' is often made of thick cotton and is about 5 cm (2 in) wide. The martial arts ''obi'' are most often worn in the ''koma-musubi'' knot ( squar ...

Obi (retail chain) OBI GmbH & Co. Deutschland KG is a German multinational home improvement supplies retailing company. It is headquartered in Wermelskirchen and operates 668 stores in Europe, of which 351 are in Germany. History Obi was founded in 1970 by ...

, a European home improvement store chain based in Germany *

Obi (ruler) An Obi is the central building in an Igbo people, Igbo homestead, one used most commonly as a place for the reception of guests. As such, it can also be looked at symbolically as a metaphor for the most important part, or ''heart'', of any given p ...

, a title among the Igbo people of Nigeria or the central building in an Igbo homestead **

Obi of Onitsha The Obi of Onitsha is the traditional leader of Onitsha, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria. The post of the Obi is recognized by the state and federal government of Nigeria, and the Obi is seen as a representative of the people of Onitsha to the ...

, traditional ruler of Onitsha * Obi, another form of the word

Obeah Obeah, also spelled Obiya or Obia, is a broad term for African diaspora religions, African diasporic religious, Magic (supernatural), spell-casting, and healing traditions found primarily in the British West Indies, former British colonies of th ...

Obi (publishing) An is a strip of paper looped around a book or other product. This extends the term '' obi'' used for Japanese clothing; it is written with the same ''kanji''. It is also referred to as a , or more narrowly as . Obi strips are most commonly fo ...

, an informational piece of paper or cardboard folded around or over a book or LP record, music CD, video game, or magazine, used in Japan *

Obi (band) Obi were a British indie-pop group. Their debut mini-album, ''The Magic Land of Radio'', had eight tracks and was released in 2002. They followed up with a full-time album, ''Diceman Lopez'', produced by Hugh Jones in 2004. It contains materia ...

, a British indie music band from the early 2000s *

Obi Castle Obi Castle is a Japanese castle originally completed in 1588. It was the center of the old Obi Domain, now a part of Miyazaki Prefecture. History Obi Castle was founded by the Tsuchimochi clan in the Nanboku-chō period, but most of its structu ...

, a Japanese castle completed in 1588 * Obi Station, a train station in Nichinan, Miyazaki, Japan * obi, ISO 639 code for the

Obispeño language Obispeño (also known as ) is one of the extinct Chumash people, Chumash Native Americans in the United States, Native American languages previously spoken along the coastal areas of California. The primary source of documentation on the languag ...

, an extinct Native American language * OBI, FAA location identifier for

Woodbine Municipal Airport (New Jersey) Woodbine Municipal Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) southeast of the central business district of Woodbine, in Cape May County, New Jersey, United States. The airport is owned by the Borough of Woodbi ...

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