Po or PO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Po (Kung Fu Panda) Master Ping Xiao Po (simply Po; born as Li Lotus) or also known as in the franchise "Kung Fu Panda", is the title character and protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise, primarily voiced by Jack Black and Mick Wingert. He is an anthrop ...

, the protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise * Po, one of the titular '' Teletubbies'' * Po, a character in the novel '' Graceling'' by Kristin Cashore

Music

Po (instrument) The bo () is a percussion instrument originating in China, a type of cymbal. It consists of two plates that are clashed together. It is a concussion idiophone. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one from nineteenth century China. Both parts h ...

, a percussion instrument * Pocket Operator, a series of drum machines and synthesizers by Teenage Engineering * Po!, a British musical group * P.O., short for '' Pretty. Odd.'', an album by Panic! At the disco

Economics

* Purchase order, a document issued from a buyer to a seller * Postal order, a financial instrument for sending money by mail * Pareto optimality, a concept in economics * Principal Only, a type of

collateralized mortgage obligation A collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) is a type of complex debt security that repackages and directs the payments of principal and interest from a collateral pool to different types and maturities of securities, thereby meeting investor need ...

* Product owner, a popular role in Agile development methodology

Businesses and organisations

* '' Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans'', a defunct French railway company, and one of the principal components of the SNCF * Petrol Ofisi, a petroleum distribution company *

Pilkington Optronics Pilkington is a Japanese-owned glass-manufacturing company which is based in Lathom, Lancashire, United Kingdom. In the UK it includes several legal entities and is a subsidiary of Japanese company NSG Group. Prior to its acquisition by NSG i ...

, a multinational optronics manufacturer * Polar Air Cargo (IATA code), an airline * '' Platforma Obywatelska'' (Civic Platform), a Polish political party *

Post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...

, a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system * Pensions Ombudsman, the official ombudsman institution for investigating complaints regarding pensions in the UK * PhysicsOverflow, a post-publication open peer review platform and question & answer forum

Military ranks

Petty officer A petty officer (PO) is a non-commissioned officer in many navies and is given the NATO rank denotation OR-5 or OR-6. In many nations, they are typically equal to a sergeant in comparison to other military branches. Often they may be superio ...

, a non-commissioned naval rank *

Pilot officer Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countrie ...

, a commissioned air force rank

People

* Po Beg, 8th-century Turkic female ruler *

Fernão do Pó Fernão do Pó (; ''fl.'' 1472), also known as Fernão Pó, Fernando Pó or Fernando Poo, was a 15th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer of the West African coast. He was the first European to see the islands in the Gulf of Guinea around ...

, 15th-century Portuguese explorer *

Kimberly Po Kimberly Po (born October 20, 1971) is a former professional tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a t ...

(born 1971), US tennis player *

Teresa del Po Teresa (also Theresa, Therese; french: Thérèse) is a feminine given name. It originates in the Iberian Peninsula in late antiquity. Its derivation is uncertain, it may be derived from Greek θερίζω (''therízō'') "to harvest or rea ...

(1649–1716), Italian painter * P.O, stage name of Pyo Ji-hoon, South Korean rapper and member of the boy group Block B

Places

Europe

Po (river) The Po ( , ; la, Padus or ; Ligurian language (ancient), Ancient Ligurian: or ) is the longest river in Italy. It flows eastward across northern Italy starting from the Cottian Alps. The river's length is either or , if the Maira (river), Mair ...

, a river in Italy *

Pô (department) Pô was a department of the French Consulate and of the First French Empire in present-day Italy. It was named after the river Po. It was formed in 1802, when the Subalpine Republic (formerly the mainland portion of the Kingdom of Sardinia) ...

, a department of the First French Empire in present Italy *

PO postcode area The PO postcode area, also known as the Portsmouth postcode area,Royal Mail, ''Address Management Guide'', (2004) is a group of 34 postcode districts in southern England, within 24 post towns. These cover south-east Hampshire (including Portsmout ...

, a group of UK postal districts around Portsmouth, England *

Poo (Cabrales) Poo ( ast, Po) is one of nine parroquias in Cabrales, a municipality of the autonomous community of Asturias, in northern Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , n ...

(Asturian: ''Po''), a municipality in Asturias, Spain

Other places

* Pô Department, a department and commune in Burkina Faso **

Pô Pô is a city in southern Burkina Faso. It is the capital of the province of Nahouri. The main ethnic group (making about 60% of the inhabitants) is the Kasséna, a group close to the Gurunsi. It is said to have been founded in around 1500 and ...

, the village in this departement *

Po, Chiang Rai Po ( th, ปอ) is a village and ''tambon'' (subdistrict) of Wiang Kaen District, in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, l ...

, a village in Thailand * Deland,Florida, a city in America * A river in Virginia, USA; joins the Mat, the Ta, and the Ni Rivers to form the Mattaponi River

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

.po In distributed programming, a portable object is an object which can be accessed through a normal method call while possibly residing in memory on another computer. It is portable in the sense that it moves from machine to machine, irrespective ...

, a filename extension *

Petaoctet The octet is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that consists of eight bits. The term is often used when the term byte might be ambiguous, as the byte has historically been used for storage units of a variety of s ...

(Po), a unit of information storage * Product owner, a role in Scrum, a software development strategy

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

* Polonium, symbol Po, a chemical element * Propylene oxide, an organic compound * Phosphorus monoxide (PO), an unstable radical inorganic compound * Projective orthogonal group, an action in projective geometry and linear algebra * '' Per os'' or peroral, meaning "by mouth", i.e. oral administration of a medication

Other uses

* ''Po'' (clothing), a traditional Korean overcoat * ''Po'' (food), dried meat and fish in Korean cuisine * Po (lateral thinking), part of a lateral thinking technique created by Edward de Bono *

Po (panda) Po or PO may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Po (Kung Fu Panda), the protagonist of the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise * Po, one of the titular ''Teletubbies'' * Po, a character in the novel ''Graceling'' by Kristin Cashore M ...

, son of Yang Yang, a giant panda at Zoo Atlanta * ''Po'' (spirit), one of the elements of the spirit in ancient Chinese religion *

Po language Bo (Po, Sorimi) is a possible Left May language of New Guinea, in Sandaun and East Sepik Provinces. It is essentially undocumented, and its status as a separate language is unconfirmed. It is spoken in Bo, Kaumifi, Kobaru, and Nigyama Umarita vi ...

, or Bo language, of New Guinea *

Chamber pot A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom. It was common in many cultures before the advent of indoor plumbing and flushing toilets. Names and etymology "Chamber" is an older term for bedroom. The chamber p ...

, in British slang * Probation officer or parole officer * Putout, in baseball statistics * ''Po'', the former name of the 2016 film '' A Boy Called Po''