Bo (given name)
Bo is a mainly Swedish/Danish masculine given name, derived from an Old Norse nickname, bua, meaning "to live". A variant of Bo is the Swedish Bosse. Bo is uncommon as a surname. Bo is also short for several names, including Beaufort, Beauregard, Bonita or Bonnie.Notable Bo's
Given name
- Bo Anderson, birth name of American Brazilian DJ and producer Maga Bo
- Bo Bergman, Swedish poet
- Bo Boustedt, Swedish Army lieutenant general
- Bo Bowling, American football player
- Bo Danske, 13th-century Danish philosopher
- Bo Ericson, Swedish hammer thrower
- Bo Hamburger, Danish former cyclist
- Bo Hansson, Swedish musician
- Bo Holmberg, Swedish politician
- Bo Ljungberg, Swedish pole vaulter
- Bo Mossberg, Swedish author and illustrator of Den nya nordiska floran
- Bo Scarbrough, American football player
- Bo Svenson, Swedish-born American actor
- Bo Svensson, Danish football player
- Bo Widerberg, Swedish film director
- Bo Wang, Doctor of Probability
Nickname
- Bo Belinsky, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Bo Bice, American singer who placed second on the fourth season of American Idol
- Gudmundur S. Bodvarsson, Icelandic hydrogeologist
- Bo Bolinger, American football player
- Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte, American farmer, son of Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme and Elizabeth Patterson
- Bo Brown, American cartoonist
- Bo Burnham, American singer songwriter/comedian
- Bo Burris, American retired National Football League player
- Bo Cornell, American retired National Football League player
- Israel "Bo" Curtis, African-American educator and politician
- Bo Derek, American actress
- Bo Diddley, American R&B and Chicago blues musician
- Bo Hopkins, American actor
- Bo Horvat, Canadian hockey player
- Bo Jackson, American former National Football League and Major League Baseball player
- Bo Kimble, American basketball player
- Bo Lamar, American former basketball player
- Bo Outlaw, American former National Basketball Association player
- Bo Pelini, American college football head coach
- Bo Robinson, American retired National Football League player
- Bo Ryan, American college basketball coach and former player
- Bo Schembechler, American football player, college head coach and administrator
- Bo Songvisava, Thai chef
Fictional characters
- Bo Adams, main character in the Believe TV series
- Bo Abobo from the video game Double Dragon
- Bo Brady, in the boap opera Days of Our Lives
- Bo Callahan, main draft prospect in the movie Draft Day
- Bo Cocky, the main protagonist in the 2006 film Supertwink
- Bo , protagonist of the Canadian TV series Lost Girl
- Bo Duke, one of the main characters in The Dukes of Hazzard TV series
- Bo Monkey, a main character in the Nickelodeon TV series Fresh Beat Band of Spies
- Little Bo Peep, from a nursery rhyme
- *Bo Peep, in the Toy Story animated film
- Bo' Rai Cho, in the Mortal Kombat video game series
- Bo Sheep, in the US Acres comic strip
- Bo Sinclair, in the 2005 film House of Wax
- Bo, a cheetah from the British animated TV series Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
- Bo, a cartoon character in Muse magazine
- Bo, an orphan named "Boniface" in the Cornelia Funke novel The Thief Lord
- Bo, the main protagonist of the 2017 animated film The Star
- Bo Hess from the movie Signs
