# BB

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**BB**, **Bb**, or similar, may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- BB numbers, in the catalogue of works by [Béla Bartók](/source/B%C3%A9la_Bart%C3%B3k#Catalogues)
- "BB", a chant supporting [Big Brother](/source/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four)) in *Nineteen Eighty-Four*
- *BB*, a 2017 album by [Mod Sun](/source/Mod_Sun)
- BB, a character in *[Beast Wars II: Super Life-Form Transformers](/source/Beast_Wars_II:_Super_Life-Form_Transformers)*
- BB, a character in *[Fate/Extra CCC](/source/Fate/Extra)* and *[Fate/Grand Order](/source/Fate/Grand_Order)*
- Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel *[Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases](/source/Death_Note_Another_Note:_The_Los_Angeles_BB_Murder_Cases)*
- [*Big Brother* (franchise)](/source/Big_Brother_(franchise)), a TV reality competition
- BB, production code for 1966 *Doctor Who* serial *[The War Machines](/source/The_War_Machines)*
- BB, the protagonist of the *[Anthology of the Killer](/source/Anthology_of_the_Killer)* series

## Businesses and organizations

See also: [Transportation](#Transportation)

- [BB Bloggingsbooks](/source/BB_Bloggingsbooks), an imprint of OmniScriptum
- [BB Microlight](/source/BB_Microlight), a Hungarian aircraft manufacturer
- [Banco do Brasil](/source/Banco_do_Brasil), a Brazilian financial services company
- [Bavarian Peasants' League](/source/Bavarian_Peasants'_League) (*Bayerischer Bauernbund*), a former German political party
- [BlackBerry Limited](/source/BlackBerry_Limited) (stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company
- [Borderland Beat](/source/Borderland_Beat), a news blog covering the Mexican drug war
- [Boys' Brigade](/source/Boys'_Brigade), a Christian youth organization

## People

- BB, pseudonym of author and artist [Denys Watkins-Pitchford](/source/Denys_Watkins-Pitchford)
- BB, monogram of artist [Bessie Bamber](/source/Bessie_Bamber)
- BB, American rapper and member of [CUZZOS](/source/CUZZOS)
- [B. B. King](/source/B._B._King) (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter
- [BB Trickz](/source/BB_Trickz) (Belize Nicolau Kazi, born 2000), Spanish rapper
- [Brigitte Bardot](/source/Brigitte_Bardot) (1934–2025), French actress often referred to by her initials BB
- [Bernard Berenson](/source/Bernard_Berenson) (1865–1959) art historian, nickname BB
- [Benazir Bhutto](/source/Benazir_Bhutto) (1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister, nickname BB
- [Bipasha Basu](/source/Bipasha_Basu) (born 1979), Indian actress, nickname BB

## Places

- [BB postcode area](/source/BB_postcode_area), Blackburn, England
- [Barbados](/source/Barbados) (ISO 3166 code BB) - [.bb](/source/.bb), top-level domain for Barbados

## Science

- [Bell Beaker culture](/source/Bell_Beaker_culture), an archaeological culture in Europe
- [Branch and bound](/source/Branch_and_bound), a method for solving optimization problems
- [Busy beaver](/source/Busy_beaver) class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine
- [Beta blocker](/source/Beta_blocker), medication used to manage arrhythmias

## Transportation

### Air

- [BB Airways](/source/BB_Airways), a former Nepalese airline
- Balair, [a defunct Swiss airline](/source/List_of_defunct_airlines_of_Switzerland), IATA airline code BB
- [Seaborne Airlines](/source/Seaborne_Airlines), IATA airline code BB

### Rail

- [Buckingham Branch Railroad](/source/Buckingham_Branch_Railroad), reporting mark BB, in Virginia, U.S.
- [Bürgenstock Funicular](/source/B%C3%BCrgenstock_Funicular) (*Bürgenstock-Bahn*), a Swiss funicular railway
- [NZR BB class](/source/NZR_BB_class), a New Zealand locomotive class
- B-B, a classification of [AAR wheel arrangement](/source/AAR_wheel_arrangement) of railway locomotives
- [B (New York City Subway service)](/source/B_(New_York_City_Subway_service)), known as BB before 1967

### Other uses in transportation

- [Ferrari Berlinetta Boxer](/source/Ferrari_Berlinetta_Boxer), an Italian sports car
- [Toyota bB](/source/Toyota_bB), a car sold in Japan
- BB, classification of [battleships of the United States Navy](/source/List_of_battleships_of_the_United_States_Navy)
- North Sumatra ([vehicle registration](/source/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Indonesia) prefix BB)

## Other uses

- [BB (ammunition)](/source/BB_(ammunition)), ammunition for a BB gun
- [Base on balls](/source/Base_on_balls) in baseball, commonly known as a walk
- [BB cream](/source/BB_cream), a type of cosmetic

## See also

- [B-flat (disambiguation)](/source/B-flat_(disambiguation)) (B♭)
- [B&B (disambiguation)](/source/B%26B_(disambiguation))
- [Bebe (disambiguation)](/source/Bebe_(disambiguation))
- [Beebe (disambiguation)](/source/Beebe_(disambiguation))
- [Beebee (disambiguation)](/source/Beebee_(disambiguation))
- [Bibi (disambiguation)](/source/Bibi_(disambiguation))
- [BBCode](/source/BBCode), a lightweight markup language
- [Bed and breakfast](/source/Bed_and_breakfast) or B&B, a small lodging establishment
- [Dobol B TV](/source/Dobol_B_TV) ('Double B TV'), a Philippines news program
- [Les B.B.](/source/Les_B.B.), a Canadian band

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