AZ

AZ or az may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Authority Zero, an Arizona punk rock band
 * AZ (record label), a French record label
 * Abendzeitung, a newspaper based in Munich, Germany
 * Assignment Zero, a crowdsourced journalism project

Companies and organizations

 * Alkmaar Zaanstreek, formerly AZ '67, a Dutch Eredivisie football club
 * AZ (women), the affiliated women's football club (2007–2011)
 * AstraZeneca, a UK-based pharmaceutical company
 * Oxford–AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine (AZ), their COVID-19 vaccine
 * ITA Airways (IATA code: AZ), the national airline of Italy
 * Alitalia (former IATA code: AZ), a former Italian airline
 * Ministry of General Affairs (Ministerie van Algemene Zaken), a Dutch Government ministry

People

 * Az people, Turkophone people from present-day Russia
 * AZ (rapper) (born 1972), rapper from Brooklyn, New York, US
 * Azie Faison (born 1964; known as AZ), former drug dealer from New York, US

Places

 * Arizona (postal abbreviation: AZ), a US state
 * Azerbaijan (ISO 3166-1 country code: AZ), a Eurasian country

Science and technology

 * .az, the country code top level domain for the nation of Azerbaijan
 * AlphaZero, game-playing artificial intelligence
 * Azimuth, the horizontal component of a compass direction
 * Toyota AZ engine, an engine family

Other uses

 * Azerbaijani language (ISO 639-1 code: az)
 * Lighter-than-air aircraft tender (AZ), a US Navy hull classification symbol