BB

BB, Bb, or similar, may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

 * BB, abbreviation for a catalogue of works by Béla Bartók
 * BB (album), by Mod Sun (2017)
 * "BB Talk", 2015 song by Miley Cyrus
 * BB (Transformers), a character in the franchise
 * BB, pseudonym of author and artist Denys Watkins-Pitchford
 * BB, an AAlib ASCII art demo for MS-DOS and Linux
 * BB, the signatory monogram of the artist Bessie Bamber
 * Les B.B., a Canadian band from Quebec
 * Baahubali (franchise), an Indian historical epic media franchise, often abbreviated as BB
 * BattleBots, a robot combat TV show
 * Beast Boy, a comic book character
 * Beyond Birthday, a character from the novel Death Note Another Note: The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases
 * Big Brother (Nineteen Eighty-Four), a character in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four
 * Big Brother (TV series), home living reality TV popularity contest show
 * Billy Butcher, supporting character and final antagonist of The Boys comic book series
 * BB, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The War Machines
 * Balloon Boy, an animatronic character in Five Nights at Freddy's
 * BB-8, a robot in the Star Wars franchise
 * Breaking Bad
 * Bugs Bunny

Businesses and organizations

 * BB 2000 Ltd, publisher of British Birds
 * BB Bloggingsbooks, an imprint of the German group VDM Publishing
 * BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
 * Balair (IATA airline code)
 * Banco do Brasil S.A., largest Brazilian and Latin American bank by assets
 * Bavarian Peasants' League or BB, a former German political party
 * BlackBerry Limited (stock ticker BB), Canadian technology company
 * Borderland Beat, an English-language news blog covering the Mexican Drug War
 * Boys' Brigade, a Christian youth organization
 * Seaborne Airlines, IATA airline code

People

 * B. B. King (1925–2015), American musician and songwriter
 * Brigitte Bardot (born 1934), French actress
 * Benazir Bhutto (1953–2007), former Pakistani prime minister
 * Denys Watkins-Pitchford (1905–1990), British children's author's pseudonym
 * Bipasha Basu (born 1979), Indian actress, referred to by the shorthand B. B.
 * Balayya Babu or BB, nicknames of Indian actor Balakrishna (born 1960)
 * Balakrishna-Boyapati, Indian actor and director duo, known as BB, cf. BB3

Places

 * BB postcode area, Blackburn, England
 * Barbados (ISO and NATO 2-letter country code BB)
 * .bb, the top-level domain for Barbados
 * Bourbon County, Kansas (state county code)
 * Brandenburg, Germany (ISO 3166-2 code BB)

Science

 * Branch and bound, a general algorithm for finding optimal solutions
 * Busy beaver class in computing theory, a type of Turing Machine
 * Beta blocker, medication used to manage arrhythmias and to protect the heart from a second heart attack after a first heart attack

Transportation

 * BB Microlight, a Hungarian ultralight aircraft manufacturer
 * Bürgenstock-Bahn, a funicular railway in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden
 * Toyota bB, a car sold in Japan
 * NZR Bb class, a New Zealand locomotive class
 * Balair (IATA airline code BB, 1925-2001)
 * Seaborne Airlines (IATA airline code BB, 1992-present)
 * Buckingham Branch Railroad (reporting mark BB)
 * A US Navy hull classification symbol: Battleship (BB)
 * B (New York City Subway service), known as BB before 1967
 * B-B, a classification of AAR wheel arrangement of railway locomotives

Other uses

 * BB (ammunition), ammunition for a BB gun
 * Base on balls in baseball, commonly known as a walk
 * BB cream, a type of cosmetic
 * Bed and breakfast or B&B, a style of accommodation
 * BBCode, a lightweight markup language used to format posts in many message boards