Boss

Boss may refer to:

Occupations

 * Supervisor, often referred to as boss
 * Air boss, more formally, air officer, the person in charge of aircraft operations on an aircraft carrier
 * Crime boss, the head of a criminal organization
 * Fire boss, a person in charge of mine safety
 * Pit boss, the person who looks after the employees who work in a casino pit
 * Political boss, a person who controls a political region or constituency

Places

 * Boss, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Boss, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
 * Boss (crater), a lunar crater

As a real name

 * Boss (surname)
 * Boss Mustapha, politician, Secretary of the Nigerian government (2017–2023)

Athletes

 * Lance Armstrong ("Le Boss", born 1971), former professional cyclist
 * Sasha Banks (born 1992), American professional wrestler
 * Tomás Boy ("El Jefe", 1951–2022), former Mexican professional football player and current coach
 * Bobby Lashley (born 1976), American professional wrestler
 * Helmut Rahn ("Der Boss", 1929–2003), German football player
 * Andrew Reynolds (skateboarder) (born 1978), American professional skateboarder
 * George Steinbrenner (1930–2010), owner of the New York Yankees baseball team
 * Jos Verstappen (born 1972), Dutch Formula One driver

Musicians

 * Boss (rapper) (née Lichelle Laws, 1969–2024), American rapper
 * Gene Ammons ("The Boss", 1925–1974), American jazz musician and songwriter
 * Ross the Boss Friedman (born 1954), guitarist of The Dictators and Manowar
 * Diana Ross ("The Boss", born 1944), American singer and actress
 * Rick Ross ("The Boss", born 1976), American rapper
 * Bruce Springsteen ("The Boss", born 1949), American singer and songwriter

Politicians

 * Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, United States
 * Alexander Robey Shepherd, 1835–1902), Washington, D.C., politician
 * William M. Tweed (1823–1878), notoriously corrupt New York City politician

Other people

 * Joe Lycett, English comedian, television presenter and painter who briefly changed his name to Hugo Boss
 * Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Anglo-Irish explorer

As a ring name

 * Ray Traylor (1963–2004), American professional wrestler, one of whose ring names was "The Boss"

Fictional characters

 * Boss (Mazinger), from the anime Mazinger Z
 * Big Boss (C.O.P.S.), a crime boss from the animated series C.O.P.S.
 * Big Boss (Metal Gear), a character in the Metal Gear video game series
 * Boss Hogg, the main villain of the television show The Dukes of Hazzard
 * Pointy-haired Boss, the office nemesis of cartoon character Dilbert
 * The Boss (Metal Gear), a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
 * "The Boss," title bestowed upon the narrator of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
 * "The Boss", Nicolas Lucifer III, from the animated series The Baskervilles
 * "The Boss" (simply known as "playa" in the first game), the main character of the Saints Row series

Film

 * Boss (2006 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
 * Boss (2011 film), an Indian Kannada-language film
 * Boss: Born to Rule, a 2013 Indian Bengali-language film starring Jeet
 * Boss 2, its 2017 sequel
 * Boss (2013 Hindi film), an Indian Hindi-language film starring Akshay Kumar
 * The Boss (1915 film), a silent film based on a play by Edward Sheldon (see below)
 * The Boss (1956 film), an American film by Byron Haskin
 * The Boss (1973 film) or Il Boss, an Italian crime film
 * The Boss (1975 film), a blaxploitation film
 * The Boss, a 2005 short film starring Jennifer Sciole
 * The Boss (2016 film), an American film starring Melissa McCarthy
 * Sivaji: The Boss, a 2007 Indian film by S. Shankar

Bands

 * Boss (Australian band), a 1980s hard rock band
 * The Boss (band), a South Korean boy band

Albums

 * Boss (album), by Magik Markers, 2007
 * The Boss (Diana Ross album), 1979
 * The Boss (Jimmy Smith album), 1968
 * The Boss (Timati album), 2009

Songs

 * "Boss" (Fifth Harmony song), 2014
 * "Boss" (Lil Pump song), 2017
 * "Boss" (NCT U song), 2018
 * "Boss", a song by the Carters from the album Everything Is Love, 2018
 * "Boss" by Mirror, 2021
 * "The Boss" (Diana Ross song), 1979
 * "The Boss" (Rick Ross song), 2008
 * "The Boss", a song by James Brown from the soundtrack Black Caesar, 1973
 * "The Boss", a song by A. R. Rahman from the soundtrack Sivaji, 2007

Television

 * Boss (TV series), a 2011 US series starring Kelsey Grammer
 * The Boss (TV series) or The Peter Principle, a British television sitcom
 * "Boss", an episode of Life's Work
 * Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, a fictional supercomputer in the Doctor Who television serial The Green Death

Other

 * Boss (video games), a particularly powerful enemy or opponent in a video game
 * Boss Radio, a 1960s pop radio format
 * Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, a 1971 book by Mike Royko
 * The Boss, a 1911 Broadway play by Edward Sheldon
 * BOSS: Baap of Special Services, a 2019 web series

Science and technology

 * Boss (geology), a body of igneous rock
 * Boss (engineering), an engineering term for a protrusion type feature
 * Boss General Catalogue, an early 20th century star catalog
 * BOSS (molecular mechanics) (Biochemical and Organic Simulation System), a molecular modeling program
 * Balanced Optical SteadyShot, an image stabilization technology used in Sony video cameras
 * Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
 * BOSS Great Wall, the largest known galaxy wall
 * Bharat Operating System Solutions, Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS/C-DAC, India
 * Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a system for observing distant planets
 * Bride of sevenless, a promoter for the sevenless gene
 * "Boss", nickname of the robot that won the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge
 * Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform initiative

Other uses

 * Boss (architecture), a protruding stone, often decoratively carved
 * Boss Coffee, a brand of Japanese coffee-flavored beverages
 * Boss Audio, a company that manufactures audio equipment for automotive and marine applications
 * Boss Corporation, a company that manufactures guitar accessories and audio equipment
 * Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS), in Boulder, Utah
 * Bureau of State Security (B.O.S.S.), a South African state security agency from 1966 to 1980
 * Shield boss, the domed metal centre to a shield
 * The Boss (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis
 * A series of modified Ford engines used for NASCAR racing, including:
 * Ford Boss 302 engine
 * Boss 351
 * Boss 429
 * "Boss", the bone shield of some adult Bovinae bull's horns, such as the African buffalo
 * Boss, the bony mass on the skull of some dinosaurs from family Ceratopsidae
 * Boss, the hub of a propeller
 * Boss, an alternate name for one personality type in the Enneagram of Personality theory
 * Hugo Boss, often stylised as BOSS, a German fashion house
 * BOSS GP, European motor racing series
 * Lifting boss, knobs or protrusions left by masons on blocks to facilitate levering or lifting
 * Bosnian Party (BOSS), a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina