Boule

Boule may refer to:

Ball games

 * Boules, a collective term for games involving players throwing balls at a smaller target ball
 * Pétanque, a common variety originating in France and sometimes loosely called "boules" in English
 * Boule Lyonnaise, another boules game of French origin
 * Boule Bretonne, a boules game from Brittany
 * Boule (gambling game), a game similar to roulette

People

 * Boule (community), an Akan people in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa
 * Auguste-Louis-Désiré Boulé (1799–1865), French playwright
 * Marcellin Boule (1861–1942), French palaeontologist

Politics

 * Boule (ancient Greece), a citizens' council appointed to run daily affairs of a city
 * Hellenic Parliament, transliterated as Vouli or Boule from Greek

Science and geography

 * Boule (crystal), an ingot of synthetically produced crystal
 * Boule (gene), an alias for the gene BOLL, responsible for sperm production in animals
 * Boule Range, one of the Northern Continental Ranges in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Other uses

 * The Boulé, or Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, the oldest fraternity for African Americans named with Greek letters
 * Boule (bread), a round loaf of white bread