Boz (name)

Boz is a given name, nickname, and surname. It may refer to:

People with the given name

 * Boz (king) (died c. 380), king of the Antes, in what is now Ukraine

People with the nickname or stage name

 * Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote some of his early works under this pen name
 * William Boz Scaggs (born 1944), American singer, songwriter and guitarist
 * Raymond Boz Burrell (1946–2006), English singer and bass guitarist
 * Martin Boz Boorer (born 1962), English guitarist and songwriter


 * Brian Bosworth (born 1965), American football player and actor nicknamed "the Boz"
 * Mark Bosnich (born 1972), Australian former football goalkeeper and sports pundit, cohost of the television sports show Bill & Boz
 * Andrew Bosworth, an American technology executive and current Chief Technology Officer at Meta

People with the surname

 * Alina Boz (born 1998), Turkish-Russian actress
 * Lucian Boz (1908–2003), Romanian literary critic, essayist, novelist, poet and translator
 * Mahmut Boz (born 1991), Turkish footballer
 * Meryem Boz (born 1988), Turkish volleyball player
 * Murat Boz (born 1980), Turkish pop singer
 * Nevval Boz (died 1993), Turkish woman killed, possibly as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis
 * Soner Boz (born 1968), Turkish former footballer

Fictional characters

 * Boz Bishop, in seasons 3-6 of the American television series Nash Bridges
 * Murray "Boz" Bozinsky, in the 1980s American television series Riptide
 * Johnny Boz, in the film Basic Instinct
 * Officer Boz, in the 2021 film Spiral