Bo (given name)

Bo is a mainly Swedish/Danish masculine given name, derived from the Old Norse verb búa ("to reside"). A variant of Bo is the Swedish Bosse. Bo is uncommon as a surname. Bo is also short for names including Beaufort, Beauregard, Bonita, or Bonnie; it is also a less common shortening of the name Robert, which is usually shortened to Bob. It can also be a shortening of the name James, which is usually shortened to Jimmy, Jim, or Jimbo.

Notable people

Given name

Bo Anderson, birth name of American Brazilian DJ and producer Maga Bo
Bo Bergman (1869–1967), Swedish poet
Bo Bichette (born 1998), Major League Baseball player
Bo Boustedt (1868–1939), Swedish Army lieutenant general
Bo Bowling (born 1987), American football player
Bo Carpelan (1926–2011), Finnish poet and author
Bo Danske, 13th-century Danish philosopher
Bo Ehnbom (1899–1985), Swedish military engineer
Bo Ericson (athlete) (1919–1970), Swedish hammer thrower
Bo Goldman (1932–2023), American writer, Broadway playwright, and screenwriter
Bo Hamburger (born 1970), Danish cyclist
Bo Hansson (1943–2010), Swedish musician
Bo Holmberg (1942–2010), Swedish politician
Bo Horvat (1995), Canadian ice hockey player
Bo Johansson (born 1942), Swedish former football player and current football coach
Bo Larsson (1944–2023), Swedish football midfielder/striker
Bo Ljungberg (1911–1984), Swedish pole vaulter
Bo Melton (born 1999), American football player
Bo Levi Mitchell (born 1990), Canadian football quarterback
Bo Mossberg, Swedish author and illustrator of Den nya nordiska floran
Bo Nix (born 2000), American football quarterback
Bo Persson (table tennis), Swedish table tennis player
Bo Petersson, (born 1946), Swedish football manager and former football player
Bo Randall (1909–1989), American knifemaker
Bo Johan Renck (born 1966), Swedish director of music videos, TV and film
Bo Rybeck (1935–2019), Swedish physician
Bo Scarbrough (born 1996), American football player
Bo Svenson (born 1941), Swedish-born American actor
Bo Svensson (born 1979), Danish football player
Bo Toresson (born 1939), Swedish politician
Bo Varenius (1918–1996), Swedish major general
Bo Vestergaard (born 1965), Danish lightweight rower
Bo Widerberg (1930–1997), Swedish film director

Nickname

Bo Belinsky (1936–2001), American Major League Baseball pitcher
Bo Bice (born 1975), American singer who placed second on the fourth season of American Idol
Bo Bruce (born 1984), English singer-songwriter
Gudmundur S. (Bo) Bodvarsson (1952–2006), Icelandic hydrogeologist
Bo Bolinger (1932–2011), American football player
Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte (1805–1870), American farmer, son of Napoleon Bonaparte's brother Jérôme and Elizabeth Patterson
Bo Brown (1906–1996), American cartoonist
Bo Burnham (born 1990), American singer songwriter/comedian
Bo Burris (born 1944), American National Football League player
Bo Callaway (1927–2014), American politician and businessman
Bo Cornell (born 1949), American National Football League player
Israel "Bo" Curtis (1932–2012), African-American educator and politician
Bo Derek (born 1956), American actress
Bo Diddley (1928–2008), American R&B and Chicago blues musician
Bo Goldman (1932–2023), American writer, Broadway playwright, and screenwriter
Bo Gritz (born 1939), American former US Army officer and perennial candidate
Bo Halldórsson (born 1951), Icelandic pop singer
Bo Hines (born 1995), American football player and politician
Bo Hopkins (1938–2022), American actor
Bo Horvat (born 1995), Canadian hockey player
Bo Jackson (born 1962), American National Football League and Major League Baseball player
Bo Kimble (born 1966), American basketball player
Bo Lamar (born 1951), American basketball player
Bo McCalebb (born 1985), American-Macedonian professional basketball player
Bo Mitchell (born 1970), representative in the Tennessee House of Representatives
Bo Outlaw (born 1971), American National Basketball Association player
Bo Pelini (born 1967), American college football head coach
Bo Rein (1945–1980), American, football player, baseball player, and football coach
Bo Roberson (1935–2001), American, track and field athlete, and football player
Bo Robinson (born 1956), American National Football League player
Bo Ryan (born 1947), American college basketball coach and former player
Bo Schembechler (1929–2006), American football player, college head coach and administrator
Bo Snerdley, pseudonym of James Golden (radio personality)
Bo Songvisava (born 1979/1980), Thai chef
Bo Welch (born 1951), American production designer, art director, film and TV director, actor

Chinese given name Bō

Chu Bo (born 1944), politician
Hu Bo (1988–2017), film director
Qiu Bo (born 1993), diver
Sun Bo (executive) (born 1961)

Fictional characters

Bo Adams, main character in the Believe TV series
Bo Abobo from the video game Double Dragon
Bo, a character from the video game Brawl Stars
Bo Brady, in the soap opera Days of Our Lives
Bo Buchanan, in the soap opera One Life to Live
Bo Callahan, main draft prospect in the movie Draft Day
Bo Cocky, the main protagonist in the 2006 film Supertwink
Bo (Lost Girl) (Bo Dennis), protagonist of the Canadian TV series Lost Girl
Bo Duke, one of the main characters in The Dukes of Hazzard TV series
Bo Monkey, a main character in the Nickelodeon TV series Fresh Beat Band of Spies
Bo Orlov, a character in the Netflix series Grand Army
Little Bo Peep, from a nursery rhyme
- Bo Peep, in the Toy Story animated film
Bo' Rai Cho, in the Mortal Kombat video game series
Bo Sheep, in the U.S. Acres comic strip
Bo Sinclair, in the 2005 film House of Wax
Bo, a cheetah from the British animated TV series Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
Bo, a cartoon character in Muse magazine
Bo, an orphan named "Boniface" in the Cornelia Funke novel The Thief Lord
Bo, the main protagonist of the 2017 animated film The Star
Bo Hess from the movie Signs