BP (disambiguation)

BP (disambiguation)

BP has many meanings.

BP

In its capitalized form, BP can stand for:

Businesses

*BP, an energy corporation formerly known as BP Amoco:*British Petroleum Canada, the Canadian subsidiary
*IATA code for Air Botswana
*Bharat Petroleum, an Indian oil company
*Banco Popular, a financial institution in Puerto Rico
*Boston Pizza, a Canadian restaurant chain
*Broadcast Programming, a distributor of radio formats

Places

*Bechuanaland Protectorate, the forerunner of modern Botswana
* FIPS and (obsolete) NATO country code for the Solomon Islands

People

* B-P, Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857-1941), founder of the world Scouting movement
*Bambang Pamungkas (born 1980), Indonesian footballer
*Benny Parsons (1941-2007), NASCAR champion and commentator
*Bettie Page (born 1923), American 1950s pin-up model
*Bijou Phillips (born 1980), American actress, model, socialite, and singer
*Bill Paxton, (born 1955), American actor known for roles in "A Simple Plan" and "Club Dread"
*Bill Pullman (born 1953) American film, television, and stage actor known for roles in "Space Balls" and "Independence Day"
*Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala (1914–1982), Prime Minister of Nepal from 1959 to 1960
*Bernard Pivot, (born 1935), French journalist and interviewer
*Billy Preston, (born 1946), American musician
*Brad Pitt (born 1963), American movie star and activist
*Brian Pillman (1962–1997), American professional wrestler
*Bristol Palin (born 1991), daughter of US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin

Miscellanea

*Baseball Prospectus, statistical website and series of annuals
*Before Present (sometimes "Before Physics"), a time scale used in many scientific disciplines to mean years before 1950; commonly used for dates established by radiocarbon dating
*Bell's Palsy, a generally temporary paralysis of the face
*Benzoyl peroxide, an acne and teeth whitening medicine, abbreviated as "BP" to modify a commercial name such as "Clearasil BP"
*"Big Pimpin'", a 2000 hit single for Jay-Z
*Black Pearl, several things
*Bletchley Park, a British cryptography installation sometimes referred to as "BP" so that those making inquiries would assume the speaker meant British Petroleum without the speaker having to directly lie
*Bloc Party, a British indie rock band
*Blue Pikmin, a version of Pikmin that appears in Pikmin, Pikmin 2, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl
*Boerenpartij, a Dutch political party
*Bohlen-Pierce scale, a musical scale
*Boron phosphide
*British Parliamentary Style, a debating style
*British Pharmacopoeia, a collection of medical standards, abbreviated as "BP" to signal a conforming ingredient, as in "Hydrocortisone BP"
*IF Brommapojkarna, a Swedish football team
*Brooklyn Philharmonic
*Brown–Peterson cohomology
* A variant of the Mazda B engine

bp

bp may stand for:
*Base pair, in genetics
*Binge/purge, a characteristic of bulimia nervosa
*Basis point, in finance
*Batting practice, in baseball
*Beer pong, a drinking game
*Bipolar disorder, in psychiatry
*Blood pressure, in medicine
*Black powder, in pyrotechnics
*Boarding pass, in transport
*Boiling point, in chemistry
*Blood play, in sex

Bp

Bp may stand for:
* Bp, in genealogy, indicating a person is baptized
*Budapest, capital of Hungary
* Bp., placed after the name of a Christian saint, denoting that the saint was a bishop
*Bp star, in astronomy a peculiar star of class B
*Bubblegum pop, a genre of commercialized Pop music


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