BP is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London.

BP, bp, and Bp may also refer to:

Business and organisations

Businesses

  • BP Canada, a division of the oil company BP
  • BP Studio, a Florentine fashion house
  • Air Botswana, IATA airline code BP
  • Boston Pizza, a Canadian-based restaurant chain

Political parties

  • Bavaria Party, a political party in Germany
  • Brexit Party, a Eurosceptic political party in the UK now called Reform UK
  • Farmers' Party (Netherlands), (in Dutch: Boerenpartij, BP), a defunct political party

Sports bodies

  • Baseball Prospectus, a statistical analysis organization
  • IF Brommapojkarna, a Swedish football team

People

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  • Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell (1857–1941), known as B-P, founder of The Boy Scouts Association
  • Benny Parsons (1941–2007), nicknamed BP, NASCAR champion and commentator
  • BP Cooper, American screenwriter, film and commercial producer
  • BP Fallon (born 1946), Irish DJ and author
  • BP Koirala (1914–1982), former Prime Minister of Nepal
  • BP Valenzuela (born 1995), Filipino singer-songwriter

Places

  • BP Pedestrian Bridge, in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
  • BP Impact Structure, an impact structure in Libya
  • Bletchley Park, the central site for British codebreakers during World War II, known as B.P.
  • Solomon Islands, FIPS country code and NATO country code
  • Bp., a written abbreviation of Budapest

Science, technology and mathematics

Biology and medicine

  • Base pair (bp), the building blocks of the DNA double helix
  • Binding potential, in pharmacokinetics and receptor-ligand kinetics
  • Blood pressure
  • British Pharmacopoeia

Chemicals

  • Black powder, in pyrotechnics
  • Boiling point
  • Boron phosphide, a semiconducting compound
  • Biphenyl, an organic compound

Computing and telecommunications

  • Base pointer, in 16-bit x86 architecture
  • Baseband processor, a device in a network interface

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

  • Bp star, a stellar classification
  • Before Present, a time scale used in science with "Present" being 1 January 1950
  • BP, in mathematics, the representing spectrum of the Brown–Peterson cohomology
  • BP, a variant of the Mazda B engine

Other uses

  • Bohlen–Pierce scale, or B–P scale, a musical tuning and scale
  • Black panther (disambiguation), multiple uses
  • ⟨bp⟩, a Latin-script digraph
  • Basis point, one hundredth of a percent
  • British Parliamentary Style, a debate type
  • BP (Broken Pekoe), a tea leaf grading
  • BP, a house brand of US retailer Nordstrom for apparel
  • Riau Islands (vehicle registration prefix BP)

See also

  • BP holin family (BP-hol), a protein family
  • BP Portrait Award