Bab or BAB can refer to:

  • Bab (toponymy), a component of Arabic toponyms literally meaning "gate"
  • Bab (Shia Islam), a term designating deputies of the Imams in Shia Islam
  • Báb (Sayyid `Alí Muḥammad Shírází, 1819–1850), founder of Bábism and a central figure in the Bahá'í Faith
  • Bab Ballads, cartoons published by W. S. Gilbert under the childhood nickname, Bab
  • Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry, an academic journal
  • Boris Berezovsky (businessman) (1946–2013), Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, a powerful Russian oligarch in self-imposed exile in London from 2001
  • Build America Bonds, a type of municipal bond created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
  • B. A. Baracus, character on 1980s action series The A-Team
  • The British Aikido Board, a federation of independent Aikido<!--OK if first link red--> associations within the United Kingdom
  • British Agriculture Bureau, the Brussels office of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, National Farmers' Union of Scotland, and Ulster Farmers' Union
  • Babcock International (stock symbol BAB)

Places

  • Bab-ı Âli, the gate to the palace of the Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire
  • Báb, Nitra District, a village and municipality in the Nitra District in western central Slovakia
  • Back-arc basin, a geologic feature: a submarine basin associated with island arcs and subduction zones

Transport

  • Beale Air Force Base (IATA airport code: BAB), in California
  • Bundesautobahn (BAB), federal motorways in Germany
  • Balcombe railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England

Entertainment

  • "Base Attack Bonus", a term used in d20 System RPG games
  • Bunty Aur Babli, a 2005 Indian film
  • Bab (play), a 1920 Broadway play by Edward Childs Carpenter

See also

  • Babs (disambiguation) (includes BABS)
  • Babb
  • Babs (disambiguation)
  • Babe (disambiguation)
  • Baby (disambiguation)
  • Babel (disambiguation)
  • Bab. (disambiguation)