OB, O.B., or Ob may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

  • Ob, a fictional currency in The Great Explosion
  • Sam "O.B." O'Brien, a fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks

Businesses and organizations

  • Astrakhan Airlines (IATA code) (defunct)
  • Boliviana de Aviación (IATA code)
  • Odense Boldklub, a Danish football club
  • Oriental Brewery, a South Korean brewery, which produces the OB lagers
  • Oromia Bank, a private bank based in Ethiopia
  • Outward Bound, an international outdoor education organization

People

  • Ed O'Bradovich, an American former professional football player, known as "OB"
  • Old Badmintonians, former pupils of Badminton School, Bristol, England
  • Old Bedfordians, former pupils of Bedford School, England
  • Old Bristolians, former pupils of Bristol Grammar School, England

Places

  • Gulf of Ob, a bay of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia
  • Ob (river), a river in West Siberia, Russia
  • Ob Sea, an artificial lake on the river Ob
  • Ob, Germany, in Bidingen, Bavaria, Germany
  • Ob, Russia, a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
  • Ocean Beach, San Diego, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States

Science and technology

  • OB star, in astronomy, a hot, massive star of spectral types O or B
  • Ob, a class of objects in category theory
  • Object Manager (Windows), a Windows NT subsystem
  • Obstetrics, a medical specialty dealing with childbirth, often used in "obstetrics and gynaecology" (abbreviated OB/GYN)
  • Oligonucleotide/Oligosaccharide DNA-Binding-fold domain
  • Organizational behavior, an academic field
  • Outside broadcasting, a television broadcasting from a mobile television studio, such as a van

Other uses

  • Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin), from "ob", archaic abbreviation
  • ob., died, from Latin obitus
  • o.b. (brand), a brand of feminine hygiene products
  • Order of battle
  • Order of Burma
  • Organizational behavior
  • "Over-the-counter bulletin board", in stock listings
  • Ouroboros (Marvel Cinematic Universe), aka "O.B.", a character in the TV series Loki
  • "Out of bounds", an area outside the course play area, in golf

See also

  • Obese Records, a former Australian record label, founded as a record store in Melbourne called O.B.'s
  • Obi (disambiguation)
  • Obie (disambiguation)
  • OOB (disambiguation)
  • Old Babylonian (disambiguation)