Pro is an abbreviation meaning "professional".

Pro, PRO or variants thereof might also refer to:

People

  • Miguel Pro (1891–1927), Mexican priest
  • Pro Hart (1928–2006), Australian painter
  • Mlungisi Mdluli (born 1980), South African retired footballer
  • Derek Minor (born 1984), American Christian rapper, formerly known as PRo
  • Mike Awesome (1965–2007), a.k.a. The Pro, American wrestler Michael Lee Alfonso
  • Pro Wells, American football player

Occupations

  • Prostitute, slang abbreviation
  • Public relations officer

Linguistics

  • PRO (linguistics) ("big PRO")
  • pro (linguistics) ("little pro")

Political parties

  • ' (Republican Proposal), Argentina
  • ', (Progressive Party), Chile
  • ' (Law, Respect, Expertise), Czech Republic
  • ' (Party for a Rule of Law Offensive), former German party
  • ' (The Progressives), Latvia
  • ', 2020–2023 name of the Modern Democratic Party in Moldova
  • Progressief Nederland (Progressive Netherlands), merger of Labour Party and GroenLinks in the Netherlands
  • ' (PRO Romania)
  • ' (Proposition), Ukraine
  • ' (Pro-movement), Germany

Organizations

  • ', the Swedish National Pensioners’ Organisation
  • Performance rights organisation
  • Producer Responsibility Organisation
  • Professional Referee Organization, for North American soccer
  • Provincial Research Organization, Canadian initiatives
  • Public Record Office
  • Public Record Office - of Northern Ireland
  • Public Record Office Victoria
  • Public.Resource.Org, public domain publisher

Science and technology

  • PRO (category theory), in mathematics
  • .pro, a top-level Internet domain
  • pro-, a prefix used in taxonomy
  • Patient-reported outcome, in clinical trials
  • Pressure-retarded osmosis
  • Pro (or P), an abbreviation for proline, an amino acid
  • Protein Ontology, a Protein Information Resource database

Entertainment

  • Pasadena Roof Orchestra, England
  • The Pro (TV series), with Rob Lowe
  • The Pro (comics)

Other uses

  • SIG Pro, a pistol series
  • Public Record Office, UK
  • Pro TV, Romania

See also