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Boss may refer to:

Occupations

• Supervisor, often referred to as boss
• Air boss, more formally, air officer, the person in charge of aircraft operations on an aircraft carrier
• Crime boss, the head of a criminal organization
• Fire boss, a person in charge of mine safety
• Pit boss, the person who looks after the employees who work in a casino pit
• Political boss, a person who controls a political region or constituency

Places

• Boss, Missouri, United States, an unincorporated community
• Boss, Texas, United States, an unincorporated community
• Boss (crater), a lunar crater

People

As a real name

• Boss (surname)
• Boss Mustapha, politician, Secretary of the Nigerian government (2017–2023)

As a nickname or stage name

Athletes

• Lance Armstrong ("Le Boss", born 1971), former professional cyclist
• Sasha Banks (born 1992), American professional wrestler
• Tomás Boy ("El Jefe", 1951–2022), former Mexican professional football player and current coach
• Bobby Lashley (born 1976), American professional wrestler
• Helmut Rahn ("Der Boss", 1929–2003), German football player
• Andrew Reynolds (skateboarder) (born 1978), American professional skateboarder
• George Steinbrenner (1930–2010), owner of the New York Yankees baseball team
• Jos Verstappen (born 1972), Dutch Formula One driver

Musicians

• Boss (rapper) (née Lichelle Laws, 1969–2024), American rapper
• Gene Ammons ("The Boss", 1925–1974), American jazz musician and songwriter
• Ross the Boss Friedman (born 1954), guitarist of The Dictators and Manowar
• Diana Ross ("The Boss", born 1944), American singer and actress
• Rick Ross ("The Boss", born 1976), American rapper
• Bruce Springsteen ("The Boss", born 1949), American singer and songwriter

Politicians

• Richard J. Daley (1902–1976), former mayor of Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Alexander Robey Shepherd, 1835–1902), Washington, D.C., politician
• William M. Tweed (1823–1878), notoriously corrupt New York City politician

Other people

• Joe Lycett, English comedian, television presenter and painter who briefly changed his name to Hugo Boss
• Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Anglo-Irish explorer

As a ring name

• Ray Traylor (1963–2004), American professional wrestler, one of whose ring names was "The Boss"

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Boss (Mazinger), from the anime Mazinger Z
• Big Boss (C.O.P.S.), a crime boss from the animated series C.O.P.S.
• Big Boss (Metal Gear), a character in the Metal Gear video game series
• Boss Hogg, the main villain of the television show The Dukes of Hazzard
• Pointy-haired Boss, the office nemesis of cartoon character Dilbert
• The Boss (Metal Gear), a character in the video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater
• "The Boss," title bestowed upon the narrator of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
• "The Boss", Nicolas Lucifer III, from the animated series The Baskervilles
• "The Boss" (simply known as "playa" in the first game), the main character of the Saints Row series

Film

• Boss (2006 film), an Indian Telugu-language film
• Boss (2011 film), an Indian Kannada-language film
• Boss: Born to Rule, a 2013 Indian Bengali-language film starring Jeet
  • Boss 2, its 2017 sequel
• Boss (2013 Hindi film), an Indian Hindi-language film starring Akshay Kumar
• The Boss (1915 film), a silent film based on a play by Edward Sheldon (see below)
• The Boss (1956 film), an American film by Byron Haskin
• The Boss (1973 film) or Il Boss, an Italian crime film
• The Boss (1975 film), a blaxploitation film
• The Boss, a 2005 short film starring Jennifer Sciole
• The Boss (2016 film), an American film starring Melissa McCarthy
• Sivaji: The Boss, a 2007 Indian film by S. Shankar

Music

Bands

• Boss (Australian band), a 1980s hard rock band
• The Boss (band), a South Korean boy band

Albums

• Boss (album), by Magik Markers, 2007
• The Boss (Diana Ross album), 1979
• The Boss (Jimmy Smith album), 1968
• The Boss (Timati album), 2009

Songs

• "Boss" (Fifth Harmony song), 2014
• "Boss" (Lil Pump song), 2017
• "Boss" (NCT U song), 2018
• "Boss", a song by the Carters from the album Everything Is Love, 2018
• "Boss" by Mirror, 2021
• "The Boss" (Diana Ross song), 1979
• "The Boss" (Rick Ross song), 2008
• "The Boss", a song by James Brown from the soundtrack Black Caesar, 1973
• "The Boss", a song by A. R. Rahman from the soundtrack Sivaji, 2007

Television

• Boss (TV series), a 2011 US series starring Kelsey Grammer
• The Boss (TV series) or The Peter Principle, a British television sitcom
• "Boss", an episode of Life's Work
• Bimorphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, a fictional supercomputer in the Doctor Who television serial The Green Death

Other

• Boss (video games), a particularly powerful enemy or opponent in a video game
• Boss Radio, a 1960s pop radio format
• Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, a 1971 book by Mike Royko
• The Boss, a 1911 Broadway play by Edward Sheldon
• BOSS: Baap of Special Services, a 2019 web series

Science and technology

• Boss (geology), a body of igneous rock
• Boss (engineering), an engineering term for a protrusion type feature
• Boss General Catalogue, an early 20th century star catalog
• BOSS (molecular mechanics) (Biochemical and Organic Simulation System), a molecular modeling program
• Balanced Optical SteadyShot, an image stabilization technology used in Sony video cameras
• Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey
• BOSS Great Wall, the largest known galaxy wall
• Bharat Operating System Solutions, Linux distribution developed by NRCFOSS/C-DAC, India
• Big Occultable Steerable Satellite, a system for observing distant planets
• Bride of sevenless, a promoter for the sevenless gene
• "Boss", nickname of the robot that won the 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge
• Yahoo! Search BOSS, a web services platform initiative

Other uses

• Boss (architecture), a protruding stone, often decoratively carved
• Boss Coffee, a brand of Japanese coffee-flavored beverages
• Boss Audio, a company that manufactures audio equipment for automotive and marine applications
• Boss Corporation, a company that manufactures guitar accessories and audio equipment
• Boulder Outdoor Survival School (BOSS), in Boulder, Utah
• Bureau of State Security (B.O.S.S.), a South African state security agency from 1966 to 1980
• Shield boss, the domed metal centre to a shield
• The Boss (roller coaster), a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis
• A series of modified Ford engines used for NASCAR racing, including:
  • Ford Boss 302 engine
  • Boss 351
  • Boss 429
• "Boss", the bone shield of some adult Bovinae bull's horns, such as the African buffalo
• Boss, the bony mass on the skull of some dinosaurs from family Ceratopsidae
• Boss, the hub of a propeller
• Boss, an alternate name for one personality type in the Enneagram of Personality theory
• Hugo Boss, often stylised as BOSS, a German fashion house
• BOSS GP, European motor racing series
• Lifting boss, knobs or protrusions left by masons on blocks to facilitate levering or lifting
• Bosnian Party (BOSS), a political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina

See also

• Bos (disambiguation)
• El Jefe (disambiguation) (the boss in Spanish)
• Snoop Dogg ("The Boss Dogg", born 1971), American rapper and record producer
• Vic Sotto, Filipino television personality nicknamed "Bossing"
• Swelling (medical), referred to as bossing
• Who's the Boss (disambiguation)

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