Bobo

Bobo may refer to:

Animals and plants

  • Bobo (gorilla) a popular gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle from 1953 to 1968
  • Bobo, Vietnamese name for Job's Tears, a plant of south-east Asia
  • Bobo, a local name for a large cryptid aquatic creature with mammal-like features claimed to have been sighted by fishermen around Monterey Bay

Entertainment, arts and media

  • Bobo (magazine), a Dutch children's magazine which follows the adventures of Bobo, a blue rabbit
  • The Bobo (1967), film starring Peter Sellers

Comics

Fictional entities

  • Bobo, pet cat of Doris Husselmeyer in the comic strip Piranha Club
  • Bobo the Bear, in The Muppets series
  • Bobo Gigliotti, the psychotic boss of "Fat Pizza" from the Australian comedy TV series Pizza
  • Professor Bobo, a character from Mystery Science Theater 3000

Music

People

Ethnic groups

  • Bobo people (or Bobo-Fing), an ethnic group of Burkina Faso

Names

Places

Sports teams

  • ASF Bobo, a football club based in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
  • RC Bobo, a football club based in Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Other uses

  • Bo-Bo, a type of locomotive
  • Bobó de camarão or shrimp bobo, a Brazilian dish made of shrimp cooked on a manioc pureé
  • Bobo doll experiment, a 1960s test of human aggression
  • Bobo, a bogeyman-like monster in Egypt
  • Bobo, French portmanteau for "bourgeois-bohemian", introduced into English by David Brooks to describe the 1990s descendants of the yuppies in the book Bobos in Paradise (2000)

See also

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