Boz (name)

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Boz is a given name, nickname, and surname. It may refer to:

People with the given name[edit]

  • Boz (king) (died c. 380), king of the Antes, in what is now Ukraine

People with the nickname or stage name[edit]

  • Charles Dickens (1812-1870) wrote some of his early works under this pen name
  • William Boz Scaggs (born 1944), American singer, songwriter and guitarist
  • Raymond Boz Burrell (1946–2006), English singer and bass guitarist
  • Martin Boz Boorer (born 1962), English guitarist and songwriter
  • Brian Bosworth (born 1965), American football player and actor nicknamed "the Boz"
  • Mark Bosnich (born 1972), Australian former football goalkeeper and sports pundit, cohost of the television sports show Bill & Boz
  • Andrew Bosworth, an American technology executive and current Chief Technology Officer at Meta

People with the surname[edit]

  • Alina Boz (born 1998), Turkish-Russian actress
  • Lucian Boz (1908–2003), Romanian literary critic, essayist, novelist, poet and translator
  • Mahmut Boz (born 1991), Turkish footballer
  • Meryem Boz (born 1988), Turkish volleyball player
  • Murat Boz (born 1980), Turkish pop singer
  • Nevval Boz (died 1993), Turkish woman killed, possibly as part of a cover-up of the suspected assassination of General Eşref Bitlis
  • Soner Boz (born 1968), Turkish former footballer

Fictional characters[edit]

  • Boz Bishop, in seasons 3-6 of the American television series Nash Bridges
  • Murray "Boz" Bozinsky, in the 1980s American television series Riptide
  • Johnny Boz, in the film Basic Instinct
  • Officer Boz, in the 2021 film Spiral

See also[edit]