# Boss

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