# PB

Pb is the chemical symbol for the chemical element lead. PB, P.B., or Pb may also refer to:

## Arts and entertainment
### Music

* Paul's Boutique, a 1989 album by American hip-hop group the Beastie Boys
* Prussian Blue, an American white nationalist pop pre-teen duo
* PB, an album by Norwegian musician Per Bergersen

### Publications

* Performance Bikes (magazine), a monthly British motorcycling magazine
* Playboy, an American men's magazine
* Post-Bulletin, an American daily newspaper based in Rochester, Minnesota

### Television

* Princess Bubblegum, a character from the 2010 animated TV series Adventure Time
* Prison Break, an American drama television series which originally ran from 2005 to 2009
* Puppy Bowl, an American special based on the Super Bowl airing each year on Animal Planet since 2005

### Anime-Manga

* Phantom Blood, the first story arc of shōnen manga series Jojo's Bizarre Adventure

## Companies and organizations

* Packard Bell Corporation, an American radio manufacturer formed in 1933 that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics
* Packard Bell, a Dutch computer manufacturer which took its name from the earlier American company
* Palladium Books, a publisher of role-playing games
* Panera Bread, a chain of bakery–café quick casual restaurants in the United States and Canada
* Parsons Brinckerhoff, an American professional services firm, now a part of WSP
* PBair, a now-defunct Thai airline
* Photobucket, an image hosting, video hosting, slideshow creation and photo sharing website
* Piranha Bytes, a German video game developer
* Pirate Bay, a file-sharing organization
* Pitney Bowes, an American manufacturer of software and hardware and a provider of services related to documents, packaging, mailing, and shipping
* PocketBook International, a producer of e-book readers under the PocketBook brand
* Pottery Barn, an American-based home furnishing retail store chain
* ProBoards, an online message board service
* Prosperity Party (Paartii Badhaadhiinaa), a political party in Ethiopia
* Beretta (Pietro Beretta Arms Factory), an Italian firearms manufacturer

## Economics and finance

* Payback period, in capital budgeting refers to the period of time required for the return on an investment to "repay" the sum of the original investment
* Performance bond, a surety bond issued by an insurance company or a bank to guarantee satisfactory completion of a project by a contractor
* Premium Bond, a lottery bond issued by the United Kingdom government's National Savings and Investments scheme
* Price-to-book ratio, a financial ratio used to compare a company's book value to its current market price
* Participatory budgeting, a process of democratic deliberation to allocate parts of a public budget

## Education

* Brunei Polytechnic, a post-secondary institution in Brunei
* Philosophy and Belief, a school subject
* Project Blogger, an Irish educational initiative
* Library of Congress Classification:Class P, subclass PB -- Modern languages and Celtic languages

## People

* Panda Bear (musician) (born 1978), an experimental American musician and founding member of Animal Collective
* Chris Pontius (born 1974), an American entertainer and daredevil nicknamed "Party Boy"

## Places
### United States

* Pacific Beach, San Diego, California a neighborhood in San Diego, California
* Palm Bay, Florida
* Palm Beach, Florida
* Pine Bluff, Arkansas
* Pismo Beach, California

### Other countries

* Paraíba, a state of Brazil
* Port Blair, a town in the Andaman Islands
* Punjab (disambiguation), the name of several locations in South Asia
* Paderborn, town and eponymous district in Germany, known by their vehicle registration code PB
* Považská Bystrica, town in Slovakia, known by its vehicle registration code PB
* CIA cryptonym for Guatemala.

## Science and technology
### Chemistry

* Lead, symbol Pb, a chemical element
* Polybutylene, a polymer of the substance butylene

### Computing and software

* Petabit (Pb), a unit of information equivalent to 1000 terabits used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
* Petabyte (PB), a unit of information equivalent to 1000 terabytes which is used, for example, to quantify computer memory or storage capacity
* PowerBook, a line of laptop computers produced by Apple
* PowerBuilder, an integrated software development environment
* PunkBuster, a computer program that is designed to detect software used for cheating in online games

### Medicine

* Peripheral blood, deoxygenated blood in the circulatory system
* Phenobarbital, a barbiturate

### Other uses in science and technology

* PB (pistol), a Soviet silenced pistol intended for army reconnaissance groups and the KGB
* Picobarn, one trillionth of a barn, a unit of area used in physics
* Pipe bomb, an improvised explosive device consisting of a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an explosive material
* Push button, a momentary button that is activated only while pressed by user

## Sports

* Personal Best, the best time or score ever achieved by an athlete in a particular event.
* Paintball, a sport in which players tag opponents by firing dye capsules from a paintball gun
* Passed ball, in baseball

## Transportation

* Patrol boat, a relatively small naval vessel generally designed for coastal defense duties
* Pilatus Railway or Pilatusbahn, a mountain railway in Switzerland
* Irizar PB, a bus coach body

## Other uses

* Paperback, a type of book
* Peanut butter, a food paste made primarily from ground dry roasted peanuts
* Personal best, an individual's best performance in a given sporting discipline.
* Plant Based, a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods.
* Post box, a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail.
* Powerball, an American lottery game
* Presiding Bishop, an ecclesiastical position in some denominations of Christianity
* Pro bono, professional work undertaken voluntarily for little or no payment as a public service