Po

Po or PO may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Po (Kung Fu Panda), the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise
• Po, one of the titular Teletubbies
• Po, a character in the novel Graceling by Kristin Cashore

Music

• Po (instrument), a percussion instrument
• Pocket Operator, a series of drum machines and synthesizers by Teenage Engineering
• Po!, a British musical group
• P.O., short for Pretty. Odd., an album by Panic! At the disco

Businesses and organisations

• Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans, a defunct French railway company, and one of the principal components of the SNCF
• Petrol Ofisi, a petroleum distribution company
• Pilkington Optronics, a multinational optronics manufacturer
• Polar Air Cargo (IATA code), an airline
• Platforma Obywatelska (Civic Platform), a Polish political party
• Post office, a customer service facility forming part of a national postal system
• Pensions Ombudsman, the official ombudsman institution for investigating complaints regarding pensions in the UK
• PhysicsOverflow, a post-publication open peer review platform and question & answer forum

Economics

• Purchase order, a document issued from a buyer to a seller
• Postal order, a financial instrument for sending money by mail
• Pareto optimality, a concept in economics
• Principal Only, a type of collateralized mortgage obligation
• Product owner, a popular role in Agile development methodology

Military ranks

• Petty officer, a non-commissioned naval rank
• Pilot officer, a commissioned air force rank

People

• Po Beg, 8th-century Turkic female ruler
• Fernão do Pó, 15th-century Portuguese explorer
• Kimberly Po (born 1971), US tennis player
• Teresa del Po (1649–1716), Italian painter
• P.O, stage name of Pyo Ji-hoon, South Korean rapper and member of the boy group Block B

Places

Europe

• Po (river), a river in Italy
• Pô (department), a department of the First French Empire in present Italy
• PO postcode area, a group of UK postal districts around Portsmouth, England
• Poo (Cabrales) (Asturian: Po), a municipality in Asturias, Spain

Other places

• Pô Department, a department and commune in Burkina Faso
  • Pô, the village in this departement
• Po, Chiang Rai, a village in Thailand
• A river in Virginia, USA; joins the Mat, the Ta, and the Ni Rivers to form the Mattaponi River

Science, technology, and mathematics

Computing

• .po, a filename extension
• Petaoctet (Po), a unit of information storage
• Product owner, a role in Scrum, a software development strategy

Other uses in science, technology, and mathematics

• Polonium, symbol Po, a chemical element
• Propylene oxide, an organic compound
• Phosphorus monoxide (PO), an unstable radical inorganic compound
• Projective orthogonal group, an action in projective geometry and linear algebra
• Per os or peroral, meaning "by mouth", i.e. oral administration of a medication

Other uses

• Po (clothing), a traditional Korean overcoat
• Po (food), dried meat and fish in Korean cuisine
• Po (lateral thinking), part of a lateral thinking technique created by Edward de Bono
• Po (giant panda), daughter of Yang Yang, a giant panda at Zoo Atlanta
• Po (spirit), one of the elements of the spirit in ancient Chinese religion
• Po language, or Bo language, of New Guinea
• Chamber pot, in British slang
• Probation officer or parole officer
• Putout, in baseball statistics
• Po, a Filipino honorific expressing politeness and respect
• Po, the former name of the 2016 film A Boy Called Po

See also

• Pau (disambiguation)
• P0 (disambiguation)
• Poe (disambiguation)
• Portugal
• P.O. box