BG

BG

BG, B.G., or bg may refer to:

* Backgammon
* background as for [art (in particular traditional animation)
* "Baldur's Gate", the first role-playing computer game in the Baldur's Gate series
* Bank guarantee
* Battlegrounds, a patch-released enhancement to "World of Warcraft"
* "Battlestar Galactica", a science fiction TV series
* Before Guild, a designation used to number years in the "Dune" universe
* Brigadier General, a military rank (more usually written BGen)
* beautifulgarbage, 3th studio album by Garbage
* Brake Gangwayed, a type of railway coach
* Commentarii de Bello Gallico, Caesar's commentaries on the Gallic War
* Broad gauge
* Border guard, police be have function in Border only
* Brian Griffin, a character on Family Guy voiced Seth MacFarlane

People and groups:
* B.G. (rapper) ("Baby Gangsta"), rapper Christopher Dorsey
* B.G., the Prince of Rap, Bernard Greene, American rapper and dance music artist
* B.G. Knocc Out a gangsta rapper
* Berry Gordy, founder and former CEO of Motown Records
* Benny Goodman, American jazz musician
* Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian singer and poet, leader of the band Aquarium
* Bee Gees, or the "Brothers Gibb"
* Blind Guardian, German power-metal band
* Brothers Grimm, famous writing group in the 1800s that wrote stories such as Snow White and Cinderella
* BarlowGirl, a Christian rock band comprised of three sisters
* Bones Gate, a fraternity at Dartmouth College

Computing:
* bg (Unix), Unix command for background processes
* Before Google, a popular term to describe times without web search engines

Places:
* Bangladesh, obsolete 2-letter NATO country code
* Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
* Blaenau Gwent, a county borough in Wales
* Bosnia and Herzegovina, WMO country code
* Bowling Green, Kentucky
* Bowling Green, Ohio
* British Guiana (now the co-operative republic of Guyana)
* Buffalo Grove, Illinois
* Bulgaria, 2-letter ISO country code
** .bg, the ccTLD for Bulgaria
** Bulgarian language (bg), ISO 639 alpha-2 language code

Companies and organizations:
* British Government, Government of United Kingdom
* BG Group, one part of the demerged British Gas plc
* Biman Bangladesh Airlines, IATA airline code
* Bord Gáis, Bord Gáis Éireann, the Irish Gas Board
* Bowling Green State University
* British Gas (privatised & later split between BG plc and Centrica)

Schools:
* Bishop Guertin High School

Music:
* Barbie Girl, song by Aqua in 1997


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