Bess

Bess

Bess may refer to:

People
*Elizabeth I (1533-1603), also known as "Good Queen Bess"

*Elizabeth "Bess" Truman (1885-1920), First Lady of the United States and wife of Harry S. Truman
*Elizabeth Raleigh (1565-1647), aka Bess or Elizabeth Throgmorton, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh and lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I
*Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), the 3rd surviving daughter of John Hardwick of Hardwicke in Derbyshire

In science
*Bess (content-control software), a brand of web filtering software made by Secure Computing Corporation that is usually used in libraries and schools
*BESS, a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon, which started in 1993
*Bess beetle, a family, Passalidae, of beetles

In business
*Bess Press, a Hawaii-based publisher that issues various books on Hawaiian and Pacific history and culture
*Brown Bess, a nickname of unknown origin for the British Army's Land Pattern Musket and its derivatives

other uses
*Tropical Storm Bess, a name for multiple storms: one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, and ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific
*Bess the Boreal Owl, from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series by Kathryn Lasky.


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  • Bess — f English: short form of ELIZABETH (SEE Elizabeth), in common use in the days of Queen Elizabeth I, who was known as ‘Good Queen Bess’. Pet forms: Bessie, Bessy …   First names dictionary

  • Bess [1] — Bess, engl. Abkürzung für Elizabeth (Elisabeth) …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Bess [2] — Bess., bei Pflanzennamen Abkürzung für Wilhelm Besser, geb. 7. Juli 1784 in Innsbruck, starb als Direktor des botanischen Gartens in Kiew 11. Okt. 1842. Flora von Wolhynien, Podolien, Galizien …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Bess — [bes] n. a feminine name: see ELIZABETH1 …   English World dictionary

  • BESS — This article is about the physics experiment. For the US Navy school, see Basic Enlisted Sub School. For other uses of the word, see Bess. BESS is a particle physics experiment carried by a balloon. BESS stands for Balloon borne Experiment with… …   Wikipedia

  • Bess — Recorded as in England and Scotland as Bess, Besse, Bessey, Biss, Bisset, Bissett, and in France and Belgium as Bes, Bess, Besse, Bex, Bez, with diminutives including Besseau, Besset, Bessey, Bezou, Bezout, and collectives such as Bessiere,… …   Surnames reference

  • bess — ab·bess; bess; …   English syllables

  • Bess — noun A diminutive of the female given name Elizabeth. King Edward. Come hither, Bess, and let me kiss my boy. See Also: Bessie, Bessy …   Wiktionary

  • Bess — englische Koseform von → Elisabeth (Bedeutung: mein Gott ist vollkommen). Bekannt durch George Gershwins Oper »Porgy and Bess« …   Deutsch namen

  • Bess of Hardwick — Bess of Hardwick, die Gräfin von Shrewsbury, 1592 Elizabeth Hardwick (Hardwicke), Gräfin von Shrewsbury, (* 1527; † 1608) wurde als Bess of Hardwick bekannt. Sie war die Tochter eines Adligen aus Derbyshire …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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