Boston (disambiguation)

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Boston is the capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Boston may also refer to:

Places[]

Australia[]

• Boston, South Australia

Belize[]

• Boston, Belize

Canada[]

• Boston, Ontario
• Boston Township, Ontario

Colombia[]

• Boston, a neighborhood in Medellín

Ireland[]

• Boston, County Clare
• , a townland in County Laois

Kyrgyzstan[]

• , a village in Nooken District, Jalal-Abad Region
• Boston, Suzak, a village in Suzak District, Jalal-Abad Region
• , a village in Özgön District, Osh Region

Marshall Islands[]

• Ebon Atoll or Boston

Philippines[]

• Boston, Davao Oriental

South Africa[]

• Boston, KwaZulu-Natal

Suriname[]

• Boston, Suriname

United Kingdom[]

• Boston, Lincolnshire, England
  • Boston (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary borough
  • Borough of Boston
• Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England

United States[]

• Boston, Alabama, a former name of West Greene
• Boston Mountains, in Arkansas and Oklahoma
• Boston, Georgia
• Boston, Indiana
• Boston Township, Wayne County, Indiana
• Boston, Kentucky
• Boston, Louisville, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky
• Boston Township, Michigan
• Boston, Missouri
• Boston, New York
• Boston, Belmont County, Ohio
• Boston, Highland County, Ohio
• Boston, Licking County, Ohio
• Boston, Summit County, Ohio
• Boston Township, Summit County, Ohio
• Boston, Pennsylvania
• Boston, Texas
• Boston, Accomack County, Virginia
• Boston, Culpeper County, Virginia

Uzbekistan[]

• Bo‘ston, a town in Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
• Bo‘ston, Jizzakh Region, a town in Jizzakh Region, Uzbekistan

Games[]

• Boston (card game), an 18th-century card game
• Eight Ball or Boston, a pocket billiards game
• Boston, winning or bidding to win every trick in a round of Bid whist

Music[]

• Boston (band)
  • Boston (album)
• "Boston" (song), a song by Augustana

Schools[]

United Kingdom[]

• Boston College (England)
• Boston Grammar School, a state school in England
• Boston High School, a state school in England

United States[]

• Boston College, a private Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
• Boston Conservatory, a music conservatory
• Boston University, a private secular university

Ships[]

• USS Boston (1776), a gundalow
• USS Boston (1777), a 24-gun frigate
• USS Boston (1799), a 28-gun frigate
• USS Boston (1825), an 18-gun sloop of war
• USS Boston (1884), a protected cruiser
• USS Boston (CA-69), a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1943
• USS Boston (SSN-703), a Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine decommissioned in 1999
• , a historical ship in British Columbia

Sports teams and leagues[]

• Boston Bears (AFL), a team that competed in AFL III in 1940
• Boston Braves (football) or Boston Redskins, now the Washington Football Team
• Boston Breakers
• Boston Breakers (USFL) or Portland Breakers
• Boston Bruins, the oldest NHL team in the US and third oldest team in the NHL overall (one of the original six, est. 1924)
• Boston Bulldogs (AFL), a team that competed in AFL I in 1926
• Boston Celtics, a professional basketball team competing in NBA
• Boston City League, a high school athletic conference in Massachusetts
• Boston Patriots, a member of AFL IV (1960-1969) that currently competes in the National Football League as the New England Patriots
• Boston Red Sox, a Major League Baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts
• Boston Shamrocks (AFL), a team that won the AFL II championship in 1936
• Boston United, a Conference North football team based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
• Boston Yanks

Other uses[]

• Boston (dance), a number of waltz-type dances
• Boston (Hasidic dynasty), an Hasidic dynasty founded in Boston in the early 20th century
• Boston (horse), an American racehorse
• Boston (novel), a 1928 work by Upton Sinclair
• Boston (surname)
• .boston, top-level Internet domain for Boston
• A-20 Boston, a WWII-era light bomber and night fighter made by the Douglas Aircraft Company
• Boston Camera, a type of camera
• Boston Consulting Group, a large management consulting organisation
• Boston Magazine
• Boston, a brand of piano designed by Steinway & Sons
• Boston, the Microsoft pre-release codename for Microsoft Visual Studio 97
• "Boston", an unaired episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
• "Boston the Bear", a geographic Beanie Baby honoring the city of Boston

People with the given name[]

• Boston Brahmin
• Boston Charley, a warrior in the Modoc War of 1872
• Boston Corbett (Thomas "Boston" Corbett 1832–presumed dead 1894), the Union soldier who shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth
• Boston Scott, American football player
• Bill Rodgers (runner), nickname "Boston Billy", four-time winner of the Boston Marathon

Fictional characters[]

• Boston Blackie, a fictional character in literature, films, radio and television
• "Boston Brand", real name of the comics character Deadman

See also[]

• Bostan (disambiguation)
• Boston Common
• Boston Harbor
• Boston Store (disambiguation)
• Bostonian (disambiguation)
• Greater Boston, a conurbation centered on Boston, Massachusetts
• List of colleges and universities in metropolitan Boston
• Neu Boston, a part of Storkow, Brandenburg, Germany
• New Boston (disambiguation)
• SS City of Boston, an ocean liner which disappeared without a trace in 1870
• USS Boston, a list of U.S. Navy ships
• All pages with titles beginning with Boston