Boston (disambiguation)
Appearance
Boston is best known as the capital city of Massachusetts, United States, named after a town in Lincolnshire, UK.
Boston may also refer to:
Places
[edit]Canada
[edit]Ireland
[edit]- Boston, County Clare, a village
- Boston, County Laois, a townland in County Laois
Kyrgyzstan
[edit]- Boston, Nooken, a village in Nooken District, Jalal-Abad Region
- Boston, Suzak, a village in Suzak District, Jalal-Abad Region
- Boston, Osh, a village in Özgön District, Osh Region
United Kingdom
[edit]- Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- Boston (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary borough
- Borough of Boston
- Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England
United States
[edit]- Boston, Alabama, a former name of West Greene
- Boston, Georgia
- Boston, Indiana
- Boston, Kentucky
- Boston, Louisville, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky
- Boston, Missouri
- Boston, New York
- Boston, Belmont County, Ohio
- Boston, Highland County, Ohio
- Boston, Licking County, Ohio
- Boston, Summit County, Ohio
- Boston, Pennsylvania
- Boston, Texas
- Boston, Accomack County, Virginia
- Boston, Culpeper and Rappahannock Counties, Virginia
- Boston Mountains, in Arkansas and Oklahoma
- Boston Township (disambiguation)
Uzbekistan
[edit]- Boʻston, a town in Karakalpakstan
- Boʻston, Jizzakh Region, a town in Jizzakh Region
Elsewhere
[edit]- Boston, South Australia, Australia
- Boston, Belize
- Boston, a neighborhood in Medellín, Colombia
- Ebon Atoll or Boston, Marshall Islands
- Boston, Davao Oriental, a municipality in the Philippines
- Boston, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Boston, Suriname
People
[edit]- Boston (surname)
- Boston Blackie (guitarist) (1943–1993), American guitarist, singer, and bandleader
- Boston Charley (c. 1854–1873), Native American warrior in the Modoc War
- Boston Corbett (1832–presumed dead 1894), American soldier who shot Abraham Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth
- Boston Custer (1848–1876), brother of George Armstrong Custer
- Boston Jenkins Drayton (1821–1865), Liberian politician, judge, and Lutheran minister
- Boston Mwanza (born 1977), Zambian footballer
- Boston Reid (born 1982), American racing driver
- Boston Scott (born 1995), American football player
- Boston Simbeye (born 1959), Malawian boxer
- Boston (Hasidic dynasty), a Hasidic dynasty founded in Boston in the early 20th century
Arts and entertainment
[edit]Fictional characters
[edit]- Boston Arliss Crab, a fictional character from the TV series Blindspot
- Boston Blackie, a fictional character in literature, films, radio and television
- "Boston Brand", real name of the comics character Deadman
- Boston Low, a NASA commander and protagonist of graphic adventure game The Dig
Games
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Boston (band)
- "Boston" (song), a song by Augustana
- Boston Blackie (guitarist)
Other arts and entertainment
[edit]- Boston (dance), a number of waltz-type dances
- Boston (novel), a 1928 work by Upton Sinclair
- "Boston", an unaired episode of Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Schools
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- Boston College (England)
- Boston Grammar School, a state school in England
- Boston High School, a state school in England
United States
[edit]- Boston College, a private Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
- Boston Conservatory at Berklee, a music conservatory
- Boston University, a private secular university
Ships
[edit]- USS Boston, various US Navy ships
- Boston, a historical ship in British Columbia
Sports
[edit]- Boston Bears (AFL), a team that competed in AFL III in 1940
- Boston Braves/Boston Redskins, now the Washington Commanders
- Boston Breakers
- Boston Breakers (USFL) or Portland Breakers
- Boston Bruins, one of the original six National Hockey League teams
- 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 F.C., a Conference North football team based in Boston, Lincolnshire, England
- Boston Yanks, a National Football League team from 1944 to 1948
- Boston (horse), an American racehorse
Other uses
[edit]- .boston, top-level Internet domain for Boston
- A-20 Boston, a World War II-era light bomber and night fighter made by the Douglas Aircraft Company
- Boston Manor House, a Jacobean house in West London, United Kingdom
- Boston Camera, a type of camera
- Boston Consulting Group, a large management consulting organisation
- Boston (magazine), a monthly publication about life in the Greater Boston (Massachusetts) area
- Boston Magazine (1783–1786)
- Boston, a brand of piano designed by Steinway & Sons
- Boston, the Microsoft pre-release codename for Microsoft Visual Studio 97
- "Boston the Bear", a geographic Beanie Baby honoring the city of Boston
- Boston Terrier, a dog breed
- Boston Blacking Company, now Bostik
See also
[edit]- Bostan (disambiguation)
- Boston Common
- Boston Harbor
- Boston Store (disambiguation)
- Bostonian (disambiguation)
- Greater Boston, a conurbation centered on Boston, Massachusetts
- New Boston (disambiguation)
- South Boston (disambiguation)
- SS City of Boston, an ocean liner which disappeared without a trace in 1870
- All pages with titles beginning with Boston