Bess
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Bess may refer to:
- Bess (censorware), 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
- Bess beetle, a family, Passalidae, of beetles
- Bess of Hardwick, the 3rd surviving daughter of John Hardwick of Hardwicke in Derbyshire
- 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
- Tropical Storm Bess, a name used for 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.
- Queen Elizabeth I, also known as Good Queen Bess