Bess

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Bess may refer to:

People

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.