Bess
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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.