Posse
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A posse is a group of people summoned to assist US law enforcement, or to constitute a search party.
Posse may also refer to:
- Posse (1975 film), US Western film produced by, directed by, and starring Kirk Douglas
- Posse (1993 film), US revisionist Western film directed by and starring Mario Van Peebles
- Posse (horse), a thoroughbred racehorse
- "Posse (I Need You on the Floor)", a 2001 single by German band Scooter
- Posse, Goiás, a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Goiás
- Posse cut, a type of Hip Hop song with four or more rappers, in which each verse is sung by a different person
- Posse Foundation, a US nonprofit organization that identifies, recruits, and trains student leaders from public high schools to form multicultural teams
- Posse mit Gesang, a form of German musical drama
- POSSE project (Portable Open Source Security Elements), a software security initiative
- Jamaican posse, a loose coalition of street gangs
People
- Abel Posse, Argentinian writer
- Amelie Posse, Swedish writer
- Arvid Posse, (1820–1901), Prime Minister of Sweden
- Knut Posse (chatelain) (died 1500), chatelain of the fief of Viborg
- Knut Posse, Swedish Commander killed at the Battle of Brunkeberg
- Knut Göransson Posse (1645-1650), Over-Governor of Stockholm
- Knut Posse (1705-1714), Over-Governor of Stockholm
- Konstantin Posse, (1847–1928), Russian mathematician, student of Pafnuty Chebyshev
- Vladimir Posse (1864-1940), Russian socialist journalist
- Hans Posse (1879–1942), special envoy of the Führermuseum
See also
- Posse comitatus, the authority of a law officer to conscript able-bodied citizens to assist in keeping the peace, or to pursue and arrest a felon
- Posse comitatus (disambiguation)
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