Boston (disambiguation)

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

Canada

• Boston, Ontario
• Boston Township, Ontario
• Boston Bar, British Columbia

Ireland

• Boston, County Clare, a village
• Boston, County Laois, a townland in County Laois

Kyrgyzstan

• 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

• Boston, Lincolnshire, England
  • Boston (UK Parliament constituency), a former parliamentary borough
  • Borough of Boston
• Boston Spa, West Yorkshire, England

United States

• 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

• Boʻston, a town in Karakalpakstan
• Boʻston, Jizzakh Region, a town in Jizzakh Region

Elsewhere

• 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

• 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

Fictional characters

• 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

• 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

• Boston (band)
  • Boston (album)
• "Boston" (song), a song by Augustana
• Boston Blackie (guitarist)

Other arts and entertainment

• 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

United Kingdom

• Boston College (England)
• Boston Grammar School, a state school in England
• Boston High School, a state school in England

United States

• Boston College, a private Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
• Boston Conservatory at Berklee, a music conservatory
• Boston University, a private secular university

Ships

• USS Boston, various US Navy ships
• Boston, a historical ship in British Columbia

Sports

• 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

• .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

• All pages with titles beginning with Boston
• 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