title: BOD
text: # BOD
  
  BOD or bod may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Péter Bod (1712–1768), Hungarian theologian and historian
  * Péter Ákos Bod (born 1951), Hungarian politician and economist
  * Rens Bod (born 1965), professor in digital humanities and history of humanities at the University of Amsterdam
  * Brian O'Driscoll (born 1979), Irish rugby player nicknamed "BOD"
  * Bod Mellor, British painter born Dawn Mellor in 1970
  
  ## Places and structures
  
  * Bod, Brașov, a commune in Romania
  * Bod, the native name of Tibet
  * Bőd, the Hungarian name for Bediu village, Nușeni Commune, Bistriţa-Năsăud County, Romania
  * Böd of Gremista, an ancient Shetland fishing booth
  
  ## Science and technology
  
  * Breakover diode, a gateless thyristor triggered by avalanche current
  * Bilirubin oxidase, an enzyme
  * Biochemical oxygen demand or "biological oxygen demand", a measure of organic pollution in a wastewater sample
  
  ## Codes
  
  * Bodmin Parkway railway station, National Rail station code BOD, a railway station in Cornwall, UK
  * Bordeaux–Mérignac Airport, IATA code BOD, an airport serving Bordeaux, France
  * bod, ISO 639-3 and -2 language codes for Lhasa Tibetan
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Banco Occidental de Descuento, a Venezuelan bank
  * Board of directors, a group of people who jointly supervise the activities of an organization
  * Board of Deputies of British Jews
  * BOD (psychedelic), a hallucinogenic drug
  * Bod (TV series), a BBC children's television series
  * Bodleian Library, a research library at the University of Oxford informally referred to as "the Bod"
  * Book of Discipline, a Christian denominational book
  * Books on Demand, a print-on-demand and self-publishing platform
  * Mourvèdre, a grape varietal also known as Bod
  