title: Boas
text: # Boas
  
  Boas might refer to:
  
  * Boidae, snakes
  * Boas' sign, pain below the right shoulder
  * BOAS is an acronym for Brachycephalic Obstructive Airway Syndrome
  
  ## People with the surname
  
  * Abraham Tobias Boas (1844–1923), Australian rabbi
  * André Vilas Boas (born 1983), Portuguese footballer
  * André Villas-Boas (born 1977), Portuguese football manager
  * Antonio Villas Boas (1934–1992), Brazilian alien abduction claimant
  * Benjamin Boas (born 1983), American writer and consultant on Japanese culture
  * Carlos Thorne Boas (born 1923), Peruvian novelist, writer and lawyer
  * Ernst Philip Boas (1891–1955), American physician
  * Franz Boas (1858–1942), German-American anthropologist and linguist
  * Franziska Boas (1902–1988), American choreographer, percussionist, and educator
  * Frederick S. Boas (1862–1957), English drama scholar
  * George Boas (1891–1980), American philosopher
  * Harold Boas (1883–1980), Australian town planner and architect
  * Harold P. Boas (born 1954), American mathematician
  * Ismar Isidor Boas (1858–1938), German gastroenterologist
  * Johan Erik Vesti Boas (1855–1935), Danish zoologist
  * Kléber Boas (born 1975), Brazilian footballer
  * Marie Boas Hall (1919–2009), American historian of science, sister of Ralph, Jr
  * Mary L. Boas (1917–2010) American mathematician and physics teacher
  * Ralph P. Boas, Jr (1912–1992), American mathematician
  * Roger Boas (1921–2017), American politician
  