title: Obi
text: # Obi
  
  Obi or OBI may refer to:
  
  ## People
  
  * Obi (name), a list of people with either the surname or given name
  * Mikel John Obi (born 1987), Nigerian footballer also known as Mikel John Obi and John Obi Mikel
  * Saint Obi (1965–2023), Nigerian actor and film director (born Obinna Nwafor).
  
  ## Places
  
  * Obi, Nasarawa State, Nigeria, a Local Government Area
  * Obi, Nigeria, a town and Local Government Area in Benue State
  * Obi Islands, Indonesia
     * Obi (island), also called Obira, the largest of the Obi Islands
  * Ob (river), Russia, also known as Obi
  * 6669 Obi, an asteroid
  
  ## OBI
  
  * Oak Beach Inn
  * Obliteration by incorporation, a concept in sociology of science: when a discovery, or a theory, is no longer directly attributed to its author because it is considered common knowledge
  * Ontology for Biomedical Investigations, an international cross-domain ontology effort
  * Operation Blessing International
  * Optical Borehole Imaging, a system to visually inspect and record images of the walls of a borehole, detecting breakouts and investigating the stratigraphy, or the structure, of the rock in sedimentary, or igneous, geological formations
  * Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition, software owned by Oracle Corporation
  * Order of British India
  * Orion Bus Industries, formerly Ontario Bus Industries, a bus manufacturer
  * Our Boys Institute, a junior chapter of the YMCA in Adelaide, South Australia
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Obi (sash), a sash worn with a kimono or with the uniforms used by practitioners of Japanese martial arts
     * Obi (martial arts)
  * Obi (retail chain), a European home improvement store chain based in Germany
  * Obi (ruler), a title among the Igbo people of Nigeria or the central building in an Igbo homestead
     * Obi of Onitsha, traditional ruler of Onitsha
  * Obi, another form of the word Obeah
  * Obi (publishing), an informational piece of paper or cardboard folded around or over a book or LP record, music CD, video game, or magazine, used in Japan
  * Obi (band), a British indie music band from the early 2000s
  * Obi Castle, a Japanese castle completed in 1588
  * Obi Station, a train station in Nichinan, Miyazaki, Japan
  * obi, ISO 639 code for the Obispeño language, an extinct Native American language
  * OBI, FAA location identifier for Woodbine Municipal Airport (New Jersey)
  