BE, B.E., Be or be may refer to:

• The verb to be (see Indo-European copula)
• Bachelor of Engineering, undergraduate academic degree
• Buddhist Era of the Thai solar calendar
• Bahá'í Era, the date notation of the Bahá'í calendar
• "Be, and it is", phrase in the Qurán about God's creation
• Bloco de Esquerda (Portuguese "Left Bloc"), a Portuguese political party
• Bishop Eustace Prep, a high school in New Jersey
• Bishop England High School, a Catholic High School in Charleston, South Carolina
• %BE is the URL Encoded version of the three-quarters (¾) Symbol.
• Blood Elf, a race in the game World of Warcraft

Linguistics

• Be (Cyrillic), a letter of the Cyrillic alphabet
• British English
• Belarusian language, ISO 639 alpha-2 language code "be"
• Black English, see African American Vernacular English
• Business English

Science

• Beryllium, symbol "Be", chemical element
• Bejan number, used in thermodynamics and fluid mechanics
• Bladder exstrophy, a congenital urological condition
• Branchial Efferent nerve fibers
• Base excess, a blood chemistry measure in human physiology
• Be star, a B-type star with prominent forbidden emission lines of hydrogen in its spectrum

Businesses

• Be Unlimited, a broadband Internet Service Provider in the United Kingdom
• Be Inc., the software company that developed the BeOS operating system
• Beriev Aircraft Company, a Russian aircraft manufacturer which uses the design office prefix "Be"
• flybe, a UK-based airline with IATA airline code "BE"
• BearingPoint, One of the world’s largest providers of management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations in 60 countries. BE is the stock symbol.

Places

• Belgium, ISO 3166 and obsolete NATO 2-letter country code "BE"
• .be, the country code top-level domain for Belgium
• Bermuda, World Meteorological Organization territory code "BE"
• Canton of Berne, Switzerland

Sports and entertainment

• BE (Pain of Salvation album), an album by Swedish band Pain of Salvation
• Be (Common album), an album by Common
• "Be", a song by Jessica Simpson from her 2003 album In This Skin
• "Be", an off-Broadway play, also known as Be by Mayumana
• British Eventing, the British governing body for the equestrian sport of eventing
• Badminton Europe, the governing body of badminton in Europe
• Breast expansion
• Battleground Europe, a World-War 2 massively multi-player computer game.

See also

• bee (a type of insect)