Boas

Boas referred to:

• Boas (Family) ( Boidae ), a family of giant snakes Sand boas ( Erycinae ), subfamily of the Boas ( Boidae )
• Boa snakes or True Boas ( Boinae ), subfamily of the Boas ( Boidae )
• Boas ( Ungaliophiinae ), subfamily of the Boas ( Boidae )

Boaz is the surname of the following persons:

• Edward Boas (1815-1853), German writer
• Franz Boas (1858-1942), German ethnologist and sociologist Ethno
• Franziska Boas (1902-1988), American dance choreographer and teacher
• Frederick Boas (1886-1960), German botanist and Phytomediziner
• George Boas (1891-1980), American philosopher
• Günter Boas (1920-1993), German musician and music journalist
• Hans Christian Boas (born 1971 ), a linguist
• Hans Ulrich Boas (* 1940), German linguist
• Harold P. Boas (born 1954 ), American mathematician
• Horst Boas (* 1928), German writer
• Ismar Boas ( Ismar Isidor Boas; 1858-1938 ), German gastroenterologist
• Peter van Emde Boas, Dutch computer scientist
• Ralph Boas (1912-1992), American mathematician
• Walter Boas (1902-1982), German - Australian physicist

See also:

• Villas Boas
• Vilas Boas
• Boaz

• Disambiguation