Best
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Best or The Best may refer to:
Companies and organizations
Best & Co., an 1879–1971 clothing chain
Best Lock Corporation, a lock manufacturer
Best Manufacturing Company, a farm machinery company
Best Products, a chain of catalog showroom retail stores
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, a public transport and utility provider
Best High School (disambiguation)
Best Denki, a Japanese electronics retailer
Acronyms
Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature, a project to assess global temperature records
BEST Robotics, a student competition
BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport
Bootstrap error-adjusted single-sample technique, a statistical method
Bringing Examination and Search Together, a European Patent Office initiative
Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training, a program of the Sustainable South Bronx organization
Smart BEST, a Japanese experimental train
Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, in Mumbai, India
Film and television
Best (film), a 2000 George Best biopic
The Best (TV series), a 2002 British cooking programme
Best: His Mother's Son, a 2009 made-for-TV drama about George Best's mother
Music
Albums
Best (After School album), 2015
Best (Akina Nakamori album), 1986
Best (Garnet Crow album), 2005
Best (High and Mighty Color album), 2008
Best (Kenny G album), 2006
Best (Mika Nakashima album), 2005
Best (Robert Earl Keen album), 2006
Best! (Jellyfish album), 2006
A Best, by Ayumi Hamasaki, 2001
The Best (Ai album), 2015
The Best (Ana Gabriel album), 1992
The Best (Ariana Grande album), 2017
The Best (Bonnie Tyler album) or the 1988 title song (see below), 1993
The Best (Dan Seals album), 1987
The Best (David Lee Roth album), 1997
The Best (Despina Vandi album), 2001
The Best (Edmond Leung album), 1994
The Best (George Clinton album), 1995
The Best (Girls' Generation album), 2014
The Best (James Reyne album), 1992
The Best (Janet Jackson album) or Number Ones, 2009
The Best (Leo Kottke album), 1976
The Best (t.A.T.u. album), 2006
The Best (Yōko Oginome album), 1985
The Best (video), by Bonfire, 1993
Aya Matsuura Best 1, 2005
Best... I, by the Smiths, 1992
...Best II, by the Smiths, 1992
Best 1991–2004, by Seal, 2004
Best: Bounce & Lovers, by Koda Kumi, 2007
Best: Fan's Selection, by X Japan, 2001
Best: First Things, by Koda Kumi, 2005
Best: Second Session, by Koda Kumi, 2006
Best: The Greatest Hits of S Club 7, 2003
Best: Third Universe, by Koda Kumi, 2010
Best! Morning Musume 1, 2001
Best! Morning Musume 2, 2004
Best!
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