Borg (disambiguation)

Borg is a family name, and various things. It has two origins: (1) a Scandinavian word for "fort"; (2) (recently) extracted from "cyborg".

Related Topics:
Family name - Scandinavian - Cyborg

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People known by the family name Borg include:

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• Björn Borg — a tennis player
• Joe Borg — a Maltese politician
• Oscar Borg — a Norwegian composer
• Marcus Borg — a Religious scholar

Things called Borg or borg include:

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• Borg — a fictional race of aliens
• borg — a cyborg (a contraction used, for example, in Star Wars comics as early as 1978 – cf. Star Warss use of "droid" for "android")
• Borganism — a collective consciousness that is an emergent phenomenon of a highly networked Borg civilization (another referent to cyborg or cybernetic organism, although a cyborg is a single organism).
• Borg — a Norwegian brand of beer
• Borg — a synthetic cloth or fabric made by the Borg textile corporation of Georgia
• "The Borg" — a nickname for Microsoft Corporation alluding to the common criticisms of Microsoft
• Many Scandinavian placenames end in "-borg", which originally meant "fort": compare English borough and German Burg.