Matsuo Bashō, an Edo-period Japanese haiku poet

Steffen Basho-Junghans (born 1953), a German guitarist

A contest in sumo wrestling, especially one of the honbasho

Robbie Basho (1940-1986), an American guitarist

Bashō, a Nō play by Komparu Zenchiku

A Japanese fusion restaurant in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada