CBE and C.B.E. are abbreviations for Commander of the Order of the British Empire, a grade in the Order of the British Empire.
Other uses include:
- Calgary Board of Education, public school board for the city of Calgary, Alberta
- CBE (AM), callsign of the CBC Radio One AM station in Windsor, Ontario
- CBE-FM, callsign of the CBC Radio Two FM station in Windsor, Ontario
- Cell Broadband Engine, a multi-core general purpose CPU developed jointly by Sony, Toshiba and IBM
- Center for the Built Environment, a research institution at UC, Berkeley
- The Central Bank of Egypt
- Chemical beam epitaxy, a thin film growth method using beams of molecules
- Childbirth educator
- Christians for Biblical Equality, a Christian organization primarily focused on advocating gender equality
- Coimbatore, a city in Tamil Nadu, India
- College Basketball Experience Classic (CBE Classic), pre-season college basketball tournament
- Conqueror of the British Empire, a self-awarded style of the Ugandan dictator, Idi Amin
- Commercial Bank of Ethiopia
- Common Base Event
- Competency-based education
- Council of Biology Editors, a former name of the Council of Science Editors, who publish the CBE style guide
- ICAO code for Aerocaribe, the Cancun, Mexico based airline
- Cross Bronx Expressway
- Cat-back exhaust, a type of automotive exhaust
