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Behringer

Behringer is a German audio equipment company founded by Swiss engineer Uli Behringer in Willich, Germany, in 1989, making mixers, loudspeakers, amplifiers, and synthesizers at low price points.

Behzad Abdi

Behzad Abdi (بهزاد عبدی) is an Iranian composer of film, television, opera, and concert music, born in Tehran in 1973, best known for winning the Fajr Film Festival's Crystal Simorgh twice.

Behzad Leito

Behzad Leito (بهزاد لیتو), real name Behzad Davarpanah, is an Iranian rapper and singer in Persian hip hop, active since 2011 and based in Toronto.

Behzad Razavi

Behzad Razavi (بهزاد رضوی) is a professor of electrical engineering at UCLA known for pioneering high-speed CMOS communication circuit design and for widely used graduate textbooks on analog, RF, and data-converter integrated-circuit design.

Behzinga

Behzinga is the alias of Ethan Leigh Payne (born 1995), English YouTuber and founding member of the Sidemen, known for FIFA gaming, a 30-kg fitness transformation, the 2020 documentary How To Be: Behzinga, and Netflix's Inside; distinct from PewDiePie and MrTop5.

Bei Luotiemuer

Bei Luotiemuer (孛罗帖木儿, Bolad Temür, died 1365) was a Mongol general of the late Yuan dynasty who twice seized the capital Dadu and served as chief chancellor.

Bei Tse Chao

Bei Tse Chao (1918–2011) was a Chinese-born American mechanical engineer known for heat transfer and metal cutting research, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1981.

Bei Wang Phillips

Bei Wang Phillips, who publishes as Bei Wang, is a computer scientist at the University of Utah working in topological data analysis, visualization, and computational topology.

Beibu Gulf Port

Beibu Gulf Port (北部湾港) is the unified port system of Guangxi, China, merging Fangchenggang, Qinzhou, and Beihai in 2007; it handles 360 million tons of cargo.

Beidellite

Beidellite (IMA symbol Bei) is a dioctahedral smectite clay mineral named in 1925 for Beidell, Colorado, with layer charge arising mainly in the tetrahedral sheet.

Beidha (archaeological site)

Beidha is a Pre-Pottery Neolithic farming village about 5 km north of Petra in southern Jordan, excavated by Diana Kirkbride from 1958 to 1967 and occupied around 10,300 to 8,600 cal BP.

Beidian (贝店)

Beidian (贝店) was a Hangzhou-based Chinese membership social e-commerce platform founded in 2017 by ex-Alibaba product manager Zhang Lianglun, which collapsed in 2021 amid merchant debt.

BeiDou

BeiDou, formally the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (北斗导航系统), is China's independently built and operated satellite navigation system, the third after GPS and GLONASS, providing global positioning, navigation, and timing services since 2020.

BeiDou B1C/B2a signals

B1C and B2a are the two modernized open-service civil signals of China's BeiDou-3 satellites, designed at 1575.42 MHz and 1176.45 MHz for interoperability with GPS and Galileo.

BeiDou-3

BeiDou-3 (北斗三号), also written BDS-3, is China's third-generation global satellite navigation constellation, completed in 2020 as the third independent global system after GPS and GLONASS.

Beidu

Beidu (杯渡) was an itinerant Buddhist monk of the Eastern Jin and Liu Song dynasties, traditionally dying in 426, known for crossing rivers on a floating wooden cup.

Beiersdorf

Beiersdorf AG is a Hamburg-based consumer goods and adhesives group founded in 1882, selling NIVEA, Eucerin, La Prairie, and Hansaplast products in 180 countries alongside its tesa adhesives unit.

Beifang Forest Zoo

Beifang Forest Zoo (Harbin Northern Forest Zoo) is a large forest zoo in the Gezidong area near Harbin, China, opened in 2004 and rated a national 4A scenic area.

Beige

Almut Beige is a German theoretical physicist who works on quantum optics and quantum photonics, heading the Quantum Group at the University of Leeds and known for turning dissipation into a resource for quantum computing.

Beige adipocyte

Beige adipocyte, also called brite or brown-in-white fat cell, is a thermogenic UCP1-expressing adipocyte arising in white adipose tissue via cold, exercise, or browning agents, distinct from Myf5-lineage brown fat and a target for obesity therapy.

BeiGene

BeiGene (百济神州), renamed BeOne Medicines in 2025, is a global oncology company founded in Beijing in 2010 by John V. Oyler and Xiaodong Wang, known for the cancer drug BRUKINSA.

Beignet

Beignet (French, plural beignets): a fried pastry. In France a batter-coated fritter; in New Orleans a square, holeless fried dough dusted with powdered sugar, Louisiana's official state donut since 1986.

Beihai Beibuwan power station

Beihai Beibuwan power station (广西投资集团北海发电厂) is a coal-fired power station of at least 1,960 MW in Tieshangang District, Beihai, Guangxi, China, with two 320 MW units commissioned in 2004 and 2005.

Beihai New Area Heating power station

Beihai New Area Heating power station is a 1,560 MW coal-fired combined heat and power plant in Binzhou, Shandong, China, owned by Weiqiao Group and serving its aluminum operations.

Beihai power station

Beihai power station (神华国华广投北海发电厂) is a coal-fired power station in Beihai, Guangxi, China, with four 1,000 MW ultra-supercritical units totaling 4,000 MW on the Beibu Gulf coast.

Beihai, Guangxi

Beihai (北海市) is a prefecture-level city on the northern Beibu Gulf in Guangxi, China. A former 1876 treaty port and 1984 open coastal city, it had 1.90 million residents and 197.4 billion yuan GDP in 2025, with port, shipbuilding, and beach tourism centered on Silver Beach and Weizhou Island.

Beiheng Bio (北恒生物)

Beiheng Bio (北恒生物), formally Nanjing Bioheng Biotech Co., Ltd., is a private Chinese biotech founded in Nanjing in 2017 that develops universal, CRISPR-engineered CAR-T cell immunotherapies for cancer.

Beiimaan Love

Beiimaan Love (बेईमान लव) is a 2016 Hindi-language thriller-drama film written, directed, and produced by Rajeev Chaudhari, starring Sunny Leone as a woman who takes revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Beijer Electronics

Beijer Electronics is a Swedish technology company founded in 1981 and based in Malmö that develops operator panels, software, and connectivity solutions for industrial automation.

Beijerinck (lunar crater)

Beijerinck is a 76.77-km IAU-named impact crater on the Moon's far side at 13.40°S, 151.84°E, named for Dutch botanist Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931).