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Bel'kovich (lunar crater)
Bel'kovich (Belkovich) is a 215 km diameter impact crater at 61.53°N, 90.15°E on the Moon's northern farside, on the Humboldtianum basin's second ring, bordering the Compton–Belkovich silicic volcanic complex.
Bela
Bela, also known as Clobyosh, Klabberjass, or Kalabrias, is a Scottish trick-taking card game played with a 32-card pack, in which one player names trumps and must outscore the opponent or lose all their points.
Béla Bartók
Bela Bartok (1881-1945), Hungarian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist; with Kodaly collected folk songs, wrote Bluebeard's Castle, Mikrokosmos, Concerto for Orchestra, and researched Turkish-Hungarian folk music links.
Bela ben Beor
Bela ben Beor, or Bela son of Beor, is the first named king of Edom in the biblical list of Genesis 36, reigning from the city Dinhabah.
Béla Fleck
Béla Fleck, born 1958, is an American banjo virtuoso and 19-time Grammy winner who plays bluegrass, jazz, classical, and world music; he led Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, played in New Grass Revival, and recorded Throw Down Your Heart, My Bluegrass Heart, and Rhapsody in Blue.
Bela G. Lugosi
Bela G. Lugosi (Béla George Lugosi) is a Los Angeles intellectual property attorney, son of the Dracula actor, whose suit against Universal in Lugosi v. Universal Pictures (1979) shaped California's 70-year postmortem right of publicity law.
Béla I of Hungary
Béla I (I. Béla) was King of Hungary from 1060 to 1063, an Árpád king who took the throne from his brother Andrew I after a civil war.
Béla III of Hungary
Béla III of Hungary (III. Béla) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1172 to 1196, remembered as one of the country's most capable medieval rulers.
Béla IV of Hungary
Béla IV (IV. Béla), Árpád king of Hungary 1235–1270, son of Andrew II; defeated by the Mongols at Muhi in 1241, rebuilt the kingdom as its "second founder," built fortresses, defeated Frederick II of Austria in 1246, and repelled the 1261 Mongol invasion.
Béla Julesz
Béla Julesz (1928–2003) was a Hungarian-born American experimental psychologist and engineer who invented the random-dot stereogram, founded quantitative computer-generated studies of vision, and worked at Bell Laboratories and Rutgers University.
Béla Károlyi
Béla Károlyi (1942–2024) was a Romanian-born American gymnastics coach who trained Nadia Comăneci, Mary Lou Retton, and Kerri Strug to Olympic gold and, with his wife Márta, built the United States' semi-centralized training system.
Béla Kiss
Béla Kiss, the "Monster of Cinkota", was a Hungarian tinsmith born 1877 who murdered women lured by marriage ads under the alias Hoffmann, preserving bodies in alcohol-sealed drums; discovered 1916, he vanished and was never caught.
Bela Lugosi
Bela Lugosi (Béla Ferenc Dezső Blaskó, 1882–1956), Hungarian-born actor famous as Broadway and film Dracula (1927, 1931); typecast into Poverty Row horror, Ed Wood collaborator, buried in a Dracula cape.
Béla Merkely
Béla Merkely (Merkely Béla Péter, born 1966) is a Hungarian interventional cardiologist, rector of Semmelweis University since 2018 and director of its Városmajor Heart and Vascular Center, a Széchenyi Prize winner and ESC Vice-President 2016–2018.
Bela Padilla
Bela Padilla (Krista Elyse Hidalgo Cariño Sullivan, born 1991, Makati) is a Filipino-British actress, screenwriter, and director; starred in 100 Tula Para Kay Stella, directed 366 and Yung Libro sa Napanood Ko, related to the Padilla acting clan maternally.
Béla Schick
Béla Schick (1877–1967) was a Hungarian-born pediatrician who devised the 1913 Schick test for diphtheria susceptibility, helped coin the term allergy, and led pediatric medicine at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital.
Bela Suki
Béla Suki is a Hungarian-born biological physicist and Boston University professor known for showing that lungs inflate through avalanche-like airway opening and for predicting severe asthma attacks from breathing fluctuations.
Béla Szigethy
Béla Szigethy is an American private equity executive who founded The Riverside Company in 1988 from his New York apartment and remains its Co-Chief Executive Officer alongside Stewart Kohl.
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (1913–1998) was a Hungarian mathematician who proved the 1953 dilation theorem linking contractions on Hilbert spaces to unitary operators, and led the Szeged school of functional analysis.
Bela Talbot
Bela Talbot (real name Abby) is a Supernatural season 3 thief and con artist played by Lauren Cohan, who sold supernatural objects after a crossroads demon deal and died by hellhound in 2008.
Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr (1955-2026), Hungarian film director of Sátántangó, Werckmeister Harmonies, and The Turin Horse; pioneer of slow cinema with long black-and-white takes, adapted from László Krasznahorkai's novels, Silver Bear winner.
Béla Wenckheim
Béla Wenckheim (1811–1879) was a Hungarian baron and statesman who served as interior minister after the 1867 Compromise and was briefly Prime Minister of Hungary from March to October 1875.
Belair National Park
Belair National Park is a protected reserve in the Adelaide Hills, 13 km from Adelaide. Proclaimed in 1891, it was the first national park in South Australia.
Belal El-Megharbel
Belal El-Megharbel, also written Belal El Megharbel, is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of MaxAB, a Cairo B2B e-commerce platform that merged with Kenya's Wasoko in 2024.
Belal Muhammad
Belal Muhammad, "Remember the Name", American UFC welterweight from Chicago; won the title from Leon Edwards at UFC 304 (July 2024), lost it to Jack Della Maddalena at UFC 315 (2025), then lost to Ian Machado Garry and Gabriel Bonfim.
Belambangan Biosphere Reserve
Belambangan (Blambangan) Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB site in East Java, Indonesia, designated 2016, combining Alas Purwo, Baluran and Meru Betiri national parks and Kawah Ijen Nature Reserve.
Belantamab mafodotin
Belantamab mafodotin (belamaf, Blenrep, GSK2857916) is a first-in-class BCMA-targeting antibody-drug conjugate with MMAF payload for multiple myeloma; approved 2020, withdrawn 2023, reapproved 2025; hallmark toxicity is keratopathy.
Belarus (Беларусь)
Belarus (Беларусь), Eastern European state under President Alexander Lukashenko since 1994; authoritarian rule, about 1,200 political prisoners, Russian territory use in the Ukraine war, and an economy dependent on Russia.
Belarus and the United Nations
Belarus has belonged to the United Nations since 1945, when it joined as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the UN's founding members despite lacking sovereignty.
Belarus national football team
Belarus national football team (men's), ABFF-governed, UEFA/FIFA member since 1992-93; debut 1992 vs Ukraine; never qualified for a World Cup or Euro; plays UEFA home matches at neutral venues since March 2022; coach Viktar Hančarenka.