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Beong-Soo Kim
Beong-Soo Kim is an American attorney and the 13th president of the University of Southern California, appointed February 2026 after serving as interim president and, before that, USC general counsel and a federal frauds prosecutor in Los Angeles.
Beopheung of Silla
Beopheung of Silla (법흥왕) was the 23rd king of Silla, reigning from 514 to 540, who officially recognized Buddhism and annexed Geumgwan Gaya in 532.
Beorhthelm
Beorhthelm, also spelled Byrhthelm or Brithelm, was bishop of Wells who was elected archbishop of Canterbury in 959 but declined the office and returned to Wells.
Beorhtric of Wessex
Beorhtric (Brihtric), king of Wessex 786-802, succeeded Cynewulf, married Eadburh daughter of Offa of Mercia in 789, exiled rival Ecgberht to the Franks, and reigned during the first recorded Viking raid at Portland, Dorset.
Beorn
Beorn is a skin-changer in Tolkien's The Hobbit, a man who becomes a huge black bear, aids Thorin's company, kills Bolg at the Battle of Five Armies, and founds the Beornings.
BeOS
BeOS, also known as Be Operating System, is a discontinued personal computer operating system developed by Be Incorporated from 1995, known for pervasive multithreading and a 64-bit journaled file system.
Beothuk
The Beothuk were the Indigenous Algonquian-speaking people of Newfoundland, generally considered culturally extinct after Shanawdithit died in 1829; their disappearance, genocide claims, and surviving genetic lineages remain contested.
Beowulf
Beowulf, the Old English epic of the Geatish hero who fights Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon, survives only in the Nowell Codex (Cotton Vitellius A.xv, ca. 1000), burned in 1731, first printed in 1815, with composition dates debated from the seventh to eleventh century.
Beowulf (2007 film)
Beowulf, also released as Beowulf 3D, is a 2007 American animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Ray Winstone as the hero of the Old English epic poem.
Beowulf (hero)
Beowulf, hero of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, is a Geatish warrior who kills Grendel and Grendel's mother and dies slaying a dragon; the 3,182-verse poem survives in one manuscript copied around 1000.
Beowulf cluster
A Beowulf cluster is a parallel supercomputer built from commodity PCs, Ethernet, and Linux, invented by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker at NASA Goddard in 1994.
Bep van Klaveren
Bep van Klaveren (Lambertus Steenhorst, "The Dutch Windmill"), Dutch boxer, 1928 Olympic featherweight gold medalist in Amsterdam, the only Dutch boxer with Olympic gold; later European lightweight and middleweight champion.
Bepanah Pyaar (बेपनाह प्यार)
Bepanah Pyaar (बेपनाह प्यार), also styled Bepanah Pyaarr, is a Balaji Telefilms Hindi romantic drama on Colors TV that ran June 3, 2019 to February 28, 2020, 190 episodes, starring Pearl V Puri, Ishita Dutta, and Aparna Dixit; distinct from the 2018 serial Bepannah.
Bepannah (बेपनाह)
Bepannah (बेपनाह), also Bepannaah, an Indian Hindi romantic mystery drama on Colors TV (March 19 to November 30, 2018, 186 episodes), produced by Cinevistaas, starring Jennifer Winget as Zoya and Harshad Chopda as Aditya, whose spouses die together in an accident; won the 2018 ITA Best Popular Show award.
Beperminogene perplasmid
Beperminogene perplasmid (Collategene, AMG0001, HGF plasmid) is a naked plasmid DNA gene therapy encoding human hepatocyte growth factor, approved conditionally in Japan in 2019 for chronic arterial occlusive disease ulcers and under FDA BLA review in the US.
BepiColombo
BepiColombo is a joint ESA and JAXA mission launched in 2018 to orbit Mercury with two spacecraft, ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter and JAXA's Mio, arriving in November 2026.
Bepirovirsen
Bepirovirsen, marketed in Japan as Hibsago, is a GSK and Ionis antisense oligonucleotide that targets hepatitis B virus RNA, approved in Japan in 2026 for chronic hepatitis B.
Bepotastine
Bepotastine (Talion, Bepreve), a second-generation H1-antihistamine besilate salt, oral in Japan since 2000 for allergic rhinitis and urticaria, ophthalmic 1.5% FDA-approved 2009 for allergic conjunctivitis itching; among the least sedating antihistamines.
Beppe Grillo
Beppe Grillo (Giuseppe Grillo, born 1948) is an Italian comedian and blogger who founded the Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle) in 2009 with Gianroberto Casaleggio; his blog and V-Day rallies led to M5S becoming Italy's largest party in 2013 and governing in 2018, before his 2024 removal as guarantor.
Beppo Levi
Beppo Levi (1875–1961) was an Italian mathematician whose 1906 monotone convergence theorem is a cornerstone of Lebesgue integration; expelled in 1938, he rebuilt mathematics in Rosario, Argentina.
BeppoSAX
BeppoSAX was an Italian-Dutch X-ray astronomy satellite launched in 1996 and named for physicist Giuseppe Occhialini, best known for enabling the discovery of gamma-ray burst afterglows.
Bepridil
Bepridil is a long-acting calcium channel blocker with anti-arrhythmic activity, approved in 1990 for angina and hypertension, withdrawn in the United States for causing torsade de pointes.
Beqaa Valley (البقاع)
Beqaa Valley (البقاع, Wadi l-Biqa'), ancient Coele-Syria: fertile eastern Lebanese valley between Mount Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon, source of the Orontes and Litani rivers, Lebanon's main farming and wine region, now under severe drought and water stress.
beqom
beqom is a Swiss enterprise software company, headquartered in Nyon and founded in 2009 by former SAP executives, that sells cloud-based total compensation management software to large global companies.
Bera Ivanishvili (ბერა ივანიშვილი)
Bera Ivanishvili (ბერა ივანიშვილი), performing as BERA, born 1994 in Paris, is a Georgian rapper and singer, son of billionaire politician Bidzina Ivanishvili; founded the Georgian Dream studio and GDS TV, has albinism, and faced a 2021 secret-recordings scandal over punishing critics.
Berant Zhu
Berant Zhu (朱軒洋), Taiwanese actor born 1999 in Taichung, real name Zhu Ting-dian (朱廷典). Known for We Are Champions, The Magician on the Skywalk, The Sadness, and Bad Education, which won him the 59th Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor award.
Beraprost
Beraprost (beraprost sodium), also sold as Dorner or Procylin, is the first orally active prostacyclin analogue, developed by Toray and approved in Japan in 1992 for chronic arterial occlusion and 1999 for primary pulmonary hypertension.
Berar Province
Berar Province, the Hyderabad Assigned Districts, was a British India province taken from the Nizam of Hyderabad in 1853 for the Hyderabad Contingent, merged into the Central Provinces in 1903, now in Maharashtra.
Berar Subah
Berar Subah (बेरार) was a province of the Mughal Empire covering the cotton-growing region of east-central Maharashtra, ceded in 1596 and assigned to the East India Company in 1853.
Berar Sultanate
The Berar Sultanate (बेरार सल्तनत) was a Deccan sultanate founded in 1490 by Bahmani governor Imad-ul-Mulk. Its Imad Shahi dynasty ruled until it was annexed by Ahmadnagar.