All articles starting with B
27,400 articles
Bettina Anderson
Bettina Anderson (Bettina Trump) is a Palm Beach socialite, model, and executive director of the nonprofit Paradise.ngo, which she co-founded in 2005; she married Donald Trump Jr. in May 2026.
Bettina Rheims
Bettina Rheims is a French photographer, born in 1952, known for staged portraits of femininity and gender identity and for fashion work for Chanel and magazines like Elle.
Bettina Valeska Lotsch
Bettina Valeska Lotsch, also published as Bettina V. Lotsch, is a German solid-state chemist who directs the Nanochemistry Department at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Bettina von Arnim
Bettina von Arnim, née Brentano (1785–1859), German Romantic writer of Frankfurt and Berlin; wife of Achim von Arnim, sister of Clemens Brentano; author of Goethes Briefwechsel mit einem Kinde (1835) and Die Günderode (1840).
Bettina Würth
Bettina Würth is a German businesswoman, daughter of Reinhold Würth, who chaired the Advisory Board of the Würth Group fastening company from 2006 to 2024.
Betting exchange
A betting exchange, or bet exchange, is a platform where customers bet against one another rather than a bookmaker, with the exchange matching bets and charging commission on winnings.
Betting in poker
Betting in poker: forced bets (blinds, antes), five betting options (check, bet, call, raise, fold), table stakes, and the three betting structures: fixed limit, pot limit, and no limit.
Bettino Ricasoli
Bettino Ricasoli (1809-1880), the Iron Baron, Tuscan baron and Italy's second prime minister after Cavour; led Tuscany's annexation in 1860, centralized administration in 1861-62 and 1866-67, and set the 1872 Chianti formula.
Bettongia
Bettongia (bettongs, rat-kangaroos) is a genus of small digging Australian marsupials in Potoroidae, including the woylie, boodie, eastern and northern bettongs; fungus-eating, ecosystem-engineering, and heavily affected by foxes and cats.
Betts v. Brady
Betts v. Brady, 316 U.S. 455 (1942), also called the Betts rule, held states need not appoint counsel for every indigent defendant, only under special circumstances; unanimously overruled by Gideon v. Wainwright in 1963.
Betty (Taylor Swift song)
"Betty" is a song by Taylor Swift from her 2020 album Folklore, sung by 17-year-old James as he tries to win back Betty after cheating.
Betty Aberlin
Betty Aberlin (born 1942, born Betty Kay Ageloff) is the American actress who played Lady Aberlin on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, and also Betty of Betty's Little Theater; she appeared on Broadway in Sandhog and Stop the World and in Kevin Smith films.
Betty Becker Pinkston
Betty Becker Pinkston (Elizabeth Anna Becker-Pinkston, 1903–1989), American Olympic diver; first woman to win two Olympic diving titles, gold in 1924 springboard and 1928 platform, silver 1924; wife and pupil of diver Clarence "Bud" Pinkston.
Betty Blue
Betty Blue (37°2 le matin) is Jean-Jacques Beineix's 1986 French drama adapted from Philippe Djian's novel, starring Béatrice Dalle and Jean-Hugues Anglade; an Oscar-nominated cinéma du look landmark released 9 April 1986.
Betty Boo
Betty Boo, also known as Alison Moira Clarkson, is a British pop-rapper whose 1990 platinum debut Boomania produced "Doin' the Do" and "Where Are You Baby?"; she later wrote "Pure and Simple" and returned with Boomerang (2022).
Betty Boop
Betty Boop, created by Max and Dave Fleischer in 1930 (debuting in Dizzy Dishes), is a Jazz Age flapper cartoon character, the first fully human female animated star, shaped by the Helen Kane lawsuit and Hays Code censorship, and public domain in her 1930 form since 2026.
Betty Boothroyd
Betty Boothroyd, Baroness Boothroyd (1929–2023), Labour MP for West Bromwich West and first female Speaker of the House of Commons (1992–2000), later a crossbench life peer; known for dropping the Speaker's wig.
Betty Botter
Betty Botter is a classic English tongue twister written by Carolyn Wells, first published 1899 in The Jingle Book as "The Butter Betty Bought"; it trains the vowels in butter, bitter, batter, and better.
Betty Brant
Betty Brant (Elizabeth Brant-Leeds), Stan Lee and Steve Ditko's Daily Bugle secretary from Amazing Spider-Man #4 (September 1963); Peter Parker's first serious girlfriend, later Ned Leeds's widow and an investigative reporter, portrayed by Elizabeth Banks (Raimi films) and Angourie Rice (MCU), absent from Spider-Man: Brand New Day.
Betty Broderick
Betty Broderick (Elisabeth Anne Broderick, born Elisabeth Anne Bisceglia, 1947) was an American convicted of the 1989 San Diego murders of ex-husband Dan Broderick and his wife Linda Kolkena; convicted of second-degree murder in 1991, sentenced to 32 years to life, died in prison 2026.
Betty Brosmer
Betty Brosmer (Betty Weider, born Betty Chloe Brosemer) was the highest-paid American pin-up model of the 1950s, famed for her 'impossible waist' (39-19-36), 200+ magazine covers, and later career as a Weider fitness author and icon after marrying Joe Weider in 1961.
Betty Buckley
Betty Buckley (born 1947, Big Spring, Texas) is a Tony Award-winning American actress and singer, the original Broadway Grizabella in Cats singing Memory, also known for Eight Is Enough, Carrie, Sunset Boulevard, and 20 albums including Enough.
Betty Clooney
Betty Clooney (1931–1976), American singer and TV performer, younger sister and duo partner of Rosemary Clooney; member of the Clooney Sisters with Tony Pastor's band, later solo radio/TV and singles work; died of a brain aneurysm in 1976.
Betty Cooper
Betty Cooper (Elizabeth "Betty" Cooper), Archie Comics' blonde girl-next-door, debuted in Pep Comics #22 (December 1941), vies with Veronica Lodge for Archie Andrews, fronts the Betty (1992-2012) series and the Superteen alter ego, and is played by Lili Reinhart in Riverdale.
Betty Crocker
Betty Crocker is a fictional brand persona and baking brand of General Mills, created in 1921 by Washburn Crosby to answer consumer baking letters; known for cake mixes, the 1950 Picture Cook Book, radio and TV personas, and BettyCrocker.com.
Betty Cuthbert
Betty Cuthbert (Elizabeth Alyse Cuthbert, 1938–2017), Australian sprinter nicknamed the Golden Girl; won 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay gold at Melbourne 1956 and the 400m at Tokyo 1964, four Olympic golds in total.
Betty Davis
Betty Davis, born Betty Mabry, was an American funk singer, songwriter, and producer whose openly sexual 1970s albums made her a cult figure, later rediscovered after their 2007 reissue.
Betty DeGeneres
Betty DeGeneres, New Orleans-born retired speech pathologist and mother of Ellen DeGeneres, became the Human Rights Campaign's first non-gay National Coming Out Project spokesperson in 1997 and wrote Love, Ellen.
Betty Diamond
Betty Diamond is an American rheumatologist and immunologist who studies how lupus autoantibodies affect the brain, leading the Institute of Molecular Medicine at the Feinstein Institutes.
Betty Dodson
Betty Dodson, American feminist sex educator and artist, author of Liberating Masturbation/Sex for One, creator of Bodysex group masturbation workshops, repopularizer of the vibrator, later partner of Carlin Ross and Goop Lab figure.