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Bevan Spencer von Einem
Bevan Spencer von Einem (born 1946, died 5 December 2025) was an Adelaide accountant convicted in 1984 of murdering 15-year-old Richard Kelvin, the only conviction in the unsolved 'Family' murders; he died in prison of metastatic cancer.
Bevasiranib
Bevasiranib (Cand5), an siRNA against VEGF-A mRNA from Acuity Pharmaceuticals and OPKO Health, was the first siRNA in clinical trials and first RNAi drug in Phase III for wet AMD; its COBALT trial was terminated in 2009 for poor efficacy.
Bevatron
The Bevatron, short for Billions of eV Synchrotron, was a proton accelerator at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory where the antiproton was discovered in 1955, earning a Nobel Prize.
Bevel gear
A bevel gear is a gear that transmits rotary motion and torque between intersecting shafts, most often at 90 degrees; hypoid gears connect offset shafts.
Beveled rim bowl
The beveled rim bowl, also spelled bevelled rim bowl, is a coarse conical clay vessel mass-produced across Mesopotamia during the fourth millennium BC, the characteristic vessel of the Uruk culture.
Bevenopran
Bevenopran (ADL-5945, CB-5945) is an oral peripheral μ-opioid receptor antagonist developed for opioid-induced constipation; it reached Phase 3 trials under Adolor and Cubist but was discontinued in 2013 and never approved.
Beverage industry
The beverage industry produces and sells non-alcoholic drinks (soft drinks, water, energy drinks) and alcohol (beer, wine, spirits). Distinguished by high concentration: Coca-Cola and PepsiCo control 75% of the world beverage market; US retail sales near $295 billion in 2025.
Beveridge Report
The Beveridge Report, formally Social Insurance and Allied Services, is a 1942 British paper by William Beveridge proposing universal flat-rate social insurance and identifying five giant evils.
Beverlee McKinsey
Beverlee McKinsey, born Beverlee Magruder (1935 to 2008), was an American actress known for the daytime roles of Iris Carrington on Another World and Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light.
Beverlee Myers
Beverlee A. Myers was an American public health leader who directed the California Department of Health Services from 1978 to 1983 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1985.
Beverley
Beverley is a market town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, also called Beverley in Yorkshire, founded around the monastery of St John of Beverley, famed for its Gothic Minster, medieval sanctuary, Hanseatic wool trade, Westwood common, and 1690 racecourse.
Beverley Allitt
Beverley Allitt is a former nurse convicted in 1993 of murdering four children and harming nine others on Ward 4 of Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital in 1991.
Beverley Callard
Beverley Callard (born 1957), English actress; played Liz McDonald in Coronation Street 1989–2020 across 2,300+ episodes, Flo Henshaw in Two Pints of Lager, and Lily in Fair City from 2026; also a fitness instructor and I'm a Celebrity contestant.
Beverley Cross
Beverley Cross (Alan Beverley Cross, 1931-1998) was an English playwright, librettist, and screenwriter, author of Half a Sixpence and screenwriter of Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans, and second husband of Maggie Smith.
Beverley Drake
Beverley Drake is a Guyanese-American aviator and aviation safety investigator who became Guyana's first female commercial pilot and, at the NTSB, its first black female senior aviation accident investigator.
Beverley Knight
Beverley Knight (Beverley Anne Smith), born 1973 in Wolverhampton, is a British soul/R&B singer with 14 UK Top 40 singles, three MOBO Awards, an MBE, and an Olivier-winning West End theatre career.
Beverley McLachlin
Beverley McLachlin, born 1943, was Chief Justice of Canada 2000-2017, the first woman and longest-serving holder of that office, known for Charter section 7 rulings, the 2014 Nadon dispute, and later Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal service.
Beverley Mitchell
Beverley Mitchell (born 1981, Arcadia, California) is an American actress and country singer, best known as Lucy Camden on 7th Heaven (1996–2007), later a podcast co-host and producer.
Beverley Owen
Beverley Owen (Beverley Jane Ogg, 1937–2019), American actress, original Marilyn Munster in the first 13 episodes of The Munsters (1964), replaced by Pat Priest; left to marry Jon Stone; died of ovarian cancer in Vermont.
Beverley Whitfield
Beverley Whitfield (1954 to 1996) was an Australian breaststroke swimmer who won gold in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 1972 Munich Olympics and three golds at the 1970 Commonwealth Games.
Beverly
Beverly (ビバリー) is a Filipino singer based in Japan since 2016, signed to Avex Trax, known for theme songs for Fruits Basket, Fairy Tail, and Kamen Rider.
Beverly Aadland
Beverly Aadland, also Beverly Aadland Fisher, American actress (born 1942 Hollywood, died 2010 Lancaster), Errol Flynn's teenage girlfriend; films South Pacific, Cuban Rebel Girls; subject of The Last of Robin Hood.
Beverly Cleary
Beverly Cleary (1916-2021), American children's author of Henry Huggins and the Ramona Quimby series set on Portland's Klickitat Street; winner of the 1984 Newbery Medal for Dear Mr. Henshaw and the 1975 Laura Ingalls Wilder Award.
Beverly Crusher
Beverly Crusher, born Beverly Howard, is the chief medical officer of the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E in Star Trek: The Next Generation and its films, played by Gates McFadden.
Beverly D'Angelo
Beverly D'Angelo (born 1951, Columbus, Ohio) is an American actress and singer, Ellen Griswold in the National Lampoon's Vacation films and Golden Globe-nominated Patsy Cline in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980).
Beverly E. Griffin
Beverly E. Griffin (1930–2016) was an American-born virologist, Emeritus Professor at Imperial College London, known for sequencing mouse polyomavirus and her research on Epstein–Barr virus and cancer.
Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland, born Beverly Lucy Fessenden (1926–2008), was an American film and television actress who starred in 1950s Roger Corman films and played Fred MacMurray's wife on My Three Sons.
Beverly H. Koller
Beverly H. Koller is a molecular geneticist and Professor of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who builds gene-targeted and humanized mouse models of disease.
Beverly H. Lorell
Beverly H. Lorell is an American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher, formerly Professor of Medicine at Harvard and later a medical-device regulatory advisor at King & Spalding.
Beverly Hills Chihuahua
Beverly Hills Chihuahua is a 2008 American family comedy from Walt Disney Pictures, directed by Raja Gosnell, about a pampered Chihuahua lost in Mexico who must find her way home.