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Billie Lourd
Billie Lourd (Billie Catherine Lourd), American actress born 1992 in Los Angeles, daughter of Carrie Fisher and Bryan Lourd. Known as Chanel #3 in Scream Queens, Lieutenant Connix in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and recurring American Horror Story roles from Cult through season 13.
Billie Marten
Billie Marten, real name Isabella Sophie Tweddle (born 1999), is an English indie folk singer-songwriter from Ripon, North Yorkshire, not the dance singer Billie Ray Martin; five albums 2016-2025, BBC Sound of 2016 nominee, signed to Fiction Records.
Billie Piper
Billie Piper (born 1982, Swindon, England) is an English actor, singer, writer, and director; a 15-year-old chart-topping pop star, Rose Tyler in Doctor Who, Olivier-winning Yerma lead, and director of Rare Beasts.
Billie Sol Estes
Billie Sol Estes, also known as Billy Sol Estes, was a West Texas agribusiness promoter and con man who borrowed $22 million against nonexistent ammonia tanks, collapsing in 1962.
Billie von Bremen
Billie von Bremen (Wilhelmina Catherine von Bremen, 1909-1976), American sprinter; bronze in the 1932 Olympic 100 m (12.0) and gold in the 4x100 m relay (46.9 WR), 1932 AAU 100 m champion.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw (1932–2014), English actress and Samuel Beckett's foremost interpreter, starred in Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby, and Happy Days, plus films The Omen, Frenzy, The Krays, and Hot Fuzz; CBE 1991.
Billiken
Billiken: charm doll patented by Florence Pretz of Kansas City in 1908, the smiling "god of things as they ought to be"; later a good-luck figure at Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower, mascot of Saint Louis University, and namesake of Argentina's long-running children's magazine.
Billingham
Billingham: town in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, Teesside; population 33,798 (2021 parish). Known for the ICI chemical works (from 1918), the 1967 town centre, Billingham Forum ice rink, and the International Folklore Festival.
Billings, Montana
Billings, Montana: largest city in Montana and seat of Yellowstone County, founded 1882 as a Northern Pacific Railroad town, nicknamed the Magic City; 117,116 residents in 2020, 121,239 estimated 2025.
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths
Billingsgate Roman House and Baths: Roman townhouse and private bath suite (balnea) in a City of London office basement on Lower Thames Street; built about AD 150, bathhouse added 3rd century, occupied into the 5th century, discovered 1848, open by guided tour.
Billion
Billion, also called one billion, is the number 1,000,000,000 (a thousand million) in American and British English, though older European usage gives it the value 10^12.
Billion Dollar Babies
Billion Dollar Babies is Alice Cooper's sixth studio album (Warner Bros., February 25, 1973), produced by Bob Ezrin; it hit No. 1 in the US and UK, went RIAA platinum, and features Donovan on the title track. Also the name of a 1977 band and a 2023 Cabbage Patch Kids documentary.
Billion Oyster Project
Billion Oyster Project (BOP) is a New York City nonprofit restoring Eastern oysters to New York Harbor, aiming for one billion oysters by 2030; it has restored 200M+ oysters across 19 acres since 2014 using recycled restaurant shells.
Billionaire
A billionaire is a person whose net worth, assets minus liabilities, is at least $1 billion, estimated by trackers from stock prices; about 62% are self-made.
Billionaire Boys Club
The Billionaire Boys Club was a Los Angeles investment club of about 30 wealthy young men, led by Joseph Hunt, that collapsed into fraud and murder in 1984.
Billionaire Boys Club (2018 film)
Billionaire Boys Club is a 2018 American crime drama directed by James Cox, starring Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton as founders of a fraudulent 1983 Los Angeles investment club.
Billionaire Boys Club (clothing retailer)
Billionaire Boys Club (BBC), with sister brand ICECREAM, is a streetwear label founded in 2003 by Pharrell Williams and BAPE creator NIGO, known for its astronaut logo, Tokyo flagship, rap-lyric marketing, and the motto 'Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket.'
Billionaire space race
The billionaire space race is the competition between Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic over rockets, tourism, and contracts.
Billionaires' Bunker
Billionaires' Bunker (El refugio atómico) is a Spanish Netflix thriller by Money Heist creators Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato: billionaires in a luxury bunker, 8 episodes, premiered September 19, 2025, canceled December 2025 after one season.
Billions (TV series)
Billions is a Showtime drama (2016–2023, 7 seasons, 84 episodes) created by Koppelman, Levien, and Sorkin, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis as a U.S. Attorney and hedge fund manager; loosely inspired by Preet Bharara, ending in 2023 with spin-offs announced.
Billions (빌리언스) (agency)
Billions (빌리언스, Billions Co., Ltd.) is a KOSDAQ-listed Korean company (044480), formerly Blade Entertainment, combining artist management and drama production with its original condom and medical rubber products manufacturing business.
BillionToOne
BillionToOne is a precision molecular diagnostics company founded in 2016 and based in Menlo Park, California, offering the UNITY prenatal test and Northstar liquid-biopsy cancer tests.
Billiton
Billiton is the Dutch colonial name for Belitung, an Indonesian island off the east coast of Sumatra known for its granite landscape and historic tin mines.
Billown Circuit
Billown Circuit: 4.25-mile triangular public-road motorcycle racing course at Castletown, Isle of Man, first raced 14 July 1955. Hosts the Southern 100, Pre-TT Classic, and Post-TT road races; mass-start format.
Billroth I reconstruction
Billroth I reconstruction is a gastroduodenostomy joining the duodenum to the gastric remnant after distal gastrectomy, preserving duodenal food passage; first performed in 1881, it remains a mainstay reconstruction in Japan.
Billroth II reconstruction
Billroth II reconstruction is a surgical technique after distal gastrectomy in which the duodenal stump is closed and the stomach remnant is joined to the jejunum.
Bills–Chiefs rivalry
Bills–Chiefs rivalry: AFL-era football rivalry between Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs (formerly Dallas Texans); Bills lead all-time series 31-26-1, Chiefs dominate playoffs, defined by Mahomes-Allen games and the 13 Seconds overtime rule change.
Billu (बिल्लू)
Billu (बिल्लू), also released as Billu Barber, is a 2009 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Priyadarshan, starring Irrfan Khan as a village barber and Shah Rukh Khan as superstar Sahir Khan; a remake of Kadha Parayumbol that flopped at the box office.
Billund, Denmark
Billund, Denmark: Midtjylland town (7,446 inhabitants, 2026), birthplace of LEGO, home of LEGOLAND (1968), LEGO House (2017), and Billund Airport, Denmark's second largest, with 3.06 million passengers in 2025.
Billy Abbott
Billy Abbott (William Abbott) is a fictional character on CBS's The Young and the Restless, son of Jill and John Abbott, originated by David Tom in 1999 and played by Jason Thompson since January 2016, who won the 2020 Daytime Emmy for the role.