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Bagyi Aung Soe
Bagyi Aung Soe (1923–1990) was a Burmese painter, illustrator, and teacher regarded as the pioneer of modern art in Myanmar, who studied at Tagore's Śāntiniketan in India in 1951.
Bagyidaw
Bagyidaw (ဘကြီးတော်), also known as Sagaing Min, was the seventh king of Burma's Konbaung dynasty, reigning 1819 to 1837, and lost Burma's western empire in the First Anglo-Burmese War.
Bah Bah
Bah Bah (بح بح) is a small amusement park in Taourit, Houmt Souk, Djerba, Tunisia, with carousel, train, go-karts and trampolines; rated 3.4/381 reviews. Not the Bah-Bah village in the Philippines.
Bah Oury
Bah Oury (Amadou Oury Bah, born 1958, Pita) is Guinea's prime minister, appointed 27 February 2024 by transitional president Mamadi Doumbouya and reappointed January 2026; former UFDG co-founder, 2008 reconciliation minister, exiled 2011-2015.
Baha al-Dawla
Baha al-Dawla (بهاء الدولة), son of 'Adud al-Dawla, was a Buyid ruler of Iraq and Fars from 989 to 1012, succeeded by his son Sultan al-Dawla.
Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad
Baha al-Din Ibn Shaddad (ابن شداد) was a Shafii jurist and historian of Mosul who served Saladin as army judge from 1188 and wrote an authoritative biography of him.
Baha al-Din Walad
Baha al-Din Walad (بهاءالدین ولد) was a Persian Sufi, preacher, and mufti of Balkh, best known as the father of the poet Rumi, dying in 1231.
Baha al-Din Zuhayr
Baha al-Din Zuhayr (بهاء الدين زهير) was an Arab poet of the Ayyubid period who served Sultan al-Salih Ayyub of Egypt as head of the chancery.
Baha M. Sibai
Baha M. Sibai, also known as Baha Sibai, is a maternal-fetal medicine physician and researcher at UTHealth Houston known for work on preeclampsia and HELLP syndrome.
Baha Men
Baha Men, Bahamian Junkanoo-pop band from New Providence formed in 1977 (originally High Voltage), best known for the Grammy-winning 2000 hit "Who Let the Dogs Out", a cover of Anslem Douglas's "Doggie" released on S-Curve, plus later albums and touring.
Baha' al-Din al-'Amili
Baha' al-Din al-'Amili (بهاء الدين العاملي), known in Iran as Shaykh Baha'i, was a Twelver Shi'i scholar, jurist, mathematician, and poet of Safavid Iran who died in 1621.
Baha' al-Din Naqshband
Baha' al-Din Naqshband (بهاءالدین نقشبند) was a Sufi master of Bukhara who lived from 1318 to 1389 and became the eponym of the Naqshbandi order.
Baha' al-Din Qaraqush
Baha' al-Din Qaraqush (بهاء الدين قراقوش) was a eunuch military commander who served Saladin, built the Citadel of Cairo, governed Acre, and died in 1201.
Baha'i community of Iran
The Baha'i community of Iran (بهائیان ایران) is the religious community that formed in Iran in the 1860s and 1870s around Baha'ullah, growing from the Babi movement after the Bab's execution in 1850.
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee
Bahá’i Holy Places in Haifa and the Western Galilee: UNESCO World Heritage serial site (2008, criteria iii and vi) of 26 buildings and sites in Acre and Haifa, Israel, centered on the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh and the Shrine of the Báb.
Bahá'í views of marriage
In Bahá'í teaching, marriage is a spiritual bond requiring the couple's consent, that of all living natural parents, and a simple ceremony with no officiant.
Bahaa Sultan
Bahaa Sultan (بهاء سلطان), born Bahaa Fathi Abdullah in 1972, is an Egyptian pop singer who rose to fame in the late 1990s and became one of Egypt's best-known 2000s stars.
Bahaa Taher
Bahaa Taher (بهاء طاهر), sometimes transliterated Bahaa Tahir, was an Egyptian novelist and translator who won the first Arabic Booker in 2008 for Sunset Oasis, dying in 2022 at 87.
Bahaaeldin Aly
Bahaaeldin Aly (born 2002) is an Egyptian recurve archer, 2018 African Youth Games cadet gold medalist, holder of the African recurve team record (1921), 2024 Arab indoor champion, and 2026 African Championships silver medalist.
Bahadur Nizam Shah
Bahadur Nizam Shah (बहादुर निज़ाम शाह) was a child sultan of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Ahmadnagar, reigned 1596 to 1600, and was succeeded after the Mughal capture of Ahmadnagar.
Bahadur Shah I (بہادر شاہ اول)
Bahadur Shah I (بہادر شاہ اول), born Muhammad Mu'azzam, also Shah Alam I, seventh Mughal emperor (r. 1707–1712). Eldest son of Aurangzeb, took the throne at 63 by defeating Azam Shah at Jajau; settled with Rajputs and Marathas, fought Banda Bahadur, died at Lahore 1712.
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat
Bahadur Shah of Gujarat (بہادر شاہ) was sultan of Gujarat from 1526 to 1537, the last important ruler of the independent sultanate, who conquered Malwa in 1531.
Bahadur Shah Zafar (بہادر شاہ ظفر)
Bahadur Shah Zafar (بہادر شاہ ظفر), last Mughal emperor (r. 1837–1857), Urdu ghazal poet, tried for treason in 1858, exiled to Rangoon, died 1862; tomb rediscovered 1991 in Yangon.
Bahadurgarh
Bahadurgarh (बहादुरगढ़), the Gateway of Haryana, is a city in Jhajjar district on the Delhi border, founded in 1754 and known for its footwear cluster of about 2,500 units making roughly 60% of India's non-leather footwear.
Bahai
Bahai (巴海) was a Qing dynasty general who served the Shunzhi and Kangxi emperors as commander of the Ningguta frontier and organized the tribal resettlement known as the New Manchus.
Bahai community
The Bahai community (بهاییان) is the body of followers of Baha' Allah, a religion founded in 1863 in Ottoman Baghdad that grew in Iran out of the Babi movement.
Bahâî Mehmed Efendi
Bahâî Mehmed Efendi (died 1654) was an Ottoman scholar, judge, poet, and composer who served twice as şeyhülislam, the chief mufti of the Ottoman state.
Bahal Mound
Bahal Mound (Pawar's Gadhi), Jalgaon district, Maharashtra, India; ASI-protected ancient habitation mound on the Girna river excavated by M.N. Deshpande, occupied from the Chalcolithic period (750-1000 BC) to the 18th century.
Bahama Basin
Bahama Basin: undersea basin of the North Atlantic at 29°15'N, 74°15'W, east of Bahama Ridge, named 1992 (SCUFN, proposer Troy L. Holcombe); part of the Blake-Bahama Basin deep beside the Bahama carbonate banks.
Bahama Islands
Bahama Islands: low-lying archipelago of 700+ limestone islands and cays southeast of Florida, also called the Lucayas, sitting on the Great and Little Bahama Banks carbonate platforms; highest point Mount Alvernia, 63 m, on Cat Island; independent Commonwealth country since 1973.