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Birdy (singer)
Birdy is the stage name of Jasmine van den Bogaerde (born 1996), English singer-songwriter from Lymington, Hampshire; broke through at 14 covering Bon Iver's Skinny Love, then released five albums including Fire Within, Beautiful Lies, Young Heart, and Portraits.
Birecik Dam Cemetery
The Birecik Dam Cemetery (Birecik Barajı Mezarlığı) is an Early Bronze Age necropolis in Gaziantep province, southeast Turkey, where rescue excavation in 1997–1998 documented 312 graves.
Birefringence
Birefringence, also known as double refraction, is the splitting of a light ray into two rays with different speeds in an anisotropic material such as calcite.
Biren De
Biren De (বীরেন দে, 1926–2011) was an Indian Bengali painter known for the Neo-Tantric style he developed in the 1960s, blending geometric abstraction with Tantric symbols.
Biren Technology (壁仞科技（Biren Technology）)
Biren Technology (壁仞科技) is a Shanghai-based fabless general-purpose GPU designer founded in 2019 by former SenseTime president Zhang Wen, listed in Hong Kong since 2026.
Birender Singh Dhanoa
Birender Singh Dhanoa (BS Dhanoa, nickname Tony) is a retired Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal, 25th Chief of the Air Staff (2016–2019), Chairman COSC 2019, Kargil No. 17 Squadron (Golden Arrows) commander, and later a Hero MotoCorp director.
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya
Birendra Kumar Bhattacharya (1924–1997) was an Indian writer in Assamese, the first Assamese author to receive the Jnanpith Award, given in 1979 for his novel Mrityunjay.
Birendra of Nepal
Birendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, King of Nepal 1972-2001, son of Mahendra; called the 1979 referendum, restored multiparty democracy in 1990, and was killed with Queen Aishwarya in the 1 June 2001 Narayanhity palace massacre by Crown Prince Dipendra.
Birendra Prasad Baishya
Birendra Prasad Baishya is an Indian Asom Gana Parishad politician representing Assam in the Rajya Sabha for 2025 to 2031, after earlier serving in the Lok Sabha.
Bireociclib tablets
Bireociclib tablets (吡洛西利), brand name Xuanyuening and research code XZP-3287, are an oral CDK4/6 inhibitor developed by Xuanzhu Biopharmaceutical and approved in China in 2025 for HR-positive, HER2-negative advanced or metastatic breast cancer.
Biretta
Biretta (beretta, biretum): stiff square cap with three or four ridges worn by Catholic clergy, cardinals in red, bishops violet, priests black; ancestor of the academic mortarboard.
Birgenair Flight 301
Birgenair Flight 301 was a charter flight that crashed into the Atlantic shortly after takeoff from Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, in 1996, killing all 189 aboard.
Birger Holmquist
Birger "Bigge" Holmquist (1900–1989), Swedish ice hockey and bandy forward; Europe's best player at Chamonix 1924, Olympic silver 1928, four Swedish titles with IK Göta, Hall of Fame 2012.
Birger Lindberg Møller
Birger Lindberg Møller, born 1946, is a Danish plant biochemist at the University of Copenhagen known for his work on cyanogenic glucosides and plant metabolic engineering.
Birger Magnusson (Swedish jarl)
Birger Magnusson, known as Birger jarl, was a Swedish magnate of the Bjälbo family, jarl of the realm from 1248 and its de facto ruler until his death in 1266.
Birger Rasmussen
Birger Rasmussen is an Australian geobiologist and sedimentary geologist, an adjunct professor at the University of Western Australia known for Nature papers on early life, eukaryotes, and iron formations.
Birger Rosengren
Birger "Bian" Rosengren (1917–1977), Swedish footballer, right halfback for IFK Norrköping and captain of Sweden's gold-medal 1948 London Olympic football team; 9 caps, five Swedish titles.
Birger Ruud
Birger Ruud was a Norwegian ski jumper who won Olympic gold at the 1932 and 1936 Winter Games and silver in 1948, considered among the greatest ski jumpers ever.
Birger Sjöberg
Birger Sjöberg (1885–1929) was a Swedish poet, songwriter, and journalist whose popular Frida songs and modernist collection Kriser och kransar (1926) helped lay the groundwork for Swedish modernism.
Birger Sorvik
Birger Sorvik (Knut Birger Sörvik, 1879-1978), Swedish artistic gymnast from Göteborgs GF; won 1908 London Olympic gold in the men's team combined, Swedish system, with Sweden first of eight teams on 438 points; brother of Olympians Haakon and Leif Sörvik.
Birger, King of Sweden
Birger Magnusson (c. 1280–1321), king of Sweden 1290–1318, son of Magnus Ladulås; his feud with dukes Erik and Valdemar led to the Håtuna seizure of 1306 and the Nyköping Banquet of 1317, ending his reign in exile.
Birgeria
Birgeria, sole genus of Birgeriidae, is an extinct large predatory ray-finned fish spanning most of the Triassic (252–201 Ma), with up to 11 species, cutting-edged teeth, and body lengths up to about 1.85 m.
Birgili Mehmed Efendi
Birgili Mehmed Efendi (Birgivi Mehmed Efendi, 1523–1573) was an Ottoman jurist, theologian, and Arabic grammarian who taught in Birgi and wrote the influential Vasiyetname catechism.
Birgit Fischer Schmidt
Birgit Fischer Schmidt (Birgit Fischer-Schmidt), German sprint kayaker born 1962, won 8 Olympic golds and 4 silvers from 1980 to 2004 for East Germany and Germany, plus 27 world titles.
Birgit Meineke
Birgit Meineke (Meineke-Heukrodt), born 1964 in Berlin, East German freestyle swimmer; 1982 triple world champion, five-time 1983 European champion, multiple world record holder, and victim of the GDR's Oral-Turinabol doping program; later a surgeon.
Birgit Nilsson
Birgit Nilsson (Märta Birgit Nilsson, 1918–2005), Swedish dramatic soprano famed as the era's leading Wagner interpreter (Isolde, Brünnhilde), also Strauss and Puccini; namesake of the $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize and Svenstad museum.
Birgit Peter
Birgit Peter, married name Peter-Händle, is a German rower born in 1964 who won Olympic gold for East Germany in 1988 and unified Germany in 1992.
Birgit Rockmeier
Birgit Rockmeier (born 1973, Moosburg an der Isar) is a retired German sprinter, twin of Gabi Rockmeier, who won 2001 world 4x100 m relay gold (awarded 2004) and 2002 European 4x400 m relay gold.
Birgit Schutz
Birgit Schütz (later Schiller), born 1958 in Brandenburg an der Havel, is an East German rower who won gold in the women's eight at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and 1978 world silver, rowing for SG Dynamo Potsdam.
Birgit Treiber
Birgit Treiber (born 1960, Oschatz), East German backstroke swimmer for SC Einheit Dresden; Olympic silver 100/200 m backstroke 1976, bronze 1980; 1975 world champion 200 m back; four world records; later a Leipzig dentist.