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Birgit Wolf
Birgit Wolf (later Hamann), born 1969 in Boeblingen, German sprinter-hurdler of VfL Sindelfingen; 1996 German 100m hurdles champion, 1996 Atlanta Olympian, PB 12.96; 1997 Klümper/Genotropin doping allegation; distinct from several same-named academics.
Birgitta Ed
Birgitta Ed (born 1968), Swedish priest of the Church of Sweden and wife of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson; ordained 2023 in Strängnäs, co-founded Fållöknastiftelsen, and since June 2026 under a cathedral chapter supervisory inquiry.
Birgitta Trotzig
Birgitta Trotzig (1929–2011) was a Swedish author and literary critic, regarded as a leading twentieth-century Swedish writer and a member of the Swedish Academy from 1993.
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen
Birgitte Hjort Sørensen (born 1982, Hillerød) is a Danish actress best known as journalist Katrine Fønsmark in Borgen (2010–2022), with roles in Marie Krøyer, Game of Thrones, Pitch Perfect 2, Vinyl, and Broadway's Les Liaisons Dangereuses.
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester
Birgitte, Duchess of Gloucester (born Birgitte Eva van Deurs Henriksen, 1946, Odense, Denmark) is the Danish-born wife of Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, a full-time working royal with 60+ patronages and a 2024 Order of the Garter appointment.
Birgundi Baker
Birgundi Angel Baker (born 1992, Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American actress, singer, and dancer, a Howard University musical theatre graduate, known for Kiesha Williams on The Chi and films including Praise This and Block Party.
Birha
Birha, also spelled Biraha (बिरहा), is a narrative Bhojpuri folk-song tradition of North India centered on viraha, the longing of separation, shaped in the 19th century around Varanasi by Bihari Lal Yadav.
Birhurtura
Birhurtura, also written Birhar-tura, is an officer of Uruk in the Sumerian poem Gilgamesh and Aga, which tells of Aga of Kish besieging Uruk under Gilgamesh.
Biri Marung
"Biri Marung" is a 2024 amapiano single by South African producers Mr Pilato, Ego Slimflow, and Tebogo G Mashego, featuring Sje Konka, Focalistic, and DJ Maphorisa.
Biriba
Biriba (Μπιρίμπα) is a Greek partnership rummy card game, also played in Cyprus, related to Burraco and Canasta; players meld sets and runs, build seven-card biribas to unlock an 11-card biribaki reserve, and race to 5,000 points. The name Biriba is also used in Brazil for the game Buraco.
Biriciana
Biriciana (castrum Biriciana) is the Roman cavalry fort at Weißenburg, Bavaria, garrisoned by the ala I Hispanorum Auriana from about 90 AD, rebuilt in stone around 150 AD, destroyed around 253/254, with a reconstructed north gate and Roman baths.
Biridašwa
Biridašwa, also spelled Biridashwa or Biridaswa, was a ruler of a Canaanite city-state who appears in the Amarna letters, the diplomatic archive of Akhenaten's reign in the 14th century BC.
Biridiya
Biridiya, also Biridija, was the Canaanite mayor of Megiddo under Egyptian overlordship in the mid-14th century BCE, known for eight Amarna letters pleading for troops against the hostile ruler Labaya.
Birimian Greenstone Belt
The Birimian Greenstone Belt is a set of 2.2 to 2.0 billion-year-old rock belts in West Africa, named after the Birim River in Ghana and rich in gold.
Birinchi Kumar Barua
Birinchi Kumar Barua (বিৰিঞ্চি কুমাৰ বৰুৱা) was an Assamese scholar and folklorist who wrote fiction as Bina Barua and won the Sahitya Akademi Award for Folklore of Assam in 1961.
Birinus
Birinus, who died c. 650, was a Catholic missionary bishop sent from Rome by Pope Honorius I who became the first Bishop of Dorchester and the Apostle of Wessex.
Biritch
Biritch, or Russian Whist: an 1886 London pamphlet by John Collinson describing the earliest known form of bridge, with dealer's choice of trumps, a no-trumps call, dummy, and unlimited redouble.
Biriyaani (ബിരിയാണി)
Biriyaani (ബിരിയാണി) is a 2020 Malayalam drama directed and written by Sajin Baabu, starring Kani Kusruti as Khadeeja, a woman ostracized after her brother joins ISIS. It won the NETPAC Best Film award, a National Film Award Special Mention, and Best Actress honors for Kusruti.
Biriyani (பிரியாணி) (film)
Biriyani (பிரியாணி) is a 2013 Tamil action comedy thriller by Venkat Prabhu, starring Karthi, Hansika Motwani, and Premgi Amaren; two friends hunting biryani after a party are framed for a businessman's disappearance. Yuvan Shankar Raja's 100th film, released 20 December 2013.
Bīrjand
Bīrjand (بیرجند), city in eastern Iran at about 1,500 m elevation; center of Qūhestān in southeastern Khorasan, capital of South Khorasan province since 2004, long ruled by the ʿAlam family, known for saffron, barberries, and early piped water (1923).
Birjis Qadr
Birjis Qadr (बिरजिस क़द्र), son of the deposed Nawab Wajid Ali Shah, was proclaimed Nawab of Awadh at Lucknow in 1857 as a child, with his mother Begum Hazrat Mahal as regent.
Birju Maharaj (बिरजू महाराज)
Pandit Birju Maharaj (बिरजू महाराज, born Brijmohan Nath Mishra, 1938–2022) was the leading Kathak dancer of the Lucknow (Kalka-Bindadin) gharana, longtime head of Delhi's Kathak Kendra, founder of Kalashram, and winner of the Padma Vibhushan, Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and a 2012 National Film Award.
Birk Ruud
Birk Ruud, born in 2000 in Bærum, Norway, is a freestyle skier who won Olympic gold in big air at Beijing 2022 and slopestyle at Milan Cortina 2026.
Birk-Barel syndrome
Birk-Barel syndrome, or KCNK9 imprinting syndrome (OMIM 612292), is an extremely rare maternally inherited disorder on chromosome 8q24 causing hypotonia, feeding difficulty, and intellectual disability via TASK3 channel variants.
Birka and Hovgården
Birka and Hovgården: Viking Age trading town on Björkö and royal estate on Adelsö in Lake Mälaren, Sweden; UNESCO World Heritage site since 1993, first Christian congregation (831, St Ansgar), Alsnö hus and the Royal Council of 1280.
Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck, University of London, is a public research university in central London, known for its evening teaching model, with classes often held between 6pm and 9pm.
Birkebeinerrennet
Birkebeinerrennet (Birken), Norwegian 53 km classic cross-country ski marathon from Rena to Lillehammer, first held 1932, mandatory 2 kg backpack commemorating the 1206 flight of Håkon Håkonsson; Worldloppet member, hilly course with 1,121 m climb.
Birkeland (lunar crater)
Birkeland is an impact crater on the far side of the Moon, about 82 km across and named for Norwegian physicist Kristian Birkeland, lying within the South Pole-Aitken basin.
Birkeland current
A Birkeland current, also called a field-aligned current, flows along magnetic field lines connecting Earth's magnetosphere to its ionosphere, powering the aurora with up to 1 terawatt.
Birkenhead
Birkenhead: town on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside, opposite Liverpool. Known for Birkenhead Priory (1150), the world's first publicly funded park (1847), Cammell Laird shipbuilding, and the Birkenhead 2040 regeneration framework.