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Biz Markie

Biz Markie (Marcel Theo Hall, 1964–2021), American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, and Juice Crew member known as the Clown Prince of Hip-Hop; famous for "Just a Friend" (1989) and the landmark 1991 sampling lawsuit Grand Upright Music v. Warner Bros.

Biz Stone

Biz Stone, born Christopher Isaac Stone in 1974, is an American entrepreneur and designer best known as a co-founder of Twitter, the social platform launched in 2006.

Bizaardvark

Bizaardvark is a Disney Channel live-action comedy (2016–2019, 3 seasons) created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman, starring Olivia Rodrigo and Madison Hu as teen vloggers Paige and Frankie on the fictional Vuuugle platform.

Bizalimogene ralaplasmid

Bizalimogene ralaplasmid (VGX-3100, pGX3002) is Inovio's therapeutic DNA vaccine encoding HPV-16/18 E6/E7, delivered by intramuscular electroporation with CELLECTRA to treat cervical, vulvar, and anal high-grade lesions.

Bizarre (rapper)

Bizarre, born Rufus Arthur Johnson in 1976, is a Detroit rapper and D12 member (alter ego Peter S.) known for shock-humor horrorcore. Solo albums include Hannicap Circus (2005) and L.A.R.S. with King Gordy.

Bizarre (song)

"Bizarre" is a 2026 dance-pop song by Madonna and Dutch DJ Martin Garrix, released July 3, 2026 on Warner Records from her album Confessions II. Debuted live at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, its lyrics reference Sean Penn and a 1968 Shelby Cobra.

Bizarre delusion

Bizarre delusion (ICD-11 MB26.00): a delusion with patently absurd, physically impossible content, contrasted with non-bizarre delusions; formerly a special schizophrenia criterion in DSM-III-R through DSM-IV-TR, demoted in DSM-5.

Bizarre ware

Bizarre ware is a range of brightly colored, hand-painted English earthenware created by ceramic designer Clarice Cliff and produced from 1927 at the Newport Pottery in Burslem, Staffordshire.

Bizarro

Bizarro is DC Comics' imperfect, backwards-talking duplicate of Superman, debuting in Superboy #68 (1958) by Otto Binder and George Papp. Known for inverted powers (arctic vision, flame breath), Bizarro-speak, and the cube-shaped Bizarro World.

Bizarro (comic strip)

Bizarro is Dan Piraro's single-panel syndicated newspaper cartoon, launched February 10, 1985 via Chronicle Features and now distributed by King Features, known for surreal gags, hidden symbols, and National Cartoonists Society awards.

Bizarro World

Bizarro World, or Htrae, is DC Comics' cube-shaped home planet of Bizarro, created by Otto Binder and Wayne Boring in Action Comics #263 (April 1960); modern multiverse designation Earth-29.

Bizen ware

Bizen ware (備前焼), also called Imbe ware, is an unglazed, high-fired stoneware produced in Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture, Japan, one of the Six Ancient Kilns, fired over pine wood until ash and flame color the surface.

Bizerba

Bizerba SE & Co. KG is a German family-owned manufacturer of weighing, slicing, labeling, and inspection technology, founded in 1866 and headquartered in Balingen, Baden-Württemberg, serving retail, industry, and logistics.

Bizerte crisis

The Bizerte crisis was a 1961 Franco-Tunisian confrontation over the French naval base at Bizerte, in which Tunisia blockaded the base and France evacuated it in 1963.

Bizim Hikaye

Bizim Hikaye (Our Story), 2017–2019 FOX Turkey family drama adapted from the American series Shameless, produced by Medyapım, starring Hazal Kaya, Burak Deniz, and Reha Özcan; not the 2015 Turkish film of the same title.

Bizongo

Bizongo is a Mumbai-based B2B vendor digitization and supply-chain platform founded in 2015 by Aniket Deb, Sachin Agrawal, and Ankit Tomar, which began as a packaging marketplace and later added vendor financing.

Bizreach

Bizreach is a Japanese HR technology company headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, founded by Soichiro Minami in 2007 and owned by Visional, operating the BizReach job-change platform and the HRMOS cloud series.

Bizzabo

Bizzabo is an events software company founded in Israel and headquartered in New York by Boaz Katz, Alon Alroy, and Eran Ben-Shushan, selling a platform for in-person, virtual, and hybrid events.

Bizzy Bone

Bizzy Bone (Bryon Anthony McCane II, born 1976, Cleveland) is an American rapper, founding member of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and prolific solo artist from 1998's Heaven'z Movie onward, repeatedly leaving and rejoining the group.

BJ the Chicago Kid

BJ the Chicago Kid, born Bryan James Sledge in 1984, is an American R&B/soul singer from Chicago's South Side, known for "Studio" with ScHoolboy Q, the Motown albums In My Mind, 1123, and Gravy, and multiple Grammy nominations.

BJ's Wholesale Club

BJ's Wholesale Club is an American membership warehouse club chain headquartered in Marlborough, Massachusetts, operating 263 clubs and 199 gas stations across 21 eastern states since 1984.

BJAB

BJAB (BJA-B, CVCL_5711) is an EBV-negative human B-cell lymphoma cell line established in 1975 from a Kenyan 5-year-old girl's Burkitt's lymphoma; the first EBV-negative line of this origin, widely used as an EBV-negative control and infection host.

Bjarke Ingels

Bjarke Bundgaard Ingels is a Danish architect, founder of Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), best known for CopenHill, VIA 57 West, the Lego House, and hedonistic sustainability.

Bjarne Pettersen

Bjarne Pettersen (Bjarne Viktor Pettersen, 1891–1983), Norwegian gymnast from Oslo, club IF Urædd, who won team gymnastics gold for Norway at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; distinct from a 1955-born handball namesake.

Bjarne Steffen

Bjarne Steffen is a German-trained energy economist and adjunct professor at ETH Zurich who studies how public policy and the financial sector shape low-carbon technological change.

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup, born in 1950 in Århus, Denmark, is a Danish computer scientist who created C++ at AT&T Bell Labs in 1979 and led its standardization.

Bjarte Engen Vik

Bjarte Engen Vik (born 1971, Tromsø) is a retired Norwegian Nordic combined skier, double Olympic champion at Nagano 1998, five-time world champion, and the only skier with seven Holmenkollen Nordic combined titles.

Bjelkemander

Bjelkemander: blend of Bjelke + gerrymander, the term for Queensland's zonal electoral malapportionment of the 1970s and 1980s under Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen, ended by Goss government reform after the 1989 Fitzgerald Report.

Bjelovar

Bjelovar, city in central Croatia, seat of Bjelovar-Bilogora County. Founded 1756 by Maria Theresa as a Military Frontier center; Free Royal City 1874; 24,392 residents (2021); Day of the City 29 September.

Bjergelide

Bjergelide, an Early Roman Iron Age burial site in Bjerge parish north of Vejle Fjord, Denmark, holds a richly equipped mounted warrior's cremation grave with weapons, spurs, gold rings, and five Roman imports.