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Bremetennacum Veteranorum
Bremetennacum Veteranorum (Bremetenacum Veteranorum) was a Roman auxiliary cavalry fort and veteran settlement at Ribchester, Lancashire, founded about AD 72, garrisoned by Spanish Asturian and later Sarmatian cavalry, occupied into the late fourth century.
Bremgartner Welle
Bremgartner Welle: standing river surf wave on the Reuss at Bremgarten, Aargau, Switzerland, formed at the Honeggerwehr, a former textile-industry weir; surfable above 200 m3/s, refurbished by the Swiss Canoe Association in 2006.
Bremia
Bremia (Llanio, Loventium) was a Roman auxiliary fort in the Teifi valley, Ceredigion, Wales, occupied c.75 AD to the mid-2nd century, garrisoned by Cohors II Asturum, on Sarn Helen near Dolaucothi; distinct from Bremenium.
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Bremia krungthepmahanakhonamon...nonopsis, a purported downy mildew (Peronosporaceae, Oomycota) whose exact epithet is unverified in authoritative registries; genus Bremia parasitizes Asteraceae, with B. lactucae the major lettuce downy mildew pathogen.
Bremsstrahlung
Bremsstrahlung, German for braking radiation, is the electromagnetic radiation emitted when a charged particle, usually an electron, is decelerated by another charged particle such as a nucleus.
Bren light machine gun
The Bren light machine gun, or Bren gun, was a British light machine gun adopted in 1935 from a Czech design, the main infantry support weapon of World War II.
Brenda A. Schulman
Brenda A. Schulman is an American structural biologist who studies ubiquitin enzymes and has led a department at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry since 2017.
Brenda Andrews
Brenda J. Andrews is a Canadian molecular geneticist at the University of Toronto known for pioneering genetic interaction networks and cell cycle control in budding yeast.
Brenda Bakke
Brenda Bakke (Brenda Jean Bakke, born 1963) is an American actress from Klamath Falls, Oregon, known for Selena Coombs in American Gothic and Lana Turner in L.A. Confidential, plus Hot Shots! Part Deux and her novel Driving in LA.
Brenda Benet
Brenda Benet (Brenda Ann Nelson, 1945-1982), American TV and film actress known for The Young Marrieds and as Lee DuMonde on Days of Our Lives; former wife of Bill Bixby; died by suicide in 1982.
Brenda Biya
Brenda Biya (King Nasty), born 1997, daughter of Cameroon's President Paul Biya; came out publicly in June-July 2024 and called for decriminalization of same-sex conduct, illegal in Cameroon since 1972 under Penal Code article 347-1.
Brenda Blethyn
Brenda Blethyn (born Brenda Anne Bottle, 1946, Ramsgate) is an English actress; Oscar-nominated for Secrets & Lies and Little Voice, Cannes/BAFTA/Golden Globe winner, National Theatre 1975–90, and long-running lead of ITV's Vera.
Brenda Edwards
Brenda Edwards, also Brenda Edwards of Loose Women, is an English singer and musical theatre performer born 1969 in Luton, a 2005 X Factor finalist known for Mama Morton in Chicago, Killer Queen in We Will Rock You, Songs of Praise presenting, and the Jamal Edwards Self Belief Trust.
Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker (1945–2026) was an Irish actress, the first Irish woman to win an Academy Award, for My Left Foot in 1990, and the Pigeon Lady in Home Alone 2.
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond
Brenda Hale, Baroness Hale of Richmond, is a British judge and the first woman to hold every senior post in UK law: Law Commissioner (1984), Law Lord (2004), Supreme Court Justice (2009), and Supreme Court President (2017–2020), best known for the 2019 prorogation judgment.
Brenda Helser
Brenda Helser (Brenda Mersereau Helser, Countess de Morelos y Guerrero, 1924–2001), American swimmer who won gold in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at the 1948 London Olympics in Olympic record time; also fifth in the 400 m freestyle and a multiple AAU champion.
Brenda J. Reinhart
Brenda J. Reinhart is a biologist who, in Gary Ruvkun's Harvard laboratory, was first author of the 2000 Nature paper identifying let-7, the second animal microRNA.
Brenda K. Sannes
Brenda Kay Sannes, born 1958, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Northern District of New York since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Brenda K. Starr
Brenda K. Starr (Brenda Joy Kaplan, born 1966, New York) is an American freestyle-pop and salsa singer, known for the 1988 number 13 hit "I Still Believe" and for giving Mariah Carey's demo to Tommy Mottola.
Brenda L. Bass
Brenda L. Bass, born 1955, is an American molecular biologist at the University of Utah who discovered the ADAR RNA editing enzymes and established Dicer's role in RNA silencing.
Brenda Lee
Brenda Lee (Brenda Mae Tarpley, born 1944), "Little Miss Dynamite," American singer of "I'm Sorry" and "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"; 1960s chart leader, first woman in both the Rock and Roll and Country Music Halls of Fame.
Brenda Lee singles discography
Brenda Lee singles discography: 89 lead-artist singles from the 1956 Decca debut "Jambalaya" through the 2023 Hot 100 return of "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"; 46 US Hot 100 hits in the 1960s and a country comeback after 1971.
Brenda Marshall
Brenda Marshall (Ardis Ankerson, 1915-1992), American film actress born on Negros, Philippines; Warner Bros. leading lady of The Sea Hawk (1940) opposite Errol Flynn, wife of William Holden 1941-1971, retired after The Iroquois Trail (1950).
Brenda McLeish
Brenda McLeish OBE DL is a British business executive who joined Learning Curve Group in 2008, led it as chief executive from 2015, and stepped down in December 2025.
Brenda Meaney
Brenda Meaney (born 1984) is an Irish-American actress, daughter of Colm Meaney and Bairbre Dowling; Trinity College Dublin BA and Yale MFA; Broadway Uncle Vanya (2024) and Bedbound (2023) with her father.
Brenda Meeks
Brenda Meeks is a fictional character in the Scary Movie horror-parody franchise, played by Regina Hall. Cindy Campbell's best friend and Shorty Meeks's half-sister, she appears in films 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6 (not 5), parodies Scream 2's Maureen Evans, and is known for dying in one film and returning alive in the next.
Brenda Milner
Brenda Milner, née Langford and born in 1918, is a McGill neuropsychologist whose studies of the epilepsy patient H.M. established that the brain holds several distinct memory systems.
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn
Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, also known as Brenda Hemmelgarn, is a Canadian nephrologist and clinical epidemiologist who became dean of medicine at the University of Alberta in 2020.
Brenda Song
Brenda Song, American actress born 1988 in Carmichael, California, known as London Tipton in Disney's Suite Life series and now Ali Lee in Netflix's Running Point; declined Harvard, starred in The Social Network and The Last Showgirl.
Brenda Starr, Reporter
Brenda Starr, Reporter was a Dale Messick comic strip (June 30, 1940 – January 2, 2011) about a red-haired globe-trotting journalist for the Flash, notable as one of the first syndicated strips by a woman.