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Brian Williams (Missouri politician)

Brian Williams is an American Democratic politician who has represented Missouri's 14th Senate district in St. Louis County since 2019, serving as Minority Caucus Whip.

Brian Wilson

Brian Wilson (1942–2025) was the American songwriter, arranger, and producer who co-founded the Beach Boys, created Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations, and completed the long-shelved album Smile in 2004.

Brian Wilson (baseball)

Brian Patrick Wilson, born in 1982, is an American former relief pitcher who closed for the San Francisco Giants and won the 2010 World Series.

Brian Wilson Band

Brian Wilson Band: the backing group, formed 1999 around the Wondermints, that supported Beach Boy Brian Wilson's solo tours, Pet Sounds Symphony Tour, and Live at the Roxy Theatre.

Brian Wilson Presents Smile

Brian Wilson Presents Smile is a 2004 studio album by Brian Wilson that completes SMiLE, the legendary Beach Boys project abandoned in 1967, released by Nonesuch Records.

Brian Windhorst

Brian Windhorst is an American sports journalist, ESPN Senior NBA Writer since 2010 and host of The Hoop Collective podcast, known for covering LeBron James since James's 1999 high school days in Akron.

Brian's Song

Brian's Song is a 1971 ABC Movie of the Week docudrama, directed by Buzz Kulik and written by William Blinn from Gale Sayers's book I Am Third, about Bears teammates Sayers (Billy Dee Williams) and Brian Piccolo (James Caan), who died of cancer in 1970; it won five Emmys, a Peabody, and a DGA Award, and was remade on ABC in 2001.

Briana Banks

Briana Banks, stage name of Briana Bany (born in Munich, birth year reported as 1978 or 1979), is a German-American adult film performer who debuted in 1999 as Mirage, became a Vivid Entertainment contract star in 2001, was Penthouse Pet of the Month June 2001, and entered the AVN (2009) and XRCO (2016) Halls of Fame.

Briana Corrigan

Briana Corrigan (born 1965, Belfast) is a Northern Irish singer-songwriter, the first female vocalist of The Beautiful South (1988–1992), singer on the band's only UK number one, "A Little Time"; later a solo artist and touring performer.

Briana Cuoco

Briana Cuoco (born 1988, Ventura, California) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and choreographer, younger sister of Kaley Cuoco; known for voicing Batgirl on Harley Quinn and playing Jenny the Butcher on Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives.

Briana Evigan

Briana Evigan (born 1986, Los Angeles), American actress and dancer; star of Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up: All In as Andie West, also known for Sorority Row, Burning Bright, and horror "scream queen" roles; later conservationist with Abundant Village.

Briana Scurry

Briana Scurry is an American retired soccer goalkeeper, the United States women's national team's starter from 1994 to 2008, winning Olympic gold in 1996 and 2004.

Briana Williams

Briana Nichole Williams (born 2002), Jamaican sprinter, Tokyo 2020 4x100m relay gold medallist and Jamaican record holder (41.02); youngest ever World U20 100m/200m double champion, Tampere 2018.

Brianchon (lunar crater)

Brianchon is a 137.26-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's northern far side at 74.75°N, 88.36°W, named for French mathematician Charles-Julien Brianchon (1783–1864); IAU-approved 1964, with satellite craters A, B, and T.

Brianna Brown

Brianna Brown (Brianna Lynn Brown, born 1979, Saint Paul, Minnesota) is an American actress known for Dr. Lisa Niles on General Hospital, Devious Maids, Dynasty, Homeland, and Outer Banks, and founder of The New Hollywood.

Brianna Decker

Brianna Decker, American ice hockey forward from Dousman, Wisconsin; 2018 Olympic gold medalist, six-time IIHF Women's World champion, 2012 Patty Kazmaier winner; Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Brianna Hildebrand

Brianna Caitlin Hildebrand, born 1996 in College Station, Texas, is an American actress known as Negasonic Teenage Warhead in the Deadpool films, Elodie in Trinkets, and Rory in Lucifer's final season.

Brianna Keilar

Brianna Marie Keilar, Australian-born American CNN anchor (born 1980, Canberra), co-anchors CNN News Central's 1-4 p.m. ET block, formerly New Day and CNN Right Now, author of the Home Front military-family column, Dirksen and Aldo Beckman award winner.

Brianna Rollins

Brianna Rollins (Rollins-McNeal), born 1991 in Miami, American 100m hurdler; 2016 Rio Olympic gold in 12.48 leading a US medal sweep, 2013 world champion, personal best 12.26, NCAA record 12.39 with Clemson.

Brianna Throssell

Brianna Throssell (born 1996, Subiaco, WA) is a retired Australian swimmer, three-time Olympian, two-time Olympic relay gold medallist, and women's 4x200m freestyle relay world record holder (7:37.50, Fukuoka 2023), with 39 international medals; retired March 2025.

Brianna Wu

Brianna Wu (born 1980) is an American game developer and programmer who co-founded Giant Spacekat in Boston with Amanda Warner, made Revolution 60, was a major Gamergate harassment target, and ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2018.

Brianne Howey

Brianne Howey (born 1989) is an American actress known as Georgia Miller on Netflix's Ginny & Georgia (2021–), earlier Kat Rance in The Exorcist and Shauna Babcock in The Passage; films include Dear Santa and Kinda Pregnant.

Brianne Jenner

Brianne Jenner (born 1991, Oakville, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey forward, four-time Olympic medallist (gold 2014, 2022; silver 2018, 2026), 2022 Olympic MVP with a record-tying nine goals, and first captain of PWHL Ottawa.

Briar (software)

Briar is a free and open-source peer-to-peer messaging app for Android and desktop that syncs encrypted messages directly between devices over Tor, Bluetooth, or Wi-Fi, with no central server.

Briarcliff Entertainment

Briarcliff Entertainment: Santa Monica-based independent film distributor founded in 2018 by Tom Ortenberg (ex-Lionsgate, Open Road Films); first releases Fahrenheit 11/9 and El Chicano; known for acquiring films other distributors declined, such as The Apprentice and Magazine Dreams.

Briarcliff Manor, New York

Briarcliff Manor is a village in Westchester County, New York, north of Manhattan along the Hudson River, incorporated in 1902 with 7,569 residents at the 2020 census.

Briarcrest Christian School

Briarcrest Christian School is a private co-ed Christian school in Eads, Tennessee, near Memphis, founded in 1973 as a Baptist school system; over 1,700 students in grades K2-12, ACSI Exemplary accredited.

Briard

Briard (Berger de Brie, Chien Berger de Brie): ancient French boundary-herding and flock-guarding dog from the Brie region, depicted since the 8th century, imported to America by Thomas Jefferson, official war dog of the French army, AKC-recognized in 1928.

Briare Aqueduct

The Briare Aqueduct (pont-canal de Briare) is a 662-meter navigable aqueduct in central France, opened in 1896 to carry the Canal latéral à la Loire over the Loire.

Briault (Martian crater)

Briault is a 93.06-km-diameter impact crater on Mars at 9.98°S, 89.68°E, named for "P. Briault" and approved by the IAU in 1973; HiRISE imaged active braided sand dunes inside it in December 2019.