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Bridget Jones
Bridget Jones is Helen Fielding's fictional London singleton, first a mid-1990s Independent column, then the 1996 diary novel that founded chick lit, loosely based on Pride and Prejudice and adapted into four films starring Renée Zellweger.
Bridget Jones (film series)
The Bridget Jones film series is a four-film British romantic comedy franchise (2001-2025) starring Renée Zellweger, adapted from Helen Fielding's columns and novels, produced by Working Title Films with Colin Firth and Hugh Grant.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025), also called Bridget Jones 4, is a romantic comedy directed by Michael Morris, starring Renée Zellweger as a widowed Bridget dating Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor, released on Peacock February 13, 2025.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (novel)
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is Helen Fielding's 2013 third Bridget Jones novel, in which the 51-year-old widow raises Mabel and Billy after Mark Darcy's death and dates the much younger Roxster; adapted into the 2025 Peacock film.
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason is a 2004 romantic comedy directed by Beeban Kidron and the sequel to Bridget Jones's Diary, adapted from Helen Fielding's 1999 novel.
Bridget Jones's Baby
Bridget Jones's Baby, also known as Bridget Jones 3, is a 2016 romantic comedy directed by Sharon Maguire, with Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, and Patrick Dempsey.
Bridget Jones's Diary
Bridget Jones's Diary: 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Sharon Maguire, based on Helen Fielding's 1996 novel; stars Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant; Oscar-nominated, Pride and Prejudice-inspired, launched the chick-lit film franchise.
Bridget M. Brennan
Bridget M. Brennan, also known as Bridget Meehan Brennan, is an American district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
Bridget Marquardt
Bridget Marquardt (Bridget Christina Sandmeier, born 1973) is an American TV personality and podcast host, star of The Girls Next Door (2005-2010), later host of Ghost Magnet, Ghost Bunny, and Girls Next Level.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan (Kathryn Bridget Moynahan), American actress and model from Binghamton, New York; known as Natasha on Sex and the City, Susan Calvin in I, Robot, Erin Reagan in Blue Bloods, and Helen in John Wick.
Bridget of Sweden
Bridget of Sweden, born Birgitta Birgersdotter (1303–1373), was a Swedish noblewoman and mystic who dictated more than 600 revelations, founded the Brigittine order, and was canonized in 1391.
Bridget Parker
Bridget Parker (born 5 January 1939, Northumberland) is a British eventing rider who won team gold at the 1972 Munich Olympics on Cornish Gold after entering as a reserve, and later chaired British selectors.
Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson, Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South since 2010, UK Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from July 2024, later Labour Party chair, former shadow education secretary.
Bridget Powers
Bridget Powers, born Cheryl Marie Murphy (1980, Boise, Idaho), also known as Bridget the Midget or Bridget Powerz, is an American former adult-film performer and dwarf who moved into mainstream films such as S.W.A.T., Tiptoes, and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, appeared on Howard Stern and HBO's Cathouse, and now sings in a punk band and works as a feature dancer.
Bridget R. Scanlon
Bridget R. Scanlon is an Irish-born hydrogeologist who leads the Sustainable Water Resources Program at the University of Texas at Austin, using GRACE satellite data to quantify groundwater depletion.
Bridget Regan
Bridget Catherine Regan (born 1982, San Diego County, California) is an American actress known for Kahlan Amnell in Legend of the Seeker, Rose in Jane the Virgin, Dottie Underwood in Agent Carter, Poison Ivy in Batwoman, Monica Stevens in The Rookie, and Broadway's Is He Dead?.
Bridget Riley
Bridget Louise Riley (born 24 April 1931, London) is an English painter, a founder of Op art. Black-and-white Current (1964) featured in MoMA's 1965 The Responsive Eye; she won the 1968 Venice Biennale International Prize for Painting and turned to color from 1967.
Bridget Rogers
Bridget Rogers is an American chemical engineer at Vanderbilt University known for research on surfaces, interfaces, and thin films, and elected president of the American Vacuum Society in 2023.
Bridget S. Bade
Bridget S. Bade, born Bridget Shelton Bade in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit since 2019.
Bridget S. Wade
Bridget S. Wade is a micropalaeontologist who has been Professor of Micropalaeontology at University College London since 2013, studying planktonic foraminifera to calibrate the geological timescale.
Bridget Ziegler
Bridget Ziegler, Sarasota County School Board member since 2014 and Moms for Liberty co-founder, Florida parental-rights advocate aligned with Ron DeSantis, later at the center of the 2023 Christian Ziegler sex-battery investigation.
Bridgetown
Bridgetown is the capital and largest city of Barbados on Carlisle Bay, a UNESCO World Heritage colonial port town (Historic Bridgetown and its Garrison, 2011) central to the sugar and slave trades, home to the modern Port of Bridgetown, and namesake of the Bridgetown climate-finance Initiative.
Bridgette Andersen
Bridgette Andersen (Marriah Bridget Andersen, 1975–1997) was an American child actress of the 1980s, known for Savannah Smiles, The Parent Trap II, and A Summer to Remember; she died at 21 of an overdose.
Bridgette Gordon
Bridgette Cyrene Gordon (born 1967, DeLand, Florida) is head women's basketball coach at Florida A&M, a 1988 Olympic gold medalist, two-time Tennessee Lady Vols NCAA champion (1987, 1989), 1989 Final Four MVP, and Women's Basketball Hall of Famer (2007).
Bridgette Gusterson
Bridgette Gusterson (Bridgette Ireland), born 1973, Australian water polo center forward who captained Australia to gold in the first Olympic women's water polo tournament at Sydney 2000; 212 caps, 400+ goals, ISHOF 2017.
Bridgette Wilson
Bridgette Wilson (Bridgette Wilson-Sampras), born 1973 in Gold Beach, Oregon, is a former American actress and Miss Teen USA 1990 winner known for Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat (1995) and Veronica Vaughn in Billy Madison (1995); retired from film after Phantom Punch (2008), married Pete Sampras in 2000.
Bridgewater Associates
Bridgewater Associates is an American hedge fund founded by Ray Dalio in 1975, known for its Pure Alpha and All Weather strategies and managing about $102 billion for institutional clients.
Bridgewater Canal
The Bridgewater Canal is a 39-mile canal in North West England, opened in 1761 to carry coal from Worsley to Manchester and lock-free on its main line.
Bridgewater Four
The Bridgewater Four, Patrick Molloy, James Robinson, and cousins Michael and Vincent Hickey, were wrongly convicted in 1979 of the murder of paperboy Carl Bridgewater at Yew Tree Farm; convictions quashed in 1997 after a forged confession was exposed, murder unsolved.
Bridgewater House
Bridgewater House names several British buildings: a Grade I London mansion (1854, Sir Charles Barry, for Lord Ellesmere) and a Grade II Manchester warehouse (1912, Harry S. Fairhurst), plus smaller namesakes.