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Brighton Beach
Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, nicknamed Little Odessa, is a seaside neighborhood with a large Russian-speaking population from post-1970s Soviet Jewish immigration, a 1878 resort hotel origin, and a Brighton Beach Avenue commercial strip.
Brighton hotel bombing
Brighton hotel bombing: Provisional IRA time bomb planted by Patrick Magee (alias Paul Walsh) in Grand Hotel room 629, exploded 2.54 a.m. 12 October 1984 during the Conservative conference, killing five, narrowly missing Margaret Thatcher.
Brighton railway station
Brighton railway station, also known as Brighton station, is the southern terminus of the Brighton Main Line, opened in 1841 and Grade II listed since 1973.
Brighton Rock (2010 film)
Brighton Rock (2010) is Rowan Joffe's debut feature, adapting Graham Greene's 1938 novel, set in 1964 Brighton amid Mods and Rockers. Sam Riley, Andrea Riseborough, Helen Mirren star; second adaptation after the 1947 Boulting film.
Brighton Rock (novel)
Brighton Rock (novel), Greene's 1938 Catholic crime thriller (Le Rocher de Brighton) set in Brighton: teenage gangster Pinkie Brown covers up reporter Hale's murder; Ida Arnold pursues him; filmed 1947 and 2010.
Brighton Sharbino
Brighton Sharbino (Brighton Rose Sharbino), American actress born 2002 in Flower Mound, Texas; known for Lizzie Samuels on The Walking Dead, young Abby Sciuto on NCIS, Miracles from Heaven, and 2.5M+ social followers.
Brighton-Le-Sands, New South Wales
Brighton-Le-Sands, also known as Brighton Le Sands, is a beachside suburb in southern Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on Lady Robinsons Beach, known for its Greek-Australian community.
BrightSource Energy
BrightSource Energy, founded in 2004 and headquartered in Oakland, California, builds concentrating solar power plants using power tower technology, including the Ivanpah plant in the Mojave Desert.
BrightSpring Health Services
BrightSpring Health Services is an American home and community-based healthcare company formed in 2019 by KKR, public since its January 2024 IPO, serving complex patients in all 50 states.
Brightstar Capital Partners
Brightstar Capital Partners is a New York-based middle-market private equity firm founded by Andrew S. Weinberg in 2015, making control investments in US and Canadian companies.
Brigid
Brigid (Brigit, Bríd) names both an Irish goddess of poetry, healing, and smithcraft, daughter of the Dagda, and Saint Brigid of Kildare (c.450–524), Ireland's female patron saint, honored on 1 February at Imbolc; whether the saint existed is uncertain.
Brigid Brannagh
Brigid Brannagh (born 1972), also credited as Brigid Walsh, is an American actress from San Francisco known for Pamela Moran in Army Wives and Stacey Yorkes in Marvel's Runaways.
Brigid L.M. Hogan
Brigid L.M. Hogan is a British-born developmental biologist at Duke University known for pioneering mouse embryology techniques and work on lung development and adult lung stem cells.
Brigid O'Brien
Brigid O'Brien is a venture investor and Managing Partner, Planetary Health at RA Capital Management in Boston, which she joined in January 2023 after BHP Ventures and In-Q-Tel.
Brigid of Kildare
Brigid of Kildare, also called Mary of the Gael, is the founding abbess of the double monastery at Kildare and one of Ireland's three patron saints, with Patrick and Columba.
Brigid's cross
Brigid's cross (Cros Bhríde) is a woven rush or straw cross made in Ireland on St Brigid's Eve, 31 January, and hung in homes to invoke St Brigid's protection.
Brigimadlin
Brigimadlin (BI 907828) is Boehringer Ingelheim's oral spiro-oxindole MDM2-p53 antagonist for TP53 wild-type, MDM2-amplified cancers; its phase III Brightline-1 trial in dedifferentiated liposarcoma missed its PFS endpoint.
Brigiosum
Brigiosum, also Briossus, was a Roman road station in Aquitania on the Poitiers–Bordeaux route, shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana between Auedonnaco and Rarauna and identified with Brioux, Deux-Sèvres, France.
Brigit Forsyth
Brigit Forsyth (Brigit Dorothea Connell, 1940-2023), Scottish actress best known as Thelma in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?; also Sharon and Elsie, Playing the Field, Still Open All Hours, and stage work.
Brigitta Stockinger
Brigitta Stockinger, known as Gitta Stockinger, is an immunologist at the Francis Crick Institute in London, known for establishing the aryl hydrocarbon receptor as an immune environmental sensor.
Brigitte A. Askonas
Brigitte A. Askonas was an Austrian-born British immunologist who first cloned B cells and headed the immunology division at London's National Institute for Medical Research.
Brigitte Ahrenholz
Brigitte Ahrenholz (1952–2018), East German rower and surgeon; won gold in the women's eights at the 1976 Montréal Olympics, the first with women's rowing, plus 1974 world and 1973 European titles.
Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (1934-2025), French actress and singer, star of Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) and Le Mépris, retired 1973, founded the Fondation Brigitte Bardot in 1986.
Brigitte Bierlein
Brigitte Bierlein (1949–2024), Austrian jurist; first woman President of the Constitutional Court (2018–2019) and first woman Federal Chancellor of Austria, heading the caretaker government of experts from 3 June 2019 to 7 January 2020.
Brigitte C. Widemann
Brigitte C. Widemann is a German-trained pediatric oncologist who is Chief of the Pediatric Oncology Branch at the National Cancer Institute, known for developing selumetinib for NF1.
Brigitte Calls Me Baby
Brigitte Calls Me Baby is a Chicago alt-rock band formed in 2022, fronted by Wes Leavins, named for his pen-pal letters to Brigitte Bardot; albums The Future Is Our Way Out (2024) and Irreversible (2026) on ATO Records.
Brigitte Gabriel (حنان قهوجي)
Brigitte Gabriel (حنان قهوجي), Lebanese-born American activist and founder of ACT for America (2007), an SPLC-designated anti-Muslim group; former Middle East TV anchor, author, and 2025 Menachem Begin Prize recipient.
Brigitte Haas
Brigitte Haas (born 1964, Vaduz) is a Liechtenstein lawyer and Patriotic Union politician, Prime Minister since 10 April 2025 and the country's first female head of government, leading the Ministry of General Government Affairs and Finance after heading the LIHK chamber of commerce.
Brigitte Kieffer
Brigitte Kieffer is a French molecular neurobiologist known for isolating the first opioid receptor gene and showing the mu receptor mediates morphine's analgesic and addictive effects.
Brigitte Kraus
Brigitte Kraus is a retired West German middle-distance runner who won silver in the 3,000 m at the first World Championships, in Helsinki in 1983.