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Brigitte Lahaie

Brigitte Lahaie (Brigitte Lucie Jeanine Vanmeerhaeghe), born 1955 in Tourcoing, is a French actress and radio host, star of French adult cinema 1976–1980, Jean Rollin collaborator, and daily presenter on RMC then Sud Radio.

Oct 21, 2026

Brigitte Latrille Gaudin

Brigitte Latrille-Gaudin (also Brigitte Gaudin), born 1958 in Bordeaux, French foil fencer; Olympic team gold 1980, silver 1976, bronze 1984; later owned leech producer Ricarimpex.

Brigitte Lin (林青霞)

Brigitte Lin Ching-hsia (林青霞), born 1954, Taiwanese actress of about 100 films (1973–1994): Chiung Yao romances in Taiwan, androgynous wuxia roles in Hong Kong including Dongfang Bubai in Swordsman II, Golden Horse Best Actress for Red Dust and 2023 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Brigitte Macron

Brigitte Macron, born 1953, wife of President Emmanuel Macron and France's first lady since 2017; former literature teacher, defined role by an unpaid 2017 transparency charter, founded the LIVE employment program.

Brigitte Nielsen

Brigitte Nielsen, born Gitte Nielsen (1963, Rødovre, Denmark), Danish model-turned-actress and singer; Red Sonja, Rocky IV's Ludmila Drago (reprised in Creed II), marriage to Stallone, and reality-TV revival.

Oct 20, 2026

Brigitte Rohde

Brigitte Rohde (Rohde-Köhn), born 1954 in Prenzlau, East German 400 m sprinter and 400 m hurdler; 1976 Montreal Olympic gold in the 4x400 m relay (3:19.23 world record), also 1974 European and 1979 World Cup relay champion.

Brigsby Bear

Brigsby Bear is a 2017 American comedy-drama, Dave McCary's feature debut, written by Kevin Costello and Kyle Mooney, who stars as James Pope, a kidnapping victim whose favorite TV show was made only for him. Premiered at Sundance 2017; released by Sony Pictures Classics July 28, 2017.

Oct 21, 2026

Brigstock

Brigstock, Northamptonshire village and civil parish, also a Romano-British temple site (Pleiades 79356): Saxon royal estate, mid-15th-century market, Roman shrine complex with 278 coins and horse-and-rider figurines, Iron Age enclosure excavated 1979-81.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

The Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (बृहदारण्यक उपनिषद्, the "Great Forest Upanishad") is a Sanskrit text of the Shukla Yajurveda and the oldest of the principal Upanishads, teaching the identity of Atman and Brahman.

Brihadisvara Nandi

The Brihadisvara Nandi is a colossal monolithic sculpture of Nandi, the bull mount of Shiva, at the Brihadisvara Temple in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, carved from a single black granite block about 6 meters long.

Brihadisvara Temple

The Brihadisvara Temple, also called Brihadeeswara, is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva at Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India, built of granite by the Chola emperor Rajaraja I and consecrated in 1010.

Brihadisvara Temple, Gangaikonda Cholapuram

Brihadisvara Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram, Tamil Nadu: Shiva temple completed 1035 by Rajendra I, part of the Great Living Chola Temples UNESCO site, with a 53-m curved vimana contrasting the straight Thanjavur tower.

Brihadratha

Brihadratha (बृहद्रथ) was the last ruler of the Maurya Empire, killed after c. 185 BC by his general Pushyamitra Shunga, who founded the Shunga dynasty.

Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport

Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport, known as BEST, is Mumbai's public bus operator and electricity supplier, tracing its roots to the city's 1870s horse-drawn tramways.

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (बृहन्मुंबई महानगरपालिका)

Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (बृहन्मुंबई महानगरपालिका), also Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai, is Mumbai's civic body under the 1888 Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, with 227 elected councillors, a state-appointed Municipal Commissioner, and India's richest municipal budget.

Brihannala

Brihannala (বৃহন্নলা) is the disguise name Arjuna took as a charioteer at the court of Virata during the thirteenth year of the Pandavas' exile in the Mahabharata.

Brihaspati (बृहस्पति)

Brihaspati (बृहस्पति), also Brahmanaspati, is the Vedic Hindu lord of prayer and priest of the gods, later guru of the devas and regent of Jupiter in the Navagraha, worshipped on Thursdays.

Brihaspati Smriti

Brihaspati Smriti (बृहस्पतिस्मृति) is a lost Sanskrit legal digest of ancient India, attributed to the sage Brihaspati, that expounded Hindu law, especially courts and evidence.

Brihatkatha

Brihatkatha (बृहत्कथा), "the Great Story," is a lost Indian collection of tales attributed to the poet Gunadhya, composed in Paisachi Prakrit and known today only through later Sanskrit adaptations such as Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara.

Brihatkathamanjari

The Brihatkathamanjari (बृहत्कथामञ्जरी) is an 11th-century Sanskrit verse retelling of the lost Brihatkatha of Gunadhya, composed by the Kashmiri poet Kshemendra and dated to 1037, in 18 sections.

Brihatsamhita

Brihatsamhita, meaning Great Compilation, is a sixth-century Sanskrit encyclopedia by the astronomer Varahamihira of Ujjain, covering about 4,000 verses on astronomy, astrology, weather, architecture, and gems, and valued as a historical source on early medieval India.

Brii Biosciences (腾盛博药)

Brii Biosciences (腾盛博药) is a biotechnology company founded in 2018, with operations in Shanghai and Durham, North Carolina, that develops therapies for infectious and liver diseases.