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Balraj Sahni (बलराज साहनी)
Balraj Sahni (बलराज साहनी), born Yudhishthir Sahni (1913–1973), was an Indian film and stage actor of Hindi cinema's golden era, an IPTA leftist activist, and writer. Known for Do Bigha Zamin, Kabuliwala, Waqt, and his final role Salim Mirza in Garam Hawa (1973).
Balram Bharwani
Balram Bharwani is an Indian stock-market investor whose disclosed holdings in about ten listed small-cap Indian companies, tracked as Balram Bharwani & Associates, total roughly Rs 230 million (Rs 23 crore).
Balram Naik
Balram Naik is an Indian National Congress politician who has represented Mahabubabad in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier serving from 2009 to 2014.
Balrog
Balrog (Quenya Valaraukar): fiery demon of shadow and flame in Tolkien's Middle-earth, a corrupted Maia serving Morgoth; famous as Durin's Bane, slain by Gandalf in Moria.
Balrog (Street Fighter)
Balrog (Mike Bison, マイク・バイソン) is Capcom's Street Fighter boxer, a Shadaloo Four Kings boss from Street Fighter II (1991), renamed in the West to avoid Mike Tyson lawsuits.
Balša I
Balša I (Балша I) was a 14th-century nobleman in Zeta, in present-day Montenegro, who seized power after Emperor Dušan's death in 1355 and founded the Balšić dynasty.
Balša II
Balša II Balšić was a Balkan nobleman who ruled Zeta, roughly modern Montenegro, from 1378 to 1385, gaining southern Albania by marriage before dying in battle.
Balša Popović
Balša Popović (born 2000) is a Montenegrin goalkeeper at Olympiacos and the Montenegro national team; formerly OFK Beograd, named Serbian Superliga's best goalkeeper 2025/26. Not the Red Star youth right back Balša Papović.
Balsa wood
Balsa wood, the timber of Ochroma pyramidale, is the lightest commercial timber, a fast-growing native of southern Mexico to tropical America used chiefly as the core of sandwich composites.
Balsalazide
Balsalazide (balsalazide disodium, Colazal) is an aminosalicylate prodrug for ulcerative colitis, cleaved by colonic bacterial azoreductases to release mesalamine (5-ASA); US-approved 2000, dosed 6.75 g/day capsules or 6.6 g/day tablets.
Balsam of Peru
Balsam of Peru (Myroxylon pereirae resin, Peru balsam) is an aromatic balsam from El Salvador used in fragrance allergy patch testing at 25% in petrolatum; sensitization occurs in 4-8% of tested patients, and it acts mainly as a marker of fragrance allergy.
Balsam woolly adelgid
The balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae) is a tiny, flightless European insect introduced to North America around 1900 that has killed large numbers of balsam, Fraser, and subalpine firs.
Balsamic vinegar
Balsamic vinegar (aceto balsamico), Italian vinegar from grape must. Two protected types: Aceto Balsamico di Modena PGI (60-day minimum) and Traditional Balsamic Vinegar of Modena/Reggio Emilia PDO, aged 12–25 years.
Balsaminaceae
Balsaminaceae, the touch-me-not or balsam family (Impatiens, Hydrocera), is an Ericales family of about 1,000 species of succulent herbs with spurred zygomorphic flowers and explosive seed capsules.
Balsas
Balsas (Río Balsas), Mexico's largest Pacific-coast river, called Atoyac upstream and Mezcala mid-course; drains 117,405 km² across eight states, dammed by El Caracol, Infiernillo, and La Villita hydroelectric dams.
Balseros crisis
The balseros crisis was the 1994 exodus in which more than 35,000 Cubans set out in rafts for Florida, ending automatic US asylum for Cuban arrivals.
Balsignano
Balsignano is a deserted medieval fortified village in the territory of Modugno, near Bari in Apulia, Italy, first recorded in 962 and abandoned by 1561.
Balstilimab
Balstilimab (AGEN-2034) is Agenus's fully human IgG4 anti-PD-1 checkpoint inhibitor investigated in cervical cancer alone or with zalifrelimab, and with botensilimab in colorectal, pancreatic, ovarian, and renal cancers.
Balta Group (LSF9 Balta Issuer S.à r.l.)
Balta Group, now Belysse Group, is a Belgian textile flooring manufacturer founded in 1964 that sold its rugs and Balta brand to Victoria PLC in 2022.
Balta Raion
Balta Raion (Балтський район) was a district of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, centered on Balta; created 1923, MASSR capital seat 1924–1929, abolished 2020 and merged into Podilsk Raion.
Baltacı Mehmed Pasha
Baltacı Mehmed Pasha (بلطجي محمد پاشا) was an Ottoman statesman who served twice as grand vizier under Sultan Ahmed III, from 1704 to 1706 and 1710 to 1711.
Baltasar and Blimunda
Baltasar and Blimunda (Memorial do Convento) is a 1982 historical novel by José Saramago about a soldier, a woman with second sight, and a flying machine in 18th-century Portugal.
Baltasar Garzón
Baltasar Garzón, Spanish ex-magistrate of the Audiencia Nacional known as the 'superjuez'; ordered Pinochet's 1998 London arrest under universal jurisdiction; convicted and disqualified in the 2012 Gürtel wiretap case, later ruled arbitrary by the UN Human Rights Committee; now a lawyer and FIBGAR president.
Baltasar Gracián
Baltasar Gracián (1601–1658) was a Spanish Jesuit writer of the Baroque, the leading theorist of conceptism and author of El Criticón and the Oráculo manual.
Baltasar Kormákur
Baltasar Kormákur (Baltasar Kormákur Samper, born 1966, Reykjavík) is an Icelandic actor, director, screenwriter, and producer, debut 101 Reykjavík (2000), Hollywood films Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest, TV series Trapped and Katla, owner of RVK Studios and Blueeyes Productions.
Baltasar Lopes da Silva
Baltasar Lopes da Silva, who wrote poetry as Osvaldo Alcântara, was a Cape Verdean writer and lawyer who co-founded Claridade in 1936 and wrote the novel Chiquinho (1947).
Baltay Catena
Baltay Catena is an 83.5-km crater chain (catena) on dwarf planet Ceres at 49S, 274E, named for a Mordvinian agricultural festival; interpreted as secondary craters radial from the Urvara basin, cutting Yalode deposits.
BALTAZAR trial
BALTAZAR (Biomarker of AmyLoid pepTide and AlZheimer's diseAse Risk, NCT01315639) is a French multicenter prospective cohort of MCI patients validating plasma and CSF biomarkers, notably Aβ42/40, p-tau181, and p-tau217, for predicting conversion to Alzheimer's dementia over three years.
Balthasar Bekker
Balthasar Bekker (1634–1698) was a Dutch Reformed minister and Cartesian philosopher whose 1691 book The World Bewitched denied witchcraft and cost him his Amsterdam pulpit.
Balthasar Permoser
Balthasar Permoser (1651–1732) was a German Baroque sculptor who spent nearly fifteen years in Italy, then shaped the sculptural decoration of the Dresden Zwinger as court sculptor of Saxony.