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Ban Ki-moon (반기문)
Ban Ki-moon (반기문, 潘基文), born 1944, South Korean diplomat and eighth UN Secretary-General (2007–2016); former foreign minister, six-party talks figure, climate and MDG initiatives, later IOC Ethics Commission chair.
Ban Kulin
Ban Kulin, ban of medieval Bosnia (before 1180–1204), issued the 29 August 1189 trade charter to Dubrovnik, the oldest South Slavic vernacular state document, and faced heresy accusations resolved at Bilino Polje in 1203.
Ban Nobutomo
Ban Nobutomo (伴信友), 1773 to 1846, was a Japanese kokugaku scholar and Obama domain retainer known for precise research on the classics, history, and Shinto.
Ban Nongphou
Ban Nongphou (Ban Nong Phu) is an abandoned rural settlement in Champasak Province, Laos, near the Wat Phou temple complex; the name also denotes villages in Khammouane and Xiangkhoang provinces.
Ban of Croatia
The Ban of Croatia was the highest office of the Croatian state, a viceroy governing on the king's behalf who later headed Croatia's autonomous government, abolished in 1946.
Ban on Unauthorized Cults
The Ban on Unauthorized Cults (禁断淫祀令) was a Cao Wei edict, issued after the state's founding, banning popular sacrifices that violated the Confucian ritual canon.
Ban Phe Botanic Garden Urban Forest
Ban Phe Botanic Garden Urban Forest (สวนพฤกษศาสตร์บ้านเพ), Rayong, Thailand: a 625-rai coastal botanic garden and beach forest, founded 1974 as Phe Arboretum, renamed 2013, free entry, DNP-managed.
Ban Phlu Luang dynasty
The Ban Phlu Luang dynasty (ราชวงศ์บ้านพลูหลวง) was the last royal dynasty of the Ayutthaya kingdom, founded by Phetracha in 1688 and ended when Burma destroyed Ayutthaya in 1767.
Ban Shu Lao Gong (半熟老公)
Ban Shu Lao Gong (半熟老公, Half-Mature Husband) is a 2025 Chinese vertical short drama on Hongguo, 71 episodes, starring Wang Kaimu and Xu Zhenzhen in a contract-marriage romance adapted from the Tomato Novel Jiang Lüshi Jintian Xindong le Ma?, with first-day heat of 90.76 million.
Ban Yong
Ban Yong (班勇), courtesy name Yiliao, was an Eastern Han military officer who as Western Regions Chief Clerk rebuilt Han authority over the Western Regions oasis states.
Ban Zhao
Ban Zhao (班昭), also known as Cao Dagu, was an Eastern Han scholar who completed the Han Shu and wrote the Nü Jie, a classic of women's education.
Ban‐Hock Toh
Ban-Hock Toh, also known as B H Toh, is an Australian immunologist and Emeritus Professor of Medicine at Monash, known for work on autoimmune gastritis and pernicious anemia.
Bana dynasty
The Bana dynasty (பாணர்) was a line of warlord chiefs in southern India who served in turn under the Western Gangas, Rashtrakutas, Cholas, and Pandyas.
Bana Jabrì
Bana Jabri is a French-born immunologist known for celiac disease research, a University of Chicago Distinguished Service Professor who directs Institut Imagine in Paris since 2025.
Banaag at Sikat
Banaag at Sikat, translated as Radiance and Sunrise, is a 1906 Tagalog novel by Lope K. Santos that dramatizes labor exploitation through a poor-boy-rich-girl love plot.
Banaat FC
Banaat FC (بنات إف سي), a Dubai women's football club founded by Budreya Faisal in 2023, won the 2025/26 UAE Women's League and Super Cup and debuted internationally in the WAFF and AFC Women's Champions League.
Banaba
Banaba, also known as Ocean Island, is a raised coral island just south of the equator, now part of Kiribati and its highest point, strip-mined for phosphate until its people were displaced to Fiji.
Banabhatta
Banabhatta (बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit poet who served as chief court poet to Emperor Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti dynasty, known for the Harshacharita, a biography of his patron, and the Kadambari, an early prose romance.
Banabhatta ki Atmakatha
Banabhatta ki Atmakatha (बाणभट्ट की आत्मकथा) is a 1946 Hindi novel by Hazariprasad Dwivedi that imagines the autobiography of Bāṇa, the seventh-century Sanskrit author of the Harshacharita.
Banacek
Banacek is an American crime-drama television series that aired on NBC from 1972 to 1974, starring George Peppard as a Polish-American insurance investigator in Boston who recovers seemingly impossible thefts.
Banach algebra cohomology
Banach algebra cohomology, also called cohomology of Banach algebras, is the cohomology theory for Banach algebras using bounded cochains, introduced by Barry Edward Johnson in 1972.
Banach fixed-point theorem
The Banach fixed-point theorem, also called the Banach contraction principle or contraction mapping theorem, states that a contraction mapping on a complete metric space has a unique fixed point.
Banach function algebra
A Banach function algebra is a complete normed subalgebra of continuous functions that separates points and contains constants, studied with Gelfand theory as a commutative Banach algebra.
Banach space
A Banach space is a vector space with a norm under which every Cauchy sequence converges, named for Stefan Banach and central to functional analysis.
Banach–Tarski paradox
The Banach–Tarski paradox is a theorem of set-theoretic geometry, proved by Stefan Banach and Alfred Tarski in 1924, stating that a solid ball can be reassembled into two identical balls.
Banachiewicz (lunar crater)
Banachiewicz, a 99-km heavily degraded lunar impact crater at 5.28°N, 80.01°E near the eastern limb, IAU-named 1964 for Polish astronomer Tadeusz Banachiewicz, with satellite craters B, C, and E.
Banadir
Banadir (Benadir, Benaadir) is a coastal region of southern Somalia: historically the Indian Ocean coast from Cadale to Kismayo with ports Mogadishu, Merka, and Brava, and administratively the Mogadishu-area region under direct federal government administration.
Bañados del Este Biosphere Reserve
Bañados del Este Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO MAB reserve in southeastern Uruguay designated in 1976 and redefined in 2004, covering about 1.25 million hectares of wetlands, coastal lagoons, and Butia palm savannas across four departments.
Bañados del Este y Franja Costera
Bañados del Este y Franja Costera, Ramsar site no. 290, is Uruguay's first Ramsar wetland (1984), 407,408 ha of coastal lagoons and marshes in Rocha and Treinta y Tres, home to 247 bird species.
Bañados del Izozog y el río Parapetí
Bañados del Izozog y el río Parapetí, Ramsar site 1087 in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, designated 17 September 2001; a 615,882-ha wetland where the Parapetí River ends in a tectonic depression, linked to the Amazon basin and vital to the Izoceño-Guaraní people.