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Baba Naudh Singh

Baba Naudh Singh, full title Subhag ji da Sudhar Hathin Baba Naudh Singh, is a 1921 Punjabi novel by Bhai Vir Singh, a foundational work of modern Punjabi fiction.

Baba O'Riley

Baba O'Riley, often mislabeled "Teenage Wasteland," is The Who's 1971 Who's Next opener by Pete Townshend, from the Lifehouse project, titled for Meher Baba and Terry Riley, with its famous intro played on a Lowrey organ, not a synthesizer.

Baba Sehgal (हरजीत सिंह सहगल)

Baba Sehgal (हरजीत सिंह सहगल), born Harjeet Singh Sehgal in 1965 in Lucknow, is an Indian rapper and Indipop pioneer whose 1992 'Thanda Thanda Pani', built on 'Ice Ice Baby', made him India's first rap star.

Baba Stiltz

Baba Stiltz is a Swedish producer and DJ born in Stockholm in 1993, known for house tracks on Studio Barnhus, signing to XL Recordings in 2018, and later film scoring.

Baba Zula

Baba Zula is a Turkish psychedelic band formed in Istanbul in 1996, blending an electrified saz and Anatolian instruments with dub and electronics, a style the band calls Istanbul psychedelia.

Babad

Babad (Javanese ꦧꦧꦢ꧀) is a genre of traditional chronicle in Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, and related literature, recounting history, genealogies, and the origins of kingdoms and courts.

Babad Giyanti

Babad Giyanti, also known as Babad Mangkubumen, is a Javanese historical chronicle in tembang macapat verse form covering Java's political upheavals from 1741 to 1757.

Babak Jahanbakhsh

Babak Jahanbakhsh (بابک جهانبخش), born Ali Jahanbakhsh in 1983, is an Iranian pop singer, songwriter, and composer who broke through with the 2005 album Chi Shodeh and released Mano Baroon in 2012.

Babak Tafti

Babak Tafti, American-Iranian actor born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Yale School of Drama MFA graduate; known for Eduard Asgarov in Succession, Emil Michael in Super Pumped, Chris in The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed, and stage roles from Othello to Lowcountry.

Babanba Banban Vampire (ババンババンバンバンパイア)

Babanba Banban Vampire (ババンババンバンバンパイア), also Baban Baban Ban Vampire, is Hiromasa Okujima's BL comedy manga about 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori guarding a bathhouse boy's virginity, adapted into a 2025 Gaina anime and live-action film.

Babar (TV series)

Babar (1989–2002) is a Canadian-French Nelvana and Clifford Ross animated series adapting Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's elephant-king books, starring Gordon Pinsent, with three Gemini wins and a 2010 Badou sequel.

Babar the Elephant

Babar the Elephant is a fictional elephant king created by Jean de Brunhoff in the 1931 French picture book Histoire de Babar, based on Cécile de Brunhoff's bedtime story, continued by Laurent de Brunhoff from 1946 and criticized as colonialist.

Babbitt

Babbitt is a satirical 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis following two years in the life of George F. Babbitt, a real estate broker in the fictional midwestern city of Zenith.

Babbu Maan

Babbu Maan (Tejinder Singh Maan, born 1975, Khant Maanpur, Punjab) is an Indian Punjabi singer-songwriter, actor and producer; debut 1998, breakthrough Saaun Di Jhadi (2001), best-seller Pyaas (2005), first film Hawayein (2003).

Babe (film)

Babe (1995), Chris Noonan's Australian comedy-drama adapted from Dick King-Smith's The Sheep-Pig, about a piglet who herds sheep; won the Best Visual Effects Oscar, earned $250 million, used 970 trained animals.

Babe Ruth Bows Out

"Babe Ruth Bows Out" (The Babe Bows Out), Nat Fein's June 13, 1948 rear-view photograph of a dying Babe Ruth at Yankee Stadium's silver anniversary, won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, the first sports photo so honored.

Babe: Pig in the City

Babe: Pig in the City (1998) is George Miller's darker sequel to Babe, following Babe and Mrs. Hoggett to a menacing city to save their farm; a critical favorite and box-office failure.

Babek

Babek (Babək), known as Babak Khorramdin, was a ninth-century rebel who resisted the Abbasid Caliphate for twenty-two years and became a heroic subject of Azerbaijani literature.

Babel (film)

Babel (2006) is a drama by Alejandro González Iñárritu, written by Guillermo Arriaga, linking four families in Morocco, the US–Mexico border, and Japan after a rifle shot; Cannes Best Director, Golden Globe Best Drama, Oscar for Best Original Score.

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence

Babel, or the Necessity of Violence (2022) is R.F. Kuang's Nebula and Locus Award-winning dark academia fantasy about Robin Swift, translation, and empire in 1830s Oxford and Canton.

Babelsberg Studio

Studio Babelsberg, founded 1912 in Potsdam-Babelsberg, is the world's oldest large-scale film studio, formerly Bioscop, Ufa, and DEFA, now a Cinespace Studios site with 21 sound stages near Berlin.

Babes in Arms

Babes in Arms: 1937 Rodgers and Hart Broadway musical (289 performances) and its 1939 MGM film adaptation directed by Busby Berkeley, starring Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, origin of the let's-put-on-a-show film trope.

Babes in Toyland (1934 film)

Babes in Toyland (1934), aka March of the Wooden Soldiers, is a Hal Roach Studios MGM musical comedy starring Laurel and Hardy, the first film version of Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta, reissued in 1950 and remade by Disney in 1961.

Babes in Toyland (1961 film)

Babes in Toyland (1961) is Walt Disney Productions' first live-action musical, directed by Jack Donohue, adapting Victor Herbert's 1903 operetta after MGM's 1934 Laurel and Hardy version, starring Annette Funicello, Tommy Sands, and Ray Bolger, with two Oscar nominations.

Babes in Toyland (band)

Babes in Toyland: Minneapolis punk band formed 1987 by Kat Bjelland and Lori Barbero; three albums, Spanking Machine, Fontanelle, Nemesisters; riot grrrl influence, kinderwhore image, broke up in 2001 after a 2014–2015 reunion.

Babes on Broadway

Babes on Broadway is a 1941 MGM musical, the third Garland-Rooney "backyard musical," directed by Busby Berkeley, produced by Arthur Freed, with songs by Burton Lane including the Oscar-nominated "How About You."

Babestation

Babestation is a British adult chat TV channel launched 3 December 2002 on Game Network UK, the first UK babe channel, blending live presenters, premium-rate calls, and webcam services.

Babette's Feast

Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud) is Gabriel Axel's 1987 Danish film adapted from Karen Blixen's 1950 story, about a Parisian chef who cooks a lavish dinner for pious sisters in Jutland; it won the 1988 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the first for Denmark.

Babies (2026 film)

Babies (2026 film): American comedy-drama written and directed by Lauren Miller Rogen, starring Anna Kendrick and Seth Rogen as a couple deciding on parenthood; distinct from the 2010 Balmès documentary and the BBC series.

Babies (British TV series)

Babies is a 2026 six-part BBC One drama created, written and directed by Stefan Golaszewski, starring Paapa Essiedu and Siobhán Cullen as a couple coping with miscarriage; 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.