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Bae Yong-joon (배용준)
Bae Yong-joon (배용준), born 1972, is the South Korean actor nicknamed Yonsama who led the first Korean Wave in Japan through Winter Sonata (2002), later headed Keyeast, married Park Soo-jin in 2015, and now lives in Hawaii.
Bae Yoon-gyu (배윤규)
Bae Yoon-gyu (배윤규, 裵潤圭), also romanized Bae Youn-kyu, is a South Korean actor born 1999, debuted in KBS Drama Special: Prism (2022), known for Revelations, The Witch, Karma, The Scandal of Chunhwa, and his first lead in Love on the Menu (2026).
Baek Hyun-jin (백현진)
Baek Hyun-jin (백현), born in 1972, is a South Korean painter, musician, and actor who co-founded Eo-eo-bu Project and was a 2017 Korea Artist Prize finalist.
Baek Ji-young (백지영)
Baek Ji-young (백지영, Baek Z Young), born 1976, is a South Korean singer who debuted in 1999 with Sorrow and "Seontaek", became famous with "Dash" (2000), reinvented herself as a ballad singer with "Sarang Anhae" (2006), and is known as the queen of drama OSTs.
Baek Jin-hee (백진희)
Baek Jin-hee (백진희), born 1990, is a South Korean actress known for Bandhobi, Empress Ki, Missing Nine, Jugglers, and The Real Has Come, now starring in MBC's The Judge Returns and marrying in January 2027.
Baek Se-hee
Baek Se-hee (백세희, born 1990) was the South Korean author of the therapy memoir I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki (죽고 싶지만 떡볶이는 먹고 싶어), about her dysthymia; a million-copy, 25-country bestseller. She died October 16, 2025, aged 35, donating organs that saved five lives.
Baek Seo-hoo (백서후)
Baek Seo-hoo (백서후), South Korean actor born 1996, known for Ko Won in Miss Night and Day (2024), Ma Min-hwan in Study Group (2025), Heartbeat, Cafe Minamdang, Color Rush.
Baek Seok
Baek Seok, real name Paek Ki-haeng, was a Korean poet, born in 1912, who wrote his main work in Japanese-occupied Korea and died in the North in the mid-1990s.
Baek Sun-ho (백선호)
Baek Sun-ho (백선호, legal name Lee Seon-ho), South Korean actor born 2003 in Seoul; former BigHit and C-JeS idol trainee (M.I.C) who debuted in Between Him and Her (2023) and leads Netflix's If Wishes Could Kill (2026).
Baek Sung-chul (백성철)
Baek Sung-chul (백성철, born 1999) is a South Korean model-turned-actor from Suncheon, known as Santa in Inspector Koo (2021), Oh Chan-hwi in Brewing Love (2024), and Shim Yu-geon in Dream to You (2026); distinct from the 1981-born actor of the same name.
Baek Sung-hyun (백성현)
Baek Sung-hyun (백성현, born 1989) is a South Korean actor, a former child star of Stairway to Heaven and Damo, now known for Voice, Korea-Khitan War, and KBS daily dramas, winning 2024 KBS Drama Awards for Su-Ji and U-Ri.
Baekhyun (변백현)
Baekhyun (변백현, Byun Baek-hyun, born 1992) is a South Korean singer, main vocalist of EXO, EXO-CBX, and SuperM, and solo R&B artist under his label INB100; his EP Delight was the first solo album to earn Gaon triple platinum.
Baekje Gilt-bronze Standing Buddha (Buyeo)
The Baekje gilt-bronze standing Buddha (Buyeo) is a small gilt-bronze Buddhist statue cast by the Baekje kingdom, whose capital lay at Buyeo, characterized by gentle faces and harmonious proportions.
Baelor
Baelor is the ninth episode of Game of Thrones season 1 (HBO, June 12, 2011), written by Benioff and Weiss and directed by Alan Taylor, famous for Ned Stark's beheading at the Great Sept of Baelor; distinct from Baelor Targaryen and the Sept itself.
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
BAFTA Leading Actor: annual British Academy Film Award for the best leading male film performance, one of four acting categories, six nominees since 2021, decided by Acting Chapter nominations and all-member vote; 2026 winner Robert Aramayo for I Swear.
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
BAFTA Film Leading Actress award: the British Academy's prize for the year's best leading actress performance, decided by chapter longlisting, chapter nominations, and an all-member final vote; Jessie Buckley won in 2026 for Hamnet.
BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design
The BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design is an annual film award given by BAFTA to costume designers for films released in the United Kingdom.
BAFTA Award for Best Film
BAFTA Award for Best Film, the top EE BAFTA Film Awards prize voted by all BAFTA film members in three rounds (10 longlist, 5 nominees, winner); requires 50+ UK screenings over 7 days or 350 screenings; recent winners include One Battle After Another (2026), Conclave (2025), Oppenheimer (2024).
Bag of Bones
Bag of Bones is Stephen King's 1998 Scribner ghost novel about widowed novelist Mike Noonan, his Maine lakeside house Sara Laughs, a custody battle, and the title's origin in Thomas Hardy.
Bagagem
Bagagem is the 1976 debut poetry collection of Brazilian writer Adélia Prado, endorsed by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and counted among the finest first books in Brazilian poetry.
Bagan mural painting
Bagan mural painting refers to the Buddhist wall paintings inside Bagan's temples in central Myanmar, created mostly between the 11th and 13th centuries during the city's time as a Buddhist imperial capital.
Bagani (TV series)
Bagani is a 2018 Philippine fantasy drama series set in the fictional precolonial world of Sansinukob. It follows five heroes granted mystical powers to defend their land.
Bagdasar Dpir
Bagdasar Dpir (Պաղտասար Դպիր, ca. 1683–1768) was an Armenian poet, teacher, and printer of Constantinople who managed Armenian printing houses for over 50 years and wrote more than 200 verse works.
Bagel
Bagel (Yiddish beygel, Polish bajgiel): ring-shaped bread from Jewish communities in Poland, boiled before baking for a chewy crust; first documented in Kraków in 1610, brought to New York and Montreal by Jewish immigrants, and mass-marketed by Lender's frozen bagels from 1962.
Bagh-o-Bahar
Bagh-o-Bahar (باغ و بہار; "Garden and Spring") is an Urdu prose tale by Mir Amman, first published in 1804 and treated as a founding work of modern Urdu prose.
Baghban (बाग़बान) (2003 film)
Baghban (बाग़बान) is a 2003 Hindi family drama directed by Ravi Chopra, produced by B.R. Chopra, starring Amitabh Bachchan and Hema Malini as a retired couple neglected by their four sons, with Salman Khan as the adopted son Alok.
Baghdad school
The Baghdad school, also called the Arabic or Abbasid school, was a tradition of manuscript illustration that flourished in Abbasid Iraq in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.
Baghead (2023 film)
Baghead (2023) is a supernatural horror film, Alberto Corredor's feature debut, expanded from his 2017 short with Lorcan Reilly. Freya Allan inherits a Berlin pub tied to Baghead, a shape-shifting entity channeling the dead; Shudder released it in 2024.
Bagheera (2024 film)
Bagheera (ಬಘೇರಾ) is a 2024 Kannada vigilante action thriller directed by Dr. Suri from a Prashanth Neel story, produced by Hombale Films, starring Sriimurali as cop-turned-vigilante Vedanth Prabhakar, released 31 October 2024.
Bagheera (बघीरा)
Bagheera (बघीरा, Baghīrā) is the black panther in Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book (1894) and The Second Jungle Book (1895); born in captivity at Oodeypore, he buys Mowgli's life with a bull and mentors him with Baloo, voiced by Sebastian Cabot (1967) and Ben Kingsley (2016).