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Baloo (musician)
Baloo is the stage name of Ahmad Alammary, a Saudi house DJ and producer based in Riyadh who is Chief Creative Officer of the entertainment company MDLBEAST.
Balota (film)
Balota (international title Ballot) is a 2024 Philippine political satire-thriller written and directed by Kip Oebanda, starring Marian Rivera as a teacher protecting the last ballot box of a contested 2007 mayoral election; a Cinemalaya 2024 entry that became a Netflix release and earned Rivera multiple Best Actress awards.
Balqees Ahmed Fathi
Balqees Ahmed Fathi (بلقيس أحمد فتحي), known as Balqees, is a Yemeni-Emirati pop singer born in 1988, the daughter of Yemeni oud player Ahmed Fathi.
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).
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.
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 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).
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.
Balthazar
Balthazar is a French TF1 crime thriller (2018–2023, 5 seasons, 38 episodes) created by Clélia Constantine and Clothilde Jamin, starring Tomer Sisley as eccentric forensic pathologist Raphaël Balthazar and Hélène de Fougerolles as Commander Hélène Bach.
Balthazar & JackRock
Balthazar & JackRock are a techno and tech-trance DJ duo from Sofia, Bulgaria, producing together since 2004, releasing on Drumcode and KNTXT, and running their own label, Renesanz.
Balthazar Getty
Balthazar Getty (Paul Balthazar Getty, born 1975) is an American actor, musician, and fashion designer, great-grandson of J. Paul Getty; known for Lord of the Flies, Lost Highway, and Brothers & Sisters.
Balthus
Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola, 1908–2001), French figurative painter of adolescent girls, street scenes, and interiors; self-taught, Piero della Francesca-influenced, Villa Medici director 1961–1976, Praemium Imperiale 1991.
Balti (film)
Balti (ബൾട്ടി) is a 2025 Malayalam sports action drama, Unni Sivalingam's directorial debut starring Shane Nigam as kabaddi player Udhayan drawn into crime in border-town Velampalayam; released 26 September 2025, music by Sai Abhyankkar, streaming on SonyLIV.
Balti (بالٹی) (food)
Balti (بالٹی) is a curry style invented in Birmingham in the mid-1970s, credited to Mohammed Arif of Adil's, cooked in about 10 minutes in a pressed carbon-steel balti bowl with vegetable oil and served sizzling in the same bowl.
Baltimora
Baltimora (also written BALTIMORA) was an Italian Italo disco music project from Milan, active 1984-1987, founded by producer Maurizio Bassi with Northern Irish frontman Jimmy McShane, best known for the 1985 hit "Tarzan Boy" (#3 UK, #13 US) and the follow-up "Woody Boogie."
Baltimore album quilt
The Baltimore album quilt is an appliqué album quilt made in and around Baltimore, Maryland, in the 1840s and 1850s, its blocks bearing distinct designs, signatures, and inscriptions.
Balto (film)
Balto (1995) is an animated adventure film directed by Simon Wells for Amblimation and Universal, loosely based on the 1925 serum run to Nome, Alaska. It stars Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, and Bridget Fonda, grossed $11.2 million, and was Amblimation's final hand-drawn feature.
Balu Brigada
Balu Brigada, also styled Balu Brigada (no native-script name), is a New Zealand alt-pop duo of brothers Henry and Pierre Beasley, formed in Auckland in 2016, known for "So Cold", the 2025 debut album Portal, and touring with Twenty One Pilots.
Balu Mahendra
Balu Mahendra (Balanathan Benjamin Mahendran, 1939–2014), Sri Lankan Tamil cinematographer-director of Tamil cinema; directed Kokila, Moondram Pirai, Veedu, Sadma; six National Film Awards; natural-lighting auteur who mentored Bala and Vetrimaaran.
Balupu
Balupu (బలుపు) is a 2013 Telugu action comedy directed by Gopichand Malineni, starring Ravi Teja, Shruti Haasan, and Anjali; produced by PVP Cinema, music by S. Thaman, released 28 June 2013, Ravi Teja's comeback hit.
Balut (food)
Balut is a fertilized duck egg incubated 14-18 days (17 ideal in the Philippines), then boiled and eaten from the shell; also called trứng vịt lộn in Vietnam, with penoy as its unfertilized counterpart.
Baluta
Baluta (बलुतं) is a 1978 autobiographical novel by the Marathi writer Daya Pawar, credited as the first Dalit autobiography in Marathi and a founding text of the Dalit autobiographical genre in India.
Balwant Gargi
Balwant Gargi (1916–2003) was an Indian Punjabi-language playwright, novelist, and theater director who founded Panjab University's Indian Theatre Department and won the Sahitya Akademi and Sangeet Natak Akademi awards.
Balwantray Thakore
Balwantray Thakore (બળવંતરાય ઠાકોર, 1869–1952) was a Gujarati poet, critic, and historian who pioneered the sonnet in Gujarati poetry, bridging the Pandit and Gandhi eras.
Balyakalasakhi
Balyakalasakhi (ബാല്യകാലസഖി), meaning "childhood friend", is a 1944 Malayalam tragic love novel by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, his most popular novel and the first major Malayalam work to portray Muslim customs.
Balyan family
The Balyan family, also spelled Balian, was an Ottoman Armenian dynasty of architects who served the sultans for four generations and built Dolmabahçe Palace and the Ortaköy Mosque.
Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (1896–1947) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, playwright, and university professor, best known for Forest of the Gods, his memoir of imprisonment in the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp.
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝)
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (巴尔扎克与小裁缝) is Dai Sijie's 2000 French novel and his 2002 film about two teens re-educated during China's Cultural Revolution whose forbidden Balzac books transform a village seamstress; the film opened Cannes Un Certain Regard and was banned in China.