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Bank of Dave (film)
Bank of Dave is a 2023 British biographical comedy-drama directed by Chris Foggin, starring Rory Kinnear as Burnley businessman Dave Fishwick, who fought to open a community bank; released on Netflix 16 January 2023, with a 2025 sequel.
Bank Under Siege
Bank Under Siege (Asalto al Banco Central) is a 2024 Netflix miniseries directed by Daniel Calparsoro about the 23 May 1981 Banco Central robbery in Barcelona, in which 11 robbers held over 200 hostages for 37 hours demanding the release of 23-F coup officers.
Bankable star
Bankable star: a film actor whose name alone attracts financing and audiences. Measured via Hollywood Reporter Star Power, Ulmer Scale, The Numbers Bankability Index; a commercial star adds about $12.46M average box office.
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়)
Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়), was an Indian Bengali novelist born in 1838 whose Anandamath contains Vande Mataram.
Bankroll Fresh
Bankroll Fresh (Trentavious Zamon White, born 1987), also Yung Fresh, Atlanta trap rapper; mixtapes Street Motivation, Life of a Hot Boy; "Hot Boy"; killed March 4, 2016.
Banks (singer)
Banks (Jillian Rose Banks, born 1988, Orange County, California) is an American alternative R&B/electropop singer-songwriter, known for the gold 2014 debut Goddess, the platinum single "Beggin for Thread", five studio albums, and an independent career since 2021.
Banks of the Trinity
Banks of the Trinity is Cody Johnson's tenth studio album, a 16-track country record released June 26, 2026 on COJO Music/Warner Records Nashville, produced by Trent Willmon, featuring Luke Combs and Brothers Osborne and themed on his East Texas childhood.
Banksy
Banksy is the pseudonym of an anonymous British street artist, reportedly Robin Gunningham, born around 1972-1974 near Bristol, known for stenciled political murals, the self-shredding Love is in the Bin, Dismaland, and the Oscar-shortlisted film Exit Through the Gift Shop.
Banksy statue
Banksy statue, the Waterloo Place 'Blinded by the Flag' sculpture: unauthorized fibreglass statue of a suited man blinded by a flag, installed 29 April 2026 in London, confirmed by Banksy on Instagram, held by Westminster Council pending a permanence decision.
Banku music
Banku music is a genre term coined by Nigerian singer Mr Eazi for his signature sound, a fusion of Ghanaian highlife grooves and bounces with Nigerian chord progressions, plus R&B, hip-hop, and pop.
Bankura horse
The Bankura horse is a stylized terracotta horse made in Panchmura village, West Bengal, originally offered to deities like Dharma Thakur and now an emblem of Indian handicrafts.
Banky W.
Banky W. (Olubankole Wellington), Nigerian R&B singer, actor, and politician; co-founder of Empire Mates Entertainment (EME), Wizkid's former label, later a media agency; star of The Wedding Party; 2023 House of Representatives candidate.
Banned in Boston
Banned in Boston: catchphrase for the censorship of books, plays, and songs in Boston by the Watch and Ward Society and city authorities, famous from the 1920s; publishers courted bans to boost sales elsewhere.
Banners (ΞRS) (musician)
BANNERS (BANNΞRS), stage name of Michael Joseph Nelson (born 1986), is an English indie-pop singer-songwriter from Liverpool, formerly of the Liverpool Cathedral Choir, based in Toronto; known for "Someone to You" and albums Where the Shadow Ends (2019) and All Back to Mine (2024).
Bano Qudsia
Bano Qudsia (بانو قدسیہ, 1928–2017), born Qudsia Chattha, Pakistani Urdu novelist and playwright, wife of Ashfaq Ahmed; author of Raja Gidh and the classic TV play Aadhi Baat; Sitara-i-Imtiaz and Kamal-e-Fun Award recipient.
Banoffee pie
Banoffee pie, originally Banoffi pie, is an English dessert of bananas, cream, and boiled condensed-milk toffee, created by Nigel Mackenzie and Ian Dowding at The Hungry Monk restaurant in Jevington, East Sussex, in the early 1970s from Blum's Coffee Toffee Pie.
Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनू मैं तेरी दुल्हन)
Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनूँ मैं तेरी दुल्हन) is a Zee TV Hindi drama serial aired 14 August 2006 to 28 May 2009, 700 episodes, starring Divyanka Tripathi as Vidya, Sharad Malhotra as Sagar, and Kamya Punjabi as Sindoora, produced by Shakuntalam Telefilms.
Banquet
Banquet: a formal, elaborate meal for many people on a special occasion; from French banc (bench), once meaning a sweet course; spans Roman convivium, Joseon royal feasts, and modern plated or buffet catering.
Banquo
Banquo is a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth: a Scottish general and Thane of Lochaber, Macbeth's friend turned victim. Prophecy says his descendants will be kings; murdered by Macbeth, he haunts the banquet as a ghost and was recast from Holinshed's accomplice to flatter James I.
Banshee (film)
Banshee (2006) is an American Oxygen TV action-thriller directed by Kari Skogland, written by Kirsten Elms, starring Taryn Manning as car thief Sage hunted by a DJ serial killer (Christian Campbell); 96 min, R, distinct from the 2003 UK Banshee.
Banshee (TV series)
Banshee (Cinemax, 2013–2016) is an American action crime drama created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, starring Antony Starr as ex-con thief Lucas Hood posing as a Pennsylvania sheriff; four seasons, 90% Rotten Tomatoes.
Banteay Srei style
Banteay Srei style is a period of Angkorian Khmer art, 967 to about 1000 CE, defined by the temple's pink sandstone and finely carved decoration.
Bantha
Bantha: fictional shaggy horned mammal of Star Wars, native to Tatooine, mount of Tusken Raiders, source of blue milk; first played on screen by the elephant Mardji in A New Hope (1977).
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಸ್ತಾಕ್)
Banu Mushtaq (ಬಾನು ಮುಸ್ತಾಕ್), born 1948 in Hassan, Karnataka, is a Kannada writer, lawyer and activist of the Bandaya protest movement whose collection Heart Lamp, translated by Deepa Bhasthi, won the 2025 International Booker Prize, the first short-story collection and first Kannada work to win.
Banya (баня) (sauna)
Banya (баня) is the East Slavic steam bath, often called the Russian sauna: 60–80°C humid steam, venik whisk massage (parenie), cold plunges, roots in Kievan Rus' and Herodotus's Scythia, distinct from Finland's hotter, drier löyly sauna.
Bao (包宝宝) (film)
Bao (包宝宝) is Pixar's 2018 eight-minute animated short and Domee Shi's directorial debut, the first Pixar short directed by a woman, about a Toronto Chinese immigrant mother whose dumpling comes to life; it won the 2019 Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
Bao Gong An
Bao Gong An (包公案) is a Ming-dynasty collection of Chinese court-case fiction about the Song official Bao Zheng judging crimes, considered the earliest Chinese detective-fiction collection.
Bảo Ninh
Bảo Ninh (Hoàng Ấu Phương, born 1952) is a Vietnamese novelist, author of Nỗi buồn chiến tranh (The Sorrow of War), translated into about 20 languages, winner of the 1994 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and 2016 Simhun Prize.
Bao Shangen (包上恩)
Bao Shangen (包上恩, real name Bao Lujia) is a Chinese actress born 2002 in Shenzhen, a Communication University of Zhejiang acting graduate. Debuting via I Am an Actress (2021), she won Best New Actress at the 4th Asian Content Awards for Love Behind the Melody and played Huang Rong in Iron Blood and Loyal Heart (2024).
Bao Shichen
Bao Shichen (包世臣, 1775–1855) was a Qing dynasty scholar and calligrapher from Jing County, Anhui, whose treatise Yizhou Shuangji became a foundational text of the stele school of calligraphy theory.