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Barthélémy Attisso
Barthélémy Attisso (1945–2021) was a Togolese guitarist and lawyer who co-founded Senegal's Orchestra Baobab in 1970, blending Cuban son with jazz guitar, and died in Lomé in 2021.
Bartholomeus Spranger
Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611) was a Flemish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor from Antwerp who became court painter to Emperor Rudolf II in Prague and the leading creator of rudolfine Mannerism.
Bartleby, the Scrivener
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street (Melville, 1853, Putnam's Monthly Magazine; Piazza Tales 1856), short story of a copyist who refuses all work with "I would prefer not to," told by his lawyer-boss; read as labor protest, Christ figure, or alienated author.
Bartok the Magnificent
Bartok the Magnificent is a 1999 direct-to-video animated musical spin-off of Anastasia, directed by Don Bluth and Gary Goldman, starring Hank Azaria's bat Bartok rescuing Prince Ivan from Baba Yaga, released November 16, 1999.
Bartolomé Bermejo
Bartolomé Bermejo, born Bartolomé de Cárdenas, was a Spanish painter of the 15th century, active at Valencia, Daroca, Zaragoza, and Barcelona in the Crown of Aragon.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617/1618–1682), Sevillian Spanish Baroque painter, leading artist of 17th-century Seville; known for soft, vaporous religious works, Immaculate Conceptions, and genre scenes of beggar children.
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori was an Italian harpsichord maker at the Medici court in Florence, credited around 1700 with inventing the piano by replacing plucked strings with hammers.
Barton Fink
Barton Fink (1991) is the Coen brothers' black comedy about a 1941 New York playwright, played by John Turturro, who suffers writer's block writing wrestling pictures in Hollywood. It won the Palme d'Or, Best Director, and Best Actor at Cannes, the festival's first triple-award film.
Barton Fitzpatrick
Barton Fitzpatrick, also Barton Fitzpatrick of The Chi, is an American actor, producer, and singer born 1995 in Chicago; known for Reg Taylor on Showtime's The Chi and Blaxton in Power Book IV: Force, a role written for him.
Baru Chandidas
Baru Chandidas (বড়ু চণ্ডীদাস) is the medieval Bengali poet who composed Srikrishnakirtan, a narrative poem of about 8,500 lines on the love of Krishna and Radha.
Barun Sobti (बरुण सोबती)
Barun Sobti (बरुण सोबती), born 1984 in Delhi, is an Indian actor known as Arnav Singh Raizada in Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon and for OTT roles in Asur, Kohrra, and Raat Jawan Hai, with 18 award wins.
Barzakh (برزخ) (TV series)
Barzakh (برزخ) is a 2024 Pakistani Urdu-language fantasy drama web series written and directed by Asim Abbasi, starring Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed, streaming on ZEE5; six episodes about a resort owner's wedding to a woman believed dead.
Bas (rapper)
Bas (Abbas Hamad, born 1987) is a Paris-born, Queens-raised Sudanese-American rapper on J. Cole's Dreamville label, known for Last Winter, Too High to Riot, Milky Way, "Tribe," and Sudan activism.
Bas Jan Ader
Bas Jan Ader (Bastiaan Johan Christiaan Ader, 1942–disappeared 1975), Dutch conceptual and performance artist in Los Angeles, known for the Fall films, I'm Too Sad to Tell You, and the unfinished In Search of the Miraculous, lost at sea crossing the Atlantic in 1975.
Bas Mooy
Bas Mooy, born in Rotterdam in 1976, is a Dutch techno producer and DJ active since 1999, known for a dark, industrial sound and for founding the Rotterdam label Mord.
Bas Tera Saath Ho (بس تیرا ساتھ ہو)
Bas Tera Saath Ho (بس تیرا ساتھ ہو) is a 2026 Pakistani Urdu ARY Digital family drama starring Farhan Saeed as Anas and Sana Javed as Ansa, written by the late Saira Raza and directed by Qasim Ali Mureed, covering deepfake misuse, with reported peak ratings of 15.7.
Basain
Basain (बसाइँ) is a 1957 Nepali novel by Lil Bahadur Chettri, a work of social realism about a poor farmer forced from his ancestral home.
Basara (manga)
Basara (バサラ) is Yumi Tamura's post-apocalyptic shōjo manga, serialized in Bessatsu Shōjo Comic 1990-1998 in 27 volumes, winner of the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award; Sarasa leads a rebellion as her dead twin against the Red King Shuri, with Viz English and Kana French editions.
Basava Ragale
Basava Ragale, fully the Basavarājadevara Ragale, is a Kannada narrative poem by Harihara, the first hagiographic account of the life of the twelfth-century saint Basava.
Basavanna's Vachanas
Basavanna's Vachanas (ಬಸವಣ್ಣನವರ ವಚನಗಳು) are a corpus of over one thousand short Kannada devotional poems by Basavanna, the twelfth-century Virashaiva leader in Karnataka who rejected caste discrimination.
Baseball cap
Baseball cap: soft-crowned hat with a stiff forward visor, originating with the 1860 Brooklyn Excelsiors. Fitted, snapback, and trucker variants; on-field MLB standard since New Era's 1993 supply deal; also a global fashion item and limited sun protection.
Based
Based is a slang term meaning agreeable or cool, especially for controversial or unpopular opinions; it began as a drug-culture insult and was reclaimed as praise by the rapper Lil B around 2010.
Based on a True Story (film)
Based on a True Story (D'après une histoire vraie), 2017 psychological thriller by Roman Polanski, screenplay with Olivier Assayas, adapted from Delphine de Vigan's Prix Renaudot novel; stars Emmanuelle Seigner and Eva Green; premiered at Cannes 2017.
Based on a True Story (TV series)
Based on a True Story, also called BOATS, is a Peacock dark comedy thriller created by Craig Rosenberg, starring Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, and Tom Bateman as a couple making a true crime podcast with serial killer Matt, the Westside Ripper; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2023 to 2024, cancelled April 2025.
Based on a True Story (Will Smith album)
Based on a True Story, Will Smith's fifth studio album (28 March 2025, SLANG), his first since 2005's Lost and Found; first 'season' of a planned trilogy, 14 tracks, guests include DJ Jazzy Jeff and Big Sean; Metacritic 41, missed the Billboard 200.
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx, the English house duo of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe, formed in London in 1994. Known for Remedy, Rooty, Kish Kash (first Best Electronic/Dance Album Grammy), Brit Awards, and Glastonbury 2005.
Basha
Baashha (பாட்ஷா) is a 1995 Tamil gangster action film directed by Suresh Krissna, starring Rajinikanth as auto driver Manickam hiding a don's past, with Nagma and Raghuvaran; Deva composed, 1995 Pongal release, re-released in 4K in 2025.
Bashar Al Shatty
Bashar Al Shatty, also known as Bashar Al Shatti (بشار الشطي), is a Kuwaiti pop singer who finished second in the first Star Academy Arab World in 2004.
Bashir Badr
Bashir Badr (بشیر بدر), born Syed Muhammad Bashir, was an Indian Urdu poet who gave the modern ghazal a plain, conversational language, winning the Padma Shri in 1999.
Bashir Salahuddin
Bashir Salahuddin (born 1976, Chicago) is an American actor, writer, and comedian, co-creator of South Side and Sherman's Showcase with Diallo Riddle, a Late Night with Jimmy Fallon writer, and actor in GLOW and Top Gun: Maverick.