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Bayaz

Bayaz (بیاض, literally "white") is a small pocket notepad with leather covers from Persian manuscript culture, also used for anthologies of copied poems and maxims.

Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste

The Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, or Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, is a Munich academy of the arts founded by the Free State of Bavaria in 1948.

Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry (Tapisserie de Bayeux) is an 11th-century embroidered hanging, about 68 m long, depicting the 1066 Norman conquest of England; kept in Bayeux, France, and loaned to the British Museum in 2026–2027.

Bayilvan Ranganathan

Bayilvan Ranganathan (பயில்வான் ரங்கநாதன்) is an Indian actor, comedian, and film journalist known for comedy and supporting roles in Tamil cinema, debuting in Mundhanai Mudichu in 1983.

Baylee Littrell

Baylee Littrell (born 2002, Atlanta) is an American singer-songwriter, son of Backstreet Boy Brian Littrell; debut country album 770-Country (2019), American Idol season 23 contestant, now pop artist with "So Be It" (2026).

Baylen Out Loud

Baylen Out Loud is a TLC reality series (premiered January 13, 2025) following TikToker Baylen Dupree and her West Virginia family as she lives with severe tics attributed to Tourette syndrome; clinicians have contested the diagnosis as likely functional tic-like behaviors.

Baymax

Baymax is an inflatable healthcare companion robot from Disney's Big Hero 6 (2014), voiced by Scott Adsit, redesigned from Marvel's 1998 synthformer via Carnegie Mellon soft robotics research; also in Baymax! (2022) and Kingdom Hearts III.

Bayok

Bayok is a spontaneous poetic chant of the Meranaw people of Lanao in Mindanao, Philippines, sung by trained onor at enthronements, feasts, courtships, and poetic jousts.

Bayon style

The Bayon style is the final major phase of classical Khmer art, produced in the late 12th and early 13th centuries under King Jayavarman VII at Angkor Thom.

Bayonet to the Gun

Bayonet to the Gun (Polish: Bagnet na broń) is a patriotic poem by Władysław Broniewski, published in April 1939 and later an informal hymn of the Polish underground.

Bayou Country (album)

Bayou Country is Creedence Clearwater Revival's second album, released January 5, 1969 on Fantasy Records, featuring Proud Mary and Born on the Bayou, peaking at No. 7 in the US.

Bayreuth Festival

The Bayreuth Festival (Bayreuther Festspiele), founded by Richard Wagner, opened 13 August 1876 with the complete Ring premiere in the Festspielhaus he built with King Ludwig II's loan. Annual Wagner-only summer festival, family-run, canon of ten operas, hidden orchestra, 150th anniversary 2026.

Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Richard-Wagner-Festspielhaus): opera house on Bayreuth's Gruener Huegel, built 1872-1876 by Otto Brueckwald to Richard Wagner's specifications, opened 13 August 1876 with Rheingold; home of the annual Wagner-only Bayreuth Festival.

Bayside (band)

Bayside, American emo/pop-punk band from Queens, New York, formed in 2000 by Anthony Raneri; known for Sirens and Condolences, the 2005 self-titled album, The Walking Wounded, and Cult's Billboard 200 number 24 peak.

Bayside Shakedown 2 (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ!)

Bayside Shakedown 2: Rainbow Bridge Shut Down! (踊る大捜査線 THE MOVIE 2 レインボーブリッジを封鎖せよ!) is Fuji TV's 2003 police film sequel directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro, starring Yuji Oda, which earned 17.35 billion yen and long held Japan's live-action box office record.

Baywatch

Baywatch is an American lifeguard drama starring David Hasselhoff as Mitch Buchannon, canceled by NBC in 1989, revived in syndication in 1991, and by 1996 the world's most-watched TV series, seen in 148 countries until 2001.

Baywatch (film)

Baywatch (2017) is Seth Gordon's R-rated action comedy based on the TV series, starring Dwayne Johnson as Mitch Buchannon and Zac Efron; it grossed $177.9 million worldwide on a $69 million budget and was panned by critics.

Baywatch Nights

Baywatch Nights: 1995-1997 syndicated spin-off of Baywatch starring David Hasselhoff as lifeguard-turned-private-investigator Mitch Buchannon; 44 episodes over two seasons, pivoting from detective stories to X-Files-style supernatural cases in season 2.

Baz Luhrmann

Baz Luhrmann, born Mark Anthony Luhrmann in 1962 in Sydney, is an Australian director, writer, and producer known for Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge!, and Elvis.

Bazaar

A bazaar, also known as a souq (بازار), is a clustered marketplace of shops and stalls central to commerce and social life in the Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Bazgasht-e adabi

Bazgasht-e adabi (بازگشت ادبی, "literary return") was a neoclassical movement in Persian poetry that revived the older Khorasani and Iraqi styles against the Indian style.

Bazmavep

Bazmavep (Բազմավէպ) is the Armenian-language scholarly and literary journal of the Mkhitarist Congregation in Venice, founded in 1843 at the monastery of San Lazzaro and regarded as the first Armenian academic journal.

Bazooka (film)

Bazooka (ബസൂക്ക), 2025 Malayalam action crime thriller, directorial debut of Deeno Dennis, starring Mammootty and Gautham Vasudev Menon hunting a videogame-obsessed serial killer; released 10 April 2025, mixed reviews, ₹27 crore worldwide gross.

Bazooka (song)

Bazooka (song) covers several unrelated songs of that title: GWSN's 2020 K-pop single "BAZOOKA!" from the Keys EP, Miami XO's viral 2025 trap track, and releases by Nephew, Krisko, MVP, and Sojaa.

Bazovyy minimum (Базовый минимум")

«Базовый минимум» is a 2025 Russian-language duet by SABI and MIA BOYKA. Its relationship-themed hook became popular in short videos, and the song topped VK and Yandex Music charts.

Bazurto All Stars

Bazurto All Stars is a seven-member champeta group from Cartagena, Colombia, formed in 2009, known for fusing champeta with Caribbean, African, electronic, and symphonic elements.

Bazzi (singer)

Bazzi (Andrew Bazzi) is a Michigan-born Lebanese-American pop/R&B singer-songwriter-producer, distinct from other artists named Bazzi, known for the 2018 viral hit "Mine" (No. 11 Hot 100, 2x platinum) and albums COSMIC, Soul Searching, and Infinite Dream.

BB Trickz

BB Trickz, stage name of Belize Kazi (born 2000, Barcelona), Spanish rapper; TikTok viral hits "Bambi" and "Missionsuicida", EPs Trickstar and Sadtrickz, first album 80'z (2025), Charli XCX Brat remix feature.

BBC Asian Network

BBC Asian Network is the BBC's national digital radio station for British Asian music and speech, which grew from a Leicester program in 1976 and went nationwide in 2002.

BBC Big Band

The BBC Big Band, also known as the BBC Radio Big Band, is a British big band run by the BBC, tracing its lineage to a 1928 dance orchestra.