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Benoît Magimel

Benoît Magimel is a French actor, born in 1974 in Paris, who won the Cannes Best Actor award for The Piano Teacher (2001) and four César Awards.

Benoît Poelvoorde

Benoît Poelvoorde (born 1964, Namur) is a Belgian actor and comedian, co-creator and star of Man Bites Dog (1992), a three-time César nominee and 2014 Magritte Best Actor winner.

Benozzo Gozzoli

Benozzo Gozzoli, properly Benozzo di Lese (c. 1420/21–1497), Florentine Renaissance fresco painter trained with Fra Angelico; Magi Chapel at Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Montefalco, San Gimignano, and Pisa Camposanto cycles.

Bensley

Bensley is the stage name of Peter Bennett, a Toronto-born Canadian drum and bass producer and classically trained jazz saxophonist with over 40 million Spotify streams.

Benson (TV series)

Benson (1979-1986) is an ABC sitcom spin-off of Soap starring Robert Guillaume as butler Benson DuBois in Governor Eugene Gatling's mansion; 7 seasons, 158 episodes, 2 Emmys, ending with Benson running for governor.

Benson Boone

Benson Boone (born 2002, Monroe, Washington) is an American pop singer-songwriter behind "Beautiful Things," the most-streamed song of 2024, and albums Fireworks & Rollerblades and American Heart; a former American Idol dropout signed to Dan Reynolds's Night Street/Warner.

Benson Fong

Benson Fong (1916-1987), Chinese American character actor of Hollywood films and TV; Tommy Chan in six Charlie Chan films, The Old One in Kung Fu, founder of Ah Fong's restaurants.

Bensoul

Bensoul, born Benson Mutua Muia in Embu County, Kenya, is a Kenyan singer-songwriter best known for the hit song 'Nairobi' and as Sol Generation's first signed artist.

Bentley Mitchum

Bentley Mitchum (born 1967, Tucson, Arizona) is an American actor, writer, and director, grandson of Robert Mitchum and son of Christopher Mitchum, known for The Man in the Moon (1991), Ruby in Paradise (1993), and Baja Run (1996).

Bento (弁当)

Bento (弁当, obento) is a Japanese single-portion boxed meal, typically rice with fish or meat and pickled or cooked vegetables, packed to be eaten away from home.

Bentwood furniture

Bentwood furniture, German Bugholzmöbel, is furniture of solid beechwood rods bent into shape with pressurized steam, pioneered by Michael Thonet in Vienna in the 1840s.

Benty Grange helmet

Benty Grange helmet: seventh-century Anglo-Saxon boar-crested spangenhelm, first Anglo-Saxon helmet found, excavated by Thomas Bateman in 1848 at Monyash, Derbyshire; iron frame with horn plates, silver cross, boar crest; Weston Park Museum, Sheffield.

Benudhar Rajkhowa

Benudhar Rajkhowa was an Assamese poet, playwright, and lexicographer (1872–1955) whose 1917 dictionary of Assamese idioms remains unique in the language; his poetry is called the dawn of Assamese romanticism.

Benvenuto Cellini

Benvenuto Cellini (1500–1571), Florentine Mannerist goldsmith, sculptor, and writer; creator of the Saliera and the bronze Perseus, and author of the famous Vita autobiography.

Benyapa Jeenprasom

Benyapa Jeenprasom (เบญญาภา จีนประสม), nicknamed View, Thai actress born 2002, GMMTV artist since Miss Teen Thailand 2017; known for 55:15 Never Too Late, Home School, 23.5, and Girl Rules.

Benzino

Benzino is the stage name of Raymond Scott, a Boston-born rapper, producer, and former co-owner of The Source magazine, known for the Almighty RSO, his feud with Eminem, Hip Hop Weekly, and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.

Beodangmal Folk Village

Beodangmal Folk Village (버당말민속촌) is a Korean seafood restaurant in Seongsan-myeon, Gangneung, licensed 1996, known for catfish spicy soup and cod head stew; not a heritage village attraction.

Beomgyu (최범규)

Beomgyu (최범규, born 2001, Daegu) is the fifth-revealed member of TOMORROW X TOGETHER under BIGHIT MUSIC; TXT debut March 4, 2019, solo mixtape Panic 2025, credited songwriter.

Beorn

Beorn is a skin-changer in Tolkien's The Hobbit, a man who becomes a huge black bear, aids Thorin's company, kills Bolg at the Battle of Five Armies, and founds the Beornings.

Beowulf

Beowulf, the Old English epic of the Geatish hero who fights Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon, survives only in the Nowell Codex (Cotton Vitellius A.xv, ca. 1000), burned in 1731, first printed in 1815, with composition dates debated from the seventh to eleventh century.

Beowulf (2007 film)

Beowulf, also released as Beowulf 3D, is a 2007 American animated fantasy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Ray Winstone as the hero of the Old English epic poem.

Beowulf (hero)

Beowulf, hero of the Old English epic poem Beowulf, is a Geatish warrior who kills Grendel and Grendel's mother and dies slaying a dragon; the 3,182-verse poem survives in one manuscript copied around 1000.

Bepanah Pyaar (बेपनाह प्यार)

Bepanah Pyaar (बेपनाह प्यार), also styled Bepanah Pyaarr, is a Balaji Telefilms Hindi romantic drama on Colors TV that ran June 3, 2019 to February 28, 2020, 190 episodes, starring Pearl V Puri, Ishita Dutta, and Aparna Dixit; distinct from the 2018 serial Bepannah.

Bepannah (बेपनाह)

Bepannah (बेपनाह), also Bepannaah, an Indian Hindi romantic mystery drama on Colors TV (March 19 to November 30, 2018, 186 episodes), produced by Cinevistaas, starring Jennifer Winget as Zoya and Harshad Chopda as Aditya, whose spouses die together in an accident; won the 2018 ITA Best Popular Show award.

Bera Ivanishvili (ბერა ივანიშვილი)

Bera Ivanishvili (ბერა ივანიშვილი), performing as BERA, born 1994 in Paris, is a Georgian rapper and singer, son of billionaire politician Bidzina Ivanishvili; founded the Georgian Dream studio and GDS TV, has albinism, and faced a 2021 secret-recordings scandal over punishing critics.

Berant Zhu

Berant Zhu (朱軒洋), Taiwanese actor born 1999 in Taichung, real name Zhu Ting-dian (朱廷典). Known for We Are Champions, The Magician on the Skywalk, The Sadness, and Bad Education, which won him the 59th Golden Horse Best Supporting Actor award.

Berber carpets

Berber carpets are handwoven rugs made by Amazigh (Berber) women of the Atlas Mountains of Morocco and Algeria, with geometric motifs carrying symbolic meanings in Amazigh culture.

Berdi Kerbabaev

Berdi Kerbabaev, born in 1894, was a Soviet Turkmen writer, poet, and playwright regarded as a founder of Soviet-era Turkmen literature, best known for the historical novel The Decisive Step.

Beren and Lúthien

Beren and Lúthien: Tolkien's First Age love story of the mortal Beren and the Elf-maiden Lúthien who steal a Silmaril from Morgoth; chief of the Silmarillion tales, inspired by Edith Tolkien, collected in the 2017 Christopher Tolkien book.

Beren Saat

Beren Saat (born 1984, Ankara) is a Turkish actress, star of Aşk-ı Memnu, Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne? and Netflix's The Gift (Atiye), a two-time consecutive Golden Butterfly Best Actress winner.