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Bianca Comparato

Bianca Comparato (Bianca de Souza Mendes Comparato), Brazilian actress born 1985 in Rio de Janeiro, known for Michele Santana in Netflix's 3% (2016–2020), Avenida Brasil, and the Grande Prêmio-winning Somos tão jovens; daughter of writer Doc Comparato.

Bianca Del Rio

Bianca Del Rio (Roy Haylock, born 1975) is an American drag queen and insult comedian from Louisiana; winner of RuPaul's Drag Race season 6 (2014), first drag queen to headline Carnegie Hall and Wembley Arena, star of Hurricane Bianca and seven stand-up tours.

Bianca Gascoigne

Bianca Jade Gascoigne (born 1986) is a British glamour model and television personality, the adopted daughter of footballer Paul Gascoigne, known for winning Celebrity Love Island and finishing sixth on Celebrity Big Brother in 2017.

Bianca Jackson

Bianca Jackson (also Butcher) is a fictional EastEnders character played by Patsy Palmer from 1993 to 2025, daughter of Carol Jackson and David Wicks, wife of Ricky Butcher, and mother of Liam, Tiffany, and Morgan.

Bianca Kajlich

Bianca Maria Kajlich (born 1977, Seattle) is an American actress and former ballerina with Olympic Ballet Theatre, known for Jennifer Morgan on Rules of Engagement (2007-2013, 100 episodes) and films 10 Things I Hate About You, Bring It On, and Halloween: Resurrection.

Bianca Lawson

Bianca Lawson (born 1979) is an American actress known as Megan Jones on Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Kendra on Buffy, Maya on Pretty Little Liars, and Darla on Queen Sugar (2016–2022).

Bianca Leigh

Bianca Leigh (born 1962, Willingboro, New Jersey) is an American trans actress, singer, and writer; Mary Ellen in Transamerica, Karma in Hurricane Bianca, and Mary's Chaperone in the original Broadway cast of Oh, Mary!

Bianca Ryan

Bianca Ryan, American singer from Philadelphia, first winner of America's Got Talent (2006, age 11, $1 million prize), Columbia Records debut, later independent via Bianca Ryan Records after vocal cord surgery.

Bianca Umali

Bianca Umali (Maria Isadora Bianca Soler Umali), born 2000 in Paranaque, is a Filipino GMA/Sparkle actress known for Tropang Potchi, Kambal Karibal, Sahaya, Legal Wives, and as Terra in Encantadia Chronicles: Sang'gre; World Vision ambassador since 2017.

Biangbiang noodles

Biangbiang noodles (𰻝𰻝面, biángbiáng miàn, kudai mian, belt noodles) are belt-wide hand-pulled wheat noodles from Shaanxi's Guanzhong region, named for the slapping sound of the dough and the untypable ~58-stroke biang character, classically served oil-splashed (youpo).

Bianka

Bianka (Бьянка) is the stage name of Tatyana Eduardovna Lipnitskaya, a Belarusian-born singer, songwriter, and producer who pioneered "Russian folk R'n'B", blending R&B with chastushka elements.

Bianwen

Bianwen (变文) are Tang dynasty Chinese popular narrative texts that combine prose and rhymed verse, used by monks and storytellers to present Buddhist sutra stories and folk legends to lay audiences.

Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng

The Bianzhong of Marquis Yi of Zeng is a set of 65 bronze chime bells excavated in 1978 from a 5th-century BC tomb in Suizhou, Hubei, China.

Bib Fortuna

Bib Fortuna, Twi'lek majordomo of Jabba the Hutt in Star Wars, appears in Return of the Jedi, The Phantom Menace, and The Book of Boba Fett; he controlled access to Jabba, survived his master's fall, seized the throne, and was killed by Boba Fett.

Biba

Biba was a London fashion label and retailer founded in 1963 by designer Barbara Hulanicki and Stephen Fitz-Simon, growing from mail order into Big Biba, a seven-storey Kensington High Street department store that closed in 1975.

Bibhishon

Bibhishon (বিভীষণ) is a 2025 Bengali psychological thriller web series on ZEE5, directed by Raja Chanda, a remake of Tamil series Vilangu, starring Soham Majumdar as SI Bidhan Sen investigating a headless corpse in Birbhum; 7 episodes released 27 June 2025.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়)

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়), also anglicised Banerjee, 1894–1950, Bengali novelist of Pather Panchali, Aparajito, Aranyak and Chander Pahar; posthumous 1951 Rabindra Prize for Ichhamati.

Bibi (김형서) (singer)

BIBI (비비), born Kim Hyung-seo in 1998 in Ulsan, is a South Korean singer-songwriter and actress on Feel Ghood Music. Known for Lowlife Princess: Noir, Bam Yang Gang, EVE: ROMANCE, Coachella 2024, and a Baeksang Best New Actress award for Hopeless.

Bibi Andersson

Bibi Andersson (Berit Elisabet Andersson, 1935-2019), Swedish actress and Ingmar Bergman collaborator; nurse Alma in Persona (1966), Cannes 1958 and Berlin 1963 Best Actress winner, four Guldbagge Awards.

Bibi Besch

Bibi Besch, born Bibiana Maria Köchert in Vienna in 1942, was an Austrian-American actress best remembered as Dr. Carol Marcus in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982).

Bibi Gaytán

Bibi Gaytán (Biby), Silvia Gaytán Barragán, Mexican singer-actress born in Tapachula, Chiapas; joined Timbiriche in 1989 replacing Alix Bauer, starred in Dos mujeres un camino, married Eduardo Capetillo in 1994, returned in the musical Chicago in 2019.

Bibi Payra

Bibi Payra (বিবি পায়রা), 2026 Bengali dark comedy directed by Arjunn Dutta, starring Swastika Mukherjee and Paoli Dam as Shiuli and Jhuma; released 10 April 2026, UA 16+, streamed on Hoichoi from 5 June 2026.

Bibi und Tina

Bibi und Tina (Bibi & Tina) is a German children's franchise spun off from Bibi Blocksberg audio plays in 1991, spanning animated series, five live-action films (2014–2022) directed by Detlev Buck, and a 2020 Prime Video series.

Bibibop Asian Grill

Bibibop Asian Grill is an American fast-casual chain serving customizable Korean-inspired rice bowls from a fully gluten-free kitchen, founded by Charley Shin in Columbus, Ohio, in 2013.

Bibimbap (비빔밥)

Bibimbap (비빔밥), also called goldongban, is a Korean mixed-rice dish of rice, seasoned vegetables, meat, egg, gochujang, and sesame oil; first recorded around 1590, with its recipe in the late 19th-century Siuijeonseo and famous Jeonju and Jinju styles.

Bible Black (バイブルブラック)

Bible Black (バイブルブラック, Baiburuburakku) is a Japanese hentai franchise of two eroge games and four anime series. ActiveSoft's 2000 PC game La Noche de Walpurgis has 12 endings; Milky Studio adapted it into OVAs from 2001.

Bibleman

Bibleman is an American Christian children's superhero franchise about Miles Peterson, created by Pamplin Entertainment in the mid-1990s with Willie Aames, later rebooted as a 26-episode animated series.

Biblical clothing

Biblical clothing: dress of ancient Israel and the biblical eastern Mediterranean, from wool and linen tunics, himation cloaks, and nailless sandals to the Exodus 28 priestly vestments, known from texts, Dura-Europos art, and Dead Sea cave textile finds.

Bibliography

Bibliography (from Greek biblion, book): a systematic, standardized list of sources consulted or relevant, spanning enumerative, descriptive, and analytical branches, national bibliographies, annotated bibliographies, and modern bibliographic databases and standards.

Bibliomania (ビブリオマニア) (manga)

Bibliomania (ビブリオマニア, BIBLIOMANIA) is a 12-chapter Japanese web manga by ORVAL (story) and Macchiro (art), serialized on KAI-YOU.net 2016–2018, an Alice-in-Wonderland-based SF dark fantasy published in one print volume and translated into Spanish, French, and Italian.