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Billie Piper
Billie Piper (born 1982, Swindon, England) is an English actor, singer, writer, and director; a 15-year-old chart-topping pop star, Rose Tyler in Doctor Who, Olivier-winning Yerma lead, and director of Rare Beasts.
Billie Whitelaw
Billie Whitelaw (1932–2014), English actress and Samuel Beckett's foremost interpreter, starred in Not I, Footfalls, Rockaby, and Happy Days, plus films The Omen, Frenzy, The Krays, and Hot Fuzz; CBE 1991.
Billiken
Billiken: charm doll patented by Florence Pretz of Kansas City in 1908, the smiling "god of things as they ought to be"; later a good-luck figure at Osaka's Tsutenkaku Tower, mascot of Saint Louis University, and namesake of Argentina's long-running children's magazine.
Billion Dollar Babies
Billion Dollar Babies is Alice Cooper's sixth studio album (Warner Bros., February 25, 1973), produced by Bob Ezrin; it hit No. 1 in the US and UK, went RIAA platinum, and features Donovan on the title track. Also the name of a 1977 band and a 2023 Cabbage Patch Kids documentary.
Billionaire Boys Club (2018 film)
Billionaire Boys Club is a 2018 American crime drama directed by James Cox, starring Ansel Elgort and Taron Egerton as founders of a fraudulent 1983 Los Angeles investment club.
Billionaire Boys Club (clothing retailer)
Billionaire Boys Club (BBC), with sister brand ICECREAM, is a streetwear label founded in 2003 by Pharrell Williams and BAPE creator NIGO, known for its astronaut logo, Tokyo flagship, rap-lyric marketing, and the motto 'Wealth is of the heart and mind, not the pocket.'
Billionaires' Bunker
Billionaires' Bunker (El refugio atómico) is a Spanish Netflix thriller by Money Heist creators Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato: billionaires in a luxury bunker, 8 episodes, premiered September 19, 2025, canceled December 2025 after one season.
Billions (TV series)
Billions is a Showtime drama (2016–2023, 7 seasons, 84 episodes) created by Koppelman, Levien, and Sorkin, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis as a U.S. Attorney and hedge fund manager; loosely inspired by Preet Bharara, ending in 2023 with spin-offs announced.
Billions (빌리언스) (agency)
Billions (빌리언스, Billions Co., Ltd.) is a KOSDAQ-listed Korean company (044480), formerly Blade Entertainment, combining artist management and drama production with its original condom and medical rubber products manufacturing business.
Billu (बिल्लू)
Billu (बिल्लू), also released as Billu Barber, is a 2009 Hindi comedy-drama directed by Priyadarshan, starring Irrfan Khan as a village barber and Shah Rukh Khan as superstar Sahir Khan; a remake of Kadha Parayumbol that flopped at the box office.
Billy Abbott
Billy Abbott (William Abbott) is a fictional character on CBS's The Young and the Restless, son of Jill and John Abbott, originated by David Tom in 1999 and played by Jason Thompson since January 2016, who won the 2020 Daytime Emmy for the role.
Billy Barty
Billy Barty (William John Bertanzetti, 1924–2000) was an American actor with cartilage-hair hypoplasia dwarfism, 3'9" tall, known for Willow, The Day of the Locust, and Foul Play, and founder of Little People of America (1957) and the Billy Barty Foundation (1975).
Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 E. L. Doctorow novel (Random House) about a fifteen-year-old Bronx boy who becomes Dutch Schultz's apprentice in 1935, ending in Schultz's Newark murder. Adapted into a panned 1991 Robert Benton film with Dustin Hoffman and Nicole Kidman.
Billy Bob Thornton
Billy Bob Thornton (born 1955, Hot Springs, Arkansas) is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and musician. Won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for Sling Blade (1996); later known for Fargo, Goliath, Landman, and the Boxmasters.
Billy Bob's Texas
Billy Bob's Texas, the "World's Largest Honky Tonk" in Fort Worth's Stockyards, opened April 1, 1981, founded by Billy Bob Barnett and Spencer Taylor in a 1910 former cattle barn, with bull riding, 100,000 square feet, and a 6,000 capacity.
Billy Bob's Wonderland
Billy Bob's Wonderland, family entertainment center in Barboursville, West Virginia; opened 1986 as ShowBiz Pizza Place, independent since 1989; home of regular Rock-afire Explosion animatronic band shows and the annual BillyCon fan convention.
Billy Bones
Billy Bones, the old pirate and former first mate of Captain Flint in Stevenson's 1883 Treasure Island, lodges at the Admiral Benbow Inn, pays Jim to watch for a one-legged man, dies of a stroke after receiving the black spot, and leaves the treasure map in his sea chest.
Billy Boyo
Billy Boyo, born Billy Theophilus Rowe, was a Jamaican dancehall deejay who recorded as a child in the early 1980s, best known for One Spliff A Day.
Billy Boys
"The Billy Boys" is a loyalist song from Glasgow celebrating William III and the Battle of the Boyne, later adopted by Rangers fans and banned by UEFA.
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg (Stephen William Bragg, born 1957, Barking, Essex) is an English folk-punk protest singer-songwriter, Red Wedge founder, Mermaid Avenue collaborator with Wilco on Woody Guthrie lyrics, UK number-one hitmaker, and author of The Progressive Patriot.
Billy Budd
Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative) is Herman Melville's unfinished novella about a sailor falsely accused of mutiny and hanged after a drumhead court; discovered 1919, published 1924, disputed by editors and critics ever since.
Billy Bunter
Billy Bunter (William George Bunter), the Fat Owl of the Remove at Greyfriars School, fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton as Frank Richards in The Magnet from 1908, later star of 38 novels, comics, and BBC TV (1952–1961).
Billy Burke (actor)
Billy Burke (William Albert Burke, born 1966) is an American actor and musician from Bellingham, Washington, known as Charlie Swan in the five Twilight films, Miles Matheson in Revolution, and Vince Leone in Fire Country.
Billy Butcher
Billy Butcher, William J. "Billy" Butcher, is the vengeful antihero leader of the Boys in Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's The Boys comics (2006–2012) and Karl Urban's TV counterpart. Comic final antagonist killed by Hughie; TV Butcher kills Homelander in the 2026 finale.
Billy Campbell
Billy Campbell (William Oliver Campbell, born 1959) is an American actor known for The Rocketeer, Once and Again, The 4400, The Killing, and the Canadian Screen Award-winning series Cardinal.
Billy Carter
Billy Carter (William Alton Carter, 1937-1988), Jimmy Carter's younger brother, Plains, Georgia gas station owner and peanut businessman; Billy Beer promoter; Libyan-agent "Billygate" figure cleared of influencing policy.
Billy Cobham
Billy Cobham (William Emanuel Cobham Jr.), Panamanian-American jazz drummer born 1944 in Colón, Panama; Miles Davis and Mahavishnu Orchestra founding drummer, Spectrum (1973) solo debut, open-handed fusion technique.
Billy Connolly
Billy Connolly (born 1942, Glasgow), "The Big Yin", Scottish stand-up comedian, banjo player, and actor; ex-Clyde shipyard welder, Humblebums folk singer, 1975 Parkinson breakthrough, D.I.V.O.R.C.E. No. 1, knighted 2017, retired from stand-up 2018 with Parkinson's, now an artist.
Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan (William Patrick Corgan, born 1967, Chicago) is the Smashing Pumpkins' singer, guitarist, and songwriter; also Zwan founder, NWA owner, Madame Zuzu's cofounder, and podcast host.
Billy Cox
Billy Cox (born 1941, Wheeling, West Virginia) is an American bassist, one of two regular bass players with Jimi Hendrix: King Kasuals, Woodstock's Gypsy Sun and Rainbows, Band of Gypsys with Buddy Miles, and the 1970 Experience.