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Boris Brejcha

Boris Brejcha (born 1981, Ludwigshafen) is a German DJ and producer who coined the genre High-Tech Minimal, wears a Carnival-inspired joker mask, plays only his own music, runs the Fckng Serious label, and tours the REFLECTIONS show worldwide.

Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов) (opera)

Boris Godunov (Борис Годунов), Mussorgsky's only completed opera, on the guilty tsar and the Russian people; 1869 version rejected, 1872 version premiered 1874, Rimsky-Korsakov edition standard from 1896.

Boris Grigoriev

Boris Grigoriev, full name Boris Dmitrievich Grigoriev (Борис Григорьев), was a Russian painter of the School of Paris, known for psychological portraits and the peasant cycle Raseya.

Boris Karloff

Boris Karloff, born William Henry Pratt and known as Karloff the Uncanny, was a British actor (1887–1969) who played the monster in Frankenstein (1931) and starred in The Mummy (1932).

Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodjoe (born 1973, Vienna) is a German-Ghanaian actor known for Soul Food, Brown Sugar, Resident Evil, and Captain Robert Sullivan on ABC's Station 19, plus Full Circle Africa and Sophie's Voice Foundation.

Boris Kustodiev

Boris Kustodiev (Борис Кустодиев) was a Russian and Soviet painter, graphic artist, and theater designer, 1878 to 1927, best known for festive images of fairs, Maslenitsa, and merchant women.

Boris Mikhailov

Boris Mikhailov, born 25 August 1938 in Kharkiv, is a Ukrainian photographer and Hasselblad and Deutsche Börse prize winner whose series Case History documented homelessness in post-Soviet Kharkiv.

Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak (Борис Пастернак), 1890–1960, Russian poet, translator, and author of Doctor Zhivago (Доктор Живаго); won the 1958 Nobel Prize in Literature and was forced by Soviet authorities to decline it.

Boris Pilnyak

Boris Pilnyak (Борис Пильняк), born Boris Andreyevich Vogau, was a leading Russian Soviet prose writer of the 1920s, best known for The Naked Year and executed in 1938.

Boris Ryzhy

Boris Ryzhy (Борис Рыжий, 1974–2001) was a Russian poet from Yekaterinburg whose verse fused classical form with the industrial Urals; he won the AntiBooker prize in 1999.

Boris Sagal

Boris Sagal was a Ukrainian-born American director whose career spanned the 1950s through the 1970s. He died in a helicopter accident in Oregon in 1981.

Boris Vallejo

Boris Vallejo, also signed simply "Boris", is a Peruvian-born American fantasy painter (born 1941, Lima) famed for Tarzan, Conan, and Doc Savage covers, oil technique, collaboration and 1994 marriage to Julie Bell, and 2026 retirement.

Boris Vian

Boris Vian was a French novelist, jazz trumpeter, and songwriter, author of L'Écume des jours (1947) and, as Vernon Sullivan, J'irai cracher sur vos tombes.

Boris Zaytsev (writer)

Boris Konstantinovich Zaytsev (Борис Константинович Зайцев) was a Russian writer and dramatist of the Silver Age, recognized before 1917, who emigrated to Paris in 1922.

Born a Crime

Born a Crime (2016) is Trevor Noah's comic memoir of growing up as the illegal mixed-race son of a white Swiss father and Xhosa mother under apartheid's Immorality Act; a #1 NYT bestseller, Thurber Prize winner, and love letter to his mother Patricia.

Born Again (Black Sabbath album)

Born Again (1983) is Black Sabbath's eleventh studio album, with Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan replacing Ronnie James Dio; recorded at the Manor Studio, reached UK No. 4, toured with a Stonehenge set that inspired Spinal Tap.

Born Again (comics)

Daredevil: Born Again is a 1986 Marvel Comics arc in Daredevil #227-233 by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, in which Karen Page sells Daredevil's identity and the Kingpin destroys Matt Murdock's life; collected in 1987 and namesake of the Disney+ series.

Born Again (Lisa song)

Born Again is a 2025 song by LISA of BLACKPINK featuring Doja Cat and RAYE, the fourth single from her album Alter Ego. Originally a leaked 2021 RAYE demo, it peaked at UK No. 13 and US Hot 100 No. 69.

Born Again (The Notorious B.I.G. album)

Born Again, released 1999 on Bad Boy/Arista, is the first posthumous compilation album by The Notorious B.I.G., built from unreleased verses and guest collaborations, topping the Billboard 200 and going double platinum.

Born for the Spotlight (影后)

Born for the Spotlight (影后) is a 2024 Taiwanese Netflix drama, 12 episodes, written and directed by Yen Yi-wen, starring Hsieh Ying-hsuan and Cheryl Yang as rival actresses; it topped Netflix Taiwan within 48 hours.

Born Free

Born Free is a 1966 adventure drama directed by James Hill, based on Joy Adamson's 1960 memoir, starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers as the Adamsons raising Elsa the lioness; it won two 1967 Oscars for John Barry's music.

Born in Flames

Born in Flames is Lizzie Borden's 1983 American independent feminist science fiction film, set in near-future New York ten years after a social-democratic revolution, following the Women's Army and pirate radio stations in revolt after Adelaide Norris's death.

Born in the RSA

Born in the RSA is a 1985 docudrama play created by director Barney Simon and the Market Theatre Company in Johannesburg in response to apartheid's State of Emergency.

Born in the U.S.A.

Born in the U.S.A. is Bruce Springsteen's seventh studio album, released June 4, 1984. Seven Top Ten singles, number 1 in the US and ten other countries, and the top-selling album of 1985.

Born in the U.S.A. (song)

"Born in the U.S.A." is Bruce Springsteen's 1984 title-track single about a disenfranchised Vietnam veteran, recorded May 1982 at the Power Station, peaking at number nine on Billboard, and famously misread as patriotic by Reagan, Buchanan, and Trump campaigns.

Born in the Wild

Born in the Wild is the 2024 debut studio album by Nigerian singer Tems (Temilade Openiyi), released on RCA/Since '93. The 18-track record, featuring J. Cole and Asake, earned a Metacritic score of 86 and UK Silver certification.

Born of Osiris

Born of Osiris is an American progressive metalcore band formed in 2003 in Palatine, Illinois, signed to Sumerian Records. Known for The Discovery (2011) and Through Shadows (2025), it evolved from deathcore toward progressive metalcore.

Born on the Fourth of July (film)

Born on the Fourth of July is a 1989 American biographical drama directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Cruise as paralyzed Vietnam veteran turned anti-war activist Ron Kovic.

Born Pink World Tour

Born Pink World Tour (본 핑크 월드투어), BLACKPINK's second world tour promoting the 2022 album Born Pink; ran 2022 to September 2023, 34 cities, 66 shows, about 1.8 million attendees, highest-grossing tour by a female group.

Born Sexy Yesterday

Born Sexy Yesterday (BSY) is a media trope coined by Jonathan McIntosh in 2017: a naive, childlike female character in a sexualized adult body, educated by an average man, named after the 1950 film Born Yesterday; examples include Leeloo and Quorra.