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Bruno de Sá

Bruno de Sá (Bruno de Sá Nunes, born 1989, Santo André, Brazil) is a Brazilian sopranist, a true male soprano whose voice never changed at adolescence, distinguishing him from countertenors; Erato/Warner Classics artist (Roma Travestita, Mille Affetti), OPER! Award 2020 winner.

Bruno Furlan

Bruno Furlan is a Brazilian tech house DJ and producer from São Paulo, one of the first Brazilian artists to release on Dirtybird Records and owner of Whistle Records.

Bruno Ganz

Bruno Ganz (1941–2019) was a Swiss actor of the Berlin Schaubühne and New German Cinema, Iffland Ring holder, known as the angel Damiel in Wings of Desire and as Hitler in Downfall.

Bruno Gerussi

Bruno Gerussi, also known as Bruno Santos Gerussi, was a Canadian actor and host. He was best known for The Beachcombers and his work at the Stratford Festival.

Bruno Heller

Bruno Heller (born 1960) is a British screenwriter and television producer, best known as lead writer of HBO's Rome and creator of The Mentalist and Gotham.

Bruno K. Öijer

Bruno K. Öijer, born 1951 in Linköping, is a Swedish poet who debuted in 1973, broke through in 1990 with Medan giftet verkar, and won the Bellman Prize.

Bruno Kirby

Bruno Kirby (born Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Jr., 1949–2006) was an American character actor, son of actor Bruce Kirby, known for The Godfather Part II, Good Morning, Vietnam, When Harry Met Sally..., and City Slickers.

Bruno Langley

Bruno Langley, born 1983 in Devon, is a British actor known for playing Todd Grimshaw, Coronation Street's first openly gay character, from 2001 to 2017; axed and convicted of sexual assault in 2017.

Bruno Lawrence

Bruno Lawrence, born David Charles Gilbert Lawrence (1941–1995), was an English-born New Zealand drummer, composer, and screen actor known for Smash Palace, Utu, The Quiet Earth, and BLERTA.

Bruno Mars

Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez, born 1985, Honolulu), also frontman of Silk Sonic with Anderson .Paak. American pop/R&B singer-songwriter-producer: 16 Grammys from 36 nominations, 24K Magic swept the 60th Grammy Awards, fourth album The Romantic released February 2026.

Bruno Mars discography

Bruno Mars discography: four solo studio albums (Doo-Wops & Hooligans 2010, Unorthodox Jukebox 2012, 24K Magic 2016, The Romantic 2026), Silk Sonic's An Evening with Silk Sonic, EPs, and ten Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles.

Bruno Mars Live

Bruno Mars Live covers the concert career of Bruno Mars (Peter Gene Hernandez), covering the 24K Magic World Tour, Las Vegas residencies, Super Bowl halftime shows, and the record-setting 78-date Romantic Tour with the Hooligans.

Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari (1907–1998) was an Italian artist, designer, and writer active in painting, industrial design, and children's publishing, and a leading figure of twentieth-century Italian art and design.

Bruno Schulz

Bruno Schulz (1892–1942) was a Polish prose writer and graphic artist of Jewish origin, known for the short story collections The Cinnamon Shops and Sanatorium under the Hourglass.

Bruno Tolentino

Bruno Tolentino was the pseudonym of Bruno Lúcio de Carvalho Tolentino, a Brazilian poet and translator (1940–2007) who spent nearly 30 years in Europe, taught at Oxford, and won the Jabuti Prize twice.

Bruno Tonioli

Bruno Tonioli is an Italian choreographer, dancer, and television personality best known as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing from 2004 and on Dancing with the Stars since 2005.

Brunost

Brunost (brown cheese, mysost, gjetost) is Norway's sweet caramel whey cheese, made by boiling whey with milk and cream; invented by Anne Hov in 1863, 35-40% lactose, sliced thin with an ostehøvel.

Brunswick stew

Brunswick stew: thick Southern American stew of meat (originally squirrel), corn, tomatoes, and lima beans. Virginia and Georgia both claim its origin; Georgia made it its official state stew in 2025.

Bruschetta

Bruschetta is an Italian antipasto of thick rustic bread charred over live heat, rubbed with raw garlic and dressed with olive oil; known as fettunta in Tuscany, from bruscare, related to crostini.

Brussels lace

Brussels lace (dentelle de Bruxelles) is lace made in and around Brussels, including bobbin lace known as point d'Angleterre and 19th-century needle lace point de gaze; hand production ended with World War I.

Brussels Summer Festival

The Brussels Summer Festival is a music festival held each August in central Brussels, Belgium, founded in 2002 and peaking at about 125,000 admissions in the mid-2010s.

Brutal death metal

Brutal death metal is a death metal subgenre that prioritizes heaviness, speed, and rhythmic complexity over melody, which emerged on Long Island, New York, in the early 1990s.

Brute Force

Brute Force (1947) is Jules Dassin's American prison film noir starring Burt Lancaster as escape-plotting inmate Joe Collins against Hume Cronyn's sadistic Captain Munsey at Westgate Penitentiary; produced by Mark Hellinger, written by Richard Brooks, and famously censored by the Production Code.

Brutus

Brutus is a Belgian post-metal trio from Leuven, formed in 2013, known for drummer Stefanie Mannaerts singing lead while drumming; its albums are Burst, Nest, and Unison Life.

Bruxaria

Bruxaria, Portuguese for "witchcraft", is a subgenre of São Paulo's funk mandelão that emerged in the late 2010s, defined by distorted bass, abrasive synths, and the tuin siren.

Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams (Bryan Guy Adams), Canadian rock singer-songwriter and photographer born 1959 in Kingston, Ontario; Reckless (1984) and the 1991 hit (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, number one in 19 countries; 18 JUNOs, one Grammy, BAD Records founder.

Bryan Adams discography

Bryan Adams discography: Canadian rocker's recordings from the 1980 self-titled A&M debut through Reckless, Waking Up the Neighbours, the 2022 re-recordings Classic, and Bad Records releases Roll With The Punches and How's It Goin'.

Bryan Andrews (singer)

Bryan Andrews is an American progressive country singer-songwriter from Carrollton, Missouri, a former pipe welder whose viral anti-ICE video pushed "The Older I Get" onto Billboard country charts in 2025; signed to Sony/Disruptor Records and WME, he released the mixtape Independence Day in 2026.

Bryan Baeumler

Bryan Baeumler (born 1974, Oakville, Ontario), also known from Island of Bryan and Renovation Island, is a Canadian Gemini Award-winning contractor and HGTV host who founded Baeumler Quality Construction, rebuilt Caerula Mar Club in the Bahamas, and signed a 2027 Rogers HGTV production deal.

Bryan Batt

Bryan Batt (born 1963) is an American actor from New Orleans known as Salvatore Romano on Mad Men, Darius in Jeffrey, nine Broadway shows, Hazelnut co-owner, and 2026 London debut as J. Edgar Hoover.