Arts and culture

Bye (Ariana Grande song)

"Bye" is a disco-funk song by Ariana Grande, released on 8 March 2024 as the opening track of her album eternal sunshine and written with Max Martin and Ilya Salmanzadeh.

Bye Bye Birdie: 1960 Broadway musical comedy by Strouse, Adams, and Stewart, directed by Gower Champion, satirizing Elvis Presley's Army draft through Conrad Birdie; 607 performances, four 1961 Tonys including Best Musical.

Bye Bye Birdie (1963 film)

Bye Bye Birdie (1963) is George Sidney's Columbia Pictures musical comedy adapted from the 1960 Broadway show, starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, and Ann-Margret as Kim McAfee, satirizing Elvis Presley's army drafting; 13th highest-grossing film of 1963 with two Oscar nominations.

Oct 3, 2026

Bye Bye Brazil

Bye Bye Brasil (Bye Bye Brazil), 1979 Carlos Diegues road movie produced by L.C. Barreto about the Caravana Rolidei troupe; competed at Cannes 1980 and was Brazil's 1981 Oscar submission.

Bye Bye Bye

"Bye Bye Bye" is a 2000 NSYNC single from No Strings Attached, produced by Cheiron's Kristian Lundin and Jake Schulze, peaking at number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and winning three 2000 MTV VMAs.

Byeon Woo-seok

Byeon Woo-seok (변우석), born 1991, is a South Korean actor and former model with VARO Entertainment. Breakthrough as Ryu Sun-jae in Lovely Runner (2024); leads Perfect Crown (2026) and Netflix's Solo Leveling.

Byeri

Byeri, also written bieri, was the Fang ancestor-veneration association of Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon, centered on bark reliquary boxes guarded by carved wooden figures.

Byg Byrd

Byg Byrd is a Canadian record producer in Punjabi music, known for his heavy, distinctive sound and for launching Sidhu Moose Wala with 'So High' in 2017.

Bygone Days

Bygone Days (Oʻtkan kunlar) is a historical novel by the Uzbek writer Abdulla Qodiriy, written in 1918–1920 and widely regarded as the first novel in Uzbek literature.

Byker Grove

Byker Grove: BBC children's and teen drama (1989–2006, 18 series, 344 episodes) set in a Newcastle youth club, created by Adele Rose, famous for the PJ paintball blinding, the first gay kiss on British children's TV, and launching Ant and Dec.

Bylina

A bylina (былина), also called starina by performers, is a Russian folk epic song of heroic bogatyrs of the 11th to 16th centuries, first recorded in the 19th century.

Byloe

Byloe (Былое, "The Past") was a Russian historical journal devoted to the revolutionary movement, the first legal periodical of its kind, founded in St. Petersburg in 1906.

Byōbu-e

Byōbu-e (屏風絵) is the Japanese art of painting on multi-panel folding screens, which served as windbreaks and room dividers; its 16th-century golden age featured bright colors on gold.

Byōdō-in Hōō-dō Amida statue

The Byōdō-in Hōō-dō Amida statue (阿弥陀如来坐像, Seated Amida Nyorai) is a National Treasure statue of Amida Buddha at Byōdō-in temple in Uji, Japan, completed in 1053 by Jōchō.

Byōdō-in phoenixes

The Byōdō-in phoenixes (鳳凰像) are a pair of 11th-century gilded cast-bronze phoenix statues made for the roof of Byōdō-in temple's Phoenix Hall in Uji, Kyoto, Japan.

Byomkesh Bakshi (ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী)

Byomkesh Bakshi is a fictional Bengali detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. He solves intricate cases in Kolkata using logic, and his stories have been adapted for film and television.

Bypass Road (film)

Bypass Road: 2019 Hindi thriller, Naman Nitin Mukesh's directorial debut, written by and starring Neil Nitin Mukesh as paraplegic designer Vikram Kapoor; released 8 November 2019, later on Netflix.

Byron Allen

Byron Allen (Byron Allen Folks), American comedian turned media executive, founder of Allen Media Group (1993); owns The Weather Channel, syndicated shows like Comics Unleashed; bought 52% of BuzzFeed for $120 million in 2026.

Byron Howard

Byron Howard, American animator and Walt Disney Animation Studios director (born 1968, Misawa, Japan), directed Bolt, Tangled, Zootopia, Encanto, and Zootopia 2, winning two Best Animated Feature Oscars.

Byron Lee and the Dragonaires

Byron Lee and the Dragonaires, also written Byron Lee & the Dragonaires, is a Jamaican band founded in 1956 by Byron Lee, known for ska and soca.

Byron Mann

Byron Mann (born 1967, Hong Kong; original name Byron Chan) is an actor, producer, and writer known for Ryu in Street Fighter (1994), Mr. Chau in The Big Short, O.G. Kovacs in Altered Carbon, Uncle Six in Wu Assassins, Chang in Hell on Wheels, and Brian in Wayward (2025).

Byron Messia

Byron Messia is a dancehall and rap artist born in Jamaica and based in Saint Kitts and Nevis, best known for the 2023 single "Talibans" and its Burna Boy remix.

Byronic hero

Byronic hero: literary archetype named for Lord Byron, first seen in Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; a brooding, arrogant, morally ambiguous outcast with magnetic charm, descended from Gothic villains and Miltonic Satan, and continued in Heathcliff, Rochester, and modern film and TV antiheroes.

Byronic poem in Russia

The Byronic poem (байроническая поэма) is a term of Russian literary scholarship for the narrative poem form Byron devised in his oriental tales and Pushkin and Lermontov adapted.

Byun Euijoo

Byun Euijoo (변의주), known professionally as EJ, is a singer and leader of the nine-member boy group &TEAM, formed through I-LAND and &AUDITION and debuted in 2022.

Byun Yo-han (변요한)

Byun Yo-han (변요한) is a South Korean actor, born in 1986 in Incheon, known for the drama Misaeng (2014) and the film Hansan: Rising Dragon (2022).

Byzantine art

Byzantine art: art of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, 4th–15th century, centered on Constantinople; mosaics, icons, Hagia Sophia, Iconoclasm, cross-in-square churches, and influence on Slavic, Islamic, and Western art.

Byzantine classicizing literature

Byzantine classicizing literature is the medieval Greek writing of roughly the fourth to fifteenth centuries, composed in a literary language deliberately imitating ancient Greek model texts rather than the spoken Greek of its day.

Byzantine cloisonné enamel

Byzantine cloisonné enamel is the technique of decorating gold objects with colored glass fused into wire cells, perfected by Byzantine workshops from the 6th to the 12th century.