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B.J. Penn
B.J. Penn (Jay Dee Penn, born 1978, Kailua, Hawaii), "The Prodigy", is a retired UFC two-division champion (lightweight and welterweight), first non-Brazilian black belt world jiu-jitsu champion, 16-10-2 record, UFC Hall of Fame 2015.
B.L. Horecker
B.L. Horecker, also known as Bernard L. Horecker, was an American biochemist who worked out the pentose phosphate pathway and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1961.
B.League (Bリーグ)
B.League (Bリーグ), Japan's top men's professional basketball league, opened September 2016 by merging the NBL and bj-league; B1 reached 26 clubs, and from 2026-27 it restructures into B.LEAGUE PREMIER, B.ONE, and B.NEXT.
B.M. Cattanach
B.M. Cattanach, also known as Bruce M. Cattanach, was a British mouse geneticist (1932 to 2020) who pioneered chemical mutagenesis in mice and discovered autosomal imprinting in mammals.
B.M.S. College of Engineering
B.M.S. College of Engineering (BMSCE, Businayana Mukundadas Sreenivasaiah College of Engineering) is a private, VTU-affiliated autonomous engineering college in Basavanagudi, Bengaluru, founded in 1946 as India's first private engineering college, now run by the B.M.S. Educational Trust with 13 UG and 16 PG programs and NIRF Engineering 151-200 band (2025).
B.o.B
B.o.B (Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., born 1988) is an American rapper from Decatur, Atlanta, whose 2010 debut The Adventures of Bobby Ray topped the Billboard 200 and whose later career included flat-Earth controversy.
B.R. Barwale
Badrinarayan Ramulal Barwale (1931–2017) was an Indian farmer and seed entrepreneur who founded Mahyco, India's first private seed company, and won the 1998 World Food Prize.
B.Y.O.B. (song)
B.Y.O.B. (Bring Your Own Bombs) is a 2005 anti-Iraq War single by System of a Down from Mezmerize, written by Daron Malakian and Serj Tankian, produced with Rick Rubin, and winner of the 2006 Grammy for Best Hard Rock Performance.
B'Day
B'Day is Beyoncé's second solo studio album, released September 4, 2006 on her 25th birthday. Recorded secretly in two weeks with Rodney Jerkins, the Neptunes, Rich Harrison, and Swizz Beatz, it won the 2007 Grammy for Best Contemporary R&B Album and was reissued in 2026.
B'Elanna Torres
B'Elanna Torres is the half-Klingon, half-human chief engineer of USS Voyager in Star Trek: Voyager, played by Roxann Dawson; a former Maquis who marries Tom Paris, mother of Miral, known for the episodes Faces, Extreme Risk, and Lineage.
B'nai B'rith (בני ברית)
B'nai B'rith (בני ברית), also known as B'nai B'rith International, is the oldest secular Jewish organization in the United States, founded in New York in 1843.
B(a)elo
B(a)elo, also Baelo Claudia, is the Roman city at Bolonia, Tarifa (Cádiz), Spain: a Punic-origin tuna-fishing and garum port founded 2nd century BC, a municipality under Claudius, abandoned by the 7th century AD.
B[e] star
A B[e] star is a mostly B-type star showing forbidden emission lines such as [O I] alongside hydrogen emission and a large infrared excess from circumstellar dust.
B*Witched
B*Witched is an Irish girl group formed in Dublin in 1997 with Edele and Keavy Lynch, Sinéad O'Carroll, and Lindsay Armaou, whose first four singles all hit UK number one; dropped in 2002, they reunited in 2012 and still tour.
B&H Photo
B&H Photo is a family-owned New York City retailer of photo, video, audio, and electronics equipment, founded in 1973, whose Manhattan superstore and website serve professional photographers and creators.
B&M
B&M, also known as B&M Bargains, is a British variety discount retailer selling branded goods at low prices, founded in Blackpool in 1978 and operating about 800 UK stores.
B&Q
B&Q, also known as Block and Quayle, is a British home improvement and DIY retailer with over 300 stores in the UK and Ireland, owned by Kingfisher plc.
B&R Industrial Automation
B&R Industrial Automation, founded in Austria in 1979 by Erwin Bernecker and Josef Rainer, makes machine automation products and has been an ABB business unit since 2017.
B+ tree
A B+ tree, also written B plus tree, is a balanced tree data structure that keeps all records in linked leaf pages, serving as the standard database index.
B1 (classification)
B1 (classification): most severe vision-impaired sport class in para alpine skiing, for blind skiers or very low acuity (cannot see a 15x15 cm E at 25 cm); blacked-out goggles, obligatory guide, factored timing; replaced by AS1-4 for Milano Cortina 2026.
B1A4 (비원에이포)
B1A4 (비원에이포), "Be the one, All for one", is a South Korean boy group that debuted in April 2011 under WM Entertainment with Let's Fly; named for members' blood types (1 B, 4 A), self-producing, now a trio of CNU, Sandeul, Gongchan.
B2 (classification)
B2 is a Paralympic skiing sport class for athletes with vision impairment between B1 and B3: acuity 1.5 to under 2.6 logMAR, unable to read an E at 4 m, or visual field under 10 degrees; factored timing applies. Renamed AS classes for 2026.
B2 (music)
Bi-2 (Би-2) is a Russian-language rock band of Belarusian origin, founded in 1988, best known for the Brat 2 soundtrack and the hit «Полковнику никто не пишет».
B28 trainset
The B28 trainset, also known as Train B28 or Vande Bullet, is India's first indigenously built high-speed trainset, an 8-car set contracted to BEML in 2024.
B2C
B2C, also known as Born 2 Conquer, is a Ugandan vocal harmony trio of Mr Lee, Bobby Lash, and Delivad Julio, known for Gutujja and Munda Awo.
B2K
B2K (Boys of the New Millennium) was a Los Angeles R&B boy band of Omarion, Lil Fizz, Raz-B, and J-Boog, active 2001–2004, known for "Bump, Bump, Bump" and You Got Served, reunited for 2019 and 2026 tours.
B3
B3, or Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão, is Brazil's only exchange of securities, commodities, and futures, formed by the 2017 merger of BM&FBOVESPA and Cetip and the world's largest derivatives exchange by volume.
B3 - Brasil Bolsa Balcão
B3 - Brasil Bolsa Balcão is Brazil's sole stock exchange, derivatives market, and central securities depository, created in 2017 by the merger of BM&FBOVESPA and Cetip and the largest in Latin America.
B3 (classification)
B3 is the least severe vision impairment sport class in Paralympic and IBSA classification: LogMAR 1.0-1.40 acuity and/or visual field under 40 degrees, used in judo and skiing, now AS4 in para alpine.
B36 boron cluster
B36 is a cluster of 36 boron atoms with a quasiplanar sheet structure and a central hexagonal hole, reported in 2014 as evidence for borophene.