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Babakin (Martian crater)

Babakin is a 76.66 km IAU-approved impact crater on Mars at 36.00°S, 288.56°E, adopted in 1985 and named for the Soviet unmanned-spacecraft designer Georgy Babakin, Chief Designer at the Lavochkin Design Bureau.

Babalon

Babalon, also the Scarlet Woman, is the principal goddess of Thelema, Aleister Crowley's religion, a positive reinterpretation of the Whore of Babylon symbolizing liberated female sexuality, first named in Liber 418 (1909).

Baban dynasty

The Baban dynasty (بابان) was a Kurdish princely dynasty, or emirate, that ruled parts of Iraqi Kurdistan and western Iran from the seventeenth century until the mid-nineteenth century.

Babanba Banban Vampire (ババンババンバンバンパイア)

Babanba Banban Vampire (ババンババンバンバンパイア), also Baban Baban Ban Vampire, is Hiromasa Okujima's BL comedy manga about 450-year-old vampire Ranmaru Mori guarding a bathhouse boy's virginity, adapted into a 2025 Gaina anime and live-action film.

Babanrao Vitthalrao Shinde

Babanrao Vitthalrao Shinde, also known as Babandada Shinde, is an Indian politician from Solapur district, Maharashtra, who won the Madha assembly seat six consecutive times between 1995 and 2019.

Babar (TV series)

Babar (1989–2002) is a Canadian-French Nelvana and Clifford Ross animated series adapting Jean and Laurent de Brunhoff's elephant-king books, starring Gordon Pinsent, with three Gemini wins and a 2010 Badou sequel.

Babar Azam (بابر اعظم)

Babar Azam (بابر اعظم), born 1994 in Lahore, is a Pakistani right-handed top-order batter and former all-format captain; ODI great with 6,626 runs at 53.44, T20I's leading run-scorer, reappointed Test captain in 2026.

BaBar experiment

BaBar was a particle physics experiment at SLAC in California that studied B meson decays at the PEP-II collider from 1999 to 2008, measuring CP violation.

Babar Kot

Babar Kot is a Harappan settlement mound in Saurashtra, Gujarat, India, roughly three meters high and 2.66 hectares, excavated for one season by Gregory Possehl of the University of Pennsylvania.

Babar the Elephant

Babar the Elephant is a fictional elephant king created by Jean de Brunhoff in the 1931 French picture book Histoire de Babar, based on Cécile de Brunhoff's bedtime story, continued by Laurent de Brunhoff from 1946 and criticized as colonialist.

Babasaheb Mohanrao Patil

Babasaheb Mohanrao Patil is an Indian politician of the Nationalist Congress Party who serves as Maharashtra's Minister of Co-operation. Elected from Ahmadpur in 2024, he previously led cooperative institutions in Latur district.

Babati

Babati was a high official of the Ur III dynasty, brother of queen Abi-Simti and maternal uncle of king Šu-Suen, who served as governor of Awal and Maškan-šarrum around 2030 BC.

Babatunde Ogunnaike

Babatunde Ogunnaike (1956–2022) was a Nigerian-born American chemical engineer known for model-predictive control, a DuPont researcher, and dean of engineering at the University of Delaware.

Babatunde Soyoye

Babatunde Soyoye, known as Tunde Soyoye, is a Nigerian private equity investor who co-founded the London-based, Africa-focused firm Helios Investment Partners in 2004 and leads it as Managing Partner.

Babbage (lunar crater)

Babbage is a 146.56 km ancient lunar impact crater at 59.56° N, 57.38° W on the Moon's northwest limb, named for mathematician Charles Babbage (name adopted 1935), with inner craters Babbage A and Babbage C and Pythagoras to its north.

Babbar Khalsa

Babbar Khalsa (Babbar Khalsa International, BKI) is a Sikh separatist militant group founded after the 1978 Amritsar Nirankari clash, responsible for the 1985 Air India Flight 182 bombing that killed 329, and proscribed in India, Canada, the UK, and elsewhere.

Babbar Patera

Babbar Patera is a dark volcanic depression, or patera, on Jupiter's moon Io in the southern hemisphere, named for the Sumerian sun god in 1979.

Babbel

Babbel is a subscription-based online language-learning platform developed by the Berlin company Babbel GmbH, founded in 2007, offering courses in 14 languages through a mobile app and web interface.

Babben Enger-Damon

Babben Enger-Damon (Barbra Mette Stockfleth Enger-Damon), born 19 September 1939 in Oslo, Norwegian cross-country skier; won 3x5 km relay gold at Grenoble 1968 with Aufles and Mørdre-Lammedal, Norway's first women's team Olympic gold.

Babbitt

Babbitt is a satirical 1922 novel by Sinclair Lewis following two years in the life of George F. Babbitt, a real estate broker in the fictional midwestern city of Zenith.

Babbu Maan

Babbu Maan (Tejinder Singh Maan, born 1975, Khant Maanpur, Punjab) is an Indian Punjabi singer-songwriter, actor and producer; debut 1998, breakthrough Saaun Di Jhadi (2001), best-seller Pyaas (2005), first film Hawayein (2003).

Babbularista

Babbularista (Babbūlāriṣṭa) is a fermented Ayurvedic liquid medicine (ariṣṭa) from Acacia bark, jaggery, Woodfordia flowers, and spices, with 5–10% self-generated alcohol, official API Part-II Vol-II monograph, dose 10–25 ml.

Babcock (lunar crater)

Babcock is a 95.28-km-wide impact crater on the Moon at 4.13°N, 94.14°E, IAU Gazetteer Feature 535, named in 1970 for American astronomer and physicist Harold Delos Babcock (1882–1968).

Babcock & Wilcox Co.

Babcock & Wilcox Co. is an American energy technology company founded in 1867 in Providence, Rhode Island, to manufacture its founders' patented water-tube steam boiler.

Babcock International

Babcock International Group is a British engineering and defense services company, a FTSE 100 firm that supports the UK's nuclear submarine fleet and manages two naval bases.

Babe (film)

Babe (1995), Chris Noonan's Australian comedy-drama adapted from Dick King-Smith's The Sheep-Pig, about a piglet who herds sheep; won the Best Visual Effects Oscar, earned $250 million, used 970 trained animals.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Babe Didriksen, also known as Babe Didrikson Zaharias (1911–1956), American multi-sport athlete; 1932 Olympic gold in javelin and 80m hurdles, silver in high jump; LPGA founder with 41 wins and 10 majors.

Babe Paley

Babe Paley (Barbara Cushing Mortimer Paley, 1915–1978), American socialite and Vogue fashion editor 1938–1947, wife of CBS founder William S. Paley, Truman Capote's favorite "swan," and a 14-time international best dressed list honoree inducted into the Fashion Hall of Fame in 1958.

Babe Rockefeller

Babe Rockefeller, James Stillman Rockefeller (1902–2004), American rower and banker; won 1924 Olympic gold in men's eights for the USA, later president of National City Bank, grandson of William Rockefeller.

Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth Jr., 1895–1948), the Sultan of Swat and Bambino, American MLB slugger and pitcher; 714 home runs, 60 in 1927, inaugural 1936 Hall of Fame class, Yankees number 3 retired.