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Bailee Madison

Bailee Madison, also known as Bailee Madison Riley, is an American actress born in 1999 who played May Belle in Bridge to Terabithia and Grace Russell on Good Witch.

Bailey Ashford

Bailey Kelly Ashford was an American Army physician who, after the 1899 hurricane in Puerto Rico, proved hookworm caused the island's anemia and built treatment campaigns.

Bailey bridge

A Bailey bridge is a portable, prefabricated truss bridge of pinned steel panels, designed by Sir Donald Bailey in 1943 for military use in the Second World War.

Bailey Chase

Bailey Chase (Bailey Chase Luetgert), American actor born 1972 in Chicago; known for Butch Ada on Saving Grace, Branch Connally on Longmire, Graham Miller on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Homestead (2024).

Bailey Coal Mine

The Bailey Coal Mine is an underground longwall coal mine near Wind Ridge in Greene County, Pennsylvania, producing about 11 million tons of coal a year.

Bailey Peacock-Farrell

Bailey Peacock-Farrell (born 1996, Darlington) is a Northern Ireland goalkeeper, 53 caps, third NI keeper to 50 caps after Jennings and Taylor; clubs Leeds United, Burnley, Sheffield Wednesday, AGF Aarhus, Birmingham City, Blackpool.

Bailey Quarters

Bailey Quarters is the shy, journalism-graduate radio station employee on CBS's WKRP in Cincinnati (1978–1982), played by Jan Smithers in all 90 episodes; based on creator Hugh Wilson's wife and later reprised in The New WKRP in Cincinnati.

Bailey Smith

Bailey Smith (born 2000) is an AFL midfielder, drafted pick 7 by the Western Bulldogs in 2018, traded to Geelong in 2024; 2025 All-Australian, joint AFLCA Champion Player, third in the Brownlow Medal.

Bailey Sok

Bailey Sok (Bailey Drew Sok, 베일리 석, born 2004) is a Korean-American dancer and K-pop choreographer behind Red Velvet's Psycho and Taeyang's Vibe, who debuted in 2025 with The Black Label's co-ed group ALLDAY PROJECT.

Bailey Willis

Bailey Willis was an American geologist known for earthquake studies and experiments showing how mountain ranges form by horizontal compression, who worked for the US Geological Survey and taught at Stanford.

Bailey Zappe

Bailey Zappe, quarterback from Victoria, Texas; played at Houston Baptist and Western Kentucky, set 2021 FBS single-season records with 5,967 yards and 62 TDs, drafted 137th overall by the Patriots in 2022, later Chiefs and Browns.

Bailey Zimmerman

Bailey Zimmerman, American country-pop singer from Louisville, Illinois; viral TikTok breakout, Warner Music Nashville; hits 'Fall in Love,' 'Rock and a Hard Place,' 'Religiously'; debut album No. 7 Billboard 200; 2025's 'All the Way' peaked No. 4.

Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula

The Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula (BBP) is a 1995 series for π that computes hexadecimal or binary digits of π starting at any position without earlier digits.

Baileys Irish Cream

Baileys Irish Cream: Irish cream liqueur launched 1974 by Gilbeys of Ireland, blending Irish whiskey, dairy cream, and chocolate-vanilla flavors at 17% ABV; owned by Diageo, over 100 million bottles produced yearly in Ireland, sold in 150+ countries.

Baili Tianheng (百利天恒)

Baili Tianheng (百利天恒) is a Chengdu-based biopharmaceutical company developing antibody-drug conjugates, founded by Zhu Yi in 1996 and listed on the STAR Market since 2023.

Bailian (Alibaba Cloud)

Bailian (阿里云百炼), marketed as Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, is Alibaba Cloud's platform for training, fine-tuning, and serving large language models including Qwen, unveiled at Apsara Conference 2023.

Bailianhe Pumped Storage hydroelectric plant

Bailianhe Pumped Storage plant (白莲河抽水蓄能电站) is a pumped-storage hydroelectric plant in Luotian, Hubei, China, generating 1,200 MW from four 300 MW reversible units and serving the Central China Power Grid.

Bailiff

Bailiff: officer executing court orders, from Old French baillif (c. 1300). Covers medieval English estate and Crown officers, modern England and Wales enforcement agents, US courtroom bailiffs, and the French commissaire de justice.

Bailiff Byrd

Bailiff Byrd is Petri Hawkins Byrd (born 1957, Brooklyn), the only bailiff on Judge Judy for all 25 seasons (1996–2021), a former real New York court officer with Sheindlin, later bailiff on Tribunal Justice.

Bailingnao'er City Site

白灵淖尔城址 (Bailingnao'er city site), the Northern Wei Huaishuo garrison town, in Huaishuo Town, Guyang County, Inner Mongolia; irregular pentagonal walled city, 4,667 m perimeter, national key cultural relics protection unit since 2006.

Bailiwick of Guernsey

Bailiwick of Guernsey: a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Channel Islands, comprising Guernsey, Alderney and Sark, with its own legislatures, 20% top income tax, Guernsey pound, and UK responsibility for defence and foreign relations.

Baillaud (lunar crater)

Baillaud is an 89.44 km flat-floored lunar impact crater at 74.61°N, 37.35°E on the Moon's near side, named for French astronomer Benjamin Baillaud, IAU-approved 1935, Lower Imbrium age about 3.9 Ga.

Bailleul-sur-Thérain

Bailleul-sur-Thérain, a commune in the Oise (Hauts-de-France), France, near Beauvais; INSEE code 60041; about 2,330 inhabitants in 2023; home of the Mont-César Gallic oppidum of the Bellovaci, a listed monument since 1979.

Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize, is an annual British award for literary non-fiction worth £50,000 to the winning author, founded in 1999.

Baillie-Hamilton Island

Baillie-Hamilton Island, Nunavut: uninhabited Queen Elizabeth Island in the Canadian Arctic, 290 km2, 26 by 12 km, flat-topped with 215 m cliffs, kittiwake colony at Washington Point, polynya to its north.

Baillonella toxisperma

Baillonella toxisperma (moabi, African pearwood, djave nut tree), sole species of its genus in Sapotaceae, a giant Vulnerable Central African rainforest tree valued for durable timber and seed oil, dispersed by forest elephants.

Bailly (lunar crater)

Bailly, lunar walled plain near the Moon's south pole, largest crater on the visible side, about 300 km across, IAU-approved 1935, named for French astronomer Jean Sylvain Bailly.

Bailout

A bailout is the rescue of a distressed entity by a government using systemic-risk justifications; the U.S. government provided financial-sector support 16 times between 1970 and 2020.

Bailundo

Bailundo (Umbundu: Mbalundu) was an Ovimbundu kingdom in the central highlands of Angola, emerging around 1700 and defeated by Portugal in the Bailundo War of 1902 to 1903.

Bailundu

Bailundu, also spelled Bailundo or Mbalundu, was one of the most powerful Ovimbundu kingdoms in the central highlands of Angola, defeated by Portugal in the Bailundo War of 1902–03.