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Banu Qurayza (بنو قريظة)
Banu Qurayza (بنو قريظة), a Jewish tribe of Medina, was besieged after the Battle of the Trench in 5 AH/627 CE; under Sa'd ibn Mu'adh's arbitration, Ibn Ishaq reports 600-900 men executed and hadith sources 400, a figure debated in modern scholarship.
Barbadians
Barbadians, known as Bajans, are the people of Barbados and their descendants abroad, mostly of African descent, in an eastern Caribbean island independent since 1966.
Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912–1979), American Woolworth heiress nicknamed the 'poor little rich girl'; seven marriages, famed jewelry including the Vladimir Tiara, fortune depleted by settlements, taxes, and mismanagement.
Barbara Sinatra
Barbara Sinatra (Barbara Blakeley, later Barbara Marx), American model and Las Vegas showgirl; fourth and final wife of Frank Sinatra from 1976 until his 1998 death; co-founder of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center for abused children in Rancho Mirage.
Barbarian
Barbarian: from Greek barbaros, 'foreign speaker' (echoic 'bar-bar-bar'), a label for non-Greeks, especially Medes and Persians; hardened after the Persian Wars and later applied across Roman, medieval, and modern usage.
Bashkirs (башҡорттар)
The Bashkirs (башҡорттар) are a Turkic-speaking, predominantly Muslim people of the southern Urals and the middle Volga region, the titular population of Bashkortostan in Russia, with 1,571,879 counted in the 2021 census.
Basques
Basques: people of Euskal Herria across Spain and France, defined by Euskara, a language isolate. Seven territories, Iron Age genetic continuity, fueros, autonomy since 1979, large Latin American diaspora.
Batak
Batak: collective label for the Toba, Karo, Simalungun, Pakpak, Angkola, and Mandailing peoples of North Sumatra's Lake Toba highlands, 8-10 million people, patrilineal marga clans, Dalihan Na Tolu kinship, and a majority-Protestant population shaped by the RMG mission from 1861.
Batawana
The Batawana (BaTawana) are a Tswana people who broke from the BaNgwato and established a state in Ngamiland, northwestern Botswana, around the Okavango Delta in the early nineteenth century.
Battenberg family
Battenberg family: morganatic branch of the House of Hesse founded by Prince Alexander of Hesse and Julia von Hauke in 1851; anglicized to Mountbatten in 1917; linked to British, Spanish, Bulgarian, and Swedish royalty.
Bavarians
Bavarians (Bayern, historically Baiuvarii/Bajuwaren): people of the Free State of Bavaria and speakers of the Bavarian (Bairisch) dialect continuum spanning Altbayern, Austria and South Tyrol; over 13 million residents, Wittelsbach rule 1180–1918, Catholic Old Bavaria versus Protestant Franconia.
Beaner
Beaner is an American ethnic slur for Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and sometimes other Latinos, derived from bean + -er; first printed 1965, descended from bean-eater and bean bandit, with unrelated Boston slang senses.
Becca Bloom
Becca Bloom, real name Rebecca Ma, is an American fintech professional and TikTok influencer (@beccaxbloom) who joined TikTok in January 2025 and became a leading #RichTok figure, daughter of Camelot Information Systems founders, TIME100 Creators 2025 honoree.
Becky (slang)
Becky is slang for a white woman stereotyped as privileged, 'basic', or obliviously racist; popularized by Sir Mix-a-Lot's 1992 'Baby Got Back', amplified by Beyoncé's 2016 'Sorry' and 'BBQ Becky' memes.
Bedouin
Bedouin (Arabic badawī, plural badw), Arabic-speaking nomadic desert peoples of the Middle East and North Africa; tribal pastoralist societies of camel, sheep, and goat herders, now largely settled, notably the Negev Bedouin.
Being Human Foundation
Being Human Foundation: name shared by several unrelated charities, chiefly Being Human – The Salman Khan Foundation (Mumbai, est. 2007, healthcare and education, funded by the Being Human clothing brand license), plus US, UK, and Nigerian entities.
Beja people
The Beja (Bidhaawyeet speakers) are a Muslim Cushitic-speaking nomadic pastoralist people of eastern Sudan, Egypt, and Eritrea, resident for over 4,000 years, descended from the ancient Medjay and Blemmyes, and speaking the only North Cushitic language.
Belarusian diaspora
The Belarusian diaspora is the community of people of Belarusian origin or citizenship living outside Belarus, formed in waves since World War I, with large branches in the United States, Canada, and Russia.
Belarusians
Belarusians are an East Slavic people of Belarus, also called Biełaruśians. Known for late-forming, ambivalent national identity, Baltic-Slavic ethnogenesis, Russian-language dominance, and a 300,000–500,000 strong post-2020 exile diaspora.
Belgians
Belgians are the inhabitants and nationals of Belgium, a Western European federal state created in 1830 whose population of 11.9 million is divided among three language communities.
Believe in Magic
Believe in Magic was a UK charity founded by Megan Bhari and Jean O'Brien in 2012. It was dissolved in 2020 following a Charity Commission inquiry into financial mismanagement.
Ben Bagdikian
Ben H. Bagdikian (1920–2016) was an Armenian American journalist and media critic who obtained the Pentagon Papers for The Washington Post in 1971 and wrote The Media Monopoly (1983), the influential study of media ownership concentration.
Bene Israel (בני ישראל)
Bene Israel (בני ישראל), India's oldest and largest Jewish community, Marathi-speaking oil pressers of the Konkan coast near Mumbai, tracing their origin to a legendary 175 BCE shipwreck; about 5,000 remain in India after emigration to Israel.
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE): American fraternal order founded February 16, 1868 in New York from the Jolly Corks club by English entertainer Charles Vivian; nearly 2,000 lodges, over $80 million annual charity, veterans and youth programs.
Bengali Hindus
Bengali Hindus are the Hindu Bengali ethno-linguistic community of West Bengal and Bangladesh, marked by Shakta and Vaishnava traditions, Vedantic and Brahmo reform currents, caste-negotiating folk ritual, and 1947 partition migration.
Bengali Kayastha
Bengali Kayasthas (বঙ্গীয় কায়স্থ) are a Bengali-speaking Hindu community historically associated with administrative, clerical, and record-keeping occupations. They form a regional Kayastha tradition distinct from the Chitragupta Kayasthas of northern India and.
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান)
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are Bengali-speaking Muslims of Bengal, centered in Bangladesh (91% Muslim per the 2022 census) and West Bengal, historically shaped by the 1947 partition, the 1952 language movement, and the 1971 creation of Bangladesh.
Bengalis (বাঙালি)
Bengalis (বাঙালি) are the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic people of the Bengal region, spanning Bangladesh, West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam, defined by the Bengali language; Muslim-majority in Bangladesh, Hindu-majority in West Bengal since the 1947 partition.
Beothuk
The Beothuk were the Indigenous Algonquian-speaking people of Newfoundland, generally considered culturally extinct after Shanawdithit died in 1829; their disappearance, genocide claims, and surviving genetic lineages remain contested.
Berbers
Berbers, self-named Amazigh (Imazighen), are the indigenous peoples of North Africa speaking the Afro-Asiatic Berber (Tamazight) languages with the Tifinagh script; the term Berber derives from Greek-Roman barbaros, and Tamazight is official in Morocco (2011) and Algeria (2016).