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Baba Ahmadou Group
The Baba Ahmadou Group is a Douala-based, family-owned Cameroonian conglomerate founded by businessman Baba Ahmadou Danpullo in 1976, with operations in Cameroon, South Africa, Nigeria, and Switzerland.
Baba Ala Singh
Baba Ala Singh (ਬਾਬਾ ਆਲਾ ਸਿੰਘ) was a Sikh leader of the Phulkian Misl who built a small zamindari into the independent principality of Patiala, becoming its first Maharaja.
Baba Ali Chaouch
Baba Ali Chaouch (بابا علي شاوش) was Dey of Algiers from 1710 to 1718, who refused the Ottoman sultan's envoy, merged the titles of dey and pasha, and made the Regency self-governing.
Baba Amte
Baba Amte (Murlidhar Devidas Amte, 1914–2008), Indian Gandhian lawyer and social activist, founded the leprosy rehabilitation community Anandwan in Maharashtra, led the Knit India marches and Narmada anti-dam campaigns, and won the Magsaysay, Templeton, and Gandhi Peace awards.
Baba Anujka (Баба Анујка)
Baba Anujka (Баба Анујка), born Ana Drakšin/Ana Dee, was a Vladimirovac poison seller in Banat, Serbia, tried 1914 (acquitted) and 1929 (15 years) for arsenic poisonings attributed to 50-150 victims.
Baba Budan
Baba Budan (بابا بودن) is a Sufi saint of the Chikmagalur hills in Karnataka, India, credited by legend with smuggling seven coffee seeds from Mecca to plant India's first coffee.
Baba Buddha
Baba Buddha (ਬਾਬਾ ਬੁੱਢਾ) was a revered Sikh who served the first six Gurus, anointed five of them, and became the first granthi of Harmandir Sahib in 1604.
Baba Deep Singh (ਬਾਬਾ ਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ)
Baba Deep Singh (ਬਾਬਾ ਦੀਪ ਸਿੰਘ), 1682 to 1757, was a Sikh scholar, soldier, and martyr who founded the Damdami Taksal and died defending the Harmandir Sahib at Amritsar.
Baba Farid
Baba Farid (بابا فرید), fully Farid al-Din Mas'ud, was a Chishti Sufi shaikh of the Punjab who died in 1265 and is revered by Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus.
Baba Harbhajan Singh
Baba Harbhajan Singh, Hero of Nathula, was a 23rd Punjab Regiment sepoy born in 1946 who drowned near Nathu La, Sikkim, in 1968; his memorial temple, built near Tsomgo Lake and inaugurated 1983, anchors a ghost-soldier tradition including posthumous salary, promotion, and 2006 official retirement.
Baba Ilyas
Baba Ilyas (بابا إلياس) was a Turkmen Sufi shaykh of the Wafaiyya order near Amasya who planned a revolt against Sultan Ghiyath al-Din Kaykhusraw II around 1240.
Baba Kalyani
Baba Kalyani, also known as Babasaheb Kalyani, is an Indian industrialist who has led Bharat Forge in Pune since 1993, building it into the world's second-largest auto forging company.
Bābā Lāl
Bābā Lāl, also Bābā Lāl Dās, was a 17th-century Hindu ascetic remembered for his religious conversations with Mughal prince Dārā Shikōh at Lahore in 1653.
Baba Nyonya
Baba Nyonya (峇峇娘惹) refers to the Peranakan Chinese, descendants of Chinese immigrants who married local women in the Malay Archipelago and developed a blended culture.
Baba Ram Singh
Baba Ram Singh (बाबा राम सिंह, 1816–1885) was a Sikh reformer who founded the Namdhari, or Kuka, movement in the Punjab and first used noncooperation against British rule.
Baba Sahib Singh Bedi
Baba Sahib Singh Bedi (ਬਾਬਾ ਸਾਹਿਬ ਸਿੰਘ ਬੇਦੀ; 1756 to 1834) was a Sikh saint descended from Guru Nanak who crowned Maharaja Ranjit Singh at Lahore in 1801.
Baba Siddique
Baba Siddique (Ziauddin Siddique, 1958–2024), Indian politician, three-time MLA from Bandra West, Maharashtra minister of state 2004–2008, Congress leader who joined Ajit Pawar's NCP in 2024, famous for Bollywood iftar parties, shot dead in Mumbai on 12 October 2024.
Baba Tahir
Baba Tahir (بابا طاهر), known as Oryan, was an eleventh-century dervish poet of Hamadan in western Iran, known for his popular quatrains and Arabic mystical aphorisms.
Baba Vanga
Baba Vanga, born Vangelia Gushterova (1911–1996), was a blind Bulgarian seer and healer from Petrich who received up to a hundred visitors each morning and became a state-regulated attraction under socialist Bulgaria.
Baba Yaga
Baba Yaga (Баба-яга) is the hag of Slavic folklore who lives in a hut on chicken legs, flies in a mortar, and acts as donor, child abductor, or warrior; first printed in 1755, with Propp's three roles and Kukoboy museum distinguishing her.
Baba-aha-iddina
Baba-aha-iddina (Bāb-aḫa-iddina) was a king of Babylon who reigned around 812 BC, succeeding Marduk-balassu-iqbi before being captured and deported to Assyria by Shamshi-Adad V; his reign probably lasted no more than one year.
Babad Tanah Jawi
Babad Tanah Jawi ("Chronicle of the Land of Java") is the official court chronicle of the Javanese kingdom of Mataram, reaching its height under Sultan Agung.
Babaef
Babaef, also known as Khnumbaf, was a high official of ancient Egypt at the end of the Fourth Dynasty, serving as vizier and overseer of all royal works.
Babak Khorramdin
Babak Khorramdin (بابك خرمدین) led the Khurramdin uprising in Azerbaijan against the Abbasid caliphate for over twenty years, until his capture and execution in 838.
Babak's Khurramite revolt
Babak's Khurramite revolt was an uprising led by Babak Khorrami in Adharbayjan against the Abbasid caliphate from 816, crushed in 837 when al-Afshin stormed his mountain stronghold of Badhdh.
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.
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.
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.