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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.
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.
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.
Babemba Traoré
Babemba Traoré, also written Ba Bemba Traoré, was the last faama of the Kingdom of Kénédougou, ruling from Sikasso in present-day Mali from 1893 until his death in 1898.
Babi community
The Babi community (بابیان) was the body of followers of Sayyid Ali Mohammad Shirazi, the Bab, a religious movement founded in Shiraz, Iran, in 1844.
Babi dynasty
The Babi dynasty (બાબી વંશ) was an Afghan (Pathan) ruling house of Gujarat whose Junagadh line, founded by Sher Khan Babi, ruled independently from 1748.
Babi movement
The Babi movement (بابیه) was a messianic religious movement founded in Iran in 1844 by the Bab, who was executed in 1850; it later divided into Azali Babi and Bahai communities.
Babi uprisings
The Babi uprisings (شورشهای بابی) were three armed revolts by followers of the Bab in Qajar Iran, fought at Shaykh Tabarsi, Nayriz, and Zanjan between 1848 and 1850.
Babi uprisings and the execution of the Bab
The Babi uprisings and the execution of the Bab (قیام بابیان و اعدام باب) were armed clashes between Babi followers and Qajar Iran, culminating in the Bab's 1850 execution.
Babi Yar (Бабин Яр)
Babi Yar (Бабин Яр, Babyn Yar) is a Kyiv ravine where Nazis shot 33,771 Jews on 29–30 September 1941 and about 100,000 victims total by 1943; a site of Soviet silencing and contested memorialization.
Babington Plot
The Babington Plot (1586) was a Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Elizabeth I and crown Mary, Queen of Scots. Walsingham's codebreaker Thomas Phelippes deciphered and forged their ciphered letters, leading to Babington's execution and Mary's beheading.
Bábism
Bábism, or the Babi faith, was a messianic religious movement in 19th-century Iran founded by the Báb, who was executed in 1850; most followers later became Baháʼís.
Babrak Karmal (ببرک کارمل)
Babrak Karmal (ببرک کارمل), 1929–1996, Afghan communist politician, Parcham faction leader, and Soviet-installed president of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan 1979–1986, who reversed Khalq-era land reforms and was replaced by Najibullah.
Babson College
Babson College, also known as Babson Institute, is a private business college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, founded by Roger Babson in 1919 and ranked No. 1 for undergraduate entrepreneurship.
Babu Singh Kushwaha
Babu Singh Kushwaha is an Indian politician and Samajwadi Party member of the Lok Sabha for Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, first elected in 2024; he earlier served as a minister in the Mayawati government.
Bābu-aḫa-iddina
Bābu-aḫa-iddina, also written Babu-aha-iddina, was a high Middle Assyrian official at Aššur in the 14th and 13th centuries BC, an eponym under Adad-nīrārī I, known from an archive of over 100 texts and Assur Tomb 45.
Babubhai Desai
Babubhai Desai (born 1957) is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician, a member of the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat from 2023 to 2029 who earlier represented Kankrej in the Gujarat Legislative Assembly.
Babul Supriyo (বাবুল সুপ্রিয়ো)
Babul Supriyo (বাবুল সুপ্রিয়ো), born 1970, is a Bengali playback singer and politician; BJP MP from Asansol 2014–2021, Union Minister of State, then joined TMC in 2021, won Ballygunge, and holds West Bengal IT ministry office.
Babulal Kharadi
Babulal Kharadi is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a Rajasthan minister holding the Tribal Area Development and Home Guards portfolios. He represents the Jhadol constituency in the Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
Babulal Marandi
Babulal Marandi is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as Leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Legislative Assembly and was the state's first Chief Minister.
Babullah of Ternate
Babullah of Ternate, also known as Baabullah, was Sultan of Ternate from 1570 to 1583, who expelled the Portuguese from Maluku in 1575 and ruled 72 islands.
Babum
Babum was a legendary early king of the First Dynasty of Kish, recorded only in the Sumerian King List with a 300-year reign between En-dara-ana and Pu'annum.
Babur (بابر)
Babur (Zahir al-Din Muhammad Babur, بابر), Timurid prince of Fergana (1483-1530), lost Samarqand to the Uzbeks, took Kabul in 1504, defeated Ibrahim Lodi at Panipat in 1526 and founded the Mughal Empire in India; author of the Chaghatay Baburnama.
Baburam Nishad
Baburam Nishad, born in 1969 in Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh, is an Indian BJP politician who has represented the state in the Rajya Sabha since 2022, after serving as a Minister of State.
Babush Monserrate
Atanasio "Babush" Monserrate is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician who serves as a Goa minister holding the Revenue, Labour and Employment, and Waste Management portfolios.
Babushka Lady
Babushka Lady: unidentified head-scarfed woman seen apparently photographing JFK's motorcade in Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963, appearing in the Muchmore, Zapruder, and Bell films; never identified, no footage recovered, Beverly Oliver's claim debunked.
Baby boom
Baby boom: the sustained post-World War II surge in births, roughly 1946–1964 in the US (about 76 million births, peak fertility 3.7 in 1957), also used for later national booms in Canada, Japan, and Spain; distinguishes the demographic event from the baby boomer generation.
Baby boomers
Baby boomers are the U.S. cohort born 1946-1964, about 76 million people, named for the post-World War II fertility boom; distinguished by its demographic definition, contested causes, and outsized aging and economic impact.
Baby Face Nelson
Baby Face Nelson, alias of Lester Gillis (1908–1934), Chicago-born bank robber, John Dillinger's partner, killer of three FBI agents including W. Carter Baum, and Public Enemy No. 1, killed at Barrington, Illinois, in 1934.
Baby M
Baby M (Melissa Stern, born 1986) was the New Jersey child at the center of the landmark American surrogacy-custody case between biochemist William Stern and surrogate Mary Beth Whitehead, whose $10,000 contract was voided by the state Supreme Court in 1988.