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Bahram-Shah of Ghazna

Bahram-Shah (بہرام شاہ غزنوی), also written Bahramshah, was a sultan of the Ghaznavid dynasty who reigned from 1116–17 to about 1157, mostly as a Saljuq vassal.

Bahrey

Bahrey (ባሕርይ), also called Abba Bahrey, was a sixteenth-century Ethiopian monk and historian from Gamo, known for his 1593 History of the Galla on the Oromo migrations.

Bahri Mamluk dynasty

The Bahri Mamluk dynasty (المماليك البحرية) was the first regime of the Mamluk sultanate, ruling Egypt and Syria from Cairo from 1250 to 1382, when the Burji took power.

Bahri Mamluks (المماليك البحرية)

Bahri Mamluks (المماليك البحرية), first Mamluk dynasty of Egypt, 1250–1382, Qipchaq Turkic slave soldiers named for their Nile barracks on Rhoda Island; founded by Baybars after Ain Jalut, ended by Barquq's Burji line.

Bahu Begam

Bahu Begam (بہو بیگم), personal name Ummat-uz-Zahra, was the chief consort of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh, mother of Asaf-ud-Daula, and a wealthy political figure who died in 1815.

Bahu Begum

Bahu Begum, born Ummat-uz-Zahra in 1727, was chief consort of Nawab Shuja-ud-Daula of Awadh and mother of his successor Asaf-ud-Daula, and one of late Mughal India's wealthiest women.

Bahubali (बाहुबलि)

Bahubali (बाहुबलि), also known as Gomateshwara, is a legendary Jain ascetic who renounced his kingdom after defeating his brother Bharata and attained omniscience through a year of standing meditation.

Bahujan Samaj Party (बहुजन समाज पार्टी)

Bahujan Samaj Party (बहुजन समाज पार्टी, BSP), also called the Elephant, is an Indian national party founded by Kanshi Ram in the 1980s, based in Uttar Pradesh, led by Mayawati, mobilizing Dalits and the bahujan.

Bāhuna

Bāhuna, also known as Vāhana, was a Buddhist monk of the Theravāda canon resident at Campā, known for the single Bāhuna Sutta (AN 10.81) in which he questioned the Buddha.

Bai Baokun

Bai Baokun (白宝鲲, born 1970) is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Kinlong Hardware, a building-hardware maker in Dongguan, Guangdong, where he is chairman, president, and controlling shareholder.

Bai Bureh

Bai Bureh, personal name Kebalai, was a Temne chief of Kasseh in northern Sierra Leone who led the disciplined 1898 resistance to the British hut tax.

Bai Chongxi

Bai Chongxi (白崇禧) was a general of the Republic of China and a leading figure of the New Guangxi clique, nicknamed "Little Zhuge" for his resourcefulness.

Bai Juyi

Bai Juyi (白居易), courtesy name Letian, was a Tang dynasty poet and official who served as a Hanlin academician under Emperor Xianzong, governed Hangzhou and Suzhou, and wrote close to 3,000 poems.

Bai Juyi school

The Bai Juyi school, or Yuan-Bai school, was a mid-Tang school of Chinese poetry centered on Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, known for plain, accessible style.

Bai Minzhong

Bai Minzhong (白敏中, 792–861) was a Tang dynasty chancellor under Emperor Xuanzong who directed the 851 campaign pacifying the Dangxiang and reversed Li Deyu's policies.

Bai Qi

Bai Qi (白起), also known as Gongsun Qi, was a general of Qin under King Zhaoxiang, known for burying alive 400,000 surrendered Zhao soldiers at Changping.

Bai Qi's forced suicide

Bai Qi's forced suicide (白起赐死) was the death of the Qin general Bai Qi, ordered by King Zhaoxiang to kill himself at Duyou in 257 BC.

Bai tribe (White Tribe)

The Bai tribe (白部) was a fourth-century Xianbei tribal group recorded in the Wei shu under a grand chief who was executed for missing a sacrifice at Shengle.

Bai Yanhu

Bai Yanhu (白彦虎) was a Hui Muslim rebel leader from Shaanxi active in the 1862–1877 rising, who fled through Xinjiang into Russian territory and died in exile.

Bai Yuanlong

Bai Yuanlong (白元龙), born 1980 in Nanjing, is a Chinese supply-chain entrepreneur who founded Huiyuan Supply Chain and has chaired Nanjing Weigang Dairy since 2016.

Bai Yuchan

Bai Yuchan (白玉蟾), born Ge Changgeng, was a Southern Song Daoist master honored as the fifth patriarch of the Southern Lineage of internal alchemy and regarded as its effective founder.

Baiba Braže

Baiba Braže, Latvian career diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Latvia since 19 April 2024; formerly NATO Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy (2020-2023) and ambassador to the UK, Netherlands, and Indonesia.

Baibars

Baibars (الظاهر بيبرس) was the fourth Mamluk sultan of Egypt and Syria, reigning from 1260 to 1277 after a victory over the Mongols at Ain Jalut.

BaiBu (百布)

BaiBu (百布) is a Guangzhou-based B2B trading platform for finished textile fabrics, founded by Zhao Zhenhong, which had raised over USD 410 million by 2021.

BAIC New Energy (北京新能源汽车股份有限公司)

BAIC New Energy (北京新能源汽车股份有限公司, BAIC BJEV) is a Chinese manufacturer of pure electric passenger cars under the ARCFOX and Beijing Auto brands, controlled by BAIC BluePark.

Baidyanath Ram

Baidyanath Ram is an Indian politician from Jharkhand and a Jharkhand Mukti Morcha member, elected to the Rajya Sabha in 2026 after three terms as a Latehar assembly member.

Baijayant Panda

Baijayant "Jay" Panda, born 1964, is an Indian BJP politician and National Vice-President who has represented Kendrapara, Odisha, in the Lok Sabha since 2024, after earlier terms with the Biju Janata Dal.

Baiju Bhatt

Baiju Bhatt is an American technology founder who co-founded the brokerage company Robinhood Markets with Vladimir Tenev in 2013, serving as co-CEO and co-President until November 2020.

Baiju Noyan

Baiju Noyan, also known as Baichu, was a Mongol general and military governor who commanded the Mongol forces in northwestern Iran and Anatolia from 1242 to 1259.

Baikang Biotech

Baikang Biotech (Nanjing Baikang Biotechnology Co., Ltd.) is a Chinese supplier of antigens, antibodies, enzymes, and nucleotide raw materials for diagnostics, founded in Nanjing in 2019.