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Ban Chao
Ban Chao (班超), courtesy name Zhongsheng, was a Han-dynasty general and diplomat from Fufeng who served three emperors and reconquered the Western Regions for the Eastern Han.
Ban Gu
Ban Gu (班固) was an Eastern Han historian and poet who compiled the Han shu, the Book of Han, the first annals-biography history of a single dynasty.
Ban Jieyu
Ban Jieyu (班婕妤) was a consort of Emperor Cheng of the Western Han dynasty, famed for declining to share the imperial carriage and later withdrawing to Changxin Palace.
Ban Khor Sign Language
Ban Khor Sign Language (BKSL), locally called pasa kidd, is an indigenous village sign language used by deaf and hearing villagers in Ban Khor, northeastern Thailand.
Ban Ki-moon (반기문)
Ban Ki-moon (반기문, 潘基文), born 1944, South Korean diplomat and eighth UN Secretary-General (2007–2016); former foreign minister, six-party talks figure, climate and MDG initiatives, later IOC Ethics Commission chair.
Ban Kulin
Ban Kulin, ban of medieval Bosnia (before 1180–1204), issued the 29 August 1189 trade charter to Dubrovnik, the oldest South Slavic vernacular state document, and faced heresy accusations resolved at Bilino Polje in 1203.
Ban Nobutomo
Ban Nobutomo (伴信友), 1773 to 1846, was a Japanese kokugaku scholar and Obama domain retainer known for precise research on the classics, history, and Shinto.
Ban of Croatia
The Ban of Croatia was the highest office of the Croatian state, a viceroy governing on the king's behalf who later headed Croatia's autonomous government, abolished in 1946.
Ban on Unauthorized Cults
The Ban on Unauthorized Cults (禁断淫祀令) was a Cao Wei edict, issued after the state's founding, banning popular sacrifices that violated the Confucian ritual canon.
Ban Phlu Luang dynasty
The Ban Phlu Luang dynasty (ราชวงศ์บ้านพลูหลวง) was the last royal dynasty of the Ayutthaya kingdom, founded by Phetracha in 1688 and ended when Burma destroyed Ayutthaya in 1767.
Ban Yong
Ban Yong (班勇), courtesy name Yiliao, was an Eastern Han military officer who as Western Regions Chief Clerk rebuilt Han authority over the Western Regions oasis states.
Ban Zhao
Ban Zhao (班昭), also known as Cao Dagu, was an Eastern Han scholar who completed the Han Shu and wrote the Nü Jie, a classic of women's education.
Bana dynasty
The Bana dynasty (பாணர்) was a line of warlord chiefs in southern India who served in turn under the Western Gangas, Rashtrakutas, Cholas, and Pandyas.
Banabhatta
Banabhatta (बाणभट्ट) was a 7th-century Sanskrit poet who served as chief court poet to Emperor Harshavardhana of the Pushyabhuti dynasty, known for the Harshacharita, a biography of his patron, and the Kadambari, an early prose romance.
Banana Massacre
The Banana Massacre (Masacre de las Bananeras): killing of United Fruit Company strikers by the Colombian Army under General Carlos Cortés Vargas in Ciénaga, Magdalena, on 6 December 1928, after a strike of over three weeks; death toll disputed, memorialized in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Banana republic
A banana republic is a politically unstable country whose economy depends on exporting a single product, a term O. Henry coined in 1901 from his time in Honduras.
Banana Wars
Banana Wars: retrospective name for US military interventions and occupations in Cuba, Panama, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Mexico, 1898-1934, driven by United Fruit interests and the Roosevelt Corollary, ending with the Good Neighbor Policy.
Banaras Hindu University (बनारस हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय)
Banaras Hindu University (BHU, काशी हिन्दू विश्वविद्यालय) is a central university in Varanasi, India, founded 1916 by Madan Mohan Malaviya under the BHU Act 1915; largest residential university in Asia, NIRF 2025 university rank 6.
Banarasidas
Banarasidas (बनारसीदास, 1586–1643) was a Jain merchant of the Shrimal clan, born in Jaunpur and settled in Agra, who completed the Ardhakathanak in 1641, possibly the earliest autobiography in an Indian language.
Banasthali Vidyapith (बनस्थली विद्यापीठ)
Banasthali Vidyapith (बनस्थली विद्यापीठ), also called Banasthali University, is a fully residential women-only deemed university in Tonk district, Rajasthan, founded in 1935 by Ratan and Hiralal Shastri, offering primary-to-Ph.D. education under the Panchmukhi Shiksha five-fold model.
Banastre Tarleton
Banastre Tarleton (1754-1833), British cavalry commander of the Loyalist British Legion in the American Revolution's southern campaign; nicknamed "Bloody Ban" after the Waxhaws, defeated at Cowpens, later MP and author.
Banat of Severin
The Banat of Severin (Szörényi Banat) was a frontier province of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary on the Lower Danube, organized around 1230 and lost to the Ottomans in 1524.
Banate of Belgrade
The Banate of Belgrade was a Hungarian border military district, established in 1459 after the fall of the Serbian Despotate and ended when Suleiman the Magnificent captured Belgrade in 1521.
Banate of Bosnia
The Banate of Bosnia (Bosanska banovina) was a medieval Balkan state ruled by a ban, becoming the Kingdom of Bosnia when Tvrtko I was crowned in 1377.
Banate of Craiova
The Banate of Craiova (Romanian: Banatul Craiovei) was the institution governing Oltenia, Wallachia west of the Olt River, under a ban from the late Middle Ages until its abolition in 1831.
Banate of Jajce
The Banate of Jajce (Jajačka banovina) was a military-administrative unit of the Croatian-Hungarian Kingdom from 1463 to 1527, organized by Matthias Corvinus on retaken Bosnian territory around Jajce as a bulwark against the Ottomans.
Banate of Lika
The Banate of Lika was a medieval administrative unit in southwest Croatia, first recorded in the 10th century, uniting the counties of Lika, Gacka, and Krbava under a ban.
Banate of Mačva
The Banate of Mačva was a frontier province of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary in present-day northwestern Serbia, named for the region south of the Sava River.
Banavasi province
Banavasi province was an administrative division of early medieval Karnataka centered on the town of Banavasi, governed in succession by the Kadambas, Badami Chalukyas, Rashtrakutas, and Kalyana Chalukyas.
Banca Mediolanum
Banca Mediolanum is an Italian retail bank near Milan that distributes banking, insurance, and savings products through its Family Banker advisor network rather than branches.