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Bart D. Ehrman
Bart D. Ehrman is an American textual critic and historian of early Christianity, the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Bart De Wever
Bart De Wever, born in 1970, is a Belgian politician of the New Flemish Alliance who has served as Prime Minister of Belgium since 2025.
Bart Hester
Bart Hester is an American Republican politician serving as President pro tempore of the Arkansas Senate, a rare two-term distinction, representing Benton County's District 33 since 2013.
Bart Sibrel
Bart Sibrel (born 1964, Nashville) is an American filmmaker and conspiracy theorist who claims the Apollo Moon landings were faked; known for the 2001 film A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon, the 2002 Aldrin punch, and the book Moon Man.
Bart van den Brink
Bart van den Brink, full name Gijsbertus van den Brink, is a Dutch politician of the Christian Democratic Appeal who has been Minister of Asylum and Migration since 2026.
Bartatua
Bartatua, also known as Protothyes, was a Scythian king titled King of the Scythians in Assyrian records, known chiefly for asking Esarhaddon for a daughter in marriage around 672 BCE.
Barter
Barter, or the barter system, is the direct exchange of goods or services without money; contrary to textbooks, no pure barter economy has ever been documented.
Barter of Panay
The Barter of Panay is a Visayan legend in which ten Bornean datus led by Datu Puti bought Panay's lowlands from the Ati for gold.
Barthélemy Boganda
Barthélemy Boganda (1910-1959), first Catholic priest of Oubangui-Chari, French National Assembly deputy, MESAN founder, and first prime minister of the autonomous Central African Republic, died in an unexplained 1959 air crash before independence.
Bartholomaeus Arnoldi
Bartholomaeus Arnoldi, usually called Usingen or Usingensis after his birthplace, was a German Augustinian theologian who taught Luther at Erfurt, then opposed the Reformation and helped draft the Confutatio at Augsburg in 1530.
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg was a German Lutheran missionary in the Danish colony of Tranquebar, South India, from 1706 until his death in 1719, and the first Protestant missionary to India, who translated the New Testament into Tamil.
Bartholomew Columbus
Bartholomew Columbus, known in Spanish as Bartolomé Colón, was a Genoese cartographer and navigator, brother of Christopher Columbus, who founded Santo Domingo around 1496 and served as the first adelantado of the Indies.
Bartholomew Holzhauser
Bartholomew Holzhauser (1613–1658) was a German Catholic parish priest who founded the Bartholomäer, secular priests living in common, and wrote visions and an Apocalypse commentary.
Bartholomew I of Constantinople (Δημήτριος Αρχοντώνης)
Bartholomew I of Constantinople, born Demetrios Archontonis in 1940, has been Ecumenical Patriarch since 1991, known for granting Ukraine's church autocephaly in 2019 and environmental advocacy.
Bartholomew Roberts
Bartholomew Roberts, born John Roberts (c. 1682–1722), Welsh pirate known as Black Bart or Barti Ddu; most successful Golden Age pirate with over 400 ships taken, captain of the Royal Fortune, killed by HMS Swallow off Cape Lopez on 10 February 1722.
Bartholomew the Apostle
Bartholomew the Apostle, also known as Saint Bartholomew, is one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus, named in all four New Testament lists and honored as a martyr in Armenia.
Bartolina Sisa
Bartolina Sisa was an Aymara trader and insurgent commander who, with her husband Túpac Katari, led the 1781–1782 uprising in Alto Perú and directed the sieges of La Paz.
Bartolo Longo
Bartolo Longo was an Italian lawyer and former occultist who founded the Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary at Pompei and was canonized in 2025.
Bartolomé Carranza
Bartolomé Carranza (1503–1576) was a Spanish Dominican theologian who became Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain in 1557, then spent nearly seventeen years as a prisoner of the Inquisition.
Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 or 1485 – 1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and bishop of Chiapa who began as a colonist and became the Spanish Empire's principal advocate for Indigenous rights.
Bartolomé Herrera
Bartolomé Herrera (1808–1864) was a Peruvian priest, orator, educator, and conservative politician who served as deputy for Lima and presided over the Constituent Congress of 1860, helping produce Peru's longest-lasting constitution.
Bartolomé Masó
Bartolomé Masó, born in Manzanillo in 1830, was a Cuban independence general and last president of the Republic of Cuba in Arms, serving from 1897 to 1898.
Bartolomé Mitre
Bartolomé Mitre was an Argentine politician, general, and historian who served as president of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and commanded the allied armies against Paraguay.
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva
Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva is the name of two father-and-son São Paulo bandeirantes nicknamed Anhanguera, meaning "Old Devil"; the son opened the gold region of Goiás from 1722.
Barton Cylinder
The Barton Cylinder is a clay cylinder from Nippur, Iraq, inscribed with a unique Sumerian cosmogonic narrative, dated to about 2500 to 2340 BC and held in the Penn Museum.
Bartow Elmore
Bartow J. Elmore is an American environmental historian at Ohio State University, known for Citizen Coke (2015) and Seed Money (2021) and winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize.
Bārû
The bārû was a Mesopotamian diviner-priest who ascertained the will of the gods by extispicy, reading the entrails, above all the liver, of a sacrificed sheep.
Baruch (son of Neriah)
Baruch ben Neriah was the scribe and disciple of the prophet Jeremiah, writing his oracles at dictation and reading them publicly in the Temple around 605 BC.
Baruch College
Baruch College, also known as Bernard M. Baruch College, is a public senior college of the City University of New York in Manhattan focused on business and public affairs.
Baruch Goldstein (ברוך גולדשטיין)
Baruch Goldstein (ברוך גולדשטיין), American-born Israeli physician and Kach activist, shot dead 29 Muslim worshippers and wounded 125 at Hebron's Ibrahimi Mosque on 25 February 1994; the Shamgar Commission found he acted alone.