Society and history

Bejul Somaia

Bejul Somaia is an Indian venture capital investor who joined Lightspeed Venture Partners in 2008 and built its India practice, backing OYO, Udaan, and MagicPin.

Bek (chief sculptor)

Bek, also spelled Bak, was the chief royal sculptor of Pharaoh Akhenaten, active c. 1353–1336 BC during the Amarna period, and son of the sculptor Men.

Bek Ventures

Bek Ventures, formerly Earlybird Digital East until 2024, is a venture capital firm investing in Central and Eastern European and Turkish founders, known for UiPath and Payhawk.

Oct 10, 2026

BEKB-BCBE

BEKB-BCBE, the Banque cantonale bernoise, is the cantonal bank of Bern, Switzerland. Founded in 1834 as the first Swiss cantonal bank, it is majority-owned by the canton.

Beketamun

Beketamun, meaning "servant of Amun", was a king's daughter of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, known from two objects, one dated to the reign of Thutmose III.

Sep 23, 2026

Bektashi order

The Bektashi order (الطريقة البكتاشية) is a Sufi order that took organized form in Anatolia in the early sixteenth century under Balim Sultan and spread through the Balkans under Ottoman rule.

Bel and the Dragon (Βὴλ καὶ Δράκων)

Bel and the Dragon (Βὴλ καὶ Δράκων), also known as Daniel 14, is a Greek apocryphal addition to the Book of Daniel in which Daniel exposes the gods of Babylon.

Bēl-dān

Bēl-dān, also written Bel-dan, was an Assyrian palace herald who served twice as eponym, the official who named the year, in 820 BC under Shamshi-Adad V and 807 BC under Adad-nirari III.

Bel-Harran-beli-usur

Bel-Harran-beli-usur (Bēl-Ḫarrān-bēli-uṣur) was a Neo-Assyrian palace herald and governor of Guzana in the 8th century BC, known from a stele found at Tell Abta, west of Mosul.

Bel-ibni

Bel-ibni (Bēl-ibni) was a native Babylonian raised in Assyria whom Sennacherib set on the throne of Babylon; he ruled three years until deported in 700 BC.

Bel-ushezib, also written Bēl-ušēzib, was a Babylonian scholar-astrologer who served the Neo-Assyrian kings Sennacherib and Esarhaddon, and is known from letters and astrological reports found at Nineveh.

Bela ben Beor

Bela ben Beor, or Bela son of Beor, is the first named king of Edom in the biblical list of Genesis 36, reigning from the city Dinhabah.

Bela G. Lugosi

Bela G. Lugosi (Béla George Lugosi) is a Los Angeles intellectual property attorney, son of the Dracula actor, whose suit against Universal in Lugosi v. Universal Pictures (1979) shaped California's 70-year postmortem right of publicity law.

Béla I of Hungary

Béla I (I. Béla) was King of Hungary from 1060 to 1063, an Árpád king who took the throne from his brother Andrew I after a civil war.

Sep 24, 2026

Béla III of Hungary

Béla III of Hungary (III. Béla) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1172 to 1196, remembered as one of the country's most capable medieval rulers.

Béla IV of Hungary

Béla IV (IV. Béla), Árpád king of Hungary 1235–1270, son of Andrew II; defeated by the Mongols at Muhi in 1241, rebuilt the kingdom as its "second founder," built fortresses, defeated Frederick II of Austria in 1246, and repelled the 1261 Mongol invasion.

Béla Kiss

Béla Kiss, the "Monster of Cinkota", was a Hungarian tinsmith born 1877 who murdered women lured by marriage ads under the alias Hoffmann, preserving bodies in alcohol-sealed drums; discovered 1916, he vanished and was never caught.

Béla Szigethy

Béla Szigethy is an American private equity executive who founded The Riverside Company in 1988 from his New York apartment and remains its Co-Chief Executive Officer alongside Stewart Kohl.

Béla Wenckheim

Béla Wenckheim (1811–1879) was a Hungarian baron and statesman who served as interior minister after the 1867 Compromise and was briefly Prime Minister of Hungary from March to October 1875.

Belal El-Megharbel

Belal El-Megharbel, also written Belal El Megharbel, is an Egyptian technology entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of MaxAB, a Cairo B2B e-commerce platform that merged with Kenya's Wasoko in 2024.

Belarus and the United Nations

Belarus has belonged to the United Nations since 1945, when it joined as the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, one of the UN's founding members despite lacking sovereignty.

Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church

The Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (BAOC) is an Orthodox church claiming independence for Belarus, proclaimed under German occupation in 1942 and never recognized by any Orthodox church.

Belarusian Central Rada

The Belarusian Central Rada, or Belarusian Central Council, was a collaborationist administrative body established by Nazi Germany in occupied Belarus in December 1943, led by Radaslaŭ Astroŭski.

Belarusian chronicles

Lithuanian chronicles, also called Belarusian-Lithuanian or Ruthenian chronicles, are the Ruthenian-language historiographic works of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania of the 14th to 16th centuries, forming the first history of that state.

Belarusian dialects

Belarusian dialects are the regional varieties of Belarusian, an East Slavic language, traditionally divided into Northeastern and Southwestern dialects with Central Belarusian subdialects between them, spoken in Belarus and parts of neighboring countries.