Society and history

Belvedere Trading

Belvedere Trading is a privately held proprietary trading and market-making firm founded in 2002 and headquartered in Chicago, making markets in options, commodities, and interest rates.

Belz (בעלז) (Hasidic dynasty)

Belz (בעלז) is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Galicia around 1817 by Rabbi Shalom Rokeaḥ, now one of the largest Hasidic communities, centered in Jerusalem.

Belzec (Bełżec) was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland, the first of three Operation Reinhard killing centers, where roughly 434,500 Jews were murdered between March and December 1942.

Sep 29, 2026

Bem Sex-Role Inventory

The Bem Sex-Role Inventory (BSRI) is a 60-item self-report questionnaire measuring masculinity, femininity, and androgyny as independent traits, introduced by Sandra Bem in 1974 and widely used in gender-role research.

Sep 24, 2026

Bemba Kingdom

The Bemba Kingdom (UluBemba) was a state in north-eastern Zambia, founded by Luba migrants before 1700 and ruled by the paramount chief Chitimukulu until British conquest in the 1890s.

Bemidji State University

Bemidji State University (BSU), a public Minnesota State university on Lake Bemidji founded in 1919 as Bemidji Normal School, enrolls about 5,000 students in 70 undergraduate areas and eight graduate degrees, with noted online, forestry, and indigenous studies programs.

Oct 22, 2026

Bemin system

The bemin system (部民制, beminsei) organized people serving the Yamato court, imperial family, and powerful clans into be groups owing labor and tribute, abolished after the Taika Reform of 645.

Ben Albritton

Ben Albritton is an American Republican politician and fourth-generation citrus farmer from Wauchula, Florida, who served in the Florida House from 2010 to 2018 and has been President of the Florida Senate since 2024.

Ben Allen

Ben Allen is an American politician, a Democratic California State Senator representing the 24th district since 2014 who is running for insurance commissioner in 2026.

Ben Ambrose

Ben Ambrose is an American veteran and former federal worker who won the Democratic primary for Michigan's 2nd Congressional District in August 2026, facing incumbent John Moolenaar.

Ben Bagdikian

Ben H. Bagdikian (1920–2016) was an Armenian American journalist and media critic who obtained the Pentagon Papers for The Washington Post in 1971 and wrote The Media Monopoly (1983), the influential study of media ownership concentration.

Oct 22, 2026

Ben Barka affair

The Ben Barka affair was the forced disappearance of Mehdi Ben Barka from Paris on October 29, 1965, an event that poisoned French public life and Franco-Moroccan relations.

Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke, American economist and Federal Reserve chairman 2006–2014, led the Fed's response to the 2007–09 financial crisis with quantitative easing and liquidity programs; 2022 Nobel laureate for Great Depression and financial-accelerator research.

Ben Bisconti

Ben Bisconti is a technology private equity investor, co-founder and co-CEO of Red Iron Group, and previously a general partner at Accel-KKR from 2003 to 2014.

Ben Blackmore

Ben Blackmore is a software engineer who is chief technology officer and co-founder of Dash0, an observability platform founded in 2023 and headquartered in New York.

Ben Blume

Ben Blume is a British venture capital investor and Partner at Atomico, where he invests in AI and enterprise software, including Graphcore, SmartNews, and Hinge Health.

Ben Bowman (Oregon politician)

Ben Bowman is an American Democratic politician from Tigard, Oregon, serving as Majority Leader of the Oregon House of Representatives. Elected in 2022, he previously chaired the Tigard-Tualatin School Board.

Ben Bradlee

Ben Bradlee (Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee, 1921 to 2014) was executive editor of The Washington Post from 1968 to 1991, leading its Pentagon Papers and Watergate coverage.

Ben Bradlee Jr.

Ben Bradlee Jr. (born 1948), American journalist, Boston Globe deputy managing editor who supervised the Pulitzer-winning Spotlight Catholic Church abuse investigation, son of Ben Bradlee Sr., and author of a Ted Williams biography.

Ben Brooks

Ben Brooks, born Benjamin T. Brooks, Sr., is an American Democrat in the Maryland State Senate for District 10 since 2023, after serving in the House of Delegates.

Ben Brown (Missouri politician)

Ben Brown is an American politician and Republican member of the Missouri Senate from the 26th district, elected in 2022 after chairing the Franklin County Central Committee.

Ben Bumgarner

Ben Bumgarner is an American Republican politician in the Texas House of Representatives, representing District 63 after serving on the Flower Mound Town Council and as Mayor Pro Tem of Flower Mound.

Ben Cardin

Ben Cardin, born Benjamin Louis Cardin in 1943, is a Democratic politician who represented Maryland in the US House and Senate, leaving office in 2025.

Ben Carroll

Ben Carroll, born 1975, is an Australian Labor politician and the 50th Premier of Victoria, sworn in on July 28, 2026 after replacing Jacinta Allan.

Ben Chien

Ben Chien (简铭达, also Chien Ming-Ta) is a Taiwanese-American pharmaceutical executive, founder, chairman, and CEO of Foresee Pharmaceuticals, a Taiwan biotech making long-acting injectable drugs.

Ben Cline

Ben Cline, born 1972, is an American Republican politician representing Virginia's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House since 2019, after serving in the Virginia House of Delegates from 2002 to 2018.

Ben Coleman (politician)

Ben Coleman (Benjamin John Coleman) is the Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham, elected on 4 July 2024 with a 152-vote majority over Greg Hands, the seat's first Labour representative; formerly Hammersmith & Fulham council deputy leader and health cabinet member.