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Bento Gonçalves da Silva
Bento Gonçalves da Silva (1788–1847) was a Brazilian military officer and rancher who led the Farroupilha Revolution in Rio Grande do Sul and became the first president of the Rio-Grandense Republic.
Benton J. Underwood
Benton J. Underwood (1915–1994) was an American experimental psychologist at Northwestern University who led postwar research on verbal learning and memory and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1970.
Benton Sawrey
Benton Sawrey is an American Republican politician who has represented North Carolina's 10th Senate district since 2023, chairs the Senate Health Care Committee, and co-chairs the Medicaid Oversight Committee.
Benton Visual Retention Test
The Benton Visual Retention Test (BVRT) is a neuropsychological test assessing visual memory, perception, and construction by reproducing geometric designs, published by Arthur Benton in 1945.
Bentresh Stela
The Bentresh Stela, also called the Bakhtan Stela, is a sandstone stela in the Louvre telling how the god Khonsu healed the princess Bentresh of Bakhtan.
Benu Gopal Bangur
Benu Gopal Bangur is an Indian businessman and patriarch of the family that controls Shree Cement, built from Beawar, Rajasthan into India's third largest cement group; he stepped down as chairman in 2022.
Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
Bény-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, near Reviers, Normandy, is a CWGC cemetery holding about 2,048 burials, mostly 3rd Canadian Division soldiers killed on D-Day at Juno Beach and in the advance toward Caen.
Benzaiten
Benzaiten (弁才天, also 弁財天, Benten), a Japanese Buddhist goddess derived from the Vedic river goddess Sarasvatī, deity of music, eloquence, learning, and wealth; only female of the Seven Lucky Gods, worshipped at Chikubushima, Enoshima, and Itsukushima.
Benzion Netanyahu (בנציון נתניהו)
Benzion Netanyahu (בנציון נתניהו), born Benzion Mileikowsky, was an Israeli historian of medieval Spanish Jewry, Revisionist Zionist activist, and father of Benjamin Netanyahu; his 1995 Origins of the Inquisition argued the Spanish Inquisition persecuted conversos as a population, not secret Jews.
Benzo
Benzo, in Italian Benzone di Alba, was bishop of Alba from 1059 until his expulsion around 1076 and author of a polemical work defending Emperor Henry IV.
Beodeunaesujokgwanjakeun Zoo
Beodeunaesujokgwanjakeun Zoo (버드내수족관작은동물원) is a small aquarium and mini zoo on Dongseo-daero 1186beon-gil in the Beodeunae district of Jung-gu, Daejeon, South Korea, near Seodaejeon station.
Beomil
Beomil (범일, 810–889) was a Seon monk of Unified Silla who founded the Sagulsan school, one of the Nine Mountain schools, and taught at Gulsansa.
BeOne Medicines
BeOne Medicines, formerly BeiGene, is a global oncology company co-founded by John V. Oyler in 2010, based in Basel, Switzerland, and known for the cancer drug Brukinsa.
Beong-Soo Kim
Beong-Soo Kim is an American attorney and the 13th president of the University of Southern California, appointed February 2026 after serving as interim president and, before that, USC general counsel and a federal frauds prosecutor in Los Angeles.
Beopheung of Silla
Beopheung of Silla (법흥왕) was the 23rd king of Silla, reigning from 514 to 540, who officially recognized Buddhism and annexed Geumgwan Gaya in 532.
Beorhthelm
Beorhthelm, also spelled Byrhthelm or Brithelm, was bishop of Wells who was elected archbishop of Canterbury in 959 but declined the office and returned to Wells.
Beorhtric of Wessex
Beorhtric (Brihtric), king of Wessex 786-802, succeeded Cynewulf, married Eadburh daughter of Offa of Mercia in 789, exiled rival Ecgberht to the Franks, and reigned during the first recorded Viking raid at Portland, Dorset.
Beothuk
The Beothuk were the Indigenous Algonquian-speaking people of Newfoundland, generally considered culturally extinct after Shanawdithit died in 1829; their disappearance, genocide claims, and surviving genetic lineages remain contested.
Beppe Grillo
Beppe Grillo (Giuseppe Grillo, born 1948) is an Italian comedian and blogger who founded the Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle) in 2009 with Gianroberto Casaleggio; his blog and V-Day rallies led to M5S becoming Italy's largest party in 2013 and governing in 2018, before his 2024 removal as guarantor.
beqom
beqom is a Swiss enterprise software company, headquartered in Nyon and founded in 2009 by former SAP executives, that sells cloud-based total compensation management software to large global companies.
Berar Sultanate
The Berar Sultanate (बेरार सल्तनत) was a Deccan sultanate founded in 1490 by Bahmani governor Imad-ul-Mulk. Its Imad Shahi dynasty ruled until it was annexed by Ahmadnagar.
Berau Sultanate
The Berau Sultanate (Kesultanan Berau) was a Malay-Islamic kingdom on the east coast of Borneo, in present-day East Kalimantan, Indonesia, founded around the 14th century.
Berber Christians
Berber Christians are Christians among the Berber (Amazigh) peoples of North Africa, spanning the ancient Latin church of Roman Africa and the modern Kabyle convert movement in Algeria.
Berber Dahir
The Berber Dahir (Arabic: الظهير البربري) was a 1930 decree by the Moroccan sultan, designed by French Protectorate officials, establishing customary courts in Berber tribal areas.
Berber languages
The Berber languages, also called Amazigh or Tamazight, are an Afroasiatic branch of about forty languages spoken by more than forty million people across North Africa.
Berber Revolt
The Berber Revolt (ثورة البربر) was a Berber tribal uprising against Umayyad rule, begun in Tangier in 740 under Maysara al-Madghari, that ended caliphal control of the western Maghreb.
Berber Spring
The Berber Spring, or Tafsut Imaziɣen, was a period of protests and state repression in Algeria in 1980, sparked when authorities banned Mouloud Mammeri's lecture at Tizi Ouzou.
Berberism
Berberism, known today as the Amazigh movement, is an ethnocultural and political movement in North Africa seeking official recognition of the Berber (Amazigh) language and identity.
Berbers
Berbers, self-named Amazigh (Imazighen), are the indigenous peoples of North Africa speaking the Afro-Asiatic Berber (Tamazight) languages with the Tifinagh script; the term Berber derives from Greek-Roman barbaros, and Tamazight is official in Morocco (2011) and Algeria (2016).
Berbice slave uprising
The Berbice slave uprising was a 1763 slave rebellion in the Dutch colony of Berbice, in present-day Guyana, led by the freed slave Coffy and held for over a year.