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BET

BET (Black Entertainment Television), American cable network founded by Robert L. Johnson in 1980, sold to Viacom for $3 billion in 2000; BET+ streaming service folds into Paramount+ in June 2026.

BET Her

BET Her is a Paramount-owned American pay TV channel for African American women, formerly BET on Jazz (1996), BET Jazz, BET J, and Centric (2009–2017), relaunched as BET Her on October 1, 2017.

Bet24

Bet24 names several gambling businesses: the Danish betting brand founded in 2001 by Holger Kristiansen, later MTG-owned and acquired by Unibet; the offshore bet24.gg casino; Bets24 Casino (2024, disputed Curaçao licence); and a Dar es Salaam land-based casino.

Bet365

Bet365 (bet365) is a British online gambling company founded in 2000 by Denise Coates in Stoke-on-Trent, launched online March 2001 with a £15m RBS loan; family-owned, over 120 million customers, majority owner of Stoke City FC.

Beta (finance)

Beta (β), also called the beta coefficient, is a measure of an asset's sensitivity to market movements; a beta of 1 carries the same systematic risk as the market.

Beta (Βήτα)

Beta (Βήτα, Β/β) is the second letter of the Greek alphabet, from Phoenician beth "house"; pronounced ˈvita with a v sound in Modern Greek, and widely used as a symbol for angles, regression coefficients, and beta particles.

Beta Bionics

Beta Bionics is an Irvine, California medical device company founded in 2015 by Edward Damiano that makes the iLet Bionic Pancreas, an FDA-cleared insulin delivery system public on Nasdaq since 2025.

Beta Israel (ቤተ እስራኤል)

Beta Israel (ቤተ እስራኤል), also called Ethiopian Jews or formerly Falasha, is the Jewish community of northwestern Ethiopia. Known for its biblical, non-rabbinic Haymanot tradition, tribe-of-Dan origin tradition, 1973 rabbinic recognition, and the Operations Moses and Solomon airlifts that brought some 90,000 to Israel.

Beta Theta Pi

Beta Theta Pi (ΒΘΠ, "Beta"), a social college fraternity founded August 8, 1839 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio; oldest of the Miami Triad; over 215,000 lifetime members; linked to the 2017 Timothy Piazza hazing death at Penn State.

Betar US

Betar US (Betar Zionist Organization Inc.) is a right-wing Zionist group founded by Ronn Torossian in 2024, labeled extremist by the ADL, known for deportation lists of campus protesters and a 2026 New York AG settlement winding down its operations.

Betfair

Betfair is an online betting company founded in 1999 by Andrew Black and Edward Wray, best known for its betting exchange where customers bet against each other.

Beth din (בית דין)

A beth din (בית דין), also called beit din, is a rabbinical court under Jewish law that oversees divorce, conversion, and arbitration between disputing parties.

Beth F. Bloom

Beth F. Bloom, born 1962 in the Bronx, is a United States district judge for the Southern District of Florida, nominated by President Barack Obama in 2014.

Beth Farnham

Beth Farnham is an American politician and the Democratic candidate for the U.S. House in Pennsylvania's 13th District in 2026, challenging Republican incumbent John Joyce.

Beth Holloway

Beth Holloway, also Beth Holloway Twitty, is the American teacher and advocate, mother of Natalee Holloway, who vanished in Aruba in 2005; she founded the Natalee Holloway Resource Center and International Safe Travels Foundation and faced Joran van der Sloot's 2023 confession.

Beth L. Freeman

Beth Labson Freeman, born 1953, is an American jurist serving as a US district judge in San Jose since 2014, appointed by President Barack Obama.

Beth Lear

Beth Lear is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 61st district in eastern Delaware and western Knox counties.

Beth Liston

Beth Liston is an American Democratic politician and physician representing Ohio's 16th Senate district, previously a State Representative and professor of clinical medicine at Ohio State.

Beth M. Hammack

Beth M. Hammack is an American central banker and former Goldman Sachs executive who became the twelfth president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in August 2024.

Beth Mizell

Beth Mizell is an American politician, a Republican member of the Louisiana Senate from the 12th district who was President Pro Tempore from 2020 to 2024.

Beth Moore

Beth Moore is an American evangelical Bible teacher and author who founded Living Proof Ministries in Houston in 1994 and left the Southern Baptist Convention in 2021.

Beth Mowins

Beth Mowins, ESPN play-by-play broadcaster since 1994; first woman to call a nationally televised NFL game (Chargers-Broncos, Monday Night Football, September 11, 2017) and voice of the Women's College World Series for 30 years.

Beth Rigby

Beth Rigby (Elizabeth Rigby) is a British journalist, Sky News political editor since April 2019 and the first woman in the role; former FT and Times journalist, host of Beth Rigby Interviews and the Electoral Dysfunction podcast.

Beth Robinson

Beth Robinson (born 1965) is a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit judge, former Vermont Supreme Court justice, and co-counsel in Baker v. State, the first openly lesbian federal appeals judge.

Beth Seidenberg

Beth Seidenberg is an American physician-scientist turned venture capitalist, founding managing director of Westlake Village BioPartners and a general partner at Kleiner Perkins known for incubating biotech companies.

Beth Shean stelae

The Beth Shean stelae are Egyptian victory stelae of Seti I and Ramesses II, set up at Beth Shean in the Jordan Valley in the early 13th century BCE.

Beth Simmons

Beth Simmons is an American political scientist, the Andrea Mitchell University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, known for her landmark 2009 book Mobilizing for Human Rights.

Beth Simone Noveck

Beth Simone Noveck is an American scholar and government official who served as the first US Deputy Chief Technology Officer under Obama and directs The GovLab at Northeastern University.

Beth Van Duyne

Beth Van Duyne (born 1970), Republican U.S. Representative for Texas's 24th District since 2021; first woman mayor of Irving (2011-2017), HUD Southwest regional administrator (2017-2019), Ways and Means and Small Business committee member.

Beth Wilkinson

Beth Wilkinson (born 1962) is an American trial lawyer, Princeton and UVA Law graduate, former Army and Oklahoma City bombing prosecutor, and co-founder of the trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff, known for the NFL Sunday Ticket and Microsoft-Activision defenses.