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Billy Claiborne
Billy Claiborne (1860-1882), Tombstone cowboy nicknamed "Billy the Kid" after Bonney's death, fled the O.K. Corral gunfight and was killed by Buckskin Frank Leslie in 1882.
Billy Clanton
Billy Clanton (William Harrison Clanton, ca. 1862–1881), youngest son of Newman Haynes Clanton, Texas-born Arizona rancher and Cowboy killed at the O.K. Corral gunfight in Tombstone on October 26, 1881, buried in Boothill Graveyard.
Billy Deitch
Billy Deitch is an American venture capital investor and Partner at Oak HC/FT, a healthcare and fintech firm, where he led investments in Cerebral and Olive.
Billy Garland (activist)
Billy Garland (born 1949) is an American former Black Panther Party activist from New Jersey and the biological father of rapper Tupac Shakur with Afeni Shakur; estranged from his son, he reunited with him after the 1994 shooting and later gave interviews about Tupac's death.
Billy Garrett
Billy Garrett is an American politician and Republican member of the South Carolina Senate from District 10, covering Greenwood, Lexington, and Saluda Counties, first elected in 2020.
Billy Graham
Billy Graham (William Franklin Graham Jr.) was an American evangelist who preached to tens of millions across more than fifty countries and founded the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Billy Hickman
Billy Hickman is an American politician and certified public accountant serving as a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate from the 4th district, first elected in 2020.
Billy Hill (gangster)
Billy Hill (William Charles Hill, 1911–1984), London gangster and self-styled boss of Britain's underworld; Eastcastle Street robbery mastermind, Jack Spot's rival, Kray twins' mentor, author of Boss of Britain's Underworld.
Billy Jensen
Billy Jensen is an American investigative journalist and true-crime author known for using geo-targeted Facebook ads to help solve unsolved murders; author of Chase Darkness with Me and collaborator on I'll Be Gone in the Dark.
Billy Mays
Billy Mays, born William Darrell Mays Jr. and known as the OxiClean guy, was an American TV pitchman who sold OxiClean, Orange Glo, and Kaboom until his 2009 death.
Billy McFarland
Billy McFarland (William Z. McFarland), American founder of the failed Fyre Festival and Fyre Media; convicted of wire and bank fraud, sentenced in 2018 to six years, released early in March 2022, and later sold the Fyre brand for $245,300.
Billy Meier
Billy Meier, born Eduard Albert Meier, is a Swiss UFO contactee who claims contacts with Plejaren extraterrestrials since 1975 and founded the FIGU movement in Switzerland.
Billy Milligan
Billy Milligan (William Stanley Milligan, 1955-2014), Ohio man acquitted by reason of insanity in 1978 on rape, robbery, and kidnapping charges based on a multiple personality disorder (DID) diagnosis of 24 personalities; first such verdict.
Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell (1879-1936), US Army brigadier general and father of the US Air Force, proved aircraft could sink battleships in the 1921 Ostfriesland tests and was court-martialed in 1925 for insubordination.
Billy Quinn (William J. Quinn)
Billy Quinn, also known as William J. Quinn, is an American energy private-equity investor who founded Dallas-based Pearl Energy Investments in 2015 after nearly two decades at Natural Gas Partners.
Billy Sunday
Billy Sunday (William Ashley Sunday, 1862–1935) was an American professional baseball player turned evangelist who held more than 300 urban revivals and helped build support for Prohibition.
Billy the Axeman
Billy the Axeman is the name given to an unidentified American serial killer blamed for family axe murders mainly in the Midwest between 1911 and 1912.
Billy the Kid
Billy the Kid, born Henry McCarty, alias William H. Bonney, was a New Mexico outlaw of the 1878 Lincoln County War, convicted of murdering Sheriff Brady in 1881, escaped killing two guards, and was shot dead by Pat Garrett at Fort Sumner.
Billy W. Lewis, Jr.
Billy Wayne Lewis, Jr. (born 1978) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Middle District of Alabama since 2025, nominated by President Trump.
Billy Waugh
Billy Waugh (William Dawson Waugh) was an American Special Forces soldier and CIA paramilitary officer whose career spanned from the Korean War to Afghanistan in 2001.
Bilocation
Bilocation is the claimed simultaneous presence of one person, body and soul, in two distinct places at once, a concept arising from Catholic theology of the Eucharist.
Bilt
Bilt (Bilt Technologies, Inc.) is a New York fintech company that lets renters earn loyalty points on rent through a landlord network and a co-branded credit card.
BIM Birlesik Magazalar
BİM Birleşik Mağazalar, also known as BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş., is Turkey's largest hard-discount food retailer, founded in 1995 by former Aldi managers and selling about 900 mostly private-label items at everyday low prices.
Bima Sultanate
The Bima Sultanate was a sultanate in eastern Sumbawa, Indonesia, on the Malacca–Maluku trade route, whose first sultan, Abdul Kahir, was crowned in 1633 or 1640.
Bimal Bora
Bimal Bora, also spelled Borah, is an Indian Bharatiya Janata Party politician and cabinet minister in Assam, representing the Tingkhong constituency and holding the Industries and Commerce portfolios.
Bimaristan al-Adudi
Bimaristan al-Adudi (البيمارستان العضدي) was a large hospital in Baghdad founded by the Buyid emir Adud al-Dawla, opened around 981 and destroyed in the Mongol sack of 1258.
Bimbashi Arabic
Bimbashi Arabic (also Mongalla Arabic) was a military pidginized Arabic spread ca. 1870-1920 in southern Sudan's garrison camps; it is the predecessor of the Nubi and Juba Arabic creoles.
Bimbī
Bimbī is a female lay disciple named in the Pali canon's list of eminent laywomen at AN 8:90, her identity uncertain between Khemā, Bimbisāra's consort, and Bimbā, the Buddha's wife.
Bimbisara (बिम्बिसार)
Bimbisara (बिम्बिसार), also called Śreṇika, was the Haryanka king of Magadha (c. 545–493 BCE) who annexed Anga, ruled from Rajagriha, patronised Buddhism and Jainism, and died deposed by his son Ajatashatru.
Bimbo
Bimbo: English slang from Italian bambino ("little child"); originally a 1919 contemptuous term for a man, shifted by the 1920s to an offensive word for an attractive but unintelligent woman, revived in 1980s scandals, reclaimed on TikTok.