Society and history

Bobby Harshbarger

Bobby Harshbarger is an American politician and pharmacist. A Republican, he represents Tennessee's 4th Senate district and was appointed by Governor Bill Lee to the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy.

Bobby Jain

Bobby Jain (Robert Jain) is a hedge fund manager who founded the New York firm Jain Global in 2023 with $5.3 billion, after serving as co-CIO of Millennium Management.

Bobby Jindal (Piyush Jindal, born 1971) is an American Republican politician, U.S. representative from Louisiana 2005-2008 and the first Indian American state governor, serving as Louisiana's 55th governor 2008-2016 before a failed 2016 presidential bid.

Bobby Joe Champion

Bobby Joe Champion is an American politician and attorney serving as President of the Minnesota Senate since 2023, the first Black person to hold the office.

Bobby Joe Long

Bobby Joe Long (Robert Joe Long), the 'Classified Ad Rapist,' murdered at least 10 women in the Tampa Bay area in 1984, was caught after kidnapping Lisa McVey, pleaded guilty to eight murders, and was executed in Florida in 2019.

Bobby Kaufmann

Bobby Kaufmann (born 1985) is an American Republican politician in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2012, elected House Majority Leader in 2025 after chairing Oversight and Ways and Means.

Bobby Pulido

Bobby Pulido is an American Tejano music artist and small business owner, the Democratic nominee challenging Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz for Texas's 15th congressional district in 2026.

Bobby R. Baldock

Bobby R. Baldock, born Bobby Ray Baldock, is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Tenth Circuit since 2001, appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1985.

Bobby Ray Inman

Bobby Ray Inman (born 1931), retired US Navy admiral; Director of NSA 1977-1981, Deputy Director of CIA 1981-1982; Clinton's 1993 Defense Secretary nominee who withdrew in January 1994.

Bobby Rush

Bobby Rush (born 1946) is an American retired Democratic congressman for Illinois's 1st district, 1993-2023, former Illinois Black Panther Party co-founder, Chicago alderman, and the only politician to defeat Barack Obama in an election, in the 2000 primary.

Bobby Sands

Bobby Sands (Robert Gerard Sands, 1954–1981), IRA prisoner and 1981 hunger strike leader in the Maze, elected MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone during the strike, died after 66 days; distinct from other hunger strikers as its first and best-known fatality.

Bobby Scott

Bobby Scott, born Robert C. Scott in 1947, is a Democratic US Representative for Virginia's 3rd district since 1993, after serving in the Virginia General Assembly.

Bobby Seale

Bobby Seale (Robert George Seale, born October 22, 1936) co-founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland in 1966, served as Chairman, faced the Chicago Eight and New Haven trials, ran for Oakland mayor in 1973, and wrote Seize the Time.

Bobby Shellworth

Bobby Shellworth is an American venture investor who has worked at late-stage firm DST Global since January 2018, based in Los Angeles, with self-reported deals including DoorDash, Robinhood, and Databricks.

Bobby Shriver

Bobby Shriver (Robert Sargent Shriver III, born 1954) is an American activist and politician, co-founder with Bono of DATA, ONE, and (RED), and a Santa Monica City Council member 2004–2012.

Bobby Singleton

Bobby Singleton is an American politician, a Democratic Alabama senator representing District 24 since 2005 and the Senate's minority leader since 2018, replacing Billy Beasley.

Bobi Wine

Bobi Wine, stage name of Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu (born 1982), is a Ugandan musician-turned-politician, National Unity Platform leader, and People Power founder who ran against Museveni in 2021 (35.1%) and 2026 (24.72%), then fled into exile.

Oct 22, 2026

Bobingsa

Bobingsa (보빙사) was the 1883 diplomatic mission Joseon Korea sent to the United States, the first Korean delegation to any Western country, led by Min Yeong-ik.

Bobo doll experiment

Bobo doll experiment: Bandura's early-1960s Stanford studies (1961, 1963) showing preschool children imitated observed adult, filmed, or cartoon aggression toward an inflatable doll, founding evidence for social learning theory.

Bobov (חסידות באבוב) (Hasidic dynasty)

Bobov (חסידות באבוב), also known as Bobover Chassidim, is a Hasidic dynasty founded in Bobowa, Galicia, by Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam and rebuilt in Brooklyn after the Holocaust.

Bobrisky

Bobrisky (Okuneye Idris Olanrewaju, born 1992) is a Nigerian social media influencer known as a crossdresser and described as a trans woman, known for the 2024 Best Dressed Female controversy and a six-month naira-abuse prison sentence.

Bocca della Verità

Bocca della Verità (Mouth of Truth): ancient Roman marble mask, about 1.8 m across, in the portico of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. Probably a drain cover; medieval legend says it bites off liars' hands; famed by Roman Holiday (1953).

Bocchoris vase

The Bocchoris vase is an Egyptian faience situla bearing the cartouche of pharaoh Wahkare Bakenrenef (Bocchoris), found in 1895 in an Etruscan chamber tomb at Tarquinia, Italy.

Bocchus I

Bocchus I was king of Mauretania from about 110 BC, best known for seizing his ally Jugurtha and delivering him to Sulla in 105 BC, ending the Jugurthine War.

Bocconi University

Bocconi University (Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi), private non-profit Milan university founded 1902 by Ferdinando Bocconi; Italy's first economics degree; leading in economics, management, finance, law, data science, AI.

Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (બોચાસણવાસી અક્ષર પુરુષોત્તમ સ્વામિનારાયણ સંસ્થા)

Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, also known as BAPS, is a worldwide Hindu fellowship in the Swaminarayan tradition, founded in 1907 by Shastriji Maharaj and known for its mandirs, including Akshardham.

Oct 22, 2026

Bocskai uprising

The Bocskai uprising (Hungarian: Bocskai-felkelés) was an anti-Habsburg revolt in Royal Hungary and Transylvania led by István Bocskai, elected prince of Transylvania, ending with the Peace of Vienna in 1606.

Bodashtart

Bodashtart (Bdʾštrt), also rendered Bod'aštart, was king of the Sidonians in the late 6th century BC, known from about thirty inscriptions recording his building works at Sidon.