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Bondi Beach shooting

Antisemitic terrorist attack of 14 December 2025 at the Chanukah by the Sea event on Bondi Beach, Sydney, in which father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram killed 15 and wounded about 40 before police intervention.

Bondi Junction stabbings

The Bondi Junction stabbings, also known as the Sydney mall attack, were a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction in Sydney, Australia, on 13 April 2024, killing six people.

Bone War

The Bone War (Perang Bone) was a conflict between the Bugis Kingdom of Bone in South Sulawesi and the Dutch colonial government, fought mainly in 1824 and 1825.

Bone-rank system

The bone-rank system (골품제, golpumje) was Silla's hereditary status system, codified under King Beopheung in 520, which fixed aristocrats' rank, office, and marriage by bloodline.

Boneghazi

Boneghazi, or the stealing human bones controversy, was a December 2015 Tumblr scandal accusing New Orleans witch Ender Darling of taking cemetery bones for rituals; it spawned memes and a January 2016 police raid.

Bong Go

Bong Go (Christopher Lawrence Tesoro Go), Filipino senator since 2019 and longtime aide of Rodrigo Duterte; Special Assistant to the President 2016–2018; topped the 2025 Senate race with about 27 million votes; named an alleged ICC co-perpetrator in 2026, which he denies.

Bong Koh

Bong Koh is an American healthcare investor and partner at Venrock, working on its public and cross-over biotech fund VHCP since 2009, known for board roles at AveXis, acquired by Novartis for $8.7 billion, and RayzeBio.

Bong Pineda

Rodolfo "Bong" Pineda is the Pampanga businessman patriarch of the Pineda political dynasty, husband of Governor Lilia Pineda, an alleged jueteng financier investigated by the Senate, and a reported Arroyo campaign donor who holds no elected office.

Bong Revilla

Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr., born Jose Marie Mortel Bautista, is a Filipino actor and politician who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 2004 to 2016 and from 2019 to 2025.

Bongbong Marcos

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., 17th President of the Philippines (2022–), son of dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr.; won the 2022 election with an outright majority, shifted South China Sea policy toward the U.S. alliance, and feuds with Vice President Sara Duterte.

Bonham Carter family

The Bonham Carter family is an English political and Liberal family begun by MP John Bonham Carter, whose descendants include Violet Bonham Carter and actress Helena Bonham Carter.

Boni Maroon War

The Boni Maroon War was the Aluku (Boni) Maroons' armed struggle against Dutch colonial forces in Suriname, fought from 1768 to 1793, ending when Boni was killed.

Boniface II

Boniface II, who died in 532, was the 55th pope and the first of recorded Germanic ancestry, elected through a disputed double election against Dioscorus.

Boniface of Savoy

Boniface of Savoy (c. 1207–1270) was a Carthusian from the House of Savoy who became Archbishop of Canterbury, serving from his enthronement in 1249 until his death in 1270.

Boniface V

Boniface V, a Neapolitan who was the 69th pope from 619 to 625, established the right of asylum in churches and conferred the pallium on Justus of Canterbury in 624.

Boniface VI

Boniface VI was the 112th pope, a Roman and the son of a bishop, who reigned for about two weeks in April 896 between Formosus and Stephen VI.

Bonne of Bourbon

Bonne of Bourbon (Bonne de Bourbon, 1341–1403), Bourbon princess, daughter of Pierre I and Isabelle de Valois; married Amédée VI of Savoy by the 1355 Treaty of Paris and governed Savoy as regent for about thirty years.

Bonner Fellers

Bonner Frank Fellers (1896–1973), US Army brigadier general, military attaché in Cairo 1940–1942 whose intercepted Black Code reports aided Rommel, and MacArthur's military secretary who helped shield Emperor Hirohito from trial.

Bonnie

Bonnie is a feminine given name meaning "pretty", from the Scottish word bonnie, long popular in America and rising sharply in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand since the 2010s.

Bonnie and Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde were the American outlaw couple Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who committed robbery and murder across the South and Southwest until police killed them in 1934.

Bonnie and Clyde (film)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Arthur Penn's crime drama starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the Depression-era outlaws, written by David Newman and Robert Benton for Warner Bros. Initially panned, it became the landmark New Hollywood film, earning 10 Oscar nominations and 1992 National Film Registry selection.

Bonnie Crombie

Bonnie Crombie (born 1960), Canadian politician; MP for Mississauga—Streetsville 2008–2011, Mississauga councillor 2011–2014, mayor 2014–2024 (64/77/79% wins), Ontario Liberal leader Dec 2023–2025; resigned after 57% review; again running for Mississauga mayor.

Bonnie McCay

Bonnie McCay is an American anthropologist and human ecologist at Rutgers University known for research on fisheries and the commons, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Bonnie Nettles

Bonnie Nettles, known within her movement as Ti, was a Houston nurse who co-founded the millenarian religious group Heaven's Gate with Marshall Applewhite, leading it until her 1985 death.

Bonnie Tu

Bonnie Tu (杜绣珍, Tu Hsiu-chen) is a Taiwanese bicycle-industry executive who chaired Giant Group, the world's largest bicycle brand, from 2017 to 2024 and founded the women's cycling brand Liv.

Bonnie Wang

Bonnie Wang is a partner at Qiming Venture Partners, a Chinese venture capital firm, who has invested in internet and consumer companies such as NEIWAI and PETKIT since 2012.

Bonnie Watson Coleman

Bonnie Watson Coleman is an American Democratic politician who has represented New Jersey's 12th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015, after eight terms in the state Assembly.

Bonny Civil War

The Bonny Civil War was an 1869 conflict between rival canoe houses that split Bonny, a trading state in the Niger Delta of present-day Nigeria, into two, creating Opobo.

Bonny Lee Bakley

Bonny Lee Bakley (1956–2001), also called Bonnie Bakley, was the wife of actor Robert Blake, shot dead outside Vitello's in Studio City; Blake was criminally acquitted in 2005 but found liable for $30 million.

Bono State

Bono State, also called Bonoman, was an early Akan polity founded in the 14th century at Bono Manso in present-day Ghana, flourishing on the gold trade before Asante's rise.