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Brad Smith (Wisconsin politician)
Brad Smith is an American politician and veteran, the Democratic nominee in 2026 for the U.S. House in Wisconsin's 6th District, challenging Republican incumbent Glenn Grothman.
Brad Weirick
Brad Weirick is an American lawyer who became Partner and General Counsel at Santa Monica venture firm March Capital in 2022 after 35 years at Gibson Dunn.
Bradesco
Bradesco, also known as Banco Bradesco, is one of Brazil's largest private banks, founded in Marília, São Paulo, in 1943 by Amador Aguiar and headquartered in Osasco.
Bradford & Bingley
Bradford & Bingley was a British mortgage bank, formed from a building society tracing its roots to 1851, that demutualized in 2000, became the UK's largest buy-to-let lender, and was nationalized in September 2008.
Bradford Bishop
William Bradford Bishop Jr. (born 1936), also Brad Bishop, is a former US Foreign Service officer and FBI fugitive charged with bludgeoning his wife, mother, and three sons in Bethesda, Maryland, on March 1, 1976, burning their bodies in North Carolina, and vanishing; he was on the Ten Most Wanted list 2014 to 2018 and remains at large.
Bradford H. Gray
Bradford H. Gray is an American sociologist and health services researcher, senior fellow emeritus at the Urban Institute and editor of The Milbank Quarterly for 13 years.
Bradford murders
The Bradford murders were the 2009-2010 killings of three Bradford sex workers, Susan Rushworth, Shelley Armitage, and Suzanne Blamires, by Stephen Griffiths, the self-styled Crossbow Cannibal, a criminology PhD student who received a whole life order in 2010.
Bradley effect
Bradley effect: claimed polling bias where pre-election polls overstate support for Black candidates against white opponents, named for Tom Bradley's 1982 California gubernatorial loss; also called Wilder or Dinkins effect; evidence suggests it faded after the early 1990s.
Bradley Garrett
Bradley Garrett is a geographer and explorer-researcher known for place hacking with urban explorers, scaling the Shard in 2012, and his 2020 book Bunker about preppers.
Bradley J. Edwards
Bradley J. Edwards (Bradley James Edwards) is a Fort Lauderdale victims' rights attorney, founding partner of Edwards Henderson, who represented 200+ Jeffrey Epstein victims, won the 2019 CVRA ruling, and authored Relentless Pursuit (2020).
Bradley John Murdoch
Bradley John Murdoch (c. 1958–2025), Australian 'Outback Killer', convicted in 2005 of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio near Barrow Creek, Northern Territory, in 2001; body never found; died in custody 2025.
Bradley Jones Jr.
Bradley Jones Jr., also known as Bradley H. Jones Jr., is an American Republican politician who has led the Massachusetts House's Republican minority since 2002.
Bradley M. Bloom
Bradley M. Bloom is an American private equity investor who co-founded Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based middle-market firm, in 1986, now serving as a Senior Advisor.
Bradley N. Garcia
Bradley N. Garcia, born Bradley Nelson Garcia in 1986, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the D.C. Circuit since 2023.
Bradley Stephens
Bradley (Brad) A. Stephens, born 1963, Republican Illinois state representative for the 20th District since June 2019 and Assistant Minority Leader; also Mayor of Rosemont, Illinois.
Bradley University
Bradley University (Bradley Polytechnic Institute), private university in Peoria, Illinois founded 1897 by Lydia Moss Bradley; five colleges, ~5,400 students, 11:1 ratio, NCAA Division I Braves.
Brady Brammer
Brady Brammer is an American Republican politician and attorney who serves in the Utah Senate from the 21st district, having previously served in the Utah House.
Brady disclosure
Brady disclosure is the prosecutor's constitutional duty from Brady v. Maryland (1963) to disclose favorable, material evidence, including impeachment (Giglio) material, to criminal defendants, regardless of defense requests.
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (Brady Act, Pub. L. 103-159), a 1993 US federal law named for James Brady, amended the Gun Control Act of 1968 to impose a 5-day handgun waiting period (1994–1998) and create the FBI's NICS background check system covering all firearms.
Brady Plan
The Brady Plan, announced by U.S. Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady in March 1989, converted banks' nonperforming loans to indebted developing countries into collateralized 30-year bonds, beginning with Mexico's 1990 deal.
Braemont Partners
Braemont Partners is a Dallas, Texas growth equity firm founded in 2021 by Robert Covington, investing $25 to $200 million in technology, business services, and financial services.
Brahma (ब्रह्मा)
Brahma (ब्रह्मा), also known as Lord Brahma, is the creator god in the Hindu trimurti alongside Vishnu and Shiva, shown with four heads, and rarely worshipped today.
Brahma Kumaris
The Brahma Kumaris, originally called Om Mandli, are a millenarian spiritual movement of Indian origin founded in the 1930s by gem trader Lekhraj Kripalani, now headquartered at Mount Abu, Rajasthan.
Brahma Sankara Misra
Brahma Sankara Misra, honored as Maharaj Saheb, was an Indian spiritual teacher who led the Radhasoami Satsang at Agra as its third guru from 1898 until his death in 1907.
Brahma Sutras
The Brahma Sutras, also called the Vedanta Sutras, are a Sanskrit aphorism text attributed to Badarayana, composed around the fifth century CE, that systematizes the Upanishads' teaching on Brahman.
Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्य)
Brahmacharya (ब्रह्मचर्य) is a Sanskrit term meaning conduct oriented to the highest reality, a vow of continence in yoga and Jainism and the Hindu student stage of life.
Brahmadeya and devadana grants
Brahmadeya and devadana grants (ब्रह्मदेय एवं देवदान) were revenue-free land endowments in early medieval South India, to Brahmins and to temple deities, recorded on copper-plate charters.
Brahman (ब्रह्मन्)
Brahman (ब्रह्मन्) is the Sanskrit term for the ultimate divine reality in Hindu thought, distinct from brahmin (priest caste), Brahmanas (ritual texts), and Brahma (creator god); central to the Upanishads and Vedanta schools.
Brahmananda Saraswati
Brahmananda Saraswati, known to followers as Guru Dev, was born Rajaram Mishra and served as the 43rd Shankaracharya of Jyotirmath from 1941 until his death in 1953.
Brahmastra (ब्रह्मास्त्र)
Brahmastra (ब्रह्मास्त्र, brahmāstra), the supreme celestial weapon of Brahmā in the Ramayana and Mahabharata, invoked by mantra, restricted to non-human enemies, and widely read as a mythological analogue to weapons of mass destruction.