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Brian Williams (Missouri politician)
Brian Williams is an American Democratic politician who has represented Missouri's 14th Senate district in St. Louis County since 2019, serving as Minority Caucus Whip.
Brian Windhorst
Brian Windhorst is an American sports journalist, ESPN Senior NBA Writer since 2010 and host of The Hoop Collective podcast, known for covering LeBron James since James's 1999 high school days in Akron.
Brianna Keilar
Brianna Marie Keilar, Australian-born American CNN anchor (born 1980, Canberra), co-anchors CNN News Central's 1-4 p.m. ET block, formerly New Day and CNN Right Now, author of the Home Front military-family column, Dirksen and Aldo Beckman award winner.
Briarcrest Christian School
Briarcrest Christian School is a private co-ed Christian school in Eads, Tennessee, near Memphis, founded in 1973 as a Baptist school system; over 1,700 students in grades K2-12, ACSI Exemplary accredited.
Bribery
Bribery: offering or giving something of value to induce improper official or business conduct; a core form of corruption. Covered via FCPA 1977, OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 1997, UK Bribery Act 2010, and 2024-2025 U.S. enforcement changes.
Brice Gayet
Brice Gayet is a French laparoscopic surgeon and professor of surgery who led the digestive pathology department at Institut Mutualiste Montsouris in Paris and co-founded the surgical-robotics company Moon Surgical.
Brice Nkengsa
Brice Nkengsa is a software engineer and University of Waterloo graduate who co-founded Andela in Lagos, Nigeria in 2014, serving as the company's Director of Engineering.
Brick and mortar
Brick and mortar describes a firm with a traditional physical store serving customers face to face, a term used in contrast with e-commerce and clicks-and-mortar businesses.
Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy
The Bricks & Minifigs–Reckless Ben controversy is a 2026 dispute between YouTuber Reckless Ben and the Utah-based LEGO resale chain over a consigned Star Wars collection.
BRICS
BRICS (originally BRIC) is an informal bloc of major emerging economies founded on Jim O'Neill's 2001 acronym; now 11 members including South Africa (2011) and 2024-25 joiners, with a New Development Bank and partner-country tier.
Bridal shower
A bridal shower, also called a wedding shower, is a pre-wedding party, mainly in the United States, at which guests give the bride or couple gifts for their future home.
Bride
Bride: a woman on her wedding day, from Teutonic bruths/bryd. Covers etymology, bride-cake origins, the white dress popularized by Queen Victoria, bridal music, and marriage payments like bridewealth and dowry.
Bride kidnapping
Bride kidnapping, or ala kachuu (кыз ала качуу), is forced marriage by abduction, most associated with Kyrgyzstan. Rare before Soviet rule, it grew from the 1970s, driven by rigid bride prices, shame norms, and weak enforcement.
Bride of Christ
The Bride of Christ, also called the mystic marriage, is a Christian image of the Church or the individual soul as the spouse of Christ.
Bride price
Bride price, or bridewealth, is a marriage payment from the groom's family to the bride's family, the most common form of marriage compensation worldwide, contrasted with dowry, which moves in the opposite direction.
Bride Sweeney
Bride Rose Sweeney is an American Democratic politician in the Ohio House of Representatives, first elected in 2018 as the first woman to represent her district.
Bridesmaid
A bridesmaid is a woman who attends and supports the bride at a wedding. The role spans ceremony duties, months of planning labor, and costs of roughly $1,700 per bridesmaid, with parties shrinking to about four per side by 2026.
Bridge loan
A bridge loan, also known as a bridging loan or swing loan, is a short-term, interest-only loan repaid from a planned exit like a property sale or refinancing.
BridgeBio
BridgeBio Pharma, Inc. is a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company in Palo Alto, California, founded in 2015, known for its hub-and-subsidiary structure and acoramidis, approved in 2024 for transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy.
Bridgehead
Bridgehead: ground seized on the enemy's side of a river or linear obstacle to protect crossing sites and base further attack; related terms bridgehead force, beachhead; examples from the 1945 Rhine crossings and Ukraine's 2023 Dnipro crossing.
Bridgelux
Bridgelux Inc is a Delaware-incorporated LED lighting technology developer headquartered in Livermore, California, that agreed in 2015 to be acquired by a China Electronics Corporation-led group.
Bridgepoint Group plc
Bridgepoint Group plc is a London-headquartered private markets firm investing across private equity, private credit, and infrastructure; founded in 1984 as NatWest Equity Partners, it listed in London in 2021.
Bridger Management LLC
Bridger Management LLC is a New York-based hedge fund manager founded by Roberto Mignone in 2000 that runs long/short equity strategies with a healthcare emphasis.
Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd.
Bridgestone Tire Co., Ltd. is a Japanese tire manufacturer founded by Shojiro Ishibashi in Kurume, Japan, in 1931, now one of the world's two largest tire makers.
Bridget Bishop
Bridget Bishop (1632–1692), first person tried and hanged in the 1692 Salem witch trials, convicted on June 2 and executed June 10, 1692, using spectral evidence; often confused with Sarah Bishop.
Bridget Dowling
Bridget Dowling (Bridget Hitler, 1891-1969), Dublin-born Irishwoman who married Alois Hitler Jr., half-brother of Adolf Hitler, in London in 1910, lived in Toxteth, Liverpool, and wrote the disputed memoir 'My Brother-in-Law Adolf' claiming Hitler stayed there in 1912-13.
Bridget M. Brennan
Bridget M. Brennan, also known as Bridget Meehan Brennan, is an American district judge for the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President Biden in 2022.
Bridget of Sweden
Bridget of Sweden, born Birgitta Birgersdotter (1303–1373), was a Swedish noblewoman and mystic who dictated more than 600 revelations, founded the Brigittine order, and was canonized in 1391.
Bridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson, Labour MP for Houghton and Sunderland South since 2010, UK Secretary of State for Education and Minister for Women and Equalities from July 2024, later Labour Party chair, former shadow education secretary.
Bridget S. Bade
Bridget S. Bade, born Bridget Shelton Bade in 1965, is an American jurist serving as a United States circuit judge on the Ninth Circuit since 2019.