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Bryan H. Lawrence

Bryan H. Lawrence is an American energy private-equity investor, a founder and senior manager of Yorktown Partners LLC and a director of five US-listed energy companies.

Bryan Hughes

Bryan Hughes is an American lawyer and Republican politician who has represented East Texas's District 1 in the Texas Senate since 2017, after serving in the Texas House from 2003 to 2017.

Bryan Johnson (entrepreneur)

Bryan Johnson is an American tech entrepreneur who earned about $300 million selling his payments company Braintree to PayPal in 2013, then launched the anti-aging Project Blueprint.

Bryan Magee

Bryan Edgar Magee (1930–2019) was a British philosopher and broadcaster whose BBC series Men of Ideas and The Great Philosophers brought philosophy to mass television audiences.

Bryan Patrick Miller

Bryan Patrick Miller, the "Zombie Hunter," is an Arizona death row inmate convicted in 2023 of the 1992 and 1993 Phoenix canal murders of Angela Brosso and Melanie Bernas, identified via forensic genealogy.

Bryan Posthumus

Bryan Posthumus is an American Republican politician elected in 2020 to the Michigan House of Representatives for the 90th District, serving as majority floor leader since 2025.

Bryan Roberts

Bryan Roberts is a venture capital investor and a partner at Venrock since 1997, investing in healthcare and life sciences, with early investments in 10x Genomics, Receptos, Ikaria, and Illumina.

Bryan Schreier

Bryan Schreier is a venture capitalist and partner at Sequoia Capital, known for early-stage enterprise investments in Dropbox and Qualtrics; he joined Sequoia in 2008 after Google.

Bryan Simonaire

Bryan W. Simonaire, born in Baltimore in 1963, is a Republican member of the Maryland State Senate representing District 31 since 2007, and was Senate Minority Leader from 2020 to 2022.

Bryan Steil

Bryan Steil is an American Republican politician who has represented Wisconsin's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House since 2019 and chairs the Committee on House Administration.

Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson (born 1959) is an American public interest lawyer, Harvard-trained founder of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama; death penalty defender, Miller v. Alabama victor, Just Mercy author, and creator of the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.

Bryan Townsend (Delaware politician)

Bryan Townsend is an American Democratic politician and attorney who has represented Delaware's 11th Senatorial District in the State Senate since 2013 and serves as Senate Majority Leader.

Bryan–Chamorro Treaty

The Bryan–Chamorro Treaty was a 1914 treaty granting the United States exclusive perpetual rights to build a canal through Nicaragua in exchange for 3 million dollars.

Bryant Gumbel

Bryant Gumbel (born 1948, New Orleans) is an American broadcast journalist, Today show anchor 1982-1997, and host of HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, 1995-2023.

Bryant University

Bryant University is a private university in Smithfield, Rhode Island, founded in 1863 in Providence as a Bryant & Stratton branch, relocated in 1971 to land donated by Tupperware's Earl Tupper, and made a university in 2004; known for AACSB-accredited business education.

Bryce Edgmon

Bryce Edgmon is an independent politician from Dillingham, Alaska, first elected to the Alaska House in 2006, who served as Speaker from 2017 to 2021 and again from 2025.

Bryce Lee

Bryce Lee is an American technology banker and private equity executive who joined Silver Lake in 2011, leading fundraising and investor relations after running technology banking at Credit Suisse.

Bryce Reeves

Bryce Reeves, born 1966, is a Republican Virginia senator since 2012 representing the 28th district, a former Army officer who has served as Minority Whip.

Bryges

The Bryges, also called Briges or Brygi, were a Thracian people of the southern Balkans whose heartland lay in Macedonia around Mount Bermius, regarded as the Phrygians' European kinsmen.

Bryn Mawr College

Bryn Mawr College, a private women's liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, founded 1885 by Quakers with Joseph Wright Taylor's endowment. First U.S. women's college to offer the Ph.D.; coed graduate schools; Haverford consortium; 2026 ten-year strategic plan.

Bryn Pharma

Bryn Pharma, formerly Epi-Now, LLC, is a privately held pharmaceutical startup founded in 2017 in Lebanon, New Jersey, developing a needle-free epinephrine nasal spray to treat anaphylaxis.

Brynne McNulty Rojas

Brynne McNulty Rojas is an American businesswoman who co-founded Habi, a Bogotá-based real estate technology company, in 2019 and serves as its chief executive officer.

BSE SENSEX

The BSE SENSEX, or Sensex, is the free-float market-capitalization index of 30 of the largest companies on India's BSE, launched in 1986 and rising from 549 to about 86,000 over 40 years.

BT Tower

BT Tower (formerly Post Office Tower, GPO Tower) is a Grade II listed 177 m concrete communications tower in Fitzrovia, London, built 1961-1965 to Eric Bedford's design as Britain's microwave network hub, opened 1965, bombed in 1971, and sold to MCR Hotels in 2024 for hotel conversion.

BTG Pactual (André Jacurski, Luiz Cezar Fernandes, Paulo Guedes)

BTG Pactual, also known as Banco BTG Pactual, is a Brazilian investment bank founded in Rio de Janeiro in 1983 by Luiz Cezar Fernandes, André Jakurski, and Paulo Guedes.

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar

Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (بوعلی شاہ قلندر), also called Sharaf al-Din Panipati, was an Indian Sufi mystic and Persian-language poet of Panipat who died in 1324.

Bu Zhi

Bu Zhi (步骘) was an official and general of Eastern Wu who governed Jiaozhou and served as Chancellor under Sun Quan, dying in office in 247.

BUA Cement

BUA Cement is a Lagos-based, Nigerian Exchange-listed cement producer, the second-largest in Nigeria, formed in 2019 by the merger of CCNN with Obu Cement and controlled by Abdul Samad Rabiu.

Bua Group

BUA Group is a Nigerian conglomerate headquartered in Lagos, founded in 1988 by Abdul Samad Rabiu as a commodity trader, now active in cement, sugar, flour, and rice.

Bubat incident

The Bubat incident (Peristiwa Bubat) was a 1357 clash in which Majapahit forces destroyed the Sunda royal party, escorting Princess Dyah Pitaloka for marriage to King Hayam Wuruk, at Bubat field near Trowulan, eastern Java.