People

De Beers

Industry and Production

De Beers Group is an international corporation that specialises in diamond mining, diamond exploitation, diamond retail, diamond trading and industrial diamond manufacturing s

Ludwig van Beethoven

Born: December 16, 1770 Bonn, Germany Died: March 26, 1827 Vienna, Austria German composer German composer Ludwig van...

Frances Beinecke

President of the Natural Resources Defense Council Born Frances Gillespie Beinecke, c. 1960, in Summit, New Jersey; daughter of William S. Beinecke (former executive) and Elizabet...

Gabrielle Bell

Comic artist Born c. 1975, in London, England. Education: Attended San Francisco Community College. Addresses: Contact ...

Alexander Graham Bell

Born: March 3, 1847 Edinburgh, Scotland Died: August 2, 1922 Baddeck, Nova Scotia, Canada Scottish-born American inventor ...

Kristen Bell

July 18, 1980 • Huntington Woods, Michigan Actress By the time she was twenty-four years old, actress Kristen Bell had a resume that most seasoned performers would envy...

AJ Bell

Financial services

AJ Bell is a public limited company that provides online investment platforms and stockbroker services. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 2

Bella

Advertising and media

Bella is a weekly magazine aimed at women, currently published in the United Kingdom by H Bauer Publishing, the UK subsidiary of the German-owned family business, the Bauer Media Group. Hist

Clyde Bellecourt

Born: 1939 White Earth Reservation, Minnesota Native American tribal activist As one of the original founders of the American Indian Movement (AIM), ...

Wendy Bellissimo

Home-furnishings designer Born c. 1967, in Connecticut; daughter of Jay (a tool designer) and Lonnie (a furniture-store owner) Jarmolinski; married Joe Bellissimo (a marketing ...

Saul Bellow

Born Solomon Bellows, June 10, 1915, in Lachine, Quebec, Canada; died April 5, 2005, in Brookline, MA. Author. Saul Bellow was one of the greatest American novelists of the second half of ...

Saul Bellow

Born: July 10, 1915 Lachine, Quebec, Canada Canadian-born American author, essayist, and dramatist An American author of fiction, essays, and drama, Sa...

Carlos Beltran

April 24, 1977 • Manati, Puerto Rico Baseball player In baseball circles outfielder Carlos Beltran is known as a five-tool player. He has amazing fielding skills and a ...

Baruj Benacerraf

Venezuelan-born medical researcher Baruj Benacerraf (born 1920) shared the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his investigations into the workings of the human immune s...

Peter Benchley

Born Peter Bradford Benchley, May 8, 1940, in New York, NY; died of pulmonary fibrosis, February 11, 2006, in Princeton, NJ. Author. Peter Benchley wrote the immensely successful 1974 nove...

William Bennett

Born: July 3, 1943 Brooklyn, New York American agency director, scholar, teacher, and government official American teacher and scholar William Bennett ...

Frankie & Benny's

Leisure

Frankie & Benny's is a chain of Italian-American-themed restaurants in the United Kingdom run by the Restaurant Group. As of February 2020 it had 236 outlets nationwi

Dierks Bentley

Singer and songwriter Born Dierks Bentley, November 20, 1975, in Phoenix, AZ; son of Leon (a stockbroker) and Cathy (a homemaker) Bentley; married Cassidy Black, December 14...

Oscar Berger

President of Guatemala Born Oscar Berger Perdomo, November 8, 1946, in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Education: Earned law degree from Universidad Rafae...

Ingmar Bergman

Born: July 14, 1918 Uppsala, Sweden Swedish film director I ngmar Bergman is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors in the history of m...