People

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

Alexander Graham Bell

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

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

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 ...

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...

Luciano Berio

Born October 24, 1925, in Oneglia, Italy; died May 27, 2003, in Rome, Italy. Composer. For some five decades before his death, Luciano Berio was one of the twentieth century's most prolifi...

Irving Berlin

Born: May 11, 1888 Temun, Russia Died: September 22, 1989 New York, New York Russian-born American composer and songwriter ...

Gail Berman

President of Paramount Studios Born c. 1957, in Bellmore, NY; married Bill Masters (a television scriptwriter); children: two. Education: University ...

Gail Berman

1956 Television and film executive By the mid-2000s, despite a constant roller coaster ride in the ratings, the Fox channel emerged as one of the edgiest and most innov...

Dorrit J. Bern

Chief Executive Officer of Charming Shoppes Born c. 1950; married Steve Bern (a business consultant); children: Chad, Collier, Tyler. Education: Univ...