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Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.

NatWest (National Westminster Bank)

NatWest (National Westminster Bank)

Banks and investments

National Westminster Bank, commonly known as NatWest, is a major retail and commercial bank in the United Kingdom. It was established in 1968 by the merger of&n

Jacob Banks

Jacob Banks

English singer and songwriter

Date of Birth: 24 July 1991
Age: 34

Jacob Banksis a Nigerian-born English singer and songwriter from Birmingham. Banks won the 2012 MOBO UnSung regional competition in Birmingham and the Adidas "Are You In" music competition. His music ...

David Bannerman

David Bannerman

British Conservative Party politician

Date of Birth: 28 May 1960
Age: 66

David Campbell Bannermanis a British Conservative Party politician who served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the East of England from 2009 to 2019. He is currently Chairman of The Free...

Philip Barantini

Philip Barantini

British film and TV actor

Date of Birth: 13 July 1980
Age: 45

Philip Barantiniis a British film and TV actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his intense one-shot feature Boiling Point (2021), starring Stephen Graham. Other notable acti...

Luca Barbareschi

Luca Barbareschi

Italian-Uruguayan actor

Date of Birth: 28 July 1956
Age: 69

Luca Barbareschiis an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Barbareschi is Jewish. He was one of four actors whom the Italian police beli...

Margaret Barbour

Margaret Barbour

British businesswoman

Dame Margaret Barbouris a British businesswoman and philanthropist best known as the current Chairman of J. Barbour & Sons. Together with her daughter, Helen Barbour, she established the Women's Fund ...

Liz Barclay

Liz Barclay

Small Business Commissioner

Liz Barclayis a small business and consumer affairs broadcaster, producer and writer. She started her career as an adviser and then CEO with Citizens Advice before moving into radio and TV production ...

Stephen Paul Barclay

Stephen Paul Barclay

Chief Secretary to the Treasury

Date of Birth: 3 May 1972
Age: 54

Stephen Paul BarclayPC MP (born 3 May 1972) is a British politician who has been Chief Secretary to the Treasury since February 2020 and previously served as Secretary of State for Exiting the Europea...

Barclays

Barclays

Banks and investments

Barclays plc is a British multinational universal bank, headquartered in London, England. Barclays operates as two divisions, Barclays UK and Barclays International, supported by a service c

Google Bard

Google Bard

Computers and software

Google Bard is a conversational artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Google, based on the LaMDA family of large language models. It was developed as a d

Javier Bardem

Javier Bardem

Spanish actor

Date of Birth: 1 March 1969
Age: 57

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardemis a Spanish actor. He has received various accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. A son of actress Pilar Bardem, he first became known for such Spa...

Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Bardot

French actress

Date of Birth: 28 September 1934
Age: 91

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardotwas a French actress, singer, model and animal rights activist. Famous for portraying characters with hedonistic lives, she was one of the best-known symbols of the sexual re...

Tanya Bardsley

Tanya Bardsley

English model and reality television personality

Date of Birth: 29 April 1981
Age: 45

Tanya Louise Bardsleyis an English model and reality television personality. She is best known for starring in the ITVBe reality television series The Real Housewives of Cheshire since 2015, of which ...

Home Bargains

Home Bargains

Consumer goods

Home Bargains is a British variety store chain founded in 1976 by Tom Morris in Liverpool, England, as Home and Bargain. It is the trading name of TJ Morris Ltd

Greg (Baron Barker of Battle) Barker

Greg (Baron Barker of Battle) Barker

Life peer

Date of Birth: 8 March 1966
Age: 60

Gregory Leonard George Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, PC (born 8 March 1966) is a British Conservative Party politician and life peer. In May 2010 he was appointed Minister of State for Energy and Cl...

Daniel Barker

Daniel Barker

Activist

Date of Birth: 25 June 1949
Age: 76

Daniel Edwin Barkeris an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Ga...

Ellen Barkin

Ellen Barkin

American actress

Date of Birth: 16 April 1954
Age: 72

Ellen Rona Barkinis an American actress. Her breakthrough role was in the 1982 film Diner, and in the following years, she had starring roles in films such as Tender Mercies (1983), Eddie and the Crui...

Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow

English singer

Date of Birth: 20 January 1971
Age: 55

Gary Barlowis an English singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and television personality. He is the lead singer of the British pop group Take That. Barlow is one of the United Kingdom's most su...

Casey Barnes

Casey Barnes

Australian country rock singer and songwriter

Date of Birth: 3 September 1978
Age: 47

Casey Barnesis an Australian country rock singer-songwriter from the Gold Coast, Queensland who is best known as a contestant on the seventh season of Australian Idol in 2009. Barnes won the ARIA Awar...

Tahliah (FKA Twigs) Barnett

Tahliah (FKA Twigs) Barnett

British singer

Date of Birth: 16 January 1988
Age: 38

Tahliah Debrett Barnett, known professionally asFKA Twigs(stylized as FKA twigs), is a British singer, songwriter, actress, and dancer. She was a backup dancer for numerous musicians, and made her mus...