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

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
English singer and songwriter
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
British Conservative Party politician
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
British film and TV actor
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
Italian-Uruguayan actor
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
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
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
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
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
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
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
Spanish actor
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
French actress
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
English model and reality television personality
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
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
Life peer
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
Activist
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
American actress
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
English singer
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
Australian country rock singer and songwriter
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
British singer
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...