Remarkable people
Biographies of notable people — their path, achievements and key facts.
Carol Baum
American movie producer
Carol Baumis an American movie producer best known for her work with Sandollar Productions. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. As of 2024, she teaches producing at the...
Dave Bautista
American actor and retired professional wrestler
David Michael Bautista Jr.is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. Regarded as one of the most prolific professional wrestlers of all time, he rose to fame for his multiple stints in WW...
Michael Bay
American film director and producer
Michael Benjamin Bayis an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget high-concept action films with fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive u...
James Bay
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
James Michael Bay(born 4 September 1990) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. In 2014, he released his single "Hold Back the River", which was certified platinum, before releasing his debut ...
Vanessa Bayer
American actress and comedian
Vanessa Bayeris an American actress and comedian. She was a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 2010 to 2017, for which she was nominated for an Emmy. She co-created, ...
Juan Antonio (J.A. Bayona) Bayona
Spanish filmmaker
Juan Antonio García Bayonais a Spanish filmmaker. He directed the 2007 horror film The Orphanage, the 2012 drama film The Impossible, and the 2016 fantasy drama film A Monster Calls. In 2018, he direc...
Harper's Bazaar
Advertising and media
Harper's Bazaar is an American monthly women's fashion magazine. It was first published in New York City on November 2, 1867, as the weekly Harper's Bazar. Harper's Bazaar&nbs
Peter Bazalgette
Producer
Sir Peter Lytton Bazalgetteis a British television executive and producer, also active in the fields of the arts and the broader Creative Industries. Currently he is co-Chair of the Creative Industrie...
Paul Bazely
English actor
Paul Reginald Bazelyis an English actor. He is known for portraying Troy in the ITV sitcom Benidorm. His other TV credits include Making Out, Emmerdale, Heartbeat, Doctors, Holby City, Vanity Fair, Th...
Storms Shannon Beador
American television personality
Shannon Marion Storms Beadoris an American reality television personality, best known for a starring role as a housewife in the Bravo reality television series The Real Housewives of Orange County. In...
Will Beall
American screenwriter
Will Beallis an American screenwriter and former Los Angeles Police Department detective. He is best known for writing the scripts for Gangster Squad (2013) and the DC Extended Universe films Aquaman ...
Richard Bean
English playwright
Richard Anthony Beanis an English playwright. Career Between 1989 and 1994, Bean also worked as a comedian and went on to be one of the writers and performers of the sketch show Control Group Six (BBC...
Adam Beard
Welsh professional rugby union player
Adam James Beardis a Welsh professional rugby union player who plays as a lock for United Rugby Championship club Ospreys and the Wales national team. International career Wales In May 2017 Beard was ...
Colin Beattie
Scottish National Party (SNP) politician
Colin Beattieis a Scottish National Party (SNP) politician. He has been the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Midlothian North and Musselburgh constituency since 2011. Prior to this role...
Lucy Beaumont
British actress
Lucy Ann Beaumontis a British actress, writer, and stand-up comedian from Kingston upon Hull, England. Her performance is based largely on anecdotes about Hull and the wider Northern England region. S...
James Beaver
American actor
James Norman Beaver Jr.is an American actor, writer, and film historian. He portrayed Bobby Singer in Supernatural. He also played Whitney Ellsworth on the HBO Western drama series Deadwood, which bro...
Yuliia (Julia Sanina) Bebko
Ukrainian singer
Yuliia Oleksandrivna Bebko, professionally known asJulia Sanina, is a Ukrainian singer and the front woman of the Ukrainian alternative rock band The Hardkiss. Sanina was born into a family of musicia...
Martin Beck
Chief Economic Advisor to EY ITEM Club
Martin Beckjoined the EY ITEM Club as Senior Economic Advisor in July 2021 and has over 20 years of experience in analysing and forecasting the UK economy. He joined the EY ITEM Club from his role as...
Justin Beck
American musician and businessman
Justin Beckis an American musician and businessman. He is the guitarist and musical writer for Long Island, New York band Glassjaw. Beck, with a high school and college buddy, Lee Tepper, also co-foun...
Boris Becker
Former tennis player
Boris Franz Beckeris a German former world No. 1 tennis player. Becker is the youngest-ever winner of the gentlemen's singles Wimbledon Championships title, a feat he accomplished aged 17 in 1985. Bec...