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Bessie Smith
Bessie Smith
Empress of the Blues

Music

Bessie Smith was an African-American blues singer. Nicknamed the Empress of the Blues, she was the most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s. She is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era.

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Bette Midler
Bette Midler
3-Time Grammy Award Winner and 3-Time Emmy Award Winner

Music

In a career spanning almost half a century, Bette Midler has won three Grammy Awards, four Golden Globes, three Emmy Awards, and a special Tony Award. She has sold over 35 million records worldwide.

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Betty Carter
Betty Carter
Recording Artist

Music

Betty Carter was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting, and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies.

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Betty Wright
Betty Wright
Recording Artist

Music

Betty Wright was an American soul and R&B singer, songwriter and background vocalist. Beginning her professional career in the late–1960s as a teenager, she rose to fame in the 1970s with hits such as "Clean Up Woman" and "Tonight Is the Night".

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Beyoncé
Beyoncé
Recording Artist

Music

Beyoncé is a singer, songwriter and actress. Throughout her career, she has sold over 100 million records as a solo artist, and a further 60 million with Destiny's Child. She has won 22 Grammy Awards and is the most nominated woman in the award's history.

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Bibi Bourelly
Bibi Bourelly
Recording Artist

Music

Bibi Bourelly is the writer (or co-writer) of several notable songs, including Rihanna's "Higher" and Nick Brewer's "Talk to Me". In 2018, she released her first single "Writer's Song" in preparation for the release of her debut studio album.

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Big Wild
Big Wild
Recording Artist

Music

Big Wild is an electronic producer, composer, vocalist and sound engineer. As a performer, his live shows often consist of switching between multiple instruments (drum pads, synths, keyboards & live vocals).

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Bill Bixby
Bill Bixby
3-Time Emmy Award Nominee

Television

Bill Bixby was an actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panelist. His career spanned more than three decades. He is perhaps best known for his role as scientist Dr. David Banner on the CBS science-fiction drama series "The Incredible Hulk".

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Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
42nd President of the United States (1993 - 2001)

Politics

Bill Clinton is a politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. He was the 40th Governor of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 42nd Governor from 1983 to 1992, and Arkansas Attorney General from 1977 to 1979.

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Bill Cosby
Bill Cosby
Comedian

Television

Beginning in the 1980s, Bill Cosby produced and starred in a television sitcom, "The Cosby Show", which aired from 1984 to 1992 and was rated as the number one show in America for five years, 1984 through 1989.

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Bill Gates
Bill Gates
Co-Chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Co-Founder, Microsoft

Technology

Bill Gates is an American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist. Since 1987, he has been included in the Forbes list of the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007 (and again in 2009), and has been since 2014.

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Bill Maher
Bill Maher
Comedian and Political Commentator

Television

Bill Maher is an American comedian, political commentator, and television host. He is well known for the HBO political talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher" (2003–present) and the similar late-night show called "Politically Incorrect".

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Bill Medley
Bill Medley
Member, The Righteous Brothers

Music

Bill Medley is an American singer and songwriter, best known as one half of The Righteous Brothers. Medley is a successful solo artist, and his million-selling #1 duet with Jennifer Warnes "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" won a number of awards.

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Bill Murray
Bill Murray
2-Time Emmy Award Winner

Film

Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, filmmaker, and writer. Known for his deadpan delivery, he first rose to fame on "Saturday Night Live", a series of performances that earned him his first Emmy Award, and later starred in comedy films.

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Bill Nye
Bill Nye
CEO, The Planetary Society

Science

Bill Nye the Science Guy is an American science communicator, television presenter, and mechanical engineer. He is best known as the host of the PBS and syndicated children's science show "Bill Nye the Science Guy" (1993 - 1998).

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Bill Withers
Bill Withers
3-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Bill Withers was a singer-songwriter. He recorded several major hits, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977), and "Just the Two of Us" (1980).

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Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish
Recording Artist

Music

Billie Eilish is an American singer-songwriter, model and dancer. She has seven gold and three platinum singles in the United States. Eilish and her musician brother Finneas frequently collaborate on her music.

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Billie Myers
Billie Myers
Recording Artist

Music

Billie Myers is an English rock singer-songwriter. She is known principally for her 1998 transatlantic hit "Kiss the Rain".

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Billy Graham
Billy Graham
Evangelist

Religion

Billy Graham was an evangelist, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him "among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.

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Billy Joel
Billy Joel
5-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Joel is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. He is a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide.

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Billy Lawrence
Billy Lawrence
Recording Artist

Music

Billy Lawrence is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and arranger.

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Billy Ocean
Billy Ocean
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Ocean is a Trinidadian-English recording artist. In 1985, Ocean won the Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for his worldwide hit, "Caribbean Queen", and in 1987 was nominated for the Brit Award for Best British Male Artist.

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Billy Paul
Billy Paul
Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Paul was a Grammy Award winning soul singer, known for his 1972 No. 1 single "Me and Mrs. Jones", as well as the 1973 album and single "War of the Gods", which blends his more conventional pop, soul, and funk styles.

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Billy Porter
Billy Porter
Grammy Award Winner and Emmy Award Winner

Theatre

Billy Porter is a stage performer, pop singer, film and television actor and vocal coach. He attended the Musical Theatre Program at Pittsburgh Creative and Performing Arts School's School of Drama and achieved fame performing on Broadway.

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Billy Preston
Billy Preston
2-Time Grammy Award Winner

Music

Billy Preston was a musician, whose work encompassed R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel. He was a top session keyboardist in the 1960s, during which he backed artists such as Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles.

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