List of people by name, B

Subset of List of people by name

Baa–Bah

 * Ba Jin
 * Baab, Heinrich
 * Báb
 * Baba, Meher
 * Baba, Tupeni
 * Babaji, Haidakhan
 * Babauta, Leo
 * Babbage, Charles
 * Babbitt, Irving
 * Babbitt, Milton
 * Babinet, Jacques
 * Baboulene, David
 * Babur
 * Baca, Jimmy Santiago
 * Baca, Judy
 * Bacall, Lauren
 * Bacevich, Andrew
 * Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
 * Bach, Erich von dem
 * Bach, Johann Sebastian
 * Bach, Richard
 * Bach, Sebastian
 * Bacharach, Burt
 * Bachchan, Amitabh
 * Bachelard, Gaston
 * Bachelot, Roselyne
 * Bachmann, Michele
 * Bacigalupi, Paolo
 * Backhaus, Wilhelm
 * Backus, John
 * Bacon, Francis
 * Bacon, Francis (artist)
 * Bacon, Leonard
 * Bacon, Roger
 * Badawi, Abdullah Ahmad
 * Baddiel, David
 * Baden-Powell, Sir Robert (B-P)
 * Badenoch, Kemi
 * Bader, Douglas
 * Badham, Van
 * Badian, Ernst
 * Badiou, Alain
 * Badnarik, Michael
 * Badoglio, Pietro
 * Badu, Erykah
 * Baedeker, Karl
 * Baez, Joan
 * Bagehot, Walter
 * Baggio, Roberto
 * Baggott, Jim
 * Bagramyan, Hovhannes
 * Bahá'u'lláh
 * Bahcall, John N.

Bai–Bam

 * Bai Chongxi
 * Bai, Jushan
 * Bai, Meera
 * Bailey, Alice
 * Bailey, Allison
 * Bailey, Bill
 * Bailey, F. Lee
 * Bailey, Pearl
 * Bailey, Philip James
 * Bailey, Thomas A.
 * Bailey, Trevor
 * Baillie, Bruce
 * Baillie, Joanna
 * Bailyn, Bernard
 * Bain, Alexander
 * Bainbridge, Beryl
 * Bainimarama, Frank
 * Bairaktaris, Porphyrios
 * Baird, Diora
 * Bak, Per
 * Bakan, Joel
 * Baker, General
 * Baker, Jack
 * Baker, James
 * Baker, Kage
 * Baker, Mitchell
 * Baker, Russell
 * Baker, Stewart
 * Baker, Tom
 * Bakewell, Sarah
 * Bakhtiari, Marjaney
 * Bakker, R. Scott
 * Bakker, Robert T.
 * Bakr, Abu
 * Bakri, Omar
 * Bakshi, Ralph
 * Bakunin, Mikhail
 * Bala
 * Balamuralikrishna, M.
 * Balasaraswati
 * Balašević, Đorđe
 * Balcer, Rene
 * Balcon, Michael
 * Balder, Artur
 * Baldinucci, Filippo
 * Baldwin, Alec
 * Baldwin, James
 * Baldwin, Roger Nash
 * Baldwin, Stanley
 * Balestrero, Gregory
 * Balfour, Arthur
 * Balfour, Francis Maitland
 * Balko, Radley
 * Ball, Hugo
 * Ball, John (priest)
 * Ball, Lucille
 * Ball, Robert Stawell
 * Ball, W. W. Rouse
 * Balla, Giacomo
 * Ballard, J. G.
 * Balliett, Whitney
 * Ballmer, Steve
 * Ballou, Adin
 * Ballou, Hosea
 * Balls, Katy
 * Balsekar, Ramesh
 * Balsillie, Jim
 * Balthasar, von Hans Urs
 * Balzac, Honoré de
 * Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac
 * Bambaataa, Afrika
 * Bamford, Maria

Ban–Barn

 * Ban, Ki-moon
 * Bánáthy, Béla H.
 * Bancroft, Anne
 * Bancroft, George
 * Banda, Hastings
 * Bandeira, Manuel
 * Bandura, Albert
 * Bang, Abhay
 * Banglie, Lu
 * Bangs, Edward
 * Bangs, John Kendrick
 * Bangs, Lester
 * Banhart, Devendra
 * Bankhead, Tallulah
 * Banks, Ernie
 * Banks, Iain
 * Banks, Joseph
 * Banks, Lynne Reid
 * Banks, Robert
 * Banks, Tony (Lord Stratford)
 * Banks, Tyra
 * Banksy
 * Banna, Hassan
 * Banneker, Benjamin
 * Bannerman, Frances
 * Bannister, Roger
 * Banville, John
 * Bara, Theda
 * Barak, Ehud
 * Baraka, Amiri
 * Baran, Paul A.
 * Barassi, Ron
 * Barât, Carl
 * Baratynsky, Evgeny
 * Barbaccia, Gregory
 * Barbara (singer)
 * Barbauld, Anna Letitia
 * Barbeau, Adrienne
 * Barber, Benjamin
 * Barber, Margaret
 * Barberi, Gina
 * Barbie, Klaus
 * Barbour, John
 * Barbusse, Henri
 * Barbut, James
 * Barclay, Humphrey
 * Barclay, Robert
 * Barclay, William
 * Bardeen, John
 * Bardon, Franz
 * Bardot, Brigitte
 * Bareilles, Sara
 * Barenboim, Daniel
 * Barère de Vieuzac, Bertrand
 * Barham, Richard Harris
 * Baring, Evelyn, 1st Earl of Cromer
 * Baring, Maurice
 * Baring-Gould, Sabine
 * Barker, Clive
 * Barker, Eileen Vartan
 * Barker, George
 * Barker, Jane
 * Barker, Nicola
 * Barkley, Charles
 * Barlas, John Evelyn
 * Barlow, George
 * Barlow, Harold
 * Barlow, Joel
 * Barlow, John Perry
 * Barlow, Peter (mathematician)
 * Barnard, Chester
 * Barnes, Albert
 * Barnes, Djuna
 * Barnes, John
 * Barnes, Julian
 * Barnes, Kevin
 * Barnes, Roy
 * Barnes, Simon
 * Barnes, William
 * Barnett, Emma
 * Barnett, Joel, Baron Barnett
 * Barnette, Henlee Hulix
 * Barney, Matthew
 * Barney, Natalie Clifford
 * Barnfield, Richard
 * Barnhill, John Basil
 * Barnum, P. T.

Baro–Baz

 * Baron, Alexander
 * Barr, Alfred
 * Barr, Bob
 * Barr, James
 * Barr, Matthias
 * Barr, Nicholas
 * Barr, Robert
 * Barr, Stringfellow
 * Barragán, Luis
 * Barraza, Santa
 * Barrett, James Lee
 * Barre, Siad
 * Barreto, Lima
 * Barrett, Michael
 * Barrett, William (philosopher)
 * Barrett, Syd
 * Barrie, J. M.
 * Barrington, George
 * Barro, Robert
 * Barron, Charles
 * Barron, Carl
 * Barrow, Isaac
 * Barrowman, John
 * Barry, Dave
 * Barry, Kevin
 * Barry, Marion
 * Barry, Max
 * Barry, Michael Joseph
 * Barry, Robert
 * Barry, Todd
 * Barrymore, John
 * Barsky, Vladimir
 * Bart, Lionel
 * Barth, Alan
 * Barth, John
 * Barth, Karl
 * Bartholomew of San Concordio
 * Barthelme, Donald
 * Barthes, Roland
 * Bartle, Richard
 * Bartlett, Bruce Reeves
 * Bartlett, Charles L. (journalist)
 * Bartók, Béla
 * Barton, Bruce Fairchild
 * Barton, Joe
 * Barton, Joey
 * Baruch, Bernard
 * Barwich, Heinz
 * Baryshnikov, Mikhail
 * Barzani, Massoud
 * Barzun, Jacques
 * Basava
 * Bascom, John
 * Bashford, Henry Howarth
 * Bashir, Abu Bakar
 * Bashir, Omar
 * Bashō, Matsuo
 * Basie, Count
 * Basil of Caesarea
 * Baskin, Leonard
 * Basquiat, Jean-Michel
 * Bass, Kyle
 * Bassani, Franco
 * Bastami, Bayazid
 * Bastard, Ol' Dirty
 * Bastard, Thomas
 * Bastiat, Frédéric
 * Baťa, Tomáš
 * Bataille, Georges
 * Batalvi, Shiv Kumar
 * Bates, Brian (psychologist)
 * Bates, Laura
 * Bates, Marston
 * Bateson, Gregory
 * Bateson, Thomas
 * Bateson, William
 * Bath, Elizabeth
 * Bathgate, Andy
 * Batistuta, Gabriel
 * Battcock, Gregory
 * Battelle, John
 * Battuta, Ibn
 * Bauby, Jean-Dominique
 * Baude, Frank
 * Baudelaire, Charles
 * Baudrillard, Jean
 * Bauer, Bruno
 * Bauer, Erich
 * Bauer, Friedrich
 * Bauer, Marion
 * Bauer, Yehuda
 * Baum, L. Frank
 * Bauman, Neil
 * Bauman, Zygmunt
 * Bavadra, Timoci
 * Bax, Ernest Belfort
 * Baxter, J. Sidlow
 * Baxter, Richard
 * Baxter, Stephen
 * Bayeza, Ifa
 * Bayle, Pierre
 * Bayley, Sir John, 1st Baronet
 * Baylis, Trevor
 * Bayly, Thomas Haynes
 * Baziotes, William

Bea–Bem

 * Beachcomber
 * Beadle, George
 * Beagle, Peter S.
 * Beals, Jennifer
 * Bear, Greg
 * Beard, Charles A.
 * Beard, Henry
 * Beard, Peter
 * Beardsley, Aubrey
 * Beattie, James
 * Beattie, Peter
 * Beatty, David, 1st Earl Beatty
 * Beaumarchais, Pierre
 * Beaumont, Francis
 * Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom
 * Beaverbrook, 1st Baron
 * Bechdel, Alison
 * Beck
 * Beck, Aaron
 * Beck, Charlie
 * Beck, Glenn
 * Beck, Guido
 * Beck, Jeff
 * Beck, Kent
 * Beck, Martin
 * Becker, Carl L.
 * Becker, Ernest
 * Becker, Gary
 * Becker, Howard S.
 * Beckett, Samuel
 * Beckett, Wendy
 * Beckford, Peter
 * Beckford, William Thomas
 * Beckham, David
 * Beckham, Victoria
 * Beckinsale, Kate
 * Beckmann, Max
 * Becon, Thomas
 * Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
 * Beddome, Richard Henry
 * Bede
 * Bedi, Protima
 * Bedingfield, Natasha
 * Beebe, William
 * Beecham, Thomas
 * Beecher, Henry Ward
 * Beeching, Henry Charles
 * Beefheart, Captain
 * Beenakker, Carlo
 * Beeley, Vanessa
 * Beer, Anthony Stafford
 * Beer, Arthur
 * Beerbohm, Max
 * Beers, Ethel Lynn
 * Beethoven, Ludwig van
 * Begala, Paul
 * Begin, Menachem
 * Behan, Brendan
 * Behar, Joy
 * Behar, Richard
 * Beharry, Johnson
 * Behe, Michael
 * Behn, Aphra
 * Behramoğlu, Ataol
 * Beilin, Yossi
 * Belafonte, Harry
 * Belisarius
 * Bell, Alexander Graham
 * Bell, Daniel
 * Bell, Eric Temple
 * Bell, Gordon
 * Bell, John Stewart
 * Bell, Kristen
 * Bell, Marvin
 * Bellah, Robert
 * Bellamy, Edward
 * Belle, David
 * Bellegarrigue, Anselme
 * Beller, Mara
 * Belloc, Hilaire
 * Bellow, Saul
 * Bellucci, Monica
 * Belpré, Pura
 * Belushi, Jim
 * Belushi, John
 * Bemmelen, Reinout Willem van

Ben–Berk

 * Benchley, Robert
 * Benda, Julien
 * Benedict of Nursia
 * Benedict XV, Pope
 * Benedict XVI (Pope)
 * Benedict, Paul K.
 * Benenson, Peter
 * Benét, Stephen Vincent
 * Benford, Gregory
 * Benger, Elizabeth
 * Ben-Gurion, David
 * Benioff, Marc
 * Benítez, Rafael
 * Benjamin, Judah P.
 * Benjamin, Park, Sr.
 * Benjamin, Walter
 * Benkin, Richard
 * Benn, Melissa
 * Benn, Nigel
 * Benn, Tony
 * Bennett, Alan
 * Bennett, Arnold
 * Bennett, Billy
 * Bennett, Bruce
 * Bennett, Catherine (journalist)
 * Bennett, John G.
 * Bennett, Tony
 * Benning, Henry Lewis
 * Bennis, Warren
 * Benny, Jack
 * Benserade, Isaac de
 * Benson, A. C.
 * Benson, Amber
 * Benson, E. F.
 * Benson, Ezra, Taft
 * Benson, George
 * Bentham, Jeremy
 * Bentley, Edmund Clerihew
 * Bentley, Elizabeth
 * Bentley, Richard
 * Bentsen, Lloyd
 * Benzine, Craig
 * Berardinelli, James
 * Bercovitch, Sacvan
 * Berays, Edward
 * Berdimuhammedov, Gurbanguly
 * Berdyaev, Nikolai
 * Béranger, Pierre-Jean de
 * Berenson, Bernard
 * Beresford, Lord Charles
 * Berezovsky, Boris
 * Berg, Alban
 * Bergdahl, Bowe
 * Bergen, Edgar
 * Berger, John
 * Berger, Luciana
 * Berger, Ric
 * Berger, Sandy
 * Bergerac, Cyrano de
 * Bergland, Richard
 * Bergkamp, Dennis
 * Bergman, Ingmar
 * Bergman, Ingrid
 * Bergson, Henri-Louis
 * Beria, Lavrentiy
 * Berio, Luciano
 * Berisha, Sali
 * Berkeley, George
 * Berkman, Alexander
 * Berkoff, Steven
 * Berkofsky, Martin
 * Berkovic, Eyal

Berl–Bez

 * Berle, Milton
 * Berleant, Arnold
 * Berlet, Chip
 * Berlin, Irving
 * Berlin, Isaiah
 * Berlinerblau, Jacques
 * Berlinski, Claire
 * Berlioz, Hector
 * Berlusconi, Silvio
 * Berman, Boris
 * Berman, Chris
 * Berman, Russell
 * Bern, Dan
 * Bernadotte, Folke
 * Bernal, John Desmond
 * Bernanke, Ben
 * Bernanos, Georges
 * Bernard of Clairvaux
 * Bernard, Claude
 * Bernard, Jeffrey
 * Bernart de Ventadorn
 * Bernays, Paul
 * Berne, Eric
 * Berners-Lee, Tim
 * Bernhard, Sandra
 * Bernhardt, Sarah
 * Berni, Francesco
 * Bernis, François-Joachim de Pierre de
 * Bernoulli, Daniel
 * Bernstein, Andrew
 * Bernstein, Carl
 * Bernstein, Charles
 * Bernstein, Daniel J.
 * Bernstein, Eduard
 * Bernstein, Jared
 * Bernstein, Jeremy
 * Bernstein, Leonard
 * Bernus, Peter
 * Beron, Petar
 * Berra, Yogi
 * Berridge, John
 * Berrigan, Daniel
 * Berrigan, Philip
 * Berry, Chuck
 * Berry, Cicely
 * Berry, Halle
 * Berry, Paul
 * Berry, Scyld
 * Berry, Siân
 * Berry, Wendell
 * Berryman, Guy
 * Bertin, Jacques
 * Bertoletti, Leon
 * Besant, Annie
 * Besant, Walter
 * Besset, Timothee
 * Besson, Luc
 * Best, George
 * Bester, Alfred
 * Beston, Henry
 * Betancourt, Íngrid
 * Beteille, Andre
 * Bethe, Hans
 * Bethune, George Washington
 * Betjeman, John
 * Bettany, Paul
 * Bettis, Hilary
 * Bettis, Jerome
 * Betts, Reginald
 * Beuys, Joseph
 * Bevan, Aneurin
 * Beveridge, William Henry, 1st Baron Beveridge of Tuggal
 * Beveridge, William Ian Beardmore
 * Bevin, Ernest
 * Bezalel, Judah Loew ben
 * Bezos, Jeff

Bh–Bi

 * Bhabha, Homi J.
 * Bhagat, Chetan
 * Bhagwandas, Rana
 * Bhagwat, Mohan
 * Bharathi, Subramanya
 * Bhatt, Ela
 * Bhutto, Benazir
 * Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
 * Biafra, Jello
 * Bias of Priene
 * Bibesco, Princess Elizabeth
 * Bichat, Marie François Xavier
 * Bickerstaffe, Isaac
 * Bickersteth, Edward (bishop of Exeter)
 * Bickersteth, Henry, 1st Baron Langdale
 * Bickerton, A.W.
 * Bickle, Mike
 * Bidault, Georges
 * Biden, Joseph ("Joe")
 * Bieber, Justin
 * Biel, Gabriel
 * Bierce, Ambrose
 * Big L (rapper)
 * Bigg, John Stanyan
 * Biggs, Jason
 * Biko, Steve
 * Bilbo, Theodore G.
 * Bilić, Slaven
 * Billig, Michael
 * Billings, Josh
 * Billson, Anne
 * Billy the Kid
 * Binchy, Maeve
 * Bindel, Julie
 * Binet, Hélène
 * Bingham, Thomas, Baron Bingham of Cornhill
 * Binkley, Thomas
 * Binnig, Gerd
 * Binoche, Juliette
 * Binyon, Laurence
 * Bion of Borysthenes
 * Biot, Jean-Baptiste
 * Bird, Brad
 * Bird, Larry
 * Bird, Mary Brave
 * Birdman (entertainer)
 * Birgeneau, Robert J.
 * Biriuzov, Sergei
 * Birkett, William Norman, 1st Baron Birkett
 * Birrell, Augustine
 * Birtwistle, Harrison
 * Bīrūnī, Abū-Rayhān
 * Bishop, Elizabeth
 * Bishop, Isabel
 * Bishop, Jim
 * Bishop, Michael
 * Bismarck, Otto von
 * Bittencourt de Oliveira, Simone
 * Bittrich, Wilhelm
 * Bixler-Zavala, Cedric
 * Bizet, Georges

Bl

 * Blaauw, Gerrit
 * Blacc, Aloe
 * Black Elk
 * Black, Bob
 * Black, Conrad
 * Black, Hugo
 * Black, Jack
 * Black, Joseph
 * Black, Lewis
 * Black, Rebecca
 * Blackburn, Colin, Baron Blackburn
 * Blackburn, Olly
 * Blackburn, Simon
 * Blacker, Valentine
 * Blacker, William
 * Blackie, John Stuart
 * Blackmore, Richard
 * Blackmore, Ritchie
 * Blackmore, Susan
 * Blackmun, Harry
 * Blackstone, William
 * Blackwell, Nigel
 * Blackwood, Helen, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye
 * Blackwood, Richard
 * Blades, Rubén
 * Blagojevich, Rod
 * Blaine, David
 * Blaine, James G.
 * Blair, Cherie
 * Blair Hugh
 * Blair, Robert
 * Blair, Tony
 * Blake, James
 * Blake, Kendare
 * Blake, Peter
 * Blake, William
 * Blakemore, Colin
 * Blakey, Art
 * Blalock, Jolene
 * Blanc, Raymond
 * Blanchard, Olivier
 * Blanchard, Samuel Laman
 * Blanchett, Cate
 * Blanchflower, David
 * Blanco, Cuauhtémoc
 * Blanco, Richard
 * Blandy, William H. P.
 * Blank, Steve
 * Blatchford, Robert
 * Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna
 * Blears, Hazel
 * Bledel, Alexis
 * Bleecker, Ann Eliza
 * Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, Gisela
 * Bleu, Corbin
 * Blinder, Alan
 * Blish, James
 * Blitzer, Wolf (American journalist)
 * Blix, Hans
 * Blixen, Karen
 * Blobel, Paul
 * Bloch, Ernst
 * Bloch, Felix
 * Blodget, Henry
 * Bloembergen, Nicolaas
 * Blok, Alexander
 * Blom, Eric
 * Blomberg, Werner von
 * Blond, Phillip
 * Bloom, Allan
 * Bloom, Godfrey
 * Bloom, Harold
 * Bloom, Howard
 * Bloom, Orlando
 * Bloom, Paul
 * Bloom, Rachel
 * Bloomberg, Michael
 * Bloomfield, Robert
 * Blount, Roy
 * Blow, Charles McRay
 * Blu (rapper)
 * Blum, William
 * Blume, Judy
 * Blumenauer, Earl
 * Blunden, Edmund Charles
 * Blunt, James
 * Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen
 * Bly, Robert W.
 * Blyleven, Bert
 * Blythe, Randy

Boa–Boo

 * Boal, Augusto
 * Boardman, George, the Younger
 * Boarman, Charles
 * Boas, Franz
 * Boateng, Kevin-Prince
 * Boaz, David
 * Bobbio, Norberto
 * Boccaccio, Giovanni
 * Boccioni, Umberto
 * Bochner, Mel
 * Boe, Christoffer
 * Boehm, Barry
 * Boehner, John
 * Boesky, Ivan
 * Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
 * Bogart, Humphrey
 * Bogart, Neil
 * Bogdanov, Alexander
 * Boggs, Hale
 * Bogle, John
 * Bohlin, Nils
 * Bohm, David
 * Böhme, Jakob
 * Bohr, Aage Niels
 * Bohr, Niels
 * Bohra, Karanvir
 * Boiardo, Matteo Maria
 * Boileau-Despréaux, Nicholas
 * Boisot, Max
 * Bojaxhi, Agnes Gonxha (Mother Teresa)
 * Bojić, Milutin
 * Bok, Hilary
 * Boker, George Henry
 * Bokova, Irina
 * Bolaño, Roberto
 * Boletini, Isa
 * Boleyn, Anne
 * Bolívar, Simón
 * Bolkestein, Frits
 * Böll, Heinrich
 * Boll, Uwe
 * Bolotowsky, Ilya
 * Bolt, Robert
 * Bolt, Usain
 * Bolton, John R.
 * Boltzmann, Ludwig
 * Bolyai, Farkas
 * Bombeck, Erma
 * Bomberg, David
 * Bonacic, Vladimir
 * Bonafini, Hebe de
 * Bonanza, Beef
 * Bonaparte, Napoleon
 * Bonar, Andrew
 * Bonar, Horatius
 * Bond, Edward
 * Bond, Michael
 * Bond, Ruskin
 * Bondi, Hermann
 * Boneham, Rupert
 * Boner, John Henry
 * Bonewits, Isaac
 * Bonfiglioli, Kyril
 * Bonica, John
 * Boniface VIII, Pope
 * Bonifacio, Andrés
 * Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
 * Bonner, Yelena
 * Bono
 * Bonta, Vanna
 * Booch, Grady
 * Bookchin, Murray
 * Booker, Sheri
 * Boole, George
 * Boone, Daniel
 * Boone, J. Allen
 * Boorstin, Daniel J.
 * Boortz, Neal
 * Boosie, Lil
 * Boosler, Elayne
 * Booth, Barton
 * Booth, William

Bor–Boz

 * Borchardt, Alice
 * Boreanaz, David
 * Borel, Émile
 * Borenstein, Nathaniel
 * Boretz, Benjamin
 * Borge, Victor
 * Borges, Jorge Luis
 * Borgia, Cesare
 * Boring, Edwin
 * Boris III of Bulgaria
 * Borisov, Boyko
 * Borissov, Boyko
 * Bork, Robert
 * Borland, Hal
 * Borlaug, Norman
 * Borman, Frank
 * Bormann, Martin
 * Born, Max
 * Bornstein, Kate
 * Borodin, Alexander
 * Boros, James
 * Borrow, George
 * Borza, Eugene N.
 * Boscovich, Roger Joseph
 * Bose, Rahul
 * Bose, Subhas Chandra
 * Bosquet, Pierre
 * Bossidy, John Collins
 * Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne
 * Boston, Thomas
 * Bostrom, Nick
 * Boswell, James
 * Botero, Fernando
 * Botha, Pieter Willem
 * Botha, Pik
 * Bottomley, Horatio
 * Botvinnik, Mikhail
 * Boucher, Jonathan
 * Bouchet, Edward
 * Boucicault, Dion
 * Bouguereau, William-Adolphe
 * Boulding, Kenneth
 * Boulez, Pierre
 * Boulter, Michael
 * Boulton, Marjorie
 * Boulton, Matthew
 * Bounds, Edward McKendree
 * Bourassa, Henri
 * Bourdain, Anthony
 * Bourdieu, Pierre
 * Bourdillon, Francis William
 * Bourgault, Pierre
 * Bourgeois, Louise
 * Bourgeoys, Marguerite
 * Bourget, Paul
 * Bourgois, Philippe
 * Bourguiba, Habib
 * Bourne, Randolph
 * Boutros-Ghali, Boutros
 * Bova, Ben
 * Bovard, James
 * Bovee, Christian Nestell
 * Bowen, Charles, Baron Bowen
 * Bowen, Elizabeth
 * Bower, Marvin
 * Bowie, David
 * Bowles, Chester
 * Bowles, Paul
 * Bowles, Ralston
 * Bowles, Samuel
 * Bowles, William Lisle
 * Bowman, Hetty
 * Bowman, Isa
 * Bowman, Karl
 * Bowring, John
 * Box, George E. P.
 * Boxer, Barbara
 * Boyatzis, Richard
 * Boycott, Geoff
 * Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
 * Boyd, Brandon
 * Boyd, Linn
 * Boyd, Stowe
 * Boyega, John
 * Boykin, William G.
 * Boyle, Frankie
 * Boyle, Robert
 * Boyle, Susan
 * Boyle, T.C.
 * Boyle, Willard
 * Boys, C. V.

Bra–Bri

 * Bracciolini, Francesco
 * Bracha, Gilad
 * Brack, Viktor
 * Bracken, Peg
 * Bracken, Thomas
 * Brackett, Anna C.
 * Brackett, Joseph
 * Bradbury, Malcolm
 * Bradbury, Ray
 * Bradfield, James Dean
 * Bradford, John
 * Bradford, William
 * Bradford, William
 * Bradlaugh, Charles
 * Bradley, Ed
 * Bradley, F. H.
 * Bradley, Marion Zimmer
 * Bradley, Milton (baseball)
 * Bradley, Omar
 * Bradstreet, Anne
 * Bradwardine, Thomas
 * Brady, Ian
 * Braff, Zach
 * Bragg, Billy
 * Bragg, Melvyn
 * Bragg, William Henry
 * Brahm, Ajahn
 * Brahms, Caryl
 * Brahms, Johannes
 * Braid, James
 * Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins
 * Brainard, Mary Gardiner
 * Braine, John
 * Braitenberg, Valentino
 * Braithwaite, Oyinkan
 * Bramah, Ernest
 * Bramston, James
 * Branch, Michelle Jacquet DeSevren
 * Brâncuși, Constantin
 * Brand Auraban, Aron
 * Brand, Max
 * Brand, Russell
 * Brand, Stewart
 * Brandeis, Louis
 * Branden, Nathaniel
 * Brandes, Georg
 * Brando, Marlon
 * Brandreth, Gyles
 * Brandt, Karl
 * Brandt, Willy
 * Branscomb, Lewis M.
 * Branson, Richard
 * Braque, Georges
 * Braschi, Giannina
 * Bratt, Benjamin
 * Bratza, Nicolas
 * Brauchitsch, Walther von
 * Braudel, Fernand
 * Braun, Carol Moseley
 * Braun, Wernher von
 * Brautigan, Richard
 * Brave, Ysabella
 * Braverman, Suella
 * Bray, Libba
 * Bray, Tim
 * Brazile, Donna
 * Brecher, Gary
 * Bréchignac, Catherine
 * Brecht, Bertolt
 * Brecht, George
 * Breitbart, Andrew
 * Brel, Jacques
 * Bremmer, Ian
 * Bremner, Rory
 * Brendel, Alfred
 * Brendon, Nicholas
 * Manning, Richard Francis Xavier "Brennan"
 * Brennan, William J., Jr.
 * Brenner, Sydney
 * Brennus
 * Brereton, Jane
 * Brett, Jeremy
 * Brett, William, 1st Viscount Esher
 * Breton, André
 * Breuer, Jim
 * Brewer, Heather
 * Brewster, David
 * Brewster, Kingman, Jr.
 * Brezhnev, Leonid
 * Briain, Dara Ó
 * Brice, Fanny
 * Brickell, Edie
 * Bricusse, Lesley
 * Bridges, Edward, 1st Baron Bridges
 * Bridges, Robert
 * Briggs, Joe Bob
 * Bright, John
 * Bright, Susie
 * Brightman, Sarah
 * Brigit of Kildare
 * Brigstocke, Marcus
 * Brillouin, Léon
 * Brimelow, Peter
 * Brin, David
 * Brin, Sergey
 * Brinkley, David
 * Brittain, Vera

Bro–Brz

 * Broad, C. D.
 * Broadus, John Albert
 * Brockes, Emma
 * Broderick, Matthew
 * Brodie, Bernard
 * Brodie, Fawn
 * Brodsky, Joseph
 * Broglie, Louis de
 * Bromfield, Louis
 * Bromley, Isaac H.
 * Bronowski, Jacob
 * Brontë, Anne
 * Brontë, Branwell
 * Brontë, Charlotte
 * Brontë, Emily
 * Brook, Peter
 * Brooke, Heather
 * Brooke, Rupert
 * Brooker, Charlie
 * Brookner, Anita
 * Brooks, David
 * Brooks, Fred
 * Brooks, Garth
 * Brooks, Gwendolyn
 * Brooks, James L.
 * Brooks, Louise
 * Brooks, John
 * Brooks, Max
 * Brooks, Mel
 * Brooks, Phil
 * Brooks, Phillips
 * Brooks, Terry
 * Brooks, Thomas (Puritan)
 * Brooks, Vincent Keith
 * Brothers, Joyce
 * Brough, Robert Barnabas
 * Brougham, Henry, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
 * Broun, Heywood
 * Brown, Charles Brockden
 * Brown, A. Whitney
 * Brown, Aaron C.
 * Brown, Barrett
 * Brown, Brené
 * Brown, Campbell
 * Brown, Dan
 * Brown, Derren
 * Brown, Earle
 * Brown, Elaine
 * Brown, Foxy
 * Brown, Gordon
 * Brown, Harvey (philosopher)
 * Brown, Ian
 * Brown, James
 * Brown, Jericho
 * Brown, Jerry
 * Brown, Jim
 * Brown, John (abolitionist)
 * Brown, John (essayist)
 * Brown, Mano
 * Brown, Michael E.
 * Brown, Phil
 * Brown, Pierce
 * Brown, Rita Mae
 * Brown, Sam
 * Brown, Thomas Edward
 * Brown, Tina
 * Brown, Tom (satirist)
 * Browne, Harry
 * Browne, Jackson
 * Browne, Janet (historian of science at Harvard)
 * Browne, Sir Thomas
 * Browne, Sylvia
 * Browne, William
 * Brownell, Henry Howard
 * Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
 * Browning, Guy
 * Browning, Robert
 * Brownjohn, Alan
 * Broy, Steve
 * Broyard, Anatole
 * Bruce, Lenny
 * Bruce, Michael
 * Bruckner, Anton
 * Brundtland, Gro Harlem
 * Brunner, Constantin
 * Brunner, John
 * Bruno, Frank
 * Bruno, Giordano
 * Brus,Günter
 * Brust, Steven
 * Brustein, Robert
 * Brutus, Marcus Junius
 * Bryan, William Jennings
 * Bryant, Anita
 * Bryant, Bear
 * Bryant, Chris
 * Bryant, Kobe
 * Bryant, William Cullen
 * Bryson, Bill
 * Brzezinski, Zbigniew

Bub–Burk

 * Buber, Martin
 * Buchan, John
 * Buchan, John
 * Buchanan, James
 * Buchanan, Pat
 * Buchanan, Robert Williams
 * Büchner, Georg
 * Buchwald, Art
 * Buck, Pearl
 * Buck, Tim
 * Bucke, Richard Maurice
 * Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
 * Buckingham, Marcus
 * Buckland, William
 * Buckles, Frank
 * Buckley, Jeff
 * Buckley, Lord
 * Buckley, William F., Jr.
 * Buddha, Gautama
 * Budker, Gersh
 * Buechner, Frederick
 * Buffett, Jimmy
 * Buffett, Warren
 * Buffon, Gianluigi
 * Bugaighis, Salwa
 * Bujold, Lois McMaster
 * Bukharin, Nikolai
 * Bukowski, Charles
 * Bulgakov, Mikhail
 * Bull, Bart
 * Bull, Sitting
 * Buller, Arthur Henry Reginald
 * Buller, Sir Francis, 1st Baronet
 * Bullett, Gerald
 * Bullock, Sandra
 * Bultmann, Rudolf
 * Bulwer-Lytton, Edward
 * Bulwer-Lytton, Robert
 * Bulykin, Dmitri
 * Bun B
 * Bunche, Ralph
 * Bundy, Ted
 * Bunge, Mario
 * Bunn, Alfred
 * Bunner, Henry Cuyler
 * Bunting, Basil
 * Buñuel, Luis
 * Bunyan, John
 * Buonarroti, Michelangelo
 * Burbidge, Geoffrey
 * Burchill, Julie
 * Burdett, John
 * Buren, Daniel
 * Burfitt-Dons, Louise
 * Burger, Warren E.
 * Burgers, Jan
 * Burges, William
 * Burgess, Anthony
 * Burgess, Gelett
 * Burgess, John
 * Burgh, James
 * Burgnich, Tarcisio
 * Burgos, Julia de
 * Burke, Edmund
 * Burke, James (science historian)
 * Burke, James Lee
 * Burke, Kenneth

Burn–By

 * Burna, Slim
 * Burnand, Francis
 * Burnell, Jocelyn Bell
 * Burnet, Frank Macfarlane
 * Burnet, Thomas
 * Burnett, Frances Hodgson
 * Burnett, Leo
 * Burney, Charles
 * Burney, Frances
 * Burnham, Bo
 * Burnham, Daniel
 * Burnham, Frederick Russell
 * Burnham, Jack
 * Burnham, James
 * Burns, Conrad
 * Burns, Edward
 * Burns, George
 * Burns, John
 * Burns, Robert
 * Burns, Steve
 * Burns, Tommy
 * Burr, Aaron
 * Burr, Bill
 * Burr, Enoch Fitch
 * Burroughs, Edgar Rice
 * Burroughs, John
 * Burroughs, Nannie Helen
 * Burroughs, William S.
 * Burrows, Saffron
 * Burton, Cliff
 * Burton, Nat
 * Burton, Richard
 * Burton, Sir Richard Francis
 * Burton, Robert
 * Buruma, Ian
 * Bury, J. B.
 * Buscaglia, Leo
 * Busch, Wilhelm (pastor)
 * Bush, Barbara
 * Bush, George H. W.
 * Bush, George W.
 * Bush, Jeb
 * Bush, John Carder
 * Bush, Kate
 * Bush, Laura Welch
 * Bush, Stephen F.
 * Bush, Vannevar
 * Bushnell, Horace
 * Bushnell, Nolan
 * Bushwick Bill
 * Busoni, Ferruccio
 * Buss, David
 * Bustamante, Nao
 * Butcher, Jim
 * Butler, Benjamin Franklin
 * Butler, Judith
 * Butler, Octavia
 * Butler, Rab
 * Butler, Samuel (novelist, 1835-1902)
 * Butler, Samuel (poet, 1612-1680)
 * Butler, Smedley
 * Butler, William Allen
 * Butler-Sloss, Dame Elizabeth
 * Butt, Hassan
 * Butt, Munir
 * Butterfield, Herbert
 * Butts, Mary
 * Butts, Robert
 * Butz, Earl
 * Buxton, Charles
 * Buzan, Tony
 * Byatt, A. S.
 * Bygraves, Max
 * Bynner, Witter
 * Bynum, Andrew
 * Byrd, Richard E.
 * Byrd, William
 * Byrne, David
 * Byrne, Ed
 * Byrne, Gabriel
 * Byrne, John
 * Byrom, John
 * Byron, Lord