# List of people by name, B

Subset of List of people by name

## B
### 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, Lewis White
* 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, Ahmed
* 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

* Borasio, Gian Domenico
* 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, Jagadish Chandra
* 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, P. W.
* 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
* Boyer, Carl B.
* Boykin, William G.
* Boylan, Jennifer Finney
* 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, Jo
* 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.
* Bromwich, Robert
* 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