List of people by name, B
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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