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Ba/Bá

 * Babánek, Karel (1872–1937)
 * Babbage, Charles (1791–1871)
 * Babcock, Charles Almanzo (1849–1922)
 * Babcock, Kendric Charles (1864–1932)
 * Babcock, Maltbie (1858–1901)
 * Babelon, Ernest Charles François (1854–1924)
 * Baber, Edward Cresswell (1850–1910)
 * Baber, Henry Hervey (1775–1869)
 * Babeuf, François-Noel (1760–1797)
 * Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685–1750)
 * Bacheler, O. R. (1817–1901)
 * Bachelor, Joseph Morris (1887–1947)
 * Baildon, Henry Bellyse (1849–1907)
 * Bailey, John (1810–1867)
 * Bachelet, Michelle (1951–present)
 * Bacheller, Irving (1859–1950)
 * Bacher, Wilhelm (or William); or Bacher Vilmos (1850–1913)
 * Bachet de Méziriac, Claude Gaspard (1581–1638)
 * Backhouse, James (1861–1945)
 * Backus, Charles (1749–1803)
 * Backus, Waldo Elwyn (1892-1979)
 * Bacon, Alice Mabel (1858–1918)
 * Bacon, Benjamin Wisner (1860–1932)
 * Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)
 * Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam (1876–1961)
 * Bacon, Leonard (1802–1881)
 * Bacon, Leonard (1887–1954)
 * Bacon, Roger (1214–1294)
 * von Baczko, Ludwig (1756–1823)
 * Badakar, Chandrashekhar M.
 * Baden, Frances L. Henshaw (1835–1911)
 * Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth (1860–1937)
 * Baden-Powell, James (1842–1931)
 * Baden-Powell, Robert (1857–1941)
 * Badger, George Percy (1815–1888)
 * Badoureau, Jean Paul Albert (1853–1923)
 * von Baerenbach, Friedrich (1856–1914)
 * Bagehot, Walter (1826–1877)
 * Bagenal, Philip Henry (1850–1927)
 * Bagwell, Richard (1840–1918)
 * Bahá'u'lláh (Husayn-Ali Nurí) (1817–1893)
 * Bahu, Sultan (1628–1691)
 * Bai Juyi (772–846)
 * Bailey, Alfred Marshall (1894–1978)
 * Bailey, Arthur Scott (1877–1949)
 * Bailey, Cyril (1871–1957)
 * Bailey, Florence Augusta Merriam (1863–1948)
 * Bailey, George Cyril (1890–1972)
 * Burette, Agnes Jane (1800–1863)
 * Bailey, John Burn (1821–1895)
 * Bailey, John Eglington (1840–1888)
 * Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858–1954)
 * Baillie, James Black (1872–1940)
 * Baily, Francis (1774–1844)
 * Bain, Alexander (1818–1903)
 * Bain, Robert Nisbet (1854–1909)
 * Baines, Sir Jervoise Athelstane (1847–1925)
 * Baird, Henry Carey (1825–1912)
 * Baird, Henry Martyn (1832–1906)
 * Baird, Jean Katherine (1873–1918)
 * Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823–1887)
 * Baird, William Raimond (1848–1917)
 * Bale, Edwin (1842–1923)
 * Balfour, Grant
 * Baker, Benjamin (1840–1907)
 * Baker, Elizabeth (1876–1962)
 * Baker, Henry (1698–1774)
 * Baker, Henry (1835–1910)
 * Baker, Henry Barton (1845–1906)
 * Baker, Henry Frederick (1866–1956)
 * Baker, Henry Williams (1821–1877)
 * Baker, Ira Osborn (1853–1925)
 * Baker, John Gilbert (1834–1920)
 * Baker, Julian Levett (1873–1958)
 * Baker, Mary Ann (1831–1921)
 * Baker, Moses Nelson (1864–1955)
 * Baker, Newton D. (1871–1937)
 * Baker, Ray Stannard (1870–1946)
 * Baker, Richard (1568–1645)
 * Baker, Thomas (c. 1625–1689)
 * Bakewell, John (1721–1819)
 * Bakewell, Robert (1768–1843)
 * Bakunin, Mikhail (1814–1876)
 * Balbo, Cesare (1789–1853)
 * Baldry, Alfred Lys (1858–1939)
 * Baldwin, Astley Henry (1834–1914)
 * Baldwin, Charles Sears (1867–1935)
 * Baldwin, Henry (1780–1844)
 * Baldwin, James (1841–1925)
 * Baldwin, James Arthur (1924–1987)
 * Baldwin, Simeon Eben (1840–1927)
 * Baldwin, Stanley (1867–1947)
 * Balfe, Michael William (1808–1870)
 * Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630–1694)
 * Balfour, Sir Andrew (1873–1931)
 * Balfour, Arthur (1848–1930)
 * Balfour, Isaac Bayley (1853–1922)
 * Balfour, John Hutton (1808–1884)
 * Ball, Benjamin West (1823–1896)
 * Ball, Charles James (1851–1924)
 * Ball, Clifford (1896–1947)
 * Ball, Henry William (1833–1914)
 * Ball, John (1338–1381)
 * Ball, John (1818–1889)
 * Ball, Robert Stawell (1840–1913)
 * Ballagh, James Curtis (1866–1944)
 * Ballantine, William Gay (1848–1937)
 * Ballantyne, R. M. (1825–1894)
 * Ballantyne, Thomas (1806–1871)
 * Ballard, Robert (1839–1912)
 * Ballin, Ada Sarah (1863–1906)
 * Ballou, Adin (1803–1890)
 * Ballou, Sullivan (1829–1861)
 * Ballou, William Hosea
 * Balzac, Honoré de (1799–1850)
 * Balzani, Ugo (1847–1916)
 * Bambridge, William Samuel (1820–1879)
 * Bancroft, Frederic (1860–1945)
 * Bancroft, George (1800–1891)
 * Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1832–1918)
 * Bandyopadhyay, Brajendranath (1891–1952)
 * Banerjea, Surendranath (1848–1925)
 * Banerjee, Krishna Mohan (1813–1885)
 * Bannerman, David Armitage (1886–1979)
 * Bangs, John Kendrick (1872–1922)
 * Banim, John (1798–1842)
 * Bankes, George (1787–1856)
 * Bankier, William (1870–1949)
 * Banks, Joseph (1743–1820)
 * Bannerman, David Douglas (1842–1903)
 * Bannerman, Helen (1862–1946)
 * Bannister, Thomas (1799–1874)
 * Bao Zheng (999–1062)
 * Baratynsky, Evgeny (1800–1844)
 * Al-Barbahari (867–940)
 * Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743–1825)
 * Barbeau, Charles Marius (1883–1969)
 * Barber, Amherst W. (fl. 1894)
 * Barber, John
 * Barber, Margaret Fairless (1869–1901)
 * Barber, Mary (c. 1685–c. 1755)
 * Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée (1808–1889)
 * Barbour, Erwin Hinckly (1856–1947)
 * Barbour, John (c. 1316–1395)
 * Barbour, Philip Pendleton (1783–1841)
 * Barbusse, Henri (1873–1935)
 * Barclay, Robert (1648–1690)
 * Barclay, Robert (1833–1876)
 * Barclay, Sir Thomas (1853–1941)
 * Bard, Ralph Austin (1884–1975)
 * Barham, Richard Harris (1788–1845)
 * Barine, Arvède (1840–1908)
 * Baring, Maurice (1874–1945)
 * Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834–1924)
 * Barker, Aldred Farrer (1868–1964)
 * Barker, Ernest (1874–1960)
 * Barker, Eugene Campbell (1874–1956)
 * Barker, George Fisher Russell (1848–1927)
 * Barker, George Frederick (1835–1910)
 * Barker, Jacob (1779–1871)
 * Barker, James Nelson (1784–1858)
 * Barker, Theodore Gaillard (1832–1917)
 * Barker, Theodore T.
 * Barkley, Henry Charles (1837–1903)
 * Barlow, Chester (?–1902)
 * Barlow, Henry Clark (1806–1876)
 * Barlow, Hilaro William Wellesley (1861–1941)
 * Barlow, Robert Hayward (1918–1951)
 * Barmby, James (1823–1897)
 * Barnabas (d. 61)
 * Barnabei, Felice (1842–1922)
 * Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter (1809–1889)
 * Barnard, Lady Anne (1750–1825)
 * Barnard, William Stebbins (1849–1888)
 * Barnave, Antoine (1761–1793)
 * Barnby, Joseph (1838–1896)
 * Barne, Kitty (1883–1961)
 * Barnes, Arthur K. (1911–1969)
 * Barnes, Djuna (1892–1982)
 * Barnes, James Strachey (1890–1955)
 * Barnes, William Horatio (1832–1879)
 * Barnett, Edith A. (c. 1860 – c. 1900)
 * Barnett, Percy Arthur (1858–1941)
 * Barnett, Samuel Augustus (1844–1913)
 * Barnfield, Richard (1574–1627)
 * Barnum, Phineas Taylor (1810–1891)
 * Baroja, Pío (1872–1956)
 * Baron, David (1855–1926)
 * Barr, Elizabeth N. (1800's–1900's)
 * Barraclough, Sir Samuel Henry Egerton (1871–1958)
 * Barratt, J. Arthur (1857–1944)
 * Barrett, Amy Coney (1972–)
 * Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786–1820)
 * Barrett, Lawrence (1838–1891)
 * Barrie, James Matthew (1860–1937)
 * Barrington, Emilie Isabel (1841–1933)
 * Barron, Oswald (1868–1939)
 * Barroso, Gustavo Adolfo Luiz Dodt da Cunha (1888-1959)
 * Barrow, John (1808–1898)
 * Barrows, David Prescott (1873–1954)
 * Barry, Henry (1790–1850)
 * Barry, James (1741–1806)
 * Barry, John Stetson (1819–1872)
 * Barse, Mary Emma Salisbury (1887–c. 1950)
 * Bárta, Jiří (?–present)
 * Barthélemon, François Hippolyte (1741–1808)
 * Barthélemy St. Hilaire, Jules (1805–1895)
 * Bartlet, James Vernon (1863–1940)
 * Bartlett, Abraham Dee (1812–1897)
 * Bartlett, Edward (1836–1908)
 * Bartlett, James (1858–)
 * Bartlett, John (1820–1905)
 * Bartlett, Rosamund (?–present)
 * Bartlett, Willard (1846–1925)
 * Bartlett, William Chauncey (1818–1907)
 * Bartley, George Christopher Trout (1842–1910)
 * Bartoli, Adolfo (1833–1894)
 * Bartoli, Daniello (1608–1685)
 * Barton, Catherine (1679–1739)
 * Barton, Clara (1821–1912)
 * Barton, Frank Townend (1869–1948)
 * Barton, George Burnett (1836–1901)
 * Barton, John (1789–1852)
 * Bartram, William (1739–1823)
 * Bartsch, Rudolf Hans (1873/1872–1952)
 * Barua, Benimadhab (1888—1948)
 * Baruch ben Neriah (fl. c. 6th century BCE)
 * Barvitius, Viktor (1834–1902)
 * Barwick, George Frederick (1853–1931)
 * Bary, Heinrich Anton de (1831–1888)
 * Bascom, Caroline Crowninshield (1858–1914)
 * Bascom, John (1827–1911)
 * Baseley, Ellen (1844–1907)
 * Bashkirtseff, Maria Constantinova (1858–1884)
 * Bashō, Matsuo (1644–1694)
 * Basil of Caesarea (330–379)
 * Basilides (c. 117–138)
 * Basilios, Abuna (1891–1970)
 * Baskett, George Crooks (1821–1906)
 * Bassett, John Spencer (1867–1928)
 * Bassler, John H. (1834–1916)
 * Bastable, Charles Francis (1855–1945)
 * Bastian, Henry Charlton (1837–1915)
 * Bastiat, Frédéric (1801–1850)
 * Batchelor, John (1854–1944)
 * Bateman, Edgar (?–?)
 * Bateman, Harry (1882–1946)
 * Bateman, Henry Mayo (1887–1970)
 * Bateman, James (1811–1897)
 * Bates, Albert Carlos (1865–1954)
 * Bates, Charlotte Fiske (1838–1916)
 * Bates, Clara Doty (1838–1895)
 * Bates, Frank Amasa (1858–1915)
 * Bates, Katharine Lee (1859–1929)
 * Bates, William Horatio (1860–1931)
 * Bateson, Frederick Wilse (1901–1978)
 * Bateson, Mary (1865–1906)
 * Bateson, Thomas (c. 1570–1630)
 * Batho, Edith Clara (1895–1986)
 * Bathurst, Allen (1684–1775)
 * Batten, John Dickson (1860–1932)
 * Battershall, Walton Wesley (1840–1920)
 * Battye, James Sykes (1871–1954)
 * Baucus, Max (1941–present)
 * Baudelaire, Charles (1821–1867)
 * Baudin, Nicolas Thomas (1754–1803)
 * Baudiš, Josef (1883–1933)
 * Baudouin, Charles (1893–1963)
 * Bauer, Ferdinand (1760–1826)
 * Bauer, Franz (or Francis) Andreas (1758–1840)
 * Bauerman, Hilary (1833–1909)
 * Bauhin, Gaspard (or Caspar) (1560–1624)
 * Baum, L. Frank (1856–1919)
 * Baum, Paull Franklin (1886–1964)
 * Baumanis, Kārlis (1835–1905)
 * Baumann, Johannes (1805–1847)
 * Baumbach, Adolph (1830–1880)
 * Baumbach, Friedrich August (1753–1813)
 * von Baumhauer, Eduard Hendrik (1820–1885)
 * Bax, Ernest Belfort (1854–1926)
 * Baxendale, Walter
 * Baxter, James Phinney (1831–1921)
 * Baxter, Lydia (1809–1874)
 * Bayard, Edward (1806–1889)
 * Bayen, Malaku E. (1900–1940)
 * Bayldon, George (1816–1900)
 * Baylee, John Tyrrell (approx 1776–1848)
 * Baylee, John Tyrrell (?–1859)
 * Baylee, Joseph (1808–1883)
 * Bayley, Donovan
 * Bayley, Roger Child (1869–1934)
 * Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797–1839)
 * Bayliss, Wyke (1835–1906)
 * Bayne, Julia Taft (1845–1933)
 * Bayne, Peter (1830–1896)
 * Bayne, Ronald (1859–1922)
 * Bayne, Thomas Levingston (1824–1891)
 * Bayne, Thomas Wilson (1845–1931)
 * Baynes, Thomas Spencer (1823–1887)
 * Baynham, George Walter (1832–1916)

Be/Bé/Bè

 * Beaman, Charles Cotesworth (1840–1900)
 * Becket, Thomas (1118–1170)
 * à Becket, Thomas (1808–1890)
 * à Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811–1856)
 * à Beckett, Gilbert Arthur (1837–1891)
 * Beach, Chandler B. (1839–1928)
 * Beadle, John Hanson (1840–1897)
 * Bealby, John Thomas (1858–1944)
 * Beale, Foster Ellenborough Lascelles (1840–1916)
 * Beale, Jr., Joseph Henry (1861–1943)
 * Beale, Lionel Smith (1828–1906)
 * Beale, Octavius Charles (1850–1930)
 * Beall, Mary Stevens (1855–1917)
 * Beard, Charles Austin (1874–1948)
 * Beard, George Miller (1839–1833)
 * Beare, Sir Thomas Hudson (1859–1940)
 * Beasley, Edna Gertrude (1892–1955)
 * Beattie, James (1735–1803)
 * Beatty, William (1773–1842)
 * Beatty-Kingston, William (1837–1900)
 * de Beaujeu, Renaud (fl. 12th century)
 * Beaumont, Francis (1584–1616)
 * Beaumont, William (1785–1853)
 * de Beauvois, Palisot (1752–1820)
 * Beaver, Diane E. (1900's–)
 * Beazley, Sir Charles Raymond (1868–1955)
 * Beccaria-Bonessana, Cesare, Marchese de (1738–1794)
 * Becher, Johann Joachim (1635–1682)
 * Bechhold, Heinrich (1866–1937)
 * Beck, Frederick George Meeson (1883–1924)
 * Beck, Lewis White (1913–1997)
 * Beck, Rollo (1870–1950)
 * Beck, Theodric Romeyn (1791–1855)
 * Becke, Archibald Frank (1871–1947)
 * Becker, August (1900–1967)
 * Becket, Thomas à (1118–1170)
 * Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, Edmund (1816–1905)
 * Beckford, William Thomas (1760–1884)
 * Beckwith, Martha Warren (1871–1959)
 * Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond (1820–1891)
 * Becquerel, Antoine-César (1788–1878)
 * Becquerel, Antoine-Henri (1852–1908)
 * Bécu, Jeanne (1743–1793)
 * Beddard, Frank Evers (1858–1925)
 * Beddoes, Thomas (1760–1808)
 * Beddoes, Thomas Lovell (1803–1849)
 * Beddome, Benjamin (1717–1795)
 * Bede (c. 673–c. 735)
 * Bédier, Joseph (1864–1938)
 * Beecher, Henry Ward (1813–1887)
 * Beecher, Lyman (1775–1863)
 * Beeching, Henry Charles (1859–1919)
 * Been, Johan Hendrik (1859–1930)
 * Beer, Anthony Stafford (1926–2002)
 * Beer, Max (1864–1943)
 * Beerbohm, Max (1872–1956)
 * Beers, Ethel Lynn (1827–1879)
 * Beers, William George (1843–1900)
 * Beesly, Augustus Henry (1839–1909)
 * van Beethoven, Ludwig (1770–1827)
 * Beets, Henry (1869–1947)
 * von Beetz, Wilhelm (1822–1886)
 * Begbie, Edward Howard (1871–1929)
 * le Bègue, Lambert (1131–1177)
 * Behn, Aphra (c. 1640–1689)
 * Behr, Franz (1837–1898)
 * Behrens, Georg Henning (1662–1712)
 * Beik, Arthur Kennedy (1882–1949)
 * Belcher, Admiral Sir Edward (1799–1877)
 * Belding, Lyman (1829–1917)
 * Belfour, John (1768–1842)
 * Belgrave, Dalrymple James (1851–1922)
 * Bell, Alexander Graham (1847–1922)
 * Bell, Alonzo (1836–1906)
 * Bell, Archibald Graeme (1868–1948)
 * Bell, Charles (1774–1842)
 * Bell, Charles Frederic Moberly (1847–1911)
 * Bell, Clara (1834–1927)
 * Bell, Emily Ernst (1840 or 1838–1893)
 * Bell, Edward Ingress (1837–1914)
 * Bell, George (1883–1958)
 * Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868–1926)
 * Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856–1930)
 * Bell, Louis (1864–1923)
 * Bell, Malcolm
 * Bell, Robert (1800–1867)
 * Bell, Walter A. (1889–1969)
 * Bellamy, Edward (1850–1898)
 * Bellamy, Francis (1855–1931)
 * Bellarmine, Robert (1542–1621)
 * de Bellesme, Georges Louis Marie Félicien Jousset (1839–1925)
 * Bellinger, Alfred Raymond (1893–1978)
 * Belloc, Hilaire (1870–1953)
 * Bellows, Henry Adams (1803–1873)
 * Belmont, A. H. (1907–1977)
 * Belmont, Perry (1851–1947)
 * Beloe, Edward Milligen (1827–1907)
 * Belt, Thomas (1832–1878)
 * Bémont, Charles (1848–1939)
 * Bemrose, Henry Howe (1827–1911)
 * Benamozegh, Elijah (1822–1900)
 * Benavente, Jacinto (1866–1954)
 * Benda, Władysław Teodor (1873–1948)
 * Bendall, Cecil (1856–1906)
 * von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, Paul Ludwig Hans Anton (1847–1934)
 * Benedict, Erastus Cornelius (1800–1880)
 * Benedict, Sir Julius (1804–1885)
 * Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948)
 * Benedict XIII, Pope (1649–1730)
 * Benedict XIV, Pope (1675–1758)
 * Benedict XV, Pope (1854–1922)
 * Benedict XVI, Pope (1927–present)
 * Bénédite, Léonce (1856–1925)
 * Beneš, Edvard (1884–1948)
 * Beneš, Vincenc (1883–1979)
 * Beneš, Vojta (1878–1951)
 * Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898–1943)
 * Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvie (1775–1827)
 * Ben-Gurion, David (1886–1973)
 * Benham, William (1831–1910)
 * Benincasa, Caterina di Giacomo di (1347–1380)
 * Benjamin
 * Benjamin, Marcus (1857–1932)
 * Bennet, Henry Grey (1777–1836)
 * Bennett, Alfred William (1833–1902)
 * Bennett, Arnold (1867–1931)
 * Bennett, Henry Leigh (1833–1912)
 * Bennett, John Hughes (1812–1875)
 * Bennett, John Joseph (1801–1876)
 * Bennett, Joseph (1831–1911)
 * Bennett, Naftali (1972–)
 * Bennett, Richard Bedford (1870–1947)
 * Bennett, William Cox (1820–1895)
 * Bennett, William Henry (1855–1920)
 * Benoit, Pierre (1886–1962)
 * Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862–1925)
 * Benson, Edward Frederic (1867–1940)
 * Benson, Ezra T. (1811–1869)
 * Benson, George Vere (1848–1929)
 * Benson, Louis Fitzgerald (1856–1930)
 * Benson, Ralph Augustus (1828–1887)
 * Benson, Stephen Allen (1816–1865)
 * Benson, W. A. S. (1854–1924)
 * Bent, Arthur Cleveland (1866–1954)
 * Bent, James Theodore (1852–1897)
 * Bentham, George (1800–1884)
 * Bentham, Jeremy (1748–1832)
 * Bentley, Edmund Clerihew (1875–1956)
 * Bentley, Richard (1662–1742)
 * Benton, Elbert Jay (1871–1946)
 * Benton, Mildred Catherine (1902–unknown)
 * Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak (1884–1963)
 * Beraki, Solomon Tsehaye
 * Béraud, Henri (1885–1958)
 * Berdan, John Milton (1873–1949)
 * Beresford Hope, Sir Alexander James Beresford (1820–1887)
 * Beresford, John George de la Poer (1773–1862)
 * Berger, Alwin (1871–1931)
 * Berger, Jean-François (1779–1833)
 * Bergholt, Ernest (1856–1925)
 * Bergson, Henri (1859–1941)
 * Berkeley, Charles (1649–1710)
 * Berkeley, George (1685–1753)
 * Berkeley, Miles Joseph (1803–1889)
 * Berkman, Alexander (1870–1936)
 * Berle, Adolf (1895–1971)
 * von Berlepsch, Emilie (1755–1830)
 * Berlin, Irving (1888–1989)
 * Berlyn, Peter (fl. 1851)
 * Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153)
 * Bernard of Cluny (fl. 12th century)
 * Bernard, Claude (1813–1878)
 * Bernard, John Henry (1860–1927)
 * Bernard, Mountague (1820–1882)
 * Bernays, Edward (1891–1995)
 * Bernays, Leopold John (1820–1882)
 * Bernelinus (fl. c. 1000)
 * Bernhardi, Friedrich Adam Julius von (1849–1930)
 * Bernoulli, Jakob (c. 1654–1705)
 * Bernstein, Eduard (1850–1932)
 * Bernstein, Herman (1876–1935)
 * Bernstein, Julius (1839–1917)
 * Berridge, John (1716–1793)
 * Berry, Alexander (1781–1873)
 * Berry, David (1971–present)
 * Berry, George Andreas (1853–1940)
 * Berry, George Ricker (1865–1945)
 * Berry, Walter Van Rensselaer (1859–1927)
 * Berryman, Jeff
 * Bert, Paul (1833–1886)
 * Berthier, Jean-Baptiste (1840–1908)
 * Berthoud, Samuel-Henri (1804–1891)
 * Bertie, Charles Henry (1875–1952)
 * Bertillon, Jacques (1851–1922)
 * Bertram, James Glass (1824–1892)
 * Bertram, Martin H. (1887–1983)
 * Bertrin, Georges Michel (1851–1924)
 * Besant, Annie (1847–1933)
 * Besant, Walter (1836–1901)
 * Besheer, Margaret
 * Besser, Johann (1654–1729)
 * Beste, John Richard Digby (1806–1885)
 * Betham-Edwards, Matilda (1836–1919)
 * Bethell, Henry Arthur (1861–1939)
 * Bethune, George Washington (1805–1862)
 * Bettany, George Thomas (1850–1891)
 * Betts, Anna Whelan (1875–1959)
 * Betts, Beverly R.
 * Betts, John Thomas (1810–1894)
 * Beulé, Charles Ernest (1826–1874)
 * Bevan, Edwyn Robert (1870–1943)
 * Bevan, George Phillips (1830–1889)
 * Bevan, Samuel (1816–?)
 * Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah (1862–1927)
 * Beveridge, Henry (1799–1863)
 * Beveridge, Henry (1837–1929)
 * Beveridge, William (1637–1708)
 * Bevington, Louisa Sara (1845–1895)
 * Bevir, Joseph Louis (1856–1928)
 * Bewes, Wyndham Anstis (1857–1942)
 * Beyer, Johann Hartmann (1563–1625)
 * Bezruč, Petr (1867–1958)
 * Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1851–1922)

Bh

 * Bharata (1st millenium BCE)
 * Bhaskaracharya (1114–1185)
 * Bhavabhūti (8th century)
 * Bhownagree, Mancherjee Merwanjee (1851–1933)
 * Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927–2016)

Bi

 * Biagi, L. D. (fl. 1898–1911)
 * Bianchi, Giovanni Battista (1693–1775)
 * Bibó, István (1911–1979)
 * Bicheno, James Ebenezer (1785–1851)
 * Bickerdike, Percy (1900–1943)
 * Bickersteth, Edward Henry (1825–1906)
 * Bickersteth, Mary Jane (fl. 1893)
 * Bickley, Augustus Charles (1857–1902)
 * Bicknell, Algernon Sidney (1832–1911)
 * Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1834–1925)
 * Bickmore, Albert Smith (1839–1914)
 * Biddle, Charles (1745–1821)
 * Biddulph, Michael Anthony Shrapnel (1823–1904)
 * Biden, Joe (1942–present)
 * Bidwell, Shelford (1848–1909)
 * Bidwill, John Carne (1815–1853)
 * Bierce, Ambrose (1842–c. 1914)
 * Bigelow, John (1817–1911)
 * Bigg, Charles (1840–1908)
 * Biggar, Charles Robert Webster (1847–1909)
 * Biggar, Henry Percival (1872–1938)
 * Biggers, Earl Derr (1884–1933)
 * Bigollo, Leonardo Pisano (c. 1170–c. 1250)
 * Bilac, Olavo (1865–1918)
 * Bilderbeck, Ludwig Benedict Franz von (1766–1856)
 * Bilegiin Damdinsüren (1919–1992)
 * Bilhorn, Peter Philip (1858–1936)
 * Billings, William (1746–1800)
 * Billson, William Weldon (1847–1923)
 * Bilson, John (1856–1943)
 * Binderup, Charles (1873–1950)
 * Bindloss, Harold Edward (1866–1945)
 * Binet, Alfred (1857–1911)
 * Bing, Julius
 * Bingham, Charles William (1810–1881)
 * Bingham, Clifton (1859–1913)
 * Bingham I, Hiram (1789–1869)
 * Bingham III, Hiram (1875–1956)
 * Binney, Thomas (1798–1874)
 * Binyon, Laurence (1869–1943)
 * Birch, John (c.1666–1735)
 * Birch, Samuel (1813–1885)
 * Bird, Frederic Mayer (1838–1908)
 * Bird, Henry (1830–1908)
 * Bird, Isabella Lucy (1831–1904)
 * Bird, Maurice Charles Hilton (1857–1924)
 * Birdwood, George (1832–1917)
 * Birgersdotter, Birgitta (1303–1373)
 * Birkbeck, William John (1859–1916)
 * Birkner, Ferdinand (1868–1944)
 * Birrell, Augustine (1850–1933)
 * Birukoff, Paul (1860–1931)
 * Biruni, Abu Rayhan (973–1048)
 * Biryukov, Paul (1800's–1900's)
 * Bishop, Elizabeth (1911–1979)
 * Bishop, Emily Mulkin (1858–1916)
 * Bishop, William Henry (1847–1928)
 * Bismil, Ram Prasad (1897–1927)
 * Bissel, Daniel (1768–1833)
 * Bissell, Edwin Cone (1832–1894)
 * Bittleston, Henry (1818–1886)
 * Bittner, Bartoš (1861–1912)
 * Biumi, Pompeo Litta (1781–1852)
 * Bixby, James Thompson (1843–1921)

Bj

 * Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinius (1832–1910)

Bl

 * Black, Charles Edward Drummond (1845–1917)
 * Black, Cornelius (1822–1887)
 * Black, Hugo (1886–1971)
 * Black, James Milton (1856–1938)
 * Black, James Rush (1827–1895)
 * Black, James Tait (1826–1911)
 * Black, John (1783–1855)
 * Black, John Reddie (1826/1827–1880)
 * Black, John Sutherland (1846–1923)
 * Black, Marion Carrère (1906-1970)
 * Black, Robert (1829–1915)
 * Black, William (1841–1898)
 * Black, William George (1857–1932)
 * Blackburne, Thomas (1821–1859)
 * Blacker, Beaver Henry (1821–1890)
 * Blackett, Herbert Field dates unknown
 * Blackie, John Stuart (1809–1895)
 * Blackman, Vernon Herbert (1872–1967)
 * Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1854–1931)
 * Blackmore, R.D. (1825–1900)
 * Blackmun, Harry (1908–1999)
 * Blackstone, Sir William (1723–1780)
 * Blackstone, William Eugene (1841–1935)
 * Blackwell, Anna (1816–1900)
 * Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825–1921)
 * Blackwell, Elizabeth Blachrie (1707–1758)
 * Blackwell, Emily (1826–1910)
 * Blackwell, Sarah Ellen (1828–1901)
 * Blackwell, Thomas (1701–1757)
 * Blackwood, Algernon (1869–1951)
 * Blagden, Charles Otto (1864–1949)
 * Blagden, Isa (c. 1816–1873)
 * Blaikie, William Garden (1820–1899)
 * Blain, William (?–1908)
 * Blair, Andrew Alexander (1848–1932)
 * Blair, Charles Henry Hunter (1863–1962)
 * Blair, David (1820–1899)
 * Blair, John (1732–1800)
 * Blair, Robert (1699–1746)
 * Blair, Tony (1953–present)
 * Blaisdell, James Arnold (1867–1957)
 * Blake, Eubie (1887–1983)
 * Blake, Euphemia Vale (1817–1904)
 * Blake, Frank Ringgold (1875–1962)
 * Blake, H. G. O. (1816–1898)
 * Blake, Robert (1598–1657)
 * Blake, William (1757–1827)
 * Blake, William Hume (1861–1924)
 * Blakeney, Edward Henry (1869–1955)
 * Blakiston, Eleanor Frances (1819–1879)
 * Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas (1862–1942)
 * Blakiston, Thomas Wright (1832–1891)
 * Blamey, Thomas (1884–1951)
 * Blanc, Louis (1811–1882)
 * Blanchard, Charles Émile (1819–1900)
 * Blanchard, Edward Litt Laman (1820–1889)
 * Blanchard, George Frederic (1868–1926)
 * Blanchard, Ralph Harrub (1890–1973)
 * Blanchard, Samuel Laman (1804–1845)
 * Blanche, Jacques-Émile (1861–1942)
 * Bland, James (1854–1911)
 * Bland, John Otway Percy (1863–1945)
 * Blandford, George Fielding (1829–1911)
 * Blandy, Ernest William (1801–1900)
 * Blassière, Jean-Jacques (1736–1791)
 * Blatchford, Samuel (1820–1893)
 * Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1834–1891)
 * Blaze de Bury, Marie Pauline Rose, Baroness (1813–1894)
 * Blažíček, Oldřich (1887–1953)
 * Blease, Walter Lyon (1884–1963)
 * Bleecker, Ann Eliza (1752–1783)
 * Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel (1827–1875)
 * Blennerhassett, William Lewis (1882–1958)
 * Blewitt, Octavian (1810–1884)
 * Blicher, Steen Steensen (1782–1848)
 * Bligh, Edward Henry Stuart (1851–1900)
 * Bligh, William (1754–1817)
 * Bliss, Philip Paul (1838–1876)
 * Bloch, Robert (1917–1994)
 * Block, Adriaen (Aerjan) (c. 1567–1627)
 * Blodgett, Benjamin Coleman (1838–1925)
 * Blok, Alexander (1880–1921)
 * Blok, Petrus Johannes (1855–1929)
 * Blomefield, Francis (1705–1752)
 * Blomfield, Reginald (1856–1942)
 * Blöndal, Sigfús (1874–1950)
 * Bloomfield, Maurice (1855–1928)
 * Bloomfield, Robert (1766–1823)
 * Blount, Bertram (1867–1921)
 * Blount, Charles (1654–1693)
 * Blount, Martha (1690–1762)
 * Blowitz, Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de (1825–1903)
 * Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche (1805–1888)
 * Blum, Paul Charles (1898–1981)
 * Blume, Clemens (1862–1932)
 * Blume, Wilhelm von (1867–1927)
 * Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752–1840)
 * Blunt, Charles Jasper (1866–1933)
 * Blunt, Herbert William (1864–1940)
 * Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840–1922)
 * Bly, Nellie (1864–1922)
 * Blyden, Edward Wilmot (1832–1912)
 * Blyth, James (1839–1906)
 * Blyth, Burton Samuel (1831–1889)
 * Blyton, Enid (1897–1968)

Bo/Bö

 * Boake, Barcroft Henry Thomas (1866–1892)
 * Boardman, Henry Augustus (1808–1880)
 * Boas, Franz (1858–1942)
 * Boas, Frederick Samuel (1862–1957)
 * Boase, Frederic (1843–1916)
 * Boase, George Clement (1829–1897)
 * Bobelis, Kazys (1923–)
 * Bowdich, Thomas Edward (1791–1824)
 * Bower, Herbert Morris (1854–1940)
 * Bowes, James Lord (1834–1899)
 * Bobowski, Wojciech (1610–1675)
 * Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313–1375)
 * Bock, Hieronymus (1498–1554)
 * Bockenheimer, Philipp (1875–1933)
 * Bockus, Charles Edwin (1834–1901)
 * Böckh, Philipp August (1785–1867)
 * Bode, John Ernest (1816–1874)
 * Bodenheimer, Laurie (fl. 2023)
 * Bodi, Dimitrije (1850–1942)
 * Bodley, John Edward Courtenay (1853–1925)
 * Boerhaave, Herman (1668–1738)
 * Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (480–525)
 * Boettinger, Hugo (1880–1934)
 * Boger, Charlotte Gilson (1826–?)
 * Bogg, Edward (19th century)
 * Bohan, Elizabeth Baker (1849–1930)
 * Böhlau, Helene (1859–1940)
 * von Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen (1851–1914)
 * Böhme, Jakob (1575–1624)
 * Böhme, Traugott (1884–1954)
 * Bohn, Henry George (1796–1884)
 * Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636–1711)
 * du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1818–1896)
 * van Boisot, Lodewijk (c. 1530–1576)
 * Boissier, Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston (1823–1908)
 * Bojer, Johan (1872–1959)
 * Bok, Edward (1863–1930)
 * Boker, George Henry (1823–1890)
 * Bolingbroke, Frances
 * Bolintineanu, Dimitrie (1819–1872)
 * Bollman, Charles Harvey (1868–1889)
 * Bolton, Augustus Samuel (1825–1886)
 * Bolton, Edmund Mary (1575–1633)
 * Bolton, Guy (1884–1979)
 * Bolton, Henry Carrington (1843–1903)
 * Bolton, Sarah Tittle (c. 1814–1893)
 * Bolton, Theophilus
 * Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (1844–1906)
 * Bombaci, Brendan (fl. 2012)
 * Bonaparte, Charles Joseph (1851–1921)
 * Bonaparte, Charles Louis Napoléon (1808–1873)
 * Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769–1821)
 * Bonar, Horatius (1808–1889)
 * Bonar, James (1839–1915)
 * Bonar, James (1852–1941)
 * Bonaventure (1221–1274)
 * Bond, Francis (1852–1918)
 * Bond, Frederick (1811–1889)
 * Bond, Kit (1939–present)
 * Bond, Thomas (1841–1901)
 * Boner, Charles (1815–1870)
 * Bonetti, Augusto (1831–1903)
 * Bonhote, J. Lewis (1875–1922)
 * Boniface VIII, Pope (1235–1303)
 * Bonifacio, Giovanni (1538–1606)
 * Bonnat, Léon (1833–1922)
 * Bonner, Hypatia Bradlaugh (1858–1935)
 * Bonnet, Charles (1720–1793)
 * Bonney, Thomas George (1833–1923)
 * Bonpland, Aimé (1773–1858)
 * Bonvalot, Gabriel (1853–1933)
 * Bonwick, James (1817–1906)
 * Boodle, R. W. (dates unknown)
 * Boodle, Richard George (1816–1902)
 * Book, Lauren Frances (1984-)
 * Booker, John (1603-1667)
 * Booker, Luke (1762–1837)
 * Boone, Daniel (1734–1820)
 * Booth, Edward Thomas (1840–1890)
 * Booth, John Wilkes (1838–1865)
 * Booth, William (1829–1912)
 * Boothby, Brooke (1743–1824)
 * Boothby, Fanny Charlotte Anne (1812–1876)
 * Borchgrevink, Carsten E. (1864–1934)
 * Borden, Robert (1854–1937)
 * Borecký, Jaromír (1869–1951)
 * Borgia, Cesare (1457–1507)
 * Borlaug, Norman Ernest (1914–2009)
 * Borley, John Oliver (1872–1938)
 * Born, Ignaz von (1742–1791)
 * Börne, Ludwig (1786–1837)
 * Bornet, Jean-Baptiste Édouard (1828–1911)
 * Borochov, Dov Ber (1881–1917)
 * Borradaile, Cuthbert Blizard (1830–1867)
 * Borrer, William (1814–1898)
 * Borrow, George (1803–1881)
 * Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, Sir Algernon (1830–1908)
 * Borthwick, Jane Laurie (1813–1897)
 * Bosanquet, Robert Holford Macdowall (1841–1912)
 * Bosch, Roelof Benjamin van den (1810–1862)
 * Bosco, John (1815–1888)
 * Bose, Girish Chandra (1853–1939)
 * Bose, Jagadish Chandra (1858–1937)
 * Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897–1945)
 * Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne (1627–1704)
 * Boston, Thomas (1676–1732)
 * Bostwick, Arthur Elmore (1860–1942)
 * Bostwick, Elisha (1749–1834)
 * Boswell, James (1740–1795)
 * Both, Armand (1881–1922)
 * Bothne, Gisle (1860–1934)
 * Botsford, George Willis (1862–1917)
 * Botta, Anne Lynch (1815–1891)
 * Botto, Giuseppe Domenico (1791–1865)
 * Bottomley, Gordon (1874–1948)
 * Bottomley, William Beecroft (1863–1922)
 * Bouchier, Edmund Spenser (1876–1930)
 * Boucicault, Dion (1820–1890)
 * Boucke, Ewald Augustus (1871–1943)
 * Boudin, Louis Boudianoff (1874–1952)
 * Boudinhon, Auguste (1858–1948)
 * Bouillier, François "Francisque" Cyrille (1813–1899)
 * Bouilly, Jean-Nicolas (1763–1842)
 * Bouix, Marcel (1806–1889)
 * Boulenger, George Albert (1858–1937)
 * Boulger, Demetrius Charles (1853–1928)
 * Boulger, George Edward Simonds (1853–1922)
 * Bouligny, John Edward (1824–1864)
 * Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin (1859–1935)
 * Bourbon, Marie Antoine Josephine Jeanne "Marie Antoinette" de (1755–1793)
 * Bourchier, James David (1850–1920)
 * Bourdaloue, Louis (1632–1704)
 * de Bourdeille, Pierre (1540–1614)
 * Bourdet, Édouard (1887–1945)
 * Bourgeois, Louis (c. 1510–c. 1560)
 * Bourget, Paul (1852–1935)
 * Bourguignon, Louis Dominique (1693–1721)
 * Bourne, Eleanor Elizabeth (1878–1957)
 * Bourne, Gilbert Charles (1861–1933)
 * Bourne, Henry Eldridge (1862–1946)
 * Bourne, Henry Richard Fox (1837–1909)
 * Bourne, Randolph (1886–1918)
 * Bourne, Thomas (1806–1881)
 * Bournon, Jacques Louis de (1751–1825)
 * Bousset, Wilhelm (1865–1920)
 * Boutell, Charles (1812–1877)
 * Bovill, Charles Harry (1887–1918)
 * Bowden, John William (1798–1844)
 * Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773–1838)
 * Bowell, Mackenzie (1823–1917)
 * Bowen, Edward Ernest (1836–1901)
 * Bowen, Elizabeth (1899–1973)
 * Bowen, Rt. Hon. Sir George (1821–1899)
 * Bowen, Ivor (1862–1934)
 * Bower, Frederick Orpen (1855–1948)
 * Bowes, Robert (1835–1919)
 * Bowker, Richard Rogers (1848–1933)
 * Bowles, Samuel (1826–1878)
 * Bowles, William Lisle (1762–1850)
 * Bowman, Earl Wayland
 * Bowman, Euday Louis (1887–1949)
 * Bowman, Henry (1814–1883)
 * Bowman, Hetty (1838–1872)
 * Bowring, Edgar Alfred (1826–1911)
 * Bowring, John (1792–1872)
 * Bowyer, William (1699–1777)
 * Box, George Herbert (1869–1933)
 * Boxer, Barbara Levy (1940–1940)
 * Boyce, William (1711–1779)
 * Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison (1825–1899)
 * Boyd, Charles Walter (1869–1919)
 * Boyd, David Ross (1853–1936)
 * Boyd, Ernest Augustus (1887–1946)
 * Boyd, Palmer (1840–19??)
 * Boyd, William Kenneth (1879–1938)
 * Boyer, Charles Sumner (1856–1928)
 * Boyes, Frederick (1842–1929)
 * Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848–1895)
 * Boyle, Charles (1674–1731)
 * Boyle, George David (1828–1901)
 * Boyle, Joseph W. (1867–1923)
 * Boyle, Nina (1865–1943)
 * Boyle, Robert (1627–1691)
 * Boys, Charles Vernon (1855–1944)
 * Boyse, Emily Clare (1845–1916)

Br/Bř

 * Brabner, John Henry Fryday (1838–1911)
 * Brabrook, Edward William (1839–1907)
 * Brace, Dewitt Bristol (1859–1905)
 * Bracken, Thomas (1843–1898)
 * Brackett, Anna Callendar (1836–1911)
 * Bradbrook, Muriel Clara (1909–1993)
 * Bradbury, Ray (1920–2012)
 * Bradbury, William Batchelder (1816–1868)
 * Bradby, Godfrey Fox (1863–1947)
 * Braddon, Mary Elizabeth (1835–1915)
 * Bradford, Ellen Jane Knight (1839–1899)
 * Bradford, 1st Baronet, John Rose (1863–1935)
 * Bradlaugh, Charles (1833–1891)
 * Bradley, Andrew Cecil (1851–1935)
 * Bradley, Arthur Granville (1850–1943)
 * Bradley, Rev. E. (?–?)
 * Bradley, Edward (1827–1889)
 * Bradley, Emily Tennyson (1862–1946)
 * Bradley, F. H. (1846–1924)
 * Bradley, George Granville (1821–1903)
 * Bradley, Henry (1845–1923)
 * Bradley, Joseph Philo (1813–1892)
 * Bradley, Mary Emily (1835–1898)
 * Bradshaw, George (1801–1853)
 * Bradshaw, George William (1857-1917)
 * Bradstreet, Anne (1612–1672)
 * Brady, Jasper Ewing (1797–1871)
 * Brady, Nicholas (1659–1726)
 * Braekstad, Hans Lien (1845–1915)
 * Braham, Philip (1881–1934)
 * Brahmagupta (598–668)
 * Brahms, Johannes (1833–1897)
 * Brailsford, Henry Noel (1873–1958)
 * Braim, Thomas Henry (1814–1891)
 * Brainard, Charles Rollin
 * Brainard, David Legge (1856–1496)
 * Braithwaite, Lawrence Ytzhak (1963–2008)
 * Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878–1962)
 * Braley, Berton (1882–1966)
 * Bramhall, John (1594–1663)
 * Bramhall, Mae St. John (c. 1861 – 1897)
 * Bramsen, William (1850–1881)
 * Bramwell, Edwin (1873–1952)
 * Bramwell, Frederick Joseph (1818–1903)
 * Branberger, Jan (1877–1952)
 * Branch, Oliver Ernesto (1847-1916)
 * Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (1856–1941)
 * Brandin, Louis Maurice (1874–1940)
 * Brandis, Christian August (1790–1867)
 * Brandis, Dietrich (1824–1907)
 * Brandreth, Henry (1797–1840)
 * Brandstetter, Renward (1860–1942)
 * Brandt, Lilian (1873–1951)
 * Branner, John Casper (1850–1922)
 * Bransom, Paul (1885–1979)
 * Brantly, William Theophilus (III) (1852–1945)
 * Brassington, William Salt (1859–1939)
 * Braun, Joseph (1857–1947)
 * Brayshaw, Alfred Neave (1861–1940)
 * Breck, Edward (1861–1929)
 * Bredon, Simon (c. 1300–1372)
 * Bréhier, Emile (1876–1952)
 * Bréhier, Louis René (1868–1951)
 * Breiter, Yitzchok (1886–1943)
 * Brengle, Samuel Logan (1860–1936)
 * Brennan, James Alexander (1885–1956)
 * Brennan, Joseph Payne (1918–1990)
 * Brennan, William Joseph (1906–1997)
 * Brent, John (1808–1882)
 * Brent, Joseph Lancaster (1826–1905)
 * Brentano, Franz Clemens (1838–1917)
 * Brereton, Frederick Sadleir (1872–1957)
 * Breton, André (1896–1966)
 * Breton, Nicholas (1545–1626)
 * Bretschneider, Carl Anton (1808–1878)
 * Breuer, Josef (1842–1925)
 * Breuer, Miles John (1889–1945)
 * Breuer Scholten, Libbie (1890–1979)
 * Brevoort, James Carson (1818–1887)
 * Brewer, Dan
 * Brewer, David Josiah (1837–1910)
 * Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1810–1897)
 * Brewer, John Sherren (1810–1879)
 * Brewer, Thomas Mayo (1814–1880)
 * Brewer, William Henry (1828–1910)
 * Brewitt-Taylor, Charles Henry (1857–1938)
 * Brewster, Sir David (1781–1868)
 * Stanton Brewster, Frances (1860–1933)
 * Brewster, William (1851–1919)
 * Brewster, William Tenney (1869–1961)
 * Breyer, Stephen (1938–present)
 * Breytenbach, Jesse
 * Brezhnev, Leonid (1906–1982)
 * Březina, Otokar (1868–1929)
 * Brianchon, Charles Julien (1783–1864)
 * Brickwood, Edwin Dampier (1837–1906)
 * Bridge, Cyprian Arthur George (1839–1924)
 * Bridge, Joseph Cox (1853–1929)
 * Bridgeman, George Thomas Orlando (1823–1895)
 * Bridges, Matthew (1800–1894)
 * Bridges, Frederick (1840–1904)
 * Bridges, Robert (1844–1930)
 * Briffault, Robert (1876–1948)
 * Briggs, Henry (1561–1630)
 * Briggs, John Joseph (1819–1876)
 * Bright, Charles Tilston (1832–1888)
 * Bright, James W. (1852–1926)
 * Bright, John (1811–1889)
 * Bright, Richard (1789–1858)
 * Bright, William (1824–1901)
 * Brightman, Rev. Frank Edward (1856–1932)
 * Briliant, Oscar (1875–1924)
 * Brill, Abraham Arden (1874–1948)
 * Brinkley, Francis (or Frank) (1841–1912)
 * Brinton, Daniel Garrison (1837–1899)
 * Bristol, Augusta Cooper (1835–1910)
 * Bristow, Benjamin Helm (1832–1896)
 * Britten, James (1846–1924)
 * Broadbent, John Francis Harpin (1865–1946)
 * Broadfoot, William (1841–1922)
 * Broadus, John Albert (1827–1895)
 * Broca, Paul (1824–1880)
 * Brochard, Victor (1848–1907)
 * Brock, Sir Isaac (1769–1812)
 * Brock, Robert Alonzo (1839–1914)
 * Brockbank, Edward Mansfield (1866–1959)
 * Brockhausen, Carl (1859–1951)
 * Broderick, Albert (1830–1908)
 * Brodie, Benjamin Collins (1817–1880)
 * Brodie, James (1744–1824)
 * Brodie, Robert Henry (1859–1943)
 * Brodie, Thomas Gregor (1866–1916)
 * Brodribb, Arthur Aikin (1850–1927)
 * Brodribb, William Jackson (1829–1905)
 * Brodrick, George Charles (1831–1903)
 * Brogan, James C.
 * Brome, Richard (1590–1643)
 * Bromfield, Louis (1896–1956)
 * Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore (1801–1876)
 * Brontë, Anne (1820–1849)
 * Brontë, Branwell (1817–1848)
 * Brontë, Charlotte (1816–1855)
 * Brontë, Emily (1818–1848)
 * Brooke, Charles Frederick Tucker (1883–1946)
 * Brooke, Rupert (1887–1915)
 * Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832–1916)
 * Brooke, William Thomas (1848–1917)
 * Brooker, Bertram (1888–1955)
 * Brooks, Charles Timothy (1813–1883)
 * Brooks, David Marshall (1902–1994)
 * Brooks, Elbridge Streeter (1846–1902)
 * Brooks, Frederick Vincent (1848–1921)
 * Brooks, Walter Henderson (1851–1945)
 * Brooks, Phillips (1835–1893)
 * Brooks, Preston (1819–1857)
 * Brooks, Robert Preston (1881–1961)
 * Brooks, Shelton (1886–1975)
 * Brooks, Shirley (1816–1874)
 * Brooks, Sydney (1872–1937)
 * Brooks, Thomas (1608–1680)
 * Brooks, William Keith (1848–1908)
 * Brooks, William Robert (1844–1921)
 * Brooksbank, Thomas (1824–1902)
 * Brooksmith, Eldred John
 * Lady Broome, Mary Anne (1831–1911)
 * Broomhall, Marshall (1866–1937)
 * Broschi, Carlo Maria Michelangelo Nicola (1705–1782)
 * Brose, Patrick H.
 * Brotherton, Mary Isabella Irwin (c. 1820–1910)
 * Brotuff, Ernst (1497–1565)
 * Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter (1778–1868)
 * Broughton, John
 * Broughton, William Robert (1762–1821)
 * Broun, Peter (1797–1846)
 * Broun, Thomas Lee (1823–1914)
 * Brown, Abbie Farwell (1875–1927)
 * Brown, Alexander (1843–1906)
 * Brown, Alexander Crum (1838–1922)
 * Brown, Barnum (1873–1963)
 * Brown, Edmund Woodward (1831–1902)
 * Brown, Ford Madox (1821–1893)
 * Brown, Frank Herbert (1868–1959)
 * Brown, Gerard Baldwin (1845–1932)
 * Brown, Gordon (1951–present)
 * Brown, Henry Billings (1836–1913)
 * Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes (1854–1926)
 * Brown, James Duff (1862–1914)
 * Brown, John (1715–1766)
 * Brown, John (1735–1788)
 * Brown, John (1800–1859)
 * Brown, John (1810–1882)
 * Brown, John (1830–1922)
 * Brown, John Howard (1840–1917)
 * Brown, John Newton (1803–1868)
 * Brown, John Taylor (1811–1901)
 * Brown, Mary Haughton (1856–1918)
 * Brown, Olympia (1835–1926)
 * Brown, Robert (1773–1858)
 * Brown, Robert (1842–1895)
 * Brown, Runham (fl. 1926)
 * Brown, Sherrod (1952–present)
 * Brown, Thomas Edward (1830–1897)
 * Brown, Thomas Storrow (1803–1888)
 * Brown, William Baker (1864–1947)
 * Brown, William Wells (1814–1884)
 * Browne, Charles Farrar (1834–1867)
 * Browne, Charles Thomas (1825–1868)
 * Browne, Edward Granville (1862–1926)
 * Browne, Frances (1816–1879)
 * Browne, James (1793–1841)
 * Browne, John
 * Browne, Junius Henri (1833–1902)
 * Browne, Montagu
 * Browne, Patrick (1720–1790)
 * Browne, Richard Charles (1838–1907)
 * Browne, Thomas (1605–1682)
 * Browne, Thomas Alexander (1826–1915)
 * Browne, Walter Raleigh (1842–1884)
 * Browne, William (1590–1645)
 * Browne, William Hand (1828–1912)
 * Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–1861)
 * Browning, F. G. (1856–1949)
 * Browning, Hanworth Stephen (fl. 1910–1920)
 * Browning, Oscar (1837–1923)
 * Browning, Robert (1812–1889)
 * Brownlie, John (1857–1925)
 * Brownlow, William Robert (1830–1901)
 * Brownlowe, Elizabeth
 * Brownson, Henry Francis (1835–1913)
 * Brož, Aleš (1892–1952)
 * Brož, Josef (1844–1930)
 * Brozek, Yaro Victor (1898–1959)
 * Brožík, Václav (1851–1901)
 * Bruce, Alexander Balmain (1831–1899)
 * Bruce, Charles Alexander (1793–1871)
 * Bruce, Charles Granville (1866–1939)
 * Bruce, Henry Addington Bayley (1874–1959)
 * Bruce, Henry Harvey (1862–1948)
 * Bruce, James (1730–1794)
 * Bruce, Lewis Campbell (1866–1945)
 * Bruce, Mary Grant (1878–1958)
 * Bruce, Philip Alexander (1856–1933)
 * Bruce, William Cabell (1860–1946)
 * Bruce, William Speirs (1867–1921)
 * Brumbaugh, Martin Grove (1862–1930)
 * Brummel, George Bryan "Beau" (1778–1840)
 * Brunetière, Ferdinand (1849–1906)
 * Bruni, Leonardo (1369–1444)
 * de Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph (1739–1793)
 * Brunner von Wattenwyl, Karl (1823–1914)
 * Bruno, Guido (1884–1942)
 * Brunton, Thomas Lauder (1844–1916)
 * Brush, George Jarvis (1831–1912)
 * Brutus, Marcus Junius (85 BCE–42 BCE)
 * Bryan, Mary Baird (1869–1930)
 * Bryan, Mary Edwards (1838–1919)
 * Bryan, Vincent (1878–1937)
 * Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogart (1854–1938)
 * Bryan, William Jennings (1860–1925)
 * Bryant, Charles S. (1808–1885)
 * Bryant, John Delavau (1811–1817)
 * Bryant, Margaret (1871–1942)
 * Bryant, Maria Warren Whitman (1808–1888)
 * Bryant, William Cullen (1794–1878)
 * Bryce, George (1844–1931)
 * Bryce, James (1838–1922)
 * Brydges, 1st Baronet, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762–1837)
 * Brydon, John McKean (1840–1901)
 * Bryson of Heraclea (fl. 400 B.C.E.)

Bu/Bū/Bü

 * Buben, Zdenka (1895–1988)
 * Bubeníček, Ota (1871–1962)
 * Buchan, Alexander (1829–1907)
 * Buchan, Ewing (fl. 1908)
 * Buchan, John (1875–1940)
 * Buchanan, George (1506–1582)
 * Buchanan, James (1791–1868)
 * Buchanan, John (1819–1898)
 * Buchanan, John Penruddocke (1864–1938)
 * Buchanan, Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814–1899)
 * Buchanan, Neil (1850–1918)
 * Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841–1901)
 * Buchanan, Thomas Ryburn (1846–1911)
 * Buchanan-Hamilton, Francis (1762–1829)
 * Bücher, Karl Wilhelm (1847–1930)
 * Buchheim, Carl Adolf (1828–1900)
 * Buchner, Max Joseph August Heinrich Markus (1846–1921)
 * Büchsel, Carl Albert Ludwig (1803–1889)
 * Buchwald, Georg Apollo (1859–1947)
 * Buck, Carl Darling (1866–1955)
 * Bucka John (14th century – 1430)
 * Bucke, Richard Maurice (1837–1902)
 * Buckingham, James Silk (1786–1855)
 * Buckland, Augustus Robert (1857–1942)
 * Buckland, Francis Trevelyan (1826–1880)
 * Buckland, William (1784–1856)
 * Buckley, William (c.1518–c.1570)
 * Buckley, Arabella Burton (1840–1929)
 * Buckley, James Monroe (1836–1920)
 * Buckley, Robert John (1847–1938)
 * Bucknill, John Alexander Strachey (1873–1926)
 * Bucknill, John Charles (1817–1897)
 * Buddha, Gautama (c.563 BCE–c.483 BCE)
 * Budé, Guillaume (1467–1540)
 * Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis (1857–1934)
 * Budgell, Eustace (1686–1737)
 * Budry, Edmond Louis (1854–1932)
 * Buell, Llewellyn Morgan (1888–1975)
 * Bühler, Georg (1837–1898)
 * Buick, Thomas Lindsay (1865–1938)
 * Buisson, Ada (1839–1866)
 * Bulfinch, Thomas (1796–1867)
 * Bullen, Arthur Henry (1857–1920)
 * Buller, Antony (19th century, dates unknown)
 * Bullialdus, Ismaël (1605–1694)
 * Bullinger, Ethelbert William (1837–1913)
 * Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton (1803–1873)
 * Bumstead, Henry Andrews (1870–1920)
 * Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1811–1895)
 * Bunbury, Robert Clement Sconce (1847–1930)
 * Bunce, Oliver Bell Bunce (1828–1890)
 * Bunin, Ivan (1870–1953)
 * Bunn, Alfred (1796–1860)
 * Bunner, Henry Cuyler (1855–1896)
 * Bunsen, Christian Charles Josias von (1791–1860)
 * Bunsen, Georg von (1824–1896)
 * Buntline, Ned (1821/1823–1886)
 * Bunyan, John (1628–1688)
 * Burbidge, Nancy Tyson (1912–1977)
 * Burch, Fernando
 * Burckhardt, Jacob (1818–1897)
 * Burckhardt, John Lewis (1784–1817)
 * Burder, George (1752–1832)
 * Burdett, Sir Henry (1847–1920)
 * Burdon-Sanderson, Ghetal (1833–1909)
 * Bürger, Gottfried August (1747–1794)
 * Burger, Warren E. (1906–1995)
 * Burgess, Ebenezer (1805–1870)
 * Burgess, James (1832–1916)
 * Burgess, John (1855–1929)
 * Burgess, John Hugh (1818–1890)
 * Burgess, Thornton (1874–1965)
 * Burgon, John William (1813–1888)
 * Bürgi, Joost (1552–1632)
 * Burke, Edmund (1729–1797)
 * Burkitt, Francis Crawford (1864–1935)
 * Burkitt, William (1650–1703)
 * Burks, Arthur (1915–2008)
 * Burman, Nicolaas Laurens (1734–1793)
 * von Burmeister, Karl Hermann Konrad (1807–1892)
 * Burn, Rev. Andrew Ewbank (1864–1927)
 * Burnand, Francis Cowley (1836–1917)
 * Burneikiene, Sigita
 * Burnet, George Wardlaw (1853–1901)
 * Burnet, John (1863–1928)
 * Burnett, Alice Hale
 * Burnett, Charles P. A. (1849–?)
 * Burnett, Ernie (1894–1959)
 * Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849–1924)
 * Burnett, Swan Moses (1847–1906)
 * Burney, Charles (1726–1814)
 * Burney, Frances (1752–1840)
 * Burney, James (1750–1821)
 * Burnham, Frederick Russell (1861–1947)
 * Burnham, John Howard (1834–1917)
 * Burnham, Richard (1749–1810)
 * Burnie, Robert William (1851–1933)
 * Burnley, James (1838–1919)
 * Burns, Dawson (1828–1909)
 * Burns, James Drummond (1823–1864)
 * Burns, James Drummond (1895–1915)
 * Burns, Robert (1759–1796)
 * Burnside, William (1852–1927)
 * Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1873–1946)
 * Burr, Aaron (1756–1836)
 * Burr, Enoch Fitch (1818–1907)
 * Burr, Malcolm (1878–1954)
 * Burr, Richard (1955–present)
 * Burr, Roy C.
 * Burrell, Martin (1858–1938)
 * Burris, William Paxton (1863–1946)
 * Burrough, Edward (1634–1663)
 * Burroughs, Bryson (1869–1934)
 * Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875–1950)
 * Burroughs, John (1837–1921)
 * Burrows, Montagu (1819–1905)
 * Burrows, Ronald Montagu (1867–1920)
 * Burrows, Winfrid Oldfield (1858–1929)
 * Bursill, Henry Wayte (1832–1871)
 * Burstall, Sara Annie (1859–1939)
 * Burton, Beatrice (1894–1983)
 * Burton, Harold Hitz (1888–1964)
 * Burton, Henry (1578–1648)
 * Burton, Joseph (?–?)
 * Burton, Richard Francis (1821–1890)
 * Burton, William (1863–1941)
 * Bury, Charlotte (1775–1861)
 * Bury, John Bagnell (1861–1927)
 * Bury, Judson Sykes (1852–1944)
 * de Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin (1520–1592)
 * Büsching, Johann Gustav Gottlieb (1783–1829)
 * Bush, Charles P. (1813–1880)
 * Bush, George (1796–1859)
 * Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924–2018)
 * Bush, George W. (1946–present)
 * Bush, Laura (1946–present)
 * Bush, Wendell T. (1866–1941)
 * Bushby, Frances, Lady (1838–1925)
 * Bushnell, Thomas (1967–present)
 * Buss, Kate Meldram (1879–1943)
 * von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen, Hilmar (1867–1939)
 * Bussell, John (1803–1875)
 * Bussenius, Clara E. (? ― ?)
 * Bussey, George Moir (1807–1864)
 * Butcher, Charles Henry (1833–1907)
 * Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850–1910)
 * Butler, Alfred Joshua (1850–1936)
 * Butler, Arthur Gardiner (1844–1925)
 * Butler, Arthur John (1844–1910)
 * Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818–1893)
 * Butler, Charles (1559–1647)
 * Butler, Charles (1750–1832)
 * Butler, Edward Cuthbert (1858–1934)
 * Butler, Edward Dundas (1842–1919)
 * Butler, Ellis Parker (1869–1937)
 * Butler, Francis Henry (1849–1935)
 * Butler, Gerald (1907–1988)
 * Butler, Harold Beresford (1883–1951)
 * Butler, James (1665–1745)
 * Butler, Joseph (1692–1752)
 * Butler, Josephine Elizabeth Grey (1828–1906)
 * Butler, Mary (1664–1733)
 * Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862–1947)
 * Butler, Pierce (1866–1939)
 * Butler, Samuel (1835–1902)
 * Butler, William (1818–1899)
 * Butler, William Allen (1825–1902)
 * Butterfield, Consul Willshire (1824–1899)
 * Butterfield, Edwin Philip (1847–1931)
 * Butterfield, William Ruskin (1872–1935)
 * Butterworth, Hezekiah (1839–1905)
 * Büttner, Carl Gotthilf (1848–1893)
 * Buttress, Bernard A.E. (1874–1915)
 * Butts, Mary Frances (1836–1902)
 * Buxton, Sydney Charles (1853–1934)
 * al-Būzjānī, Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn Ismāʿīl ibn al-ʿAbbās (940–998)

By

 * Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall (1838–1933)
 * Byles, Cyril Beuzeville (1871–1942)
 * Byng, John (1704–1757)
 * Byrd, Robert C. (1917–2010)
 * Byrgius, Justus (1552–1632)
 * Byrne, Charles Alfred (1848–1909)
 * Byrne, Muriel St. Clare (1895–1983)
 * Byrne, Oliver (1810–1880)
 * Byrnes, James Francis (1879–1972)
 * Byrom, John (1692–1763)
 * Byron, Augusta Ada (1815–1852)
 * Lord Byron (1788–1824)
 * Bywater, Ingram (1840–1914)
 * Bywater, Witham Matthew (1826–1911)