List of people by name: B

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  • Baader, Andreas, leader of Red Army Faction
  • Baba, Meher, Indian mystic
  • Babbage, Charles, British computational pioneer
  • Bach, Johann Sebastian, composer
  • Bach, Richard, writer of Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • Bachaumont, Louis Petit de
  • Bache, Alexander Dallas
  • Bachiler, Stephen
  • Bachman, Randy
  • Backus, Billy world champion boxer
  • Bacon, Francis
  • Bacon, Roger also known as Dr Mirabilis
  • Baden-Powell, Lord Robert founder of the world Scouting movement
  • Bader, Douglas, WW2 RAF fighter ace without legs
  • Badoglio, Pietro, Italian WW2 field marshal
  • Baer, Karl Ernst von
  • Baer, William Jacob
  • Baffin, William
  • Baggesen, Jens Immanuel
  • Baggio, Roberto Association football player
  • Bagnacavallo, Bartolommeo
  • Bagration, Peter
  • Bahrdt, Karl Friedrich
  • Baikie, William Balfour
  • Bailey, Barrington J., British science fiction writer
  • Bailey, Gamaliel
  • Bailey, Nathan
  • Bailey, Philip James
  • Bailey, Samuel
  • Baillet, Adrien
  • Baillie, Joanna
  • Baillie, Lady Grizel
  • Baillie, Robert
  • Baillie of Jerviswood
  • Bailly, Jean Sylvain
  • Baily, Edward Hodges
  • Baily, Francis
  • Baily, William Hellier
  • Bain, Alexander
  • Bain, Andrew Geddes
  • Bainbridge, Beryl novelist
  • Bainbridge, John
  • Bainbridge, William
  • Baines, Edward
  • Baini, Giuseppe
  • Baird, Henry Martyn
  • Baird, John Logie, British inventor
  • Baird, Sir David
  • Baiter, Johann Georg
  • Baiter, Johann Georg (1801-1877)
  • Baius, Michael
  • Bajza, Joseph
  • Bake, Jan
  • Baker, Henry
  • Baker, Sir Benjamin
  • Baker, Sir Richard
  • Baker, Sir Samuel White
  • Baker, Thomas
  • Baker, Valentine Aker Pasha
  • Bakker, Jim, disgraced US TV evangelist
  • Bakocz, Tamas
  • Bakunin, Mikhail, Russian anarchist
  • Balaguer, Joaquin former President of the Dominican Republic
  • Balaguer, Victor
  • Balakirev, Mily Alexeyevich
  • Balbi, Adrian
  • Balbinus, Roman Emperor
  • Balbo, Cesare
  • Balbo, Italo, Italian aviator
  • Balboa, Vasco Nuñez de
  • Balde, Jakob
  • Baldi, Bernardino
  • Baldinger, Ernst Gottfried
  • Baldinucci, Filippo
  • Baldovinetti, Alessio
  • Balduinus, Jacobus
  • Baldus de Ubaldis, Petrus
  • Baldwin, James Mark
  • Baldwin, Robert
  • Baldwin, Stanley, British prime minister
  • Baldwin I of Edessa
  • Baldwin I of Romania
  • Baldwin II
  • Baldwin III
  • Baldwin IV
  • Baldwin V
  • Bale, Christian, (born 1974), actor
  • Bale, John, (1495-1563)
  • Bales, Peter, (1547-1610?)
  • Balfe, Michael William, (1808-1870), composer
  • Balfour, Alison, (d. 1594), burned as a "notorious witch"
  • Balfour, Arthur James, (1848-1930), Foreign Secretary
  • Balfour, Francis Maitland
  • Balfour, Robert, (1550?-1625?)
  • Balfour, Sir James, (died 1584)
  • Balguy, John, (1686-1748)
  • Balian of Ibelin, (died 1193), crusader
  • Balin, Marty, (born 1943), musician
  • Balk, Christianne, poet
  • Balk, Fairuza, (born 1974), US actress and wiccan
  • Balkenende, Jan Peter, (born 1956), prime minister
  • Balfe, Michael William
  • Balfour, Arthur James
  • Balfour, Francis Maitland
  • Balfour, Robert
  • Balfour, Sir James
  • Balguy, John
  • Balk, Fairuza, US actress and acknowledged practitioner of the wiccan religion
  • Ball, John
  • Ball, Lucille, US comedy actress
  • Ball, Sir Alexander John
  • Ball, Thomas
  • Ballance, John
  • Ballanche, Pierre Simon
  • Ballantine, William
  • Ballantyne, Robert Michael
  • Ballard, J.G., British novelist and memoirist
  • Ballen, Albert inventor of cruise ships
  • Ballmer, Steve
  • Ballou, Hosea
  • Balmes, Jaime Luciano
  • Balnaves, Henry
  • Balsham, Hugh de
  • Baltard, Louis
  • Baltazar, Tony boxer
  • Baltzar, Thomas
  • Balue, Jean
  • Baluze, Etienne
  • Balzac, Jean Louis Guez de, French playwright
  • Bambaataa, Afrika
  • Bamberger, Ludwig
  • Bamford, Samuel
  • Bampton, John
  • Banchieri, Adriano
  • Bancroft, George
  • Bancroft, Hubert Howe
  • Bancroft, Richard
  • Bancroft, Squire
  • Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse
  • Bandello, Matteo
  • Bandinelli, Bartolommeo
  • Bandini, Angelo Maria
  • Banér, Johan
  • Banim, John
  • Bank, Aaron, founder of US Special Forces
  • Bankhead, Tallulah, US actress
  • Banks, George Linnaeus
  • Banks, Gordon
  • Banks, Iain, British mainstream and space opera author
  • Banks, Joseph
  • Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss
  • Banks, Thomas
  • Bannatyne, George
  • Bannister, Charles
  • Banville, Theodore Faullain de
  • Bao Dai last emperor of Vietnam
  • Baptiste, Nicolas Anselme
  • Bar, Francois de
  • Barahona de Soto, Luis
  • Barak, Ehud, Israeli politician
  • Baratier, Johann Philipp
  • Baratynski, Jewgenij Abramovich
  • Barbarin, Louis jazz drummer
  • Barbarin, Paul jazz drummer
  • Barbaro, Ermolao
  • Barbaroux, Charles Jean Marie
  • Barbauld, Anna Lettitia
  • Barbé-Marbois, François, marquis de
  • Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules Amédée
  • Barbeyrac, Jean
  • Barbie, Klaus, French Nazi
  • Barbier, Antoine Alexandre
  • Barbier, Henri Auguste
  • Barbier, Louis
  • Barbieri, Giovannia Fancesco
  • Barbon, Nicholas
  • Barbour, John
  • Barclay, Alexander
  • Barclay, John
  • Barclay, Robert
  • Barclay, William
  • Bardeen, John
  • Bardili, Christoph Gottfried
  • Bardoux, Agenor
  • Barebone, Praise-God, also known as Barbon
  • Barents, Willem
  • Barère, Bertrand, de Vieuzac
  • Baresi, Franco
  • Baretti, Giuseppe Marc'Antonio
  • Barham, Richard Harris
  • Bari, Judi
  • Baring-Gould, Sabine
  • Baring-Gould, William S.
  • Barker, Edmund Henry
  • Barkley, Charles basketball player
  • Barks, Carl, Donald Duck cartoonist
  • Barlow, George Hilarow
  • Barlow, Joel
  • Barlow, Peter
  • Barnard, Anne
  • Barnard, Christiaan, South African Surgeon
  • Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter
  • Barnard, George Grey
  • Barnard, Henry
  • Barnardo, Thomas John
  • Barnave, Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie
  • Barnby, Joseph
  • Barnes, Albert
  • Barnes, Barnabe
  • Barnes, Edward
  • Barnes, Joshua
  • Barnes, Robert
  • Barnes, Thomas
  • Barnes, William
  • Barnett, John
  • Barnett, Samuel Augustus
  • Barnfield, Richard
  • Barnum, Phineas Taylor, US showman
  • Baronius, Caesar
  • Baross, Gabor
  • Barrande, Joachim
  • Barras, Paul François Jean Nicolas
  • Barre, Isaac
  • Barrera, Marco Antonio world boxing champion
  • Barrès, Maurice
  • Barret, Lawrence
  • Barrett, Lucas
  • Barrett, Wilson
  • Barrie, J.M., British novelist and dramatist
  • Barrière, Theodore
  • Barrili, Antonio Giulio
  • Barrington, Daines
  • Barrington, George
  • Barrington, John Shute
  • Barrington, Samuel
  • Barrington, Shute
  • Barrington, William Wildman Shute
  • Barrios, Justo Rufino, Central American leader
  • Barrois, Charles
  • Barros, João de
  • Barrot, Camille Hyacinth Odilon
  • Barrow, John
  • Barrowe, Henry
  • Barry, Ann Street
  • Barry, Elizabeth
  • Barry, James, British army surgeon
  • Barry, James, British painter
  • Barry, Redmond
  • Barry, Spranger
  • Bart, Jean
  • Bartels, Hans von
  • Bartók, Béla, Hungarian composer
  • Baryshnikov, Mikhail, Russian ballet dancer
  • Basilio, Carmen world champion boxer
  • Bates, Daisy, US civil rights activist
  • Bates, Martin Van Buren, big man
  • Batista, Fulgencio, Cuban dictator
  • Baudouin I of Belgium
  • Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands
  • Beauregard, P.G.T. General
  • Beaverbrook, William Maxwell Aitken, British WW2 politician and newspaper tycoon
  • Bechdel, Alison, US cartoonist of Dykes to Watch Out For
  • Bechet, Sidney jazz musician
  • Becket, Thomas
  • Beckett, Samuel, Irish-born playwright, Every word is an unnecessary stain on the silence and nothingness.
  • Beckham, David association football player
  • Becquerel, Antoine Henri, French physicist
  • Bede
  • Beefheart, Captain, avant garde blues musician and painter
  • Beethoven, Ludwig van, German-born composer
  • Begin, Menachmen, Israeli prime minister
  • Beiderbecke, Bix, jazz trumpeter
  • Belafonte, Harry, singer
  • Belasco, Lionel, musician
  • Belisarius, General of the Byzantine Empire
  • Bellini, Vincenzo, Italian composer
  • Bellocq, Ernest J., photographer
  • Ben, Gottfried, German poet
  • Ben Bella, Ahmed, Algerian pro-independence leader
  • Ben Gurion, David, Israeli politician
  • Benedict of Nursia
  • Benedict I, Pope
  • Benedict II, Pope
  • Benedict III, Pope
  • Benedict V, Pope
  • Benedict VI, Pope
  • Benedict VII, Pope
  • Benedict VIII, Pope
  • Benedict IX, Pope
  • Benedict X, Pope
  • Benedict XI, Pope
  • Benedict XII, Pope
  • Benedict XIII, Pope
  • Benedict XIV, Pope
  • Benes, Edouard, Czech politician
  • Benitez, Clara mother of boxing legend, matriarch of famous boxing family
  • Benitez, Lucecita singer
  • Benitez, Wilfredo world champion boxer
  • Benn, Nigel world champion boxer
  • Benn, Tony, British politician
  • Benz, Karl, automotive pioneer
  • Berg, Alban, Austrian composer
  • Bergman, Ingmar, Swedish film director
  • Bergman, Ingrid, Swedish-born actress
  • Beria, Lavrenty, Leader of NKVD
  • Berkeley, George
  • Berkowitz, David, “Son of Sam” serial killer
  • Berlioz, Hector, French composer
  • Bernadotte, Folke, Swedish count
  • Bernard, Carlos, actor
  • Bernard Prince of Netherlands
  • Bernoulli, Daniel
  • Bernoulli, Jakob
  • Bernoulli, Johann
  • Berrigan, Philip anti-war activist
  • Berrios, Angel O. mayor
  • Berrios, Ruben politician
  • Berry, Sir Anthony, British politician
  • Berthollet, Claude Louis
  • Berzelius, Jöns Jacob
  • Besant, Annie, British mystic
  • Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm
  • Bester, Alfred, US science fiction writer
  • Betancourt, Ingrid, Colombian senator, anti-corruption activist, and kidnapping victim
  • Bethune, Norman, battlefield surgeon
  • Bevin, Ernest, British politician
  • Beza, Theodore
  • Bhattacharya, Dr K C
  • Bhutto, Benazir, Pakistani female prime minister
  • Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali, Pakistani president
  • Bidatsu, emperor of Japan
  • Bidault, Georges, French politician and French Resistance activist
  • Bierce, Ambrose, USA satirist, short-story writer, Devil's lexicographer
  • Bigard, Barney USA jazz musician
  • Biggs, Ronald, British train robber
  • Biko, Stephen, South African dissident
  • Bir, Cevik
  • Birch, S.J. "Lamorna"
  • Bircher-Benner, Maximilian (1867-1939), physician and Muesli inventor
  • Birendra, king of Nepal
  • Bismarck, Otto von, German statesman
  • Bisset, Jacqueline actress
  • Bitzius, Albert, author known as Jeremias Gotthelf
  • Björk, Icelandic singer
  • Black, Bob
  • Blair, Tony, British prime minister
  • Blake, Eubie USA composer & musician
  • Blanc, Melvin "Mel" Jerome, voice actor
  • Blatter, Sepp (born 1935), FIFA president
  • Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna, mystic and theosophist
  • Bledsoe, Tempest, US actress
  • Bleicher, Hugo, German counterintelligence officer in WW2 France
  • Blish, James, US-born science fiction writer
  • Blixen, Karen, author
  • Bloch, Denise, French Resistance and SOE agent
  • Bloch, Felix (born 1905), 1952 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics
  • Bloch, Marc
  • Bloch, Robert, US horror author
  • Blondet, Giselle actress, show host
  • Blow, Kurtis singer
  • Blunt, Anthony, British spy for Soviet Union
  • Blyton, Enid, British children’s writer
  • Bodhidharma, buddhist saint
  • Bodmer, Johann Jakob (1698-1783)
  • Boerhaave, Herman
  • Boëthius, Anicius Manlius Severinus
  • Bohr, Niels, Danish physicist
  • Boitano, Brian
  • Bok, Hannes
  • Bokassa, Jean-Bedel, emperor of Central African Republic
  • Bolivar, Simon, South American independence leader
  • Bonanno, Joseph US mafioso
  • Bonano, Sharkey
  • Bonaparte, Napoleon, Corsican-born battlefield strategist and Emperor of France
  • Bonet, Lisa actress
  • Bong, Richard, US Fighter ace
  • Bonhöffer, Dietrich, German theologian
  • Boniface, Saint
  • Boniface I, Pope
  • Boniface II, Pope
  • Boniface III, Pope
  • Boniface IV, Pope
  • Boniface V, Pope
  • Boniface VI, Pope
  • Boniface VII, Pope
  • Boniface VIII, Pope
  • Boniface IX, Pope
  • Bonnot, Jules, French anarchist bank robber
  • Bono, Sonny, US pop musician and Congressman
  • Bonvin, Roger Swiss Federal Councilor
  • Booth, John Wilkes, assassin of Abraham Lincoln
  • Bor-Komorowski, Tadeusz, Polish general and leader of Warsaw Uprising
  • Borden, Robert Laird
  • Borel, Emile, French mathematician
  • Borg, Bjorn, Swedish tennis professional
  • Borges, Jorge Luis, Argentinean writer
  • Borgia, Cesare
  • Borgia, Lucrezia
  • Boris II of Bulgaria
  • Bormann, Martin, nazi leader
  • Born, Max, German physicist
  • Borromini, Francesco
  • Bose, Jagadis Chandra
  • Bose, Miguel singer
  • Botham, Ian
  • Botta, Mario
  • Bottomley, Horatio, British politician and journalist
  • Boulle, Pierre, French author
  • Bourdieu, Pierre, French philosopher
  • Bourke-White, Margaret, US aviator
  • Boutros-Ghali, Boutros, UN secretary general
  • Bové, José
  • Bovet, Daniel (born 1907), 1957 Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine
  • Bowell, Mackenzie
  • Boyington, Pappy, US pilot
  • Bozzo, Laura talk show host, involved in presidential scandal in Peru
  • Brabham, Jack
  • Bracero, Rafael, sportscaster
  • Braddock, Edward, 18th century British General
  • Bradford, Andrew American colonial printer
  • Bradford, William, American Pilgrim colonial leader
  • Bradford, William (1663-1752), American colonial printer
  • Bradford, William (1722-91), Americam printer and patriot
  • Bradford, William (1755-97), American jurist and Attourney General
  • Bradley, Marion Zimmer, US fantasy writer
  • Bradley, Omar, WW2 US general
  • Bradman, Sir Donald
  • Brahe, Tycho, Danish-born astronomer
  • Brando, Marlon, US actor
  • Brandt, Willy, West German chancellor
  • Branigan, Laura, US singer
  • Brattain, Waler Houser
  • Braud, Wellman, jazz string-bass musician
  • Braun, Eva, Hitler’s mistress
  • Braun, Karl Ferdinand
  • Braun, Wernher von, German rocket scientist
  • Brecht, Bertolt, German Three-penny Opera lyricist
  • Brel, Jacques
  • Brewster, David, Scottish physicist
  • Breznev, Leonid Illich, Soviet general secretary
  • Briggs, Henry, English mathematician
  • Brightman, Sarah, US singer
  • Brillault, Ashley actress
  • Brin, David, US science fiction writer
  • Brissaud, Pierre
  • Bristol, Arthur L., US Navy admiral
  • Brody, Adrien
  • Brody, Bruiser wrestler
  • Bronson, Charles, US-born actor
  • Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus
  • Brontë, Anne, British author
  • Brontë, Charlotte, British author
  • Brontë, Emily, British author
  • Brood, Herman
  • Brooks, Overton, US Congressman
  • Brooks, Shelton, songwriter
  • Brossolette, Pierre, French Resistance leader
  • Brown, Carter, US crime writer
  • Brown, James, Soul Brother Number One
  • Brown, John, Scottish servant of Queen Victoria
  • Brown, John, American abolitionist
  • Brown, Rosemary, Canadian politician
  • Browne, Charles Farrar (Artemus Ward)
  • Brubeck, Dave
  • Brueghel the Elder, Pieter
  • Brugger, Ernst Swiss Federal Councilor
  • Brundtland, Gro Harlem, Norwegian politician
  • Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, bridgebuilder, shipbuilder
  • Brunel, Marc Isambard, engineer
  • Brunies, George jazz trombonist
  • Brunner, John, British science fiction writer
  • Bruno, Giordano protestant
  • Buchanan, Ken world champion boxer
  • Buchanan, Patrick J. "Pat" USA conservative commentator
  • Buckmaster, Maurice, British colonel and SOE officer
  • Buddha
  • Bujold, Lois McMaster, US science fiction writer of Vorkosigan series
  • Bukharin, Nikolai Ivanovich
  • Bukowski, Charles, US author
  • Bullinger, Heinrich (1504-1575)
  • Bunning, James Paul David ("Jim") baseball player, hall of famer
  • Bunsen, Robert Wilhelm
  • Burckhardt, Johann Ludwig (1784-1814), traveller and orientalist
  • Buretsu, emperor of Japan
  • Burgess, Anthony, British writer
  • Burgess, Guy, British spy for Soviet Union
  • Burgess, Thomas, British author/philosopher
  • Burghoff, Gary, US actor
  • Burnet, Andrew, American colonial printer
  • Burnet, Gilbert, Scottish devine and author
  • Burnet, William, English colonial administrator
  • Burnet, William, American doctor and politician
  • Burnquist, Bob professional skateboarder
  • Burns,Robert,Scottish Poet
  • Burr, Aaron
  • Burroughs, Edgar Rice, US author of Tarzan fame
  • Burroughs, William S., British author
  • Burton, Richard, Welsh actor
  • Burton, Sir Richard Francis explorer, translator, orientalist
  • Burton, Tim
  • Buscetta, Tommaso, Italian Mafia boss
  • Bush, George H. W., President of USA
  • Bush, George W., President of USA
  • Bush, Vannevar, inventor of hypertext
  • Busiek, Kurt, US cartoonist
  • Buttel, Fred, sociologist
  • Butterworth, Mary, counterfeiter
  • Byas, Don, jazz saxophonist
  • Bynes, Amanda teen actress
  • Byrne, David
  • Byron, George Gordon Noel Lord Byron, poet
  • Byron King, Ada (Countess of Lovelace), Lord Byron's daughter, "first programmer"