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# 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"

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