- Babacic, Esad, (born 1965), poet
- Bacardí, Facundo, merchant, founder or Bacardi
- Bacaredda, Antonio
- Bacaredda, Ottone
- Bacchelli, Riccardo, novelist
- Bacciarelli, Marcello, Polish painter
- Bacheller, Irving, A Man for the Ages
- Badinter, Pierre, lawyer, statesman and anti death sentence activist
- Baertsoen, Albert, (born 1866), Flemish painter, etcher
- Bagg, Robert, poet
- Baghy, Julio, poet
- Bagneris, Vernel, writer, director, actor, dancer
- Bahia, Luis Carlos, musician
- Bahlsen, Werner, (1904-1985), biscuit producer
- Bahr, Egon, (born 1922), SPD
- Bahram VI of Persia, from 590 to 591
- Bailey, Bob, musician
- Bailey, Buster, musician
- Bailey, D.F., Canadian writer
- Baille, Faustino Cesare
- Baille, Ludovico
- Bain, Ali, fiddler
- Baird, Tadeus, opera composer
- Bajaj, Rahul, industrialist, India
- Bajiyoperak, Wachan, musician
- Bajpai, Manoj, Indian actor
- Baker, Diane, actress
- Baker, Jim, Sportswriter
- Baker, Kathy, (born 1947), actress
- Baker, Mickey, musician
- Baker, Russell, (born 1925), columnist
- Baker, Sam Aaron, governor
- Bakshi, Anand, (1920-2002), Indian lyricist
- Balaban, Burt (1922-1965)[1]
- Balabanoff, Angelica (1878-1965)[2]
- Balantic, France, (1921-1943), poet
- Balduccio, Giovanni di, sculptor
- Baldwin of Exeter, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Baldwin of Maflix, scholastic philosopher
- Balfour, Alison, (d. 1594), burned as a "notorious witch"
- Balk, Christianne, poet
- Ballantine, Carl, (born 1922), actor
- Ballivian, Adolfo
- Ballivian, José
- Balmaceda, José Manuel, Chilean president
- Balmat, Jacques (1762-1834)
- Baloh, Miha, (born 1928), actor.
- Ban, Ivo, (born 1949), actor
- Band, Luna, musician
- Banér, Gustaf, Swedish soldier
- Banister, Guy, New Orleans private investigator and former FBI agent cited as JFK-assassination conspirator by Jim Garrison and fiction authors
- Banks, Lynne Reid, Indian in the Cupboard series
- Banks, Tommy, Canadian senator
- Bannerji, Himani, Canadian writer
- Baquet, Achille, musician
- Baquet, George, musician
- Barab, Seymour, (born 1921), composer
- Barabash, Volodimir, Canadian writer
- Baranoff-Rossine, Vladimir, (1888-1944), painter
- Barclay, Andrew, railroad locomotive manufacturer
- Bardette, Trevor, (died 1977), actor
- Bardin, John Franklin, US author, novelist
- Bardwell, Leland, Aosdána
- Bareham, Steve, Canadian writer
- Bares, Equidad, musician
- Barga, Pietro da, sculptor
- Barghoorn, Elso Sterrenberg (1915-1984)[3]
- Barghoorn, Frederick Charles (1911-1991)[4]
- Barker, Charles Spackman (1804-1879), organ builder[5]
- Barker, George, Australian screen-printer
- Barl, Matija, (born 1940), actor.
- Barnacle, Norah, wife of James Joyce
- Barnes, Ernie, (born 1938), painter
- Barnes, Geoffrey, (born 1972), painter
- Barnett, Denis, (born 1906), British air chief marshal
- Bartel, Paul, actor, director, writer, producer
- Barth, Marisa Ferretti, Canadian senator
- Barthe, Richmond, (1901-circa 1990), painter
- Bartholomew of Bologna, scholastic philosopher
- Bartholomew of Salerno, scholastic philosopher
- Bartholomew of Tours, scholastic philosopher
- Bartlett, Jennifer, (born 1941), painter
- Barylli, Gabriel, dramatist, author
- Barzin, Leon, (1900-1999), conductor
- Base, Graeme, Animalia
- Basil I, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Basil II, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Basil II Carnaterus, patriarch of Constantinople
- Basil III, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Bassa, Fidel, world champion boxer
- Bata, John, (died 1965), shoe manufacturer
- Bate, Henry, scholastic philosopher
- Bates, David, guitarist
- Bates, David, photographer
- Bates, David, pianist
- Bates, Ronald, Canadian writer
- Bateson, Thomas (1819-1890), 1st Baron Deramore
- Bathelmess, Richard, (1895-1963), actor
- Batra, Ravi, economist and author
- Batten, Jennifer, musician
- Bauer, Wolfgang (born 1941), Austrian dramatist
- Baumel, Judith, poet
- Bausch, Pina, (born 1940), dancer
- Bawab, John, Maronite Patriarch
- Bawden, Edward (1903-1989), artist
- Bawden, Frederick Charles (1908-1972), biologist
- Bawden, William (1563-1632)[6]
- Bay, Zoltán Lajos (1900-1992)[7][8]
- Bayerlein, Fritz, German Panzer general
- Bayliss, William Maddock (1860-1924)w/wbayliss.htm
- Beals, Gary
- Beals, Melba Pattillo, of Little Rock Nine
- Beard, Annette Sterling
- Beatrice of Spain
- Beattie, Ann, (born 1947), writer
- Beatty, Clyde, (1903-1965), circus performer, hunter
- Beaudoin, Gerald A., Canadian senator
- Beauharnais, Claude de (1680-1738)
- Beauharnais, Claude de (1717-1784), 1st Count des Roches-Baritaud
- Beauharnais, François de (1714-1800)
- Beauregard, Alcide, SOE agent, WW II hero
- Béchamp, Antoine (1816-1908), French scientist[9]
- Becher, Ulrich, dramatist, author
- Bechstein, Carl, (1826-1900), piano manufacturer
- Bechtle, Robert, (born 1932), painter
- Beck, Beatrix, (born 1914), writer
- Beck, Dave, (1894-1993), Teamsters union leader
- Beck, Joe, musician
- Becker, Jürgen, dramatist, author
- Becue, Brigitte, swimmer
- Beddoes, English writer in Germany
- Bedi, Pooja, actor
- Bedrich, (1172-1173), Bohemian aristocrat
- Beghe, Jason, actor
- Begley, Donal, Chief Herald of Ireland, 1981-1995
- Beinhorn, Elly, (born 1907), pilot
- Bekkos, John, patriarch of Constantinople
- Belafonte, Shari, (born 1954), US actor and singer
- Belen, Ana, musician
- Belitt, Ben, poet
- Belkom, Edo Van, Canadian writer
- Bell, Arthur William, (1929-1935), British bailiff
- Bell, Arthur W., American railroad locomotive builder
- Bell, Derek (born 1968)
- Bell, Karen Nelson, producer, director and musician
- Bell, Marvin, poet
- Bell, Peter Hansbrough, (1849-1853), American Governor of Texas
- Bell, William, poet
- Beller, Kathleen, (born 1956), actress
- Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino, (1791-1863), poet
- Bellit, Francesco
- Bello Codecido, Emiliano, Chilean President for part of 1925
- Bellocchio, Marco, film director
- Bellonci, Maria, (1902-1986), Italian writer
- Belloni, Allessandra, musician
- Belson, Louie, musician
- Benatzky, Ralph, (1884-1957), songwriter
- Benda, Carl (1857-1933), mitochondria
- Benda, Ernst (born 1925)[10]
- Benda, Marion, Mrs. Zeppo
- Beneden, Edouard Joseph Louis-Marie van (1846-1910)[11]
- Beneden, Pierre-Joseph van (1809-1894)[12][13]
- Beneke, Tex, (1914-2000), bandleader, singer, saxophone player
- Benet Rose, William, poet
- Benhadugah, Abdelhamid, (born 1925), novelist
- Benjamin I, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Benjamin II of Alexandria, (1327-1339), Coptic Pope
- Bennett, Bruce, (born 1909), actor
- Bennett, Duster, musician
- Bennett, Gwendolyn B., poet
- Bennett, Hywell (born 1944)[14]
- Bennett, Robert Earl, swimmer
- Bennett, Todd
- Bennett, Robert Howard
- Bennit, Nigel, actor
- Bense, Max, (1910-1990), philosopher
- Benton, Bernard, world boxing champion
- Benton, George, former boxer, noted boxing trainer
- Benzinger, Todd, (born 1963), US baseball player
- Bercovici, Leonardo, (died 1995), writer, director
- Berdarin, Alain, (died 1994), founder/owner of "Le Crazy Horse Saloon"
- Berdell, Robert H., president of the Erie Railroad 1864–1867
- Berezhnaya, Elena, (born 1977), figure skating star
- Berezovoy, Anatoly, astronaut
- Berg, Maimu, Estonian writer and politician
- Berghaus, Ruth, (1927-1996), choreographer, film director
- Berghmans, Ingrid, judoka
- Berkeley, Anthony, mystery writer
- Bernard Prince of Netherlands
- Bernard, Emerik, (born 1927), painter.
- Bernard, Nejc, (born 1970), poet
- Bernard, Sue, (born 1948), Playboy playmate
- Bernardi, Herschel, (1923-1986), actor
- Bernet, John J., president of the Erie Railroad 1927–1929
- Bernier, Sylvie, Canada's first gold medal in Olympic diving
- Bernik, Janez, (born 1933), painter and graphic artist
- Bernoulli, Johann, III, (born 1744), Swiss mathematician
- Bérout, Stephen, scholastic philosopher
- Berroa, Ignacio, musician
- Berruguete, Alonso, (1480-1561)
- Berry, Chu, musician
- Berry, Ken, (born 1933), actor
- Berthelm, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Berthold, of Moosburg, scholastic philosopher
- Bertwald, Saint, (died 765)
- Besemer, Jen, (born 1970), surrealist poet and painter
- Bethge, Hans, (born 1876), writer
- Bettauer, Hugo, novelist
- Bettenhausen, Gary, (born 1941), race car driver
- Betts, Dickie, (born 1943), musician (The Allman Brothers)
- Bevc, Joze, (born 1925), film director
- Bevilacqua, Alberto, novelist
- Bevington, Helen
- Bevk, Ivan, (1890-1970), author
- Beyer, Charles Frederick, (1813-1876), locomotive engineer [15]
- Beyer, Henryka, Polish painter
- Bey, Tanburi Cemil, musician
- Bharti, Divya, Indian actress
- Bhatnagar, Deepti, Indian actress
- Bhatt, Hrishita, Indian actress
- Bhave, Ashwini, Indian actress
- Biaggini, Benjamin, American railroad executive (President of Southern Pacific 1964-1976, Chairman 1976-1983)
- Bialoszewski, Miron, poet
- Bialy, Leszek of Poland, (1202-1210), Polish ruler
- Bibic, Polde (born 1933), actor
- Bichevskaya, Jeanne, musician
- Biddle, Charles
- Bieber, Owen, (born 1929), labor leader
- Biel, Gabriel, scholastic philosopher
- Bieler, Manfred, (born 1934), writer
- Bielke, Nils, Swedish soldier
- Biggun, Ivor, British comedian
- Bikram, Bir, (1950-1952), King of Nepal
- Bilinska-Bohdanowiczowa, Anna, Polish painter
- Biondi, Frank J., Jr., (born 1945), president of HBO
- Bird, Carmel, novelist
- Bird, Tom, Lieutenant at Tobruk
- Birla, Kumar Mangalam, industrialist
- Biron, Michel, Canadian senator
- Bishop, Stephen, (born 1951), musician
- Bissell, Richard Mervin Jr. (1909-1994), "cold warrior"
- Bissell, Richard Pike (1913-1977), author/playwright
- Bistam of Persia, from 591 to 592.
- Bitenc, Demeter, (born 1922), actor.
- Bitti, Tenores de
- Black, Greene V., (1836-1915), American dentist
- Black, Laura, author
- Blackstone, Harry, Junior, (1934-1997), magician
- Blackwell, Scrapper, musician
- Blaeu, Joan, cartographer
- Blaine, Vivian, (1921-1995), actress
- Blair, Emma, author
- Blakeslee, Donald, fighter ace
- Blanchard, Terrence, musician & composer
- Blanchet, Bruno, humorist/actor
- Blanco, Jorge, former president of the Dominican Republic
- Blanco, Rodolfo, Colombia world champion boxer
- Blasete, (born 1979), physicist.
- Blasetti, Alessandro, film director
- Blass, Richard, mass murderer
- Blatch, Harriot Eaton Stanton, (1856-1940), women's rights activist
- Blatnik, John, (1911-1991), US Representative from Minnesota
- Blazek, Zdenek, (1905-1988), composer
- Bleibtreu, Karl, (1859-1928), critic
- Bleneau, Godefroid de, scholastic philosopher
- Blinc, Robert, (born 1933), physicist.
- Block, Lawrence, author
- Blocke, Izaak van den, Polish painter
- Blondeau, Pierre (floruit circa 1639), inventor of the milled-edge coin
- Blood, Johnny, (born 1903), American football player
- Bloomfield, Joseph, Governor of New Jersey
- Blücher-Altona, Conrad Daniel Count of (1764-1845)
- Bludworth, Thomas, Lord Mayor of London 1666
- Blumenthal, Erik, (born 1914), psychologist
- Blumenthal, Michael, poet
- Blund, John, scholastic philosopher, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Blund, Robert, scholastic philosopher
- Boatman, Michael, (fl. 1990s and 2000s), American actor
- Boccara, Frida, musician
- Bode, Wilhelm von, (1845-1929), art historian
- Bodelschwingh, Friedrich von, (1831-1910), theologian
- Bodewig, Kurt, (2000-2002), German government minister
- Bodley, Seóirse, member of Aosdána
- Boeckler, Hans, (1875-1951), unionist and politician
- Boehm, Gottfried, architect
- Boethius, of Dacia, scholastic philosopher
- Boezeman, Ko, (died 1941), Dutch resistance fighter
- Boff, Leonardo, (born 1938), theologian
- Boganda, Barthelemy, (died 1959), first President]] of the [[Central African Republic
- Bogdanov, Michael, (born 1938), film director and theatre manager
- Bohm, Carl (1844-1920), composer
- Bohm, Hark, (born 1939), film director
- Boismard, Marie-Emile
- Boisson, Pierre, general and governor of Equatorial Africa
- Bojetu, Berta, (1946-1997), poet
- Bok, Hans, illustrator
- Boland, Frederick, diplomat, Irish delegate to UN
- Bolat, Latif, musician
- Bolduc, Roch, Canadian senator
- Bolger, Dermot, novelist, member of Aosdána
- Bolinger, Dwight, (1907-1992), linguist
- Boliver, Angel, Mexican painter
- Boljka, Janez, (born 1931), sculptor
- Bolland, Gerardus J. P., (died 1922), Dutch philosopher
- Bolocco, Cecilla, ex-Miss Universe
- Bolton, Charles Thomas, astronomer
- Bonamy, Samuel, (1758-1771), British bailiff
- Bond, Frank S., president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
- Bond, Graham, musician
- Bondeson, August, Swedish writer
- Bondy, Luc, (born 1948), film and theatre director
- Bonham, Tracy, musician
- Bonin-Piassarro, Claude, painter
- Bonnanaro, Francesco Carboni di
- Bonorva, Paolo Mossa di
- Bonsignori, Francesco, (1460-1519), painter
- Bontemps, Arna Wendell, poet
- Boosler, Elayne, (born 1952), comedienne
- Booth, Philip, poet
- Bopone, Richard, (1917-1981), actor
- Bor, Matej, (1913-1956), poet
- Boran, of Persia
- Borchert, Jochen, (1994-1998), German government minister
- Borcic, Bogdan, painter, graphic artist
- Bordon, Rado, (1915-1992), poet
- Borell II, Count of Barcelona, (died 992), Count of Barcelona
- Borg, Arne, swimmer
- Borger, Dimmu, musician
- Borghese, Valerio, Naval lieutenant commander
- Borgoño, Luis Barros, (probably properly filed as "Barros Borgoño, Luis") Chilean president
- Boselli, Luigi
- Bossy, Michel, ice hockey player
- Bothmann, Hans, (1911-1946), commandant of the Chelmno death camp in central Poland
- Bötsch, Wolfgang, Christian Social Union in Bavaria
- Botticelli, Alessandro
- Boucher, Maurice, "Hells Angels" leader
- Bougeureau, William-Adophe, (1825-1905), painter
- Boulard, Henri, (died 1825), literary figure
- Bourbon-Condé, Louis Antoine de, Duc d'Enghien, (born 1772)
- Bourelly, Jean-Paul, musician
- Boving, Nicholas, Canadian writer
- Bowen, James, president of the Erie Railroad 1841–1842
- Bowers, Edgar, poet
- Bowes, Major, (died 1946), radio host
- Bowie, Robert, governor
- Bowlegs, Billy
- Box, George, statistician
- Boyce, Tommy, and Bobby Hart
- Boyd, Edwin Alonzo, bank robber
- Boyd, Marx Alexander, (1563-1601), poet
- Boyer, Ernest L. (1928-1995), American educator
- Boylan, Clare, Aosdána
- Boznanska, Olga, Polish painter
- Braddock, Jameds, (1905-1974), boxing champion
- Braden, Bernard, comedian and satirist
- Bradford, Augustus Williamson, governor
- Bradford, Catherine, Canadian writer
- Bradley, Robert A., (1917-1998), obstetrician, Bradley Method creator
- Brady, Diamond Jim, (fl. late 20th century), society figure
- Brady, Sarah, gun-control activist
- Braithwaite, Max, (1911-1995), praire depression era fiction
- Braithwaite, William, (1878-1962), poet
- Bramhendra, Sadasiva, Indian composer
- Branca, Ralph, United States baseball player
- Branca, Remo
- Branco, Camilo Castelo, (writer)
- Brankovic, Djuradj, (1427-1456), Serbian monarch
- Brankovic, Lazar, (1456-1458), Serbian monarch
- Brankovic, Stefan, (1458-1459), Serbian monarch
- Brasch, Thomas, dramatist, author
- Brassard, Jean-Luc, freestyle ski - moguls, Olympic Gold Medal - 1994
- Brasseur, Isabelle, (born 1970), figure skating champion
- Brasseur, Pierre, (born 1905)
- Brastins, Ernest, (1892-1942), organizer of Dievturiba
- Bratko, Ivan, (born 1946), computer scientist.
- Brauchitsch, Walter von, German soldier
- Brauer, Max (1887-1973) mayor of Hamburg
- Braun, Pinkas, (born 1923), actor and film director
- Braun, Russell, operatic baritone
- Braun, Volker, dramatist, author
- Bray, Alan, (born 1946), American painter
- Brazzi, Rossano, (1916-1994), Italian actor
- Breda, Carl Fredrik von, (1759-1818), painter
- Bregwin, (St.) 761
- Brennan, Don, (died 1985), cricketer
- Brenner, David, comedian, stand-up comedian
- Brereton, Lewis Hyde, Major general
- Brest, Vida, (born 1925), poet
- Breton, Elisa, (died 2002), surrealist
- Brett, Lily, novelist
- Breuer, Marcel Lajos, (1902-1981), architect
- Brewster, Kingman, president of Yale
- Brice, James, governor
- Brickman, Marshall, (born 1941), screenwriter
- Brigaglia, Manlio
- Briggs, Robin, historian
- Brightwell, Emily, author
- Brilliant, Ashley, American author
- Brinkley, Richard, scholastic philosopher
- Brinnin, John Malcol, poet
- Brisbois, Danielle, musician
- Brito, Bonushomo, scholastic philosopher
- Brito, Radulphus, scholastic philosopher
- Brock, Daniel De Lisle, (1821-1843), British bailiff
- Brodar, Srecko, (1893-1987), paleontologist.
- Broderick, James, (died 1982), actor
- Brodie, Steve, (died 1992), actor
- Brodowski, Antoni, Polish painter
- Brodsky, Daniel Louis, poet
- Brokaw, Charles, (died 1975), journalist
- Bromberg, Brian
- Bromhead, Jerome de, modern Irish cultural figure
- Brondo, Antioco
- Broniewski, Wladyslaw, poet
- Bronk, William, (died 1999), poet
- Bronstatt, Pierre Victor Besenval de, (1721-1791)
- Bronte, Louisa, (born 1925), pseudonym of British author Janet Louise Roberts
- Brooker, Bertram, theosophist painter
- Brooks, Cindy, (born 1965), rower
- Brossa, Joan, (1919-1998), poet
- Brothers, Allen, musician
- Brough, Louise, tennis player
- Broun, Heywood Hale, (1918-2001), sports commentator
- Brown, Carter, U.S. crime writer
- Brown, Cecily, painter
- Brown, Charles Hunter, New Zealand politician
- Brown, Clarence Gatemouth, musician
- Brown, Gatemouth, musician
- Brown, George, musician in Kool and the Gang
- Brown, J., invented the washing machine
- Brown, James Justin, (born 1973), Abstract Painter
- Brown, John, (fl. 2000), American boxer, persistent world-championship challenger
- Brown, John Brewer (1836-1898), was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from the state of Maryland
- Brown, John Robert (1842-1927), was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from the state of Virginia
- Brown, John Young (1835-1904), was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from the state of Kentucky
- Brown, John Young (1900-1985), was a Representative to the U.S. Congress from the state of Kentucky
- Brown, Peter, actor
- Brown, Peter, New Zealand Parliament member & party leader
- Brown, Robert R., televangelist
- Brown, Rush, (born 1948), U.S. painter
- Brown, Sterling A., poet
- Brown, Thomas P., Jr., tennis champion
- Brown, Tom, (1913-1990), film actor
- Brown, William Hill, U.S. novelist
- Browne, Christy, author of My Left Foot
- Browne, Whit
- Browne-Bartroli, Eliane, (1917-1944), SOE agent, WW II heroine
- Brownell, Charles Dewolf, (1822 - 1909), American painter
- Bruce, Thomas, (1766-1841), UK ambassador and antiquities collector
- Bruckner, Christine, (1921-1996), author
- Bruckner, Ferdinand, dramatist, author
- Bruner, Cliff, musician
- Bruning, Dale, musician
- Bruno, Jimmy, musician
- Brussell, Mae, (1922-1988), conspiracy theorist
- Brust, Alfred, dramatist, author
- Brvar, Andrej, (born 1945), Slovenian poet
- Bryan, Gerald Jackson, (1959-1962)
- Bryden, John G., Canadian senator
- Bryll, Ernest, poet
- Brzozowski, Tadeusz, Polish painter
- Bubis, Ignaz, (died 1999), German Jewish community leader, aged 72
- Bucar, Metka, (born 1903), actress.
- Bucerius, Gerd, (1906-1995), publisher and publicist
- Büchmann, Georg, (1822-1884), philologist
- Buck, Frank, (1888-1950), "big game" hunter
- Budal, Andrej, (1889-1972), poet
- Budapest, Z., Pagan teacher, writer etc.
- Buel, Christoph, (born 1574), composer
- Bufalino, Gesualdo, novelist
- Buffet, Bernard, (1928-1999), painter
- Buhler, Charlotte, (born 1893), psychologist
- Bühler, Karl, (1879-1963), psychologist
- Buick, David, (died 1929), Founded the Buick car company
- Bukovec, Brigita, (born 1970), athlete, Olympic athlete.
- Bukowski, Oliver, dramatist, author
- Bulloch, William, (1777-1782), U.S. Senator from Georgia
- Bülow, Andreas von, SPD
- Bumkeun, Cha, Bundesliga football player
- Bun, Bun, composer
- Buragna, Carlo
- Burchill, Charlie, (born 1959), musician
- Burda, Franz, (1903-1986), German publisher
- Burges, William, architect
- Burgmüller, Nobert, (1810-1836), German composer
- Burgundio, of Pisa, scholastic philosopher
- Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley (1911-1980)
- Burk, Ronnie, (1955-2003), poet
- Burka, Sylvia
- Burkard, Michael, poet
- Burke, John, U.S. movie actor
- Burke, John, author
- Burke, John R. (1924-1993), U.S. ambassador to Guyana
- Burke, Michelle, twice Oscar-winner for make-up
- Burke, T.H.
- Burley, Walter, scholastic philosopher
- Burnet, Andrew, American colonial printer
- Burnett, Rob, (born 1962), former head writer for David Letterman
- Burnford, Sheila, author, The Incredible Journey
- Burnshaw, Stanley, poet
- Burnum Burnum, activist, actor, artist, author, educator, sportsman, storyteller
- Burpee, William Partridge, (1846-1940), US painter
- Burrell, Diana, (born 1948), composer
- Burrows, Abe, (died 1985), songwriter, composer, writer
- Burton, Robert, (born c. 1946), British naturalist and author
- Burton, Virginia Lee, Mike Mulligan and his Steam Shovel
- Busch, Paul Vinzenz, (1850-1927), ringmaster
- Busi, Aldo, novelist
- Bustelli, Franz Anton (1723-1763), porcelain moulder
- Butcher, James, governor
- Buti, Carlo, musician
- Butterworth, Mary, counterfeiter
- Buttitta, Ignazio, Sicilian dialect
- Buzzelli, Anthony M., Canadian writer
- Byerly, Robert Bennett, SOE agent, WW II hero
- Byers, John F., Byers geared steam locomotive
- Byington, Spring, (died 1971), actress
- Bykova, Elizaveta Ivanovna, (1913-1989), chess player
- Byrd, Bobby, musician
- Byrne, Barbara, (born 1967), American rower
- Byunghyun, Kim, MLB player