B
- Cardi B
- Sheik Abdel-Aziz ibn Baaz
- Sathya Sai Baba
- Charles Babbage
- Maltbie D. Babcock
- Thomas Babington
- Roger Babson
- "Babylon 5"
- Lauren Bacall
- George R. Bach
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Richard David Bach
- Burt Bacharach
- Isaac Backus
- Francis Bacon
- Leonard Bacon
- Phil Bacon
- Roger Bacon
- Zakki Badawi
- Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell
- Arthur "Bugs" Baer
- Frank Baer
- Joan Baez
- Walter Bagehot
- Enid Bagnold
- Baha'u'llah
- Frederick Bailes
- Jacqueline Bailes
- Covert Bailey
- F. Lee Bailey
- H. C. Bailey
- Pearl Bailey
- Philip James Bailey
- Joanna Baillie
- Alexander Bain
- Beryl Bainbridge
- Jacques Bainville
- Bruce Bairnsfather
- Jean Baitaillon
- Anita Baker
- Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Baker)
- Ray Stannard Baker
- Richard Baker
- Russell Baker
- Vernon G. Baker
- Tammy Faye Bakker
- Leon Bakst
- Mikhail Bakunin
- George Balanchine
- Christina Baldwin
- Faith Baldwin
- James Baldwin
- Monica Baldwin
- Stanley Baldwin
- A. J. Balfour
- Clara Lucas Balfour
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- Irving Ball
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- John Ball
- Lucille Ball
- Bert Balladine
- Sheila Ballantyne
- J. G. Ballard
- Robert D. Ballard
- Hosea Ballou
- Sullivan Ballou
- Lord Balogh
- Honore de Balzac
- Toni Cade Bambara
- Helen Bamber
- Bernard J. Bamberger
- George Bancroft
- Dave Matthews Band
- Geoff Emerick, recording engineer for Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Mae West, refusing permission to use her image on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Antonio Banderas
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Harry F. Banks
- Stuart Banks
- Henry Campbell-Bannerman
- Frederick G. Banting
- Amiri Baraka
- Joanna Santa Barbara
- Anna Letitia Barbauld
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- Armiger Barclay
- William Barclay
- Brigitte Bardot
- Judith M. Bardwick
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- Amelia Barr
- Amelia E. Barr
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- Maurice Barres
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- Jonah Barrington
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- Gerald Barzan
- Jacques Barzun
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- Saint Basil the Great
- Kim Basinger
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- David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates
- Katharine Lee Bates
- Katherine Lee Bates
- Kathy Bates
- Gerald Horton Bath
- Al Batt
- O. A. Battista
- Orlando A. Battista
- attributed to Charles Baudelaire
- Charles Baudelaire
- Pierre Charles Baudelaire
- Jean Baudrillard
- Gary Bauer
- Harry C. Bauer
- Otto Bauer
- L. Frank Baum
- Vicki Baum
- Wizard of Oz, Lyman Frank Baum
- Nina Bawden
- Arnold Bax
- Clifford Bax
- Cecil Baxter
- Richard Baxter
- The Mamluke Sultan Baybars
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- Thomas Haynes Bayly
- Stephen Bayne
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- Charles A. Beard
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- The Beatles
- Cecil Beaton
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- Peter Beattie
- Parkenham Beatty
- Paul Beatty
- Warren Beatty
- De Beauchene
- Topham Beauclerk
- Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Charles Beaumont
- Francis Beaumont
- Marie de Beausacq
- Harold Beaver
- attributed to Lord William Maxwell Aitken Beaverbrook
- August Bebel
- Allan Beck
- Carl Becker
- May Lamberton Becker
- Samuel Beckett
- Wendy Beckett
- Thomas Becon
- Henry Becque
- Thomas Lovell Beddoes
- Sybille Bedford
- Tim Bedore
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- Harriet Ward Beecher
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Lyman Beecher
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- Max Beerbohm
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- Arnold Beisser
- Hada Bejar
- Baudouin I, Belgium
- Robert "Bo" Belinsky
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- Henry Albert Ben
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- Robert Benchley
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- W. Gurney Benham
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- Tony Benn
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- Arnold Bennett
- Dan Bennett
- Gwendolyn Bennett
- Jesse Bennett
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- William J. Bennett
- Alan Bennnett
- Jack Benny
- Isaac de Benserade
- Jill Bensley
- A. C. Benson
- Jeremy Bentham
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Jon Bentley
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- Thomas Hart Benton
- Lloyd Bentsen
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- Nicolai A. Berdyaev
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- David Brandt Berg
- Elizabeth Berg
- Candice Bergen
- Ralph Bergengren
- John Berger
- Meyer Berger
- Peter L. Berger
- Cyrano De Bergerac
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- Ingrid Bergman
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- Henri Bergson
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- Ellen Perry Berkeley
- George Berkeley
- Bernard Berkowitz
- Milton Berle
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- Georges Bernanos
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- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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- Eric Berne
- Jeff Berner
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Louise Bernikow
- Gian Lorenzo Bernini
- Cardinalde Bernis
- Ignas Bernstein
- Leonard Bernstein
- Richard Bernstein
- Sid Bernstein
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- Lawrence Peter "Yogi" Berra
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- Chuck Berry
- Mary Frances Berry
- Wendell Berry
- John Berryman
- Jean Bertaut
- Andre Berthiaume
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Mademoiselle Bertin
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- Annie Wood Besant
- Porgy and Bess
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- Henry Beston
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- John Betjeman
- Bruno Bettelheim
- Ugo Betti
- Patricia C. Beudoin
- Aneurin Bevan
- William Beveridge
- Marie Henri Beyle
- Stendhal (Marie Henri Beyle)
- William Gilmore Beymer
- Beyonce
- attributed to Swami Beyondananda
- Bezard
- Jeff Bezos
- Benazir Bhutto
- Jello Biafra
- Mayim Bialik
- Robert Bianco
- Elizabeth Bibesco
- Franz Bibfeldt
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- S. S. Biddle
- Joe Biden
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- Poultney Bigelow
- Steven Biko
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- Victoria Billings
- Stanley Bing
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- Caleb Bingham
- Osama bin Laden
- Laurence Binyon
- Bion of Borysthenes
- Max Bircher
- Larry Bird
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- Jim Bishop
- Morris Bishop
- Bishop of Salisbury
- Otto von Bismarck
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- David Bissonette
- Lester R. Bittel
- Bjork
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- Dave Black
- Don Black
- Hugo Black
- Rebecca Black
- Shirley Temple Black
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- William Blackstone
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- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Morton Blackwell
- Amory Blaine
- Tony Blair
- Blair's Observation
- Anita Blake
- Charles B. Lawlor and James W. Blake
- Peter Blake
- William Blake
- Mary Kay Blakely
- DeAnne Blanton
- Smiley Blanton
- Helena Blavatsky
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- Coleman Livingston Blease
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- Marguerite Blessington
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- Robert Bloch
- Dennis Bloodworth
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- Barbara Bloom
- Harold Bloom
- Roy Blount Jr.
- John Blow
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- Steve Bluestone
- William Blum
- Wilfred Scawn Blunt
- Mary Bly
- Robert Bly
- R. H. Blyth
- Ronald Blythe
- George Dana Boardman
- David Boaz
- David D. Boaz
- Lorena Bobbitt
- Giovanni Boccaccio
- Rick Bode
- Maxwell Bodenheim
- Eric Boehlert
- Jan H. Boer
- William J. H. Boetcker
- Louise Bogan
- Dirk Bogarde
- Humphrey Bogart
- Eric Bogle
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- Henry George Bohn
- Niels Bohr
- Nils Bohr
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- Edward W. Bok
- Gary Bolding
- Lord Bolingbroke
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- William Walter De Bolt
- Sarah Bolton
- Erma Bombeck
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- Napoleon Bonaparte
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- Tal Bonham
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- Bernard de Bonnard
- Hubert Bonner
- Bonstettin
- Book of Common Prayer
- Daniel Boone
- Fort Osage Army officer commenting on Boone
- Daniel J. Boorstin
- Neal Boortz
- Elayne Boosler
- Gotthard Booth
- Hartley Booth
- John Wilkes Booth
- Shirley Booth
- Stan Kelly-Bootle
- William E. Borah
- David L. Boren
- James H. Boren
- David Borenstein
- Nathaniel Borenstein
- Marcus J. Borg
- Victor Borge
- Gloria Borger
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Lucrezia Borgia
- Robert Bork
- Hal Borland
- Frank Borman
- Max Born
- Ludwig Borne
- Andy Borowitz
- George Borrow
- Joan Borysenko
- Charles Du Bos
- Chadwick Boseman
- John Collins Bossidy
- Jacques Benigne Bossuet
- Boston Herald
- James Boswell
- Thomas Boswell
- Anne Botta
- Phyliss Bottome
- Phyllis Bottome
- Alain de Botton
- Jody Bottum
- Dion Boucicault
- Jean de Boufflers
- Stanilas Jean de Boufflers
- Nadia Boulanger
- Charles Damian Boulogne
- Alison Boulter
- Anthony Bourdain
- Randolph Bourne
- Randolph S. Bourne
- Jim Bouton
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali
- Erica Bouza
- James Bovard
- Robert Bove
- Christian Nestell Bovee
- Christian Nevell Bovee
- Thomas A. Bowden
- Thomas Bowdler
- Charles Bowen
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Timothy Bower
- Walter Bower
- Mrs. Betty Bowers
- Patricia K. Bowers
- David Bowie
- Chester Bowles
- Linda Bowles
- Isaiah Bowman
- Robert M. Bowman
- A. H. K. Boyd
- L. M. Boyd
- Boy George
- General William G. Boykin
- Hal Boyle
- Graham Boynton
- Sandra Boynton
- Boy Scouts of America
- J. F. Boyse
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- Peg Bracken
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- Malcolm Bradbury
- Ray Bradbury
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- William Bradford
- Charles Bradlaugh
- Amanda Bradley
- Bill Bradley
- Francis Herbert Bradley
- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Omar Bradley
- Preston Bradley
- John Bradshaw
- Anne Bradstreet
- Lois Smith Brady
- Tom Brady
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- Billy Bragg
- Swami Brahmananda
- Johannes Brahms
- David Brainerd
- Ernest Bramah
- George W. W. Bramwell
- Anna Hempstead Branch
- Stewart Brand
- Louis D. Brandeis
- Nathaniel Branden
- Marlon Brando
- Gyles Brandreth
- Bill Brandt
- William Cowper Brann
- Richard Branson
- Georges Braque
- Jacob Braude
- Robert Brault
- A. Neave Brayshaw
- Berke Breathed
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
- J. Bartlett Brebner
- Bertolt Brecht
- Karen Bredfeldt
- John Breeding
- Edythe E. Bregnard
- Gerald Brenan
- William J. Brennan Jr.
- David Brenner
- Norman Brenner
- Charles H. Brent
- Jimmy Breslin
- David Brewer
- Kingman Brewster
- Mortimer Brewster
- Leonid Brezhnev
- William Bridge
- Madeline Bridges
- Robert Bridges
- William Bridges
- Percy Williams Bridgman
- Robert Briffault
- Joe Bob Briggs
- Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs
- Bob Brill
- Ashleigh Brilliant
- Leon Brillouin
- John Burton Brimer
- David Brin
- David Brinkley
- Arthur Brisbane
- Claude M. Bristol
- British Parliamentary Committee
- Steuart H. Britt
- Vera Brittain
- James Britton
- Lou Brock
- Charles D. Brodhead
- Fawn M. Brodie
- Chuck Brodsky
- Molly Brodsky
- Lora Brody
- D. W. Brogan
- Tom Brokaw
- Louis Bromfield
- Urie Bronfenbrenner
- Jacob Bronowski
- Anne Bronte
- Charlotte Bronte
- Emily Bronte
- Alan Brooke
- Rupert Brooke
- Sam Brookes
- Anita Brookner
- David Brooks
- Garth Brooks
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Louis Brooks
- Louise Brooks
- Mel Brooks
- Phillips Brooks
- Thomas Brooks
- Van Wyck Brooks
- Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- Brigid Brophy
- Joyce Brothers
- Robert Brough
- Henry Peter Brougham
- Heywood Campbell Broun
- Heywood Hale Broun
- Charles Brower
- David Brower
- A. Whitney Brown
- Andrew Brown
- Captain J. Brown
- Chip Brown
- Dan Brown
- Dave Brown
- Deaver Brown
- Derby Brown
- H. Rap Brown
- Harold Brown
- Helen Gurley Brown
- J. A. C. Brown
- James Brown
- Janice Rogers Brown
- Jerry Brown
- Joan Winmill Brown
- John Brown
- John Mason Brown
- Les Brown
- Norman O. Brown
- Pam Brown
- Rita Mae Brown
- Ron Brown
- Ruth Brown
- Thomas Brown
- Charles Farrar Browne
- Dik Browne
- Harry Browne
- Merry Browne
- Thomas Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Robert Browning
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- Willie L. Brown Jr.
- Leroy Brownlow
- Orestes A. Brownson
- Craig S. Bruce
- Dereke Bruce
- Isaac Bruce
- Lenny Bruce
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Emil Brunner
- John Brunner
- Harry Bruno
- Robert Brustein
- Lou Brutus
- Jean de la Bruyere
- William Jennings Bryan
- Anita Bryant
- Arthur Bryant
- Bear Bryant
- Boudleaux Bryant
- Kobe Bryant
- Mary Bryant
- William Cullen Bryant
- James Bryce
- Samuel E. Brydges
- Yul Brynner
- Bill Bryson
- Lyman Lloyd Bryson
- Zbigniew Brzezinski
- Martin Buber
- Maurice Bucaille
- John Buchan
- James Buchanan
- Pat Buchanan
- Art Buchwald
- Pearl S. Buck
- A. G. Buckham
- James Buckham
- Jamie Buckingham
- Henry Thomas Buckle
- F. H. Buckley
- Mary Buckley
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- J. S. Buckminster
- Gautama Buddha
- Siddhartha Gautama - The Buddha
- Siddhartha Gautama Buddha
- Gene Budig
- Frederick Buechner
- Jimmy Buffett
- Warren Buffett
- George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
- Karl Buhler
- Lois McMaster Bujold
- Nikolai Bukharin
- Charles Bukowski
- Archie Bulger
- William M. Bulger
- Bill Bulko
- J. S. Bullion Jr.
- Alan Bullock
- Bullock
- Hans von Bulow
- Rudolf Bultmann
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Oliver Bell Bunce
- Jimmy Castor Bunch
- Ralph Bunche
- Lyrics - Dewey Bunnell
- Luis Bunuel
- John Bunyan
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
- Luis Buquel
- Luther Burbank
- Samuel Dickinson Burchard
- Jakob Burckhardt
- Warren Burger
- Warren E. Burger
- Anthony Burgess
- Frank Gelett Burgess
- Gelett Burgess
- James Burgh
- E. L. Burgi
- G. B. Burgin
- John William Burgon
- Billie Burke
- Edmund Burke
- George K. Burke
- Kenneth Burke
- Leo J. Burke
- Michael Burke
- Michael Burkett
- Denis Parsons Burkitt
- Burnap
- Dana Burnet
- Carol Burnett
- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Ivy Compton-Burnett
- Fanney Burney
- Fanny Burney
- Daniel Burnham
- George P. Burnham
- James Burnham
- William Burnham
- George Burns
- George F. Burns
- H. S. M. Burns
- John Burns
- Red Burns
- Robert Burns
- Steve Burns
- Aaron Burr
- Gerald Burrill
- Elihu Burritt
- Jeremiah Burroughs
- John Burroughs
- William Burroughs
- William S. Burroughs
- Ellen Burstyn
- Benjamin Burt
- Benjamin Hapgood Burt
- Harold H. Burton
- J. H. Burton
- Marion L. Burton
- Montague Burton
- Pierre Burton
- Richard Burton
- Richard Francis Burton
- Robert Burton
- Iam Buruma
- J. B. Bury
- Richard De Bury
- Ralph Bus
- Leo F. Buscaglia
- Gary Buseck
- Barbara Bush
- George Herbert Walker Bush
- George Walker Bush
- Vannevar Bush
- Horace Bushnell
- Buswell
- B. F. Butler
- Brett Butler
- Joseph Butler
- Nicholas Murray Butler
- Philip Butler
- Ralph S. Butler
- Rhett Butler
- Samuel Butler
- Smedley Butler
- William Allen Butler
- General Dan Butterfield
- Red Buttons
- Martin Buxbaum
- Charles Buxton
- Thomas Fowell Buxton
- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan
- Richard E. Byrd
- Robert C. Byrd
- Robert Byrne
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Antiphilus, of Byzantium
