| Isabella Lucy Bird (1831–1904), English traveller and author |
| Robert Montgomery Bird (1806–1854), American author |
| George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1832–1917), Anglo-Indian official and writer |
| Sir William Riddell Birdwood (1865–1951), British general |
| Ernst Johann Biren (1690–1772), Duke of Courland |
| Birger (d. 1266), Swedish statesman |
| George Birkbeck (1776–1841), English physician and philanthropist |
| Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of Birkenhead (1872–1930), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain |
| George A. Birmingham (1865–1950), Irish novelist and playwright |
| James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857), American reformer, leader of the conservative abolitionists |
| Armand-Louis de Gontaut, duc de Biron (1747–1793), French general |
| Augustine Birrell (1850–1933), English author and politician |
| Bīrūnī (973?–1048), Arabian scholar |
| Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (1786–1855), English musical composer |
| William Henry Bishop (1847–1928), American author |
| Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898), German statesman |
| George Edwin Bissell (1839–1920), American sculptor |
| William Henry Bissell (1811–1860), American statesman |
| Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912), French dramatist |
| Leonida Bissolati-Bergamaschi (1857–1920), Italian statesman |
| Karl Theodore Francis Bitter (1867–1915), American sculptor |
| Nino Bixio (1821–1873), Italian soldier |
| Georges Bizet (1838–1875), French musical composer |
| Vilhelm Bjerknes (1862–1951), Norwegian physicist |
| Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910), Norwegian poet, novelist and dramatist |
| Frederic Rogers, Baron Blachford (1811–1889), British civil servant |
| Adam Black (1784–1874), Scottish publisher |
| James Black (1823–1894), American temperance advocate |
| Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1810–1883), American lawyer and statesman |
| John Black (1783–1855), British scholar and journalist |
| Joseph Black (1728–1799), Scottish chemist and physicist |
| William Black (1841–1898), British novelist |
| Colin, Baron Blackburn (1813–1896), British judge |
| Joseph Blackburn (fl. 1753–1763), American portrait painter |
| Francis Blackburne (1782–1867), Lord Chancellor of Ireland |
| Black Hawk (1767–1838), American Indian warrior of the Sauk and Fox tribes |
| John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895), Scottish scholar and man of letters |
| Thomas Blacklock (1721–1791), Scottish poet |
| Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729), English physician and writer |
| Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900), English novelist |
| William Blackstone (1723–1780), English jurist |
| Alexander Blackwell (d. 1747), adventurer |
| Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1825–1921), American advocate of women’s rights |
| Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), physician |
| Thomas Blackwell (1701–1757), Scottish classical scholar |
| William Blackwood (1776–1834), Scottish publisher |
| William Blades (1824–1890), English printer and bibliographer |
| Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571–1638), Dutch mathematician, map-drawer and publisher |
| William Garden Blaikie (1820–1899), Scottish divine |
| James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893), American statesman |
| Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850), French naturalist |
| Francis Preston Blair (1791–1876), American journalist and politician |
| Hugh Blair (1718–1800), Scottish Presbyterian divine |
| James Blair (1656–1743), American divine and educationalist |
| Robert Blair (1699–1746), Scottish poet |
| Saint Blaise (d. c. 316), Bishop of Sebaste or Sivas in Asia Minor, martyred under Diocletian |
| Edward Blake (1833–1912), Irish-Canadian statesman |
| Robert Blake (1599–1657), English parliamentarian and admiral |
| William Blake (1757–1827), English poet and painter |
| Johnston Blakeley (1781–1814), American naval officer |
| Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847–1919), American painter |
| William Blakeney (1672–1761), British soldier |
| Joseph Williams Blakesley (1808–1885), English divine |
| Susanna Blamire (1747–1794), English poet |
| Charles Blanc (1813–1882), French art critic |
| Louis Blanc (1811–1882), French politician and historian |
| Edward Laman Blanchard (1820–1889), English journalist |
| Laman Blanchard (1803–1845), British author and journalist |
| Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861–1942), French painter |
| Blanche of Castile (1188–1252), wife of Louis VIII. of France |
| Richard Parks Bland (1835–1899), American Congressman |
| Theodorick Bland (1741–1790), American colonial statesman |
| Sir Gilbert Blane (1749–1834), Scottish physician |
| William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905), English geologist and naturalist |
| Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881), French publicist |
| Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui (1798–1854), French economist |
| Edwin Howland Blashfield (1848–1936), American artist |
| Friedrich Blass (1843–1907), German classical scholar |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), Russian theosophist |
| Frederick Henry Marvell Blaydes (1818–1908), English classical scholar |
| Friedrich Bleek (1793–1859), German biblical scholar |
| Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek (1827–1875), German philologist |
| Harman Blennerhassett (1764–1831), Irish-American lawyer |
| Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789–1849), Irish novelist and miscellaneous writer |
| William Bligh (1754–1817), English admiral |
| Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), English author |
| Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833–1911), American merchant and politician |
| Philip Paul Bliss (1838–1876), singing evangelist |
| Tasker Howard Bliss (1853–1930), American soldier |
| Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799), German naturalist |
| Maurice Block (1816–1901), French statistician |
| Abraham Bloemaert (1564–1651), Dutch painter and engraver |
| Jan Frans van Bloemen (1662–1749), Flemish painter |
| Robert Bloet (d. 1123), English Bishop and chancellor |
| Louis de Blois (1506–1566), Flemish mystical writer |
| Countship of Blois |
| Francis Blomefield (1705–1752), English topographer of the county of Norfolk |
| Sir Arthur William Blomfield (1829–1899), English architect |
| Charles James Blomfield (1786–1857), English divine |
| Edward Valentine Blomfield (1788–1816), English classical scholar |
| Sir Reginald Theodore Blomfield (1856–1942), English architect and author |
| David Blondel (1591–1655), French Protestant clergyman |
| Jacques-François Blondel (1705–1774), French architect |
| Blondel de Nesle (fl. Twelfth Century), celebrated French minstrel |
| Blondin (1824–1897), French tight-rope walker and acrobat |
| Amelia Jenks Bloomer (1818–1894), American dress-reformer and women’s rights advocate |
| Maurice Bloomfield (1855–1928), American Sanskrit scholar |
| Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823), English poet |
| Charles Blount (1654–1693), English author |
| Edward Blount (fl. 1588–1632), English printer |
| Thomas Blount (1618–1679), English antiquarian |
| Sir Thomas Pope Blount (1649–1697), English author |
| William Blount (1749–1800), American politician |
| John Blow (1648–1708), English musical composer |
| Henri de Blowitz (1825–1903), Anglo-French journalist |
| Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819), Prussian general field marshal |
| Robert Frederick Blum (1857–1903), American artist |
| Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840), German physiologist and anthropologist |
| Leonhard, Count von Blumenthal (1810–1900), Prussian field marshal |
| John Henry Blunt (1823–1884), English divine |
| John James Blunt (1794–1855), English divine |
| Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922), English poet and publicist |
| Johann Caspar Bluntschli (1808–1881), Swiss jurist and politician |
| Boabdil (d. 1527?), last Moorish King of Granada |
| Boadicea (d. 62), British queen |
| George Dana Boardman (1801–1831), American Baptist missionary |
| Henry Samuel Boase (1799–1883), English geologist |
| Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage (1765–1805), Portuguese poet |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375), Italian author |
| Traiano Boccalini (1556–1613), Italian satirist |
| Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805), Italian composer |
| Bocchus (fl. c. 110 B.C.), King of Mauretania |
| Samuel Bochart (1599–1667), French scholar |
| August Böckh (1785–1867), German classical scholar and antiquarian |
| Arnold Böcklin (1827–1901), Swiss painter |
| Stephen Bocskay (1557–1606), Prince of Transylvania |
| Johann Elert Bode (1747–1826), German astronomer |
| Jean Bodel (Twelfth Century), French trouvère |
| Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892), German author |
| Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827–1891), English educationalist |
| Jean Bodin (1530–1596), French political philosopher |
| George Frederick Bodley (1827–1907), English architect |
| Sir Thomas Bodley (1545–1613), English diplomatist and scholar, founder of the Bodleian library, Oxford |
| Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783), Swiss-German author |
| Giambattista Bodoni (1740–1813), Italian printer |
| Hector Boece (1465?–1536), Scottish historian |
| Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm (1834–1890), British sculptor |
| Hermann Boerhaave (1668–1738), Dutch physician and man of science |
| Boethius (d. 524), Roman philosopher and statesman |
| Boethus (Second Century B.C.?), sculptor of the Hellenistic age |
| Antonio de Bofarull (1821–1892), Spanish philologist |
| James Bogardus (1800–1874), American inventor |
| Carl Heinrich von Bogatzky (1690–1774), German hymn-writer |
| Johannes Bogerman (1576–1637), President of the famous Synod of Dort |
| David Bogue (1750–1825), British nonconformist divine |
| Bohemund, name of a series of princes of Antioch, afterwards counts of Tripoli |
| Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914), Austrian economist and statesman |
| Jakob Böhme (1575–1624), German mystical writer |
| Johann Friedrich Böhmer (1795–1863), German historian |
| Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli (1856–1941), Austro-Hungarian field-marshal |
| Henry George Bohn (1796–1884), British publisher |
| Otto von Böhtlingk (1815–1904), German Sanskrit scholar |
| Bohun, name of an English family |
| Matteo Maria Boiardo (1440/1–1494), Italian poet |
| Heinrich Christian Boie (1744–1806), German author |
| Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834), French composer of comic opera |
| Horace Boies (1827–1923), American public man |
| Benoît de Boigne (1751–1830), first of the French military adventurers in India |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711), French poet and critic |
| Pierre Le Pesant, Sieur de Boisguilbert (1646–1714), French economist |
| François Le Métel de Boisrobert (1592–1662), French poet |
| Jean Jacques Boissard (1528–1602), French antiquary and Latin poet |
| Gaston Boissier (1823–1908), French classical scholar, and secretary of the French Academy |
| Jean François Boissonade (1774–1857), French classical scholar |
| François-Antoine de Boissy d’Anglas (1756–1828), French statesman |
| Arrigo Boito (1842–1918), Italian poet and musical composer |
| François de Boivin (d. 1618), French chronicler |
| Edward William Bok (1863–1930), American journalist |
| Osbern Bokenam (1393?–1447?), English author |
| George Henry Boker (1823–1890), American poet and diplomatist |
| Rolf Boldrewood (1826–1915), Anglo-Australian novelist |
| Bolesław I. (966/7–1025), King of Poland |
| Bolesław II. (1043–1081), King of Poland |
| Bolesław III. (1085–1138), King of Poland |
| Anne Boleyn (c. 1507–1536), Queen of Henry VIII. of England |
| Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751), English statesman and writer |
| Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), hero of South American independence |
| Paul Bolo (d. 1918), French financial agent and traitor |
| Dukes of Bolton |
| Edmund Bolton (1575?–1633?), English historian and poet |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841–1916), author and philanthropist |
| August Boltz (1819–1907), German linguist |
| Bernhard Bolzano (1781–1848), Austrian priest and philosopher |
| Marc, Marquis de Bombelles (1744–1822), French diplomatist and ecclesiastic |
| Daniel Bomberg (1483–1553?), famous Christian printer of Hebrew books |
| John Henry Augustus Bomberger (1817–1890), theological and biblical writer |
| George Bomford (1780–1848), chief of ordnance in the United States army |
| Giovanni Bona (1609–1674), Italian Cardinal and author |
| Louis-Gabriel-Ambroise, vicomte de Bonald (1754–1840), French philosopher and politician |
| Bonaparte, name of a family made famous by Napoleon I., Emperor of the French |
| François-Charles-Joseph Herzog von Reichstadt Bonaparte (1811–1832), son of the Emperor Napoleon I. |
| Horatius Bonar (1808–1889), Scottish Presbyterian divine |
| Saint Bonaventura (c. 1217–1274), Franciscan theologian |
| Charles-Melchior-Artus, Marquis de Bonchamps (1760–1793), Vendéan leader |
| Sir Edward Augustus Bond (1815–1898), English librarian |
| Gustaf Bonde (1620–1667), Swedish statesman |
| Clemente Bondi (1742–1821), Italian poet |
| Henry Bone (1755–1834), English enamel painter |
| Sir Muirhead Bone (1876–1953), British etcher and painter |
| John Henry Boner (1845–1903), editor and author |
| Ulrich Boner (Fourteenth Century), German-Swiss writer of fables |
| Benedetto Bonfigli (c. 1420–1496), Italian painter |
| Jacques Bongars (1554–1612), French scholar and diplomatist |
| Ruggero Bonghi (1826–1895), Italian scholar, writer and politician |
| Rosa Bonheur (1822–1899), French painter |
| Honoré Bonhomme (1811–1890), French politician and author |
| Giacomo Boni (1859–1925), Italian archæologist |
| Saint Boniface (675–754), Apostle of Germany |
| Boniface, name of nine of the popes |
| Boniface of Savoy (1207–1270), Archbishop of Canterbury |
| José Bonifácio (1763–1838), Brazilian statesman and naturalist |
| Bonifacius (d. 432), Roman governor of the province of Africa |
| Richard Parkes Bonington (1801–1828), painter in oil and water colors |
| Hermann Bonitz (1814–1888), German scholar |
| François Bonivard (1493–1570), hero of Byron’s poem, The Prisoner of Chillon |
| Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat (1833–1922), French painter |
| Eugène Bonnemère (1813–1893), French author and dramatist |
| Edmund Bonner (1500?–1569), Bishop of London |
| Charles Bonnet (1720–1793), Swiss naturalist and philosophical writer |
| Claude Aléxandre, Comte de Bonneval (1675–1747), French adventurer |
| Nicolas de Bonneville (1760–1828), one of the earliest French students of German literature |
| Thomas George Bonney (1833–1923), English geologist |
| Joseph Bonomi (1739–1808), English architect |
| Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747), Italian musical composer |
| Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858), French traveller and botanist |
| Charles Victor de Bonstetten (1745–1832), Swiss writer |
| George Boole (1815–1864), English logician and mathematician |
| Daniel Boone (1734–1820), American pioneer and backwoodsman |
| Andrew Boorde (1490?–1549), English physician and author |
| Martin Boos (1762–1825), German Roman Catholic theologian |
| Sir Jesse Boot (1850–1931), British businessman |
| Barton Booth (1681–1733), English actor |
| Charles Booth (1840–1916), English sociologist |
| Edwin Booth (1833–1893), American actor |
| Mary Louise Booth (1831–1889), American author and editor |
| William Booth (1829–1912), founder and “general” of the Salvation Army |
| Franz Bopp (1791–1867), German philologist |
| William Edgar Borah (1865–1940), American politician |
| Gerard ter Borch (1617–1681), Dutch subject painter |
| Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1864–1934), Antarctic explorer |
| Jean-Charles de Borda (1733–1799), French mathematician and nautical astronomer |
| Frederick William Borden (1847–1917), Canadian statesman |
| Gail Borden (1801–1874), American inventor |
| Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854–1937), Canadian statesman |
| Paris Bordone (1500–1571), Venetian painter |
| Pétrus Borel (1809–1859), French writer |
| Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679), Italian physiologist and physicist |
| Borghese, noble Italian family of Sienese origin |
| Bartolomeo Borghesi (1781–1860), Italian antiquarian |
| Cesare Borgia (1476?–1507), Duke of Valentinois and Romagna |
| Francis Borgia (1510–1572), Roman Catholic saint, Duke of Gandia, and general of the order of Jesuits |
| Lucrezia Borgia (1480–1519), Duchess of Ferrara, daughter of Pope Alexander VI. |
| Gutzon Borglum (1867–1941), American sculptor |
| Solon Hannibal Borglum (1868–1922), American sculptor |
| Boris III. (1894–1943), King of Bulgaria |
| William Borlase (1695–1772), English antiquary and naturalist |
| Ignaz von Born (1742–1791), Austrian mineralogist and metallurgist |
| Ludwig Börne (1786–1837), German political writer and satirist |
| Henri de Bornier (1825–1901), French poet and dramatist |
| Alexander Porfyrievich Borodin (1833–1887), Russian musical composer |
| Svetozar Borojević (1856–1920), Austro-Hungarian field-marshal |
| Francesco Borromini (1599–1667), Italian architect |
| George Borrow (1803–1881), English traveller, linguist and author |
| Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1778–1846), French naturalist |
| Lambert Bos (1670–1717), Dutch scholar and critic |
| Bernard Bosanquet (1848–1923), English philosopher |
| Johannes Bosboom (1817–1891), Dutch painter |
| Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886), Dutch novelist |
| Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828), French naturalist |
| Juan Boscán (d. 1542), Spanish poet |
| Edward Boscawen (1711–1761), British admiral |
| Hieronymus Bosch (d. 1516), Dutch painter |
| Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711–1787), Italian mathematician and natural philosopher |
| François Joseph Bosio (1768–1845), sculptor |
| Pierre François Joseph Bosquet (1810–1861), French marshal |
| Giuseppe Bossi (1777–1816), Italian painter and writer on art |
| Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704), French divine, orator and writer |
| Charles Bossut (1730–1814), mathematician |
| Jean Augustin Bost (1815–1890), Protestant theologian of Switzerland and France |
| Thomas Boston (1677–1732), Scottish divine |
| Christopher Jacob Boström (1797–1866), Swedish philosopher |
| James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish man of letters |
| Joseph Bosworth (1787/8–1876), British Anglo-Saxon scholar |
| Norborne Berkeley, Baron de Botetourt (c. 1718–1770), colonial governor |
| Louis Botha (1862–1919), Dutch South African statesman |
| James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell (c. 1536–1578), Duke of Orkney and Shetland, husband of Mary, queen of Scots |
| Carlo Botta (1766–1837), Italian historian |
| Vincenzo Botta (1818–1894), Italian philosopher and historian |
| Paul Bottalla (1823–1896), Jesuit priest and Italian historian |
| Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889), composer and contra-bassist |
| Sandro Botticelli (1444/5–1510), Florentine painter |
| Karl August Böttiger (1760–1835), German archæologist |
| John Minor Botts (1802–1869), statesman |
| Edmé Bouchardon (1698–1762), French sculptor |
| Auguste Bouché-Leclerq (1842–1923), French writer upon historical and literary subjects |
| François Boucher (1703–1770), French painter |
| Jonathan Boucher (1738–1804), English divine and philologist |
| Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868), French geologist and antiquary |
| Maurice Bouchor (1855–1929), French poet
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