| Dion Boucicault (c. 1820–1890), Irish actor and playwright |
| Eugène Boudin (1824–1898), French painter of the paysage de mer |
| Elias Boudinot (1740–1821), American revolutionary leader |
| Ami Boué (1794–1881), Austrian geologist |
| Louis François, Duc de Boufflers (1644–1711), Marshal of France |
| Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers (1737–1815), French statesman and man of letters |
| Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), French navigator |
| George Henry Boughton (1834–1905), Anglo-American painter |
| Pierre Bouguer (1698–1758), French mathematician |
| William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825–1905), French painter |
| Dominique Bouhours (1628–1702), French critic |
| Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822–1869), French poet and dramatist |
| François-Claude-Amour, Marquis de Bouillé (1739–1800), French general |
| Francisque Bouillier (1813–1899), French historian and philosopher |
| Jean Nicolas Bouilly (1763–1842), French author |
| Henri, Comte de Boulainvilliers (1658–1722), French political writer |
| Boulanger, name of several French artists |
| George-Ernest-Jean-Marie Boulanger (1837–1891), French general |
| André-Charles Boulle (1642–1732), French cabinet-maker |
| Boulogne, name of a family of French painters |
| Matthew Boulton (1728–1809), English manufacturer and engineer |
| Henri Bourassa (1868–1952), French-Canadian politician |
| Charles Denis Sauter Bourbaki (1816–1897), French general |
| Bourbon, noble family from which so many European kings have sprung |
| Charles, Duc de Bourbon (1490–1527), Constable of France |
| Arthur Bourchier (1863–1927), English actor |
| James David Bourchier (1850–1920), British publicist |
| Thomas Bourchier (c. 1404–1486), English Archbishop, Lord Chancellor and Cardinal |
| Louis Bourdaloue (1632–1704), French Jesuit and preacher |
| Claude Bourgelat (1712–1779), may be called the father of veterinary science |
| Léon Bourgeois (1851–1925), French statesman |
| Paul Bourget (1852–1935), French novelist and critic |
| Antoinette Bourignon (1616–1680), Flemish mystic |
| John George Bourinot (1837–1902), Clerk of the Canadian House of Commons, and writer on the Constitution of the Canadian Dominion |
| Louis-Auguste-Victor de Ghaisne, Comte de Bourmont (1773–1846), French marshal, the conqueror of Algiers |
| Hugh Bourne (1772–1852), founder of the Primitive Methodists |
| Vincent Bourne (1695–1747), English classical scholar |
| Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne (1769–1834), French diplomatist |
| Marc-Théodore Bourrit (1739–1819), Swiss traveller and writer |
| Edmé Boursault (1638–1701), French dramatist and miscellaneous writer |
| Charles Bourseul (1829–1912), French inventor |
| Esaias Boursse (1631–1673), Dutch painter |
| Jean Baptiste Boussingault (1802–1887), French chemist |
| Charles Addison Boutelle (1839–1901), naval officer, journalist, and member of United States Congress |
| Friedrich Bouterwek (1766–1828), German philosopher and critic |
| Claude Bouthillier (1581–1652), French statesman |
| Nathaniel Bouton (1799–1878), American clergyman and historian |
| George Sewall Boutwell (1818–1905), American statesman |
| François Joseph Bouvet (1753–1832), French admiral |
| John Bouvier (1787–1851), American jurist |
| Sir William Bovill (1814–1873), English judge |
| Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824), English traveller and author |
| Nathaniel Bowditch (1773–1838), American mathematician |
| Thomas Bowdler (1754–1825), editor of the “family” Shakespeare |
| James Bowdoin (1726–1790), American political leader |
| Sir Mackenzie Bowell (1823–1917), Canadian politician |
| Sir Charles Bowen (1835–1894), English judge |
| Francis Bowen (1811–1890), American philosophical writer and educationalist |
| George Ferguson Bowen (1821–1899), British colonial governor |
| Walter Bower (1385–1449), Scottish chronicler |
| James Scott Bowerbank (1797–1877), English naturalist and palæontologist |
| James Bowie (1796?–1836), American pioneer |
| Samuel Bowles (1826–1878), American journalist |
| Thomas Gibson Bowles (1841–1922), British journalist and politician |
| William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), English poet and critic |
| Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), English linguist, political economist and miscellaneous writer |
| William Bowyer (1663–1737), English printer |
| William Boyce (1711–1779), English musical composer |
| Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd (1825–1899), Scottish author and divine |
| Robert, Lord Boyd (d. c. 1470), Scottish statesman |
| Zachary Boyd (1585?–1653), Scottish divine |
| John Boydell (1720–1804), English alderman and publisher |
| Alexis Boyer (1757–1833), French surgeon |
| Jean Pierre Boyer (1776–1850), President of the Republic of Haiti |
| Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (1848–1895), author |
| John J. Boyle (1851–1917), American sculptor |
| Robert Boyle (1627–1691), English natural philosopher |
| René Boylesve (1867–1926), French novelist |
| Leonard Boyne (1853–1920), Irish actor |
| Edward Carlisle Boynton (1824–1893), American soldier and writer of military history |
| Paul Boyton (1848–1924), daring and adventurous American navigator |
| Jules François Jeannotte Bozérian (1825–1893), lawyer and senator of France |
| Marco Bozzaris (c. 1788–1823), leader in the War of Greek Independence |
| Edward Hugessen Knatchbull-Hugessen, Lord Brabourne (1829–1893), English statesman and man of letters |
| Poggio Bracciolini (1380–1459), Italian scholar of the Renaissance |
| Charles Loring Brace (1826–1890), American philanthropist |
| Julia Brace (1807–1884), American blind deaf-mute |
| Anne Bracegirdle (c. 1663–1748), English actress |
| Hugo Franz von Brachelli (1834–1892), Austrian statistician and geographer |
| Auguste Brachet (1844–1898), philologist of the Romance languages |
| Henry Marie Brackenridge (1786–1871), American author and jurist |
| Hugh Henry Brackenridge (1748–1816), American jurist |
| Albert Gallatin Brackett (1829–1896), American soldier |
| Félix Bracquemond (1833–1914), French painter and etcher |
| Henry de Bracton (d. 1268), English judge and writer on English law |
| Sir John Swanwick Bradbury (1872–1950), English civil servant |
| Edward Braddock (1695?–1755), British general |
| Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915), English novelist |
| Alden Bradford (1765–1843), American author |
| Alexander Warfield Bradford (1815–1867), American jurist |
| John Bradford (1510?–1555), English Protestant martyr |
| William Bradford (1590–1657), American colonial governor and historian |
| William Bradford (1663–1752), American colonial printer |
| William Bradford (1823–1892), American marine painter |
| Charles Bradlaugh (1833–1891), English freethinker and politician |
| Edward Bradley (Cuthbert Bede) (1827–1889), English author |
| George Granville Bradley (1821–1903), English divine and scholar |
| James Bradley (1693?–1762), English astronomer |
| George Bradshaw (1801–1853), English printer and publisher |
| Henry Bradshaw (c. 1450–1513), English poet |
| Henry Bradshaw (1831–1886), British scholar and librarian |
| John Bradshaw (1602–1659), President of the “High Court of Justice” which tried Charles I. |
| Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612–1672), first woman versifier in America |
| Simon Bradstreet (1603–1697), colonial governor of Massachusetts |
| Thomas Bradwardine (c. 1290–1349), English Archbishop, called “the Profound Doctor” |
| Nicholas Brady (1659–1726), Anglican divine and poet |
| Robert Brady (1627?–1700), physician and historian of the seventeenth century |
| William Maziere Brady (1825–1894), Irish churchman |
| Henri de Braekeleer (1840–1888), Belgian painter |
| Teófilo Braga (1843–1924), Portuguese author and scholar |
| Braganza, name of the family of rulers of Portugal emperors of Brazil |
| Braxton Bragg (1817–1876), American soldier |
| William Henry Bragg (1862–1942), British physicist |
| John Braham (1774–1856), English vocalist |
| Per Brahe (1602–1680), Swedish soldier and statesman |
| Tycho Brahe (1546–1601), Danish astronomer |
| Johannes Brahms (1833–1897), German composer |
| Thomas Braidwood (1715–1806), British teacher of the deaf and dumb |
| Louis Braille (1809–1852), inventor of the Braille system of raised letters for the blind |
| David Brainerd (1718–1747), American missionary among the Indians |
| Jocelyn de Brakelond (fl. 1200), English monk |
| Joseph Bramah (1748–1814), English engineer and inventor |
| Donato Bramante (c. 1444–1514), Italian architect and painter |
| John Bramhall (1594–1663), Anglican churchman |
| Henry Hawkins, Baron Brampton (1817–1907), English judge |
| Sir Frederick Joseph Bramwell (1818–1903), English engineer |
| George William Wilshere, Lord Bramwell (1808–1892), English judge |
| Brancovan, name of a family which has played an important part in the history of Rumania |
| John Brand (1744–1806), English antiquary |
| Sir John Henry Brand (1823–1888), President of the Orange Free State |
| William Thomas Brande (1788–1866), English chemist |
| Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856–1941), American lawyer and jurist |
| Gustavus Brander (1720–1787), English naturalist |
| Edvard Brandes (1847–1931), Danish political writer and dramatist |
| Georg Brandes (1842–1927), Danish critic and literary historian |
| Christian August Brandis (1790–1867), German philologist and historian of philosophy |
| Hermann Carl George Brandt (1850–1920), American philologist |
| Frank Brangwyn (1867–1956), English painter |
| Joseph Brant (1742–1807), American Indian chief of the Mohawk tribe |
| Sebastian Brant (1458–1521), German humanist and satirist |
| Hjalmar Branting (1860–1925), Swedish statesman |
| Thomas de Brantingham (d. 1394), English Lord Treasurer and Bishop of Exeter |
| Pierre de Bourdeille, Seigneur de Brantôme (d. 1614), French historian and biographer |
| Jacques-Raymond Brascassat (1804–1867), French painter |
| Pierre Brasdor (1721–1799), French surgeon |
| Brasidas (d. 422 B.C.), Spartan officer of the Peloponnesian War |
| Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874), Belgian ethnographer |
| Thomas Brassey (1805–1870), English railway contractor |
| Richard Brathwaite (1588?–1673), English poet |
| Ion C. Brătianu (1821–1891), Rumanian statesman |
| Heinrich Braun (1854–1927), German Social Democrat and writer on social questions |
| Carter Braxton (1736–1797), signer of the Declaration of Independence |
| Sir Reginald Bray (d. 1503), British statesman and architect |
| Thomas Bray (1658?–1730), English divine |
| Edward Wedlake Brayley (1773–1854), English antiquary and topographer |
| Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza (1852–1905), French explorer and administrator, founder of French Congo |
| John Campbell, Earl of Breadalbane (c. 1636–1717), Scottish noble |
| Michel Bréal (1832–1915), French philologist |
| Falkes de Breauté (d. 1226), one of the foreign mercenaries of King John |
| John Cabell Breckinridge (1821–1875), American soldier and political leader |
| Jan Frans van Bredael (1686–1750), Flemish painter |
| Henry, Count of Brederode (1531–1568), Dutch noble |
| Gabriel Gottfried Bredow (1773–1814), German historian |
| Scipione Breislak (1748–1826), Italian geologist of German parentage |
| Fredrika Bremer (1801–1865), Swedish novelist |
| Saint Brendan the Voyager (c. 483–577), Irish saint and hero of a legendary voyage in the Atlantic |
| Brennus (Fourth Century B.C.), chief of the Celtic Gauls |
| Clemens Brentano (1778–1842), German poet and novelist |
| Lujo Brentano (1844–1931), German economist |
| Sir Jahleel Brenton (1770–1844), British admiral |
| Johannes Brenz (1499–1570), Lutheran divine |
| Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny (1714–1794), French scholar |
| Jean Baptiste Bressant (1815–1886), French actor |
| Jules Breton (1827–1906), French painter |
| Nicholas Breton (1545–1626), English poet |
| Manuel Bretón de los Herreros (1796–1873), Spanish dramatist |
| Heinrich Gottfried von Bretschneider (1739–1810), satirist of unsettled life and eccentric habits |
| Karl Gottlieb Bretschneider (1776–1848), German scholar and theologian |
| Ephraim Brevard (1744?–1781?), American patriot |
| David Josiah Brewer (1837–1910), American jurist |
| Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810–1897), English clergyman and author |
| John Sherren Brewer (1810–1879), English historian |
| Thomas Mayo Brewer (1814–1880), American patron of science |
| Sir David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish natural philosopher |
| William Brewster (1566/7–1644), American colonist, one of the leaders of the “Pilgrims” |
| Brézé, name of a noble Angevin family |
| Alexis Henri Brialmont (1821–1903), Belgian general and military engineer |
| Brian (926–1014), King of Ireland |
| Aristide Briand (1862–1932), French statesman |
| Nicolas Bricaire de La Dixmerie (1731–1791), French man of letters |
| Calvin Stewart Brice (1845–1898), American statesman |
| Saint Brice (Fifth Century), Bishop of Tours, commemorated as a confessor |
| Frank Bridge (1879–1941), English musical composer |
| Sir Frederick Bridge (1844–1924), English organist, composer and conductor |
| Robert Bridges (1844–1930), English poet |
| Saint Bridget of Sweden (c. 1303–1373), most celebrated saint of the northern kingdoms |
| Thomas Edward Bridgett (1829–1899), Roman Catholic priest and historical writer |
| Francis Egerton, Duke of Bridgewater (1736–1803), originator of British inland navigation |
| Francis Henry Egerton, Earl of Bridgewater (1756–1829), English naturalist and antiquarian |
| Frederick Arthur Bridgman (1847–1928), American artist |
| Laura Dewey Bridgman (1829–1889), American blind deaf-mute |
| Benjamin Brierley (1825–1896), English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect |
| Sir Oswald Walters Brierly (1817–1894), English marine painter |
| Eugène Brieux (1858–1932), French dramatist |
| Charles Augustus Briggs (1841–1913), American Hebrew scholar and theologian |
| Charles Frederick Briggs (1804–1877), American author |
| Henry Briggs (1561–1630), English mathematician |
| Sir Charles Tilston Bright (1832–1888), English telegraph engineer |
| James Franck Bright (1832–1920), English historian |
| John Bright (1811–1889), British statesman |
| William Bright (1824–1901), English theologian |
| Saint Brigid (c. 453–c. 524), one of the patron saints of Ireland |
| Paul Bril (1554–1626), Flemish painter |
| Brillat-Savarin (1755–1826), French gastronomist |
| Benedetto Brin (1833–1898), Italian naval administrator |
| James Brindley (1716–1772), English engineer |
| Bernhard ten Brink (1841–1892), German philologist, of Dutch origin |
| Jan ten Brink (1834–1901), Dutch writer |
| Frank Brinkley (1841–1912), British author |
| Daniel Garrison Brinton (1837–1899), American archæologist and ethnologist |
| Marie Madeleine Marguerite d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers (1630–1676), French poisoner |
| Sir Thomas Brisbane (1773–1860), Scottish soldier and astronomer |
| Dukes of Brissac |
| Henri Brisson (1835–1912), French statesman |
| Mathurin-Jacques Brisson (1723–1806), French zoologist and natural philosopher |
| Jacques-Pierre Brissot (1754–1793), celebrated French Girondist |
| Charles Astor Bristed (1820–1874), American author |
| Earls and Marquesses of Bristol |
| Augusta Cooper Bristol (1835–1910), American authoress and educator |
| Elizabeth Chudleigh, Countess of Bristol (1720–1788), English noble |
| George Digby, Earl of Bristol (1612–1677), English statesman |
| John Digby, Earl of Bristol (1580–1653), English diplomatist |
| Benjamin Helm Bristow (1832–1896), American lawyer and politician |
| Henry William Bristow (1817–1889), English geologist |
| Britannicus (41–55 A.D.), son of the Roman Emperor Claudius |
| John Britton (1771–1857), English antiquary |
| Auguste Brizeux (1803–1858), French poet |
| Sir William Henry Broadbent (1835–1907), English physician |
| Henry Broadhurst (1840–1911), English Labour leader and Liberal politician |
| Paul Broca (1824–1880), French surgeon and anthropologist |
| Giovanni Battista Brocchi (1772–1826), Italian mineralogist and geologist |
| André Jean Marie Brochant de Villiers (1772–1840), French mineralogist and geologist |
| Sir Isaac Brock (1769–1812), British soldier and administrator |
| Thomas Brock (1847–1922), English sculptor |
| Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869–1928), German diplomatist |
| Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680–1747), German poet |
| Linus Pierpont Brockett (1820–1893), American author |
| Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772–1823), German publisher |
| Richard Brocklesby (1722–1797), English physician |
| David Colbreth Broderick (1820–1859), American politician |
| William John Broderip (1789–1859), English naturalist |
| John Romeyn Brodhead (1814–1873), American historical scholar |
| Sir Benjamin Brodie (1783–1862), English physiologist and surgeon |
| Peter Bellinger Brodie (1815–1897), English geologist |
| George Charles Brodrick (1831–1903), warden of Merton College, Oxford |
| Jan van Broekhuizen (1649–1707), Dutch classical scholar and poet |
| Waldemar Christopher Brøgger (1851–1940), Norwegian geologist |
| de Broglie, name of a noble French family |
| Suzanne Brohan (1807–1887), French actress |
| Arthur Broke (d. 1563), English author |
| Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke (1776–1841), British rear-admiral |
| Alexander Brome (1620–1666), English poet |
| Richard Brome (d. 1652?), English dramatist |
| Sir Thomas Bromley (c. 1530–1587), English Lord Chancellor |
| Peter Oluf Brøndsted (1780–1842), Danish archæologist and traveller |
| Adolphe Brongniart (1801–1876), French botanist |
| Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847), French mineralogist and geologist |
| Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800–1862), German geologist |
| Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff (1832–1891), Prussian general |
| Charlotte (1816–1855), Emily (1818–1848) and Anne (1820–1849) Brontë, English novelists |
| Bronzino (1503–1572), Florentine painter |
| Frances Brooke (1724?–1789), English novelist and dramatist |
| Henry Brooke (1703?–1783), Irish author |
| Sir James Brooke (1803–1868), English soldier, traveller and raja of Sarawak |
| Rupert Brooke (1887–1915), English poet |
| Stopford Augustus Brooke (1832–1916), English divine and man of letters |
| Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield (1857–1913), English actor and playwright |
| Charles Timothy Brooks (1813–1883), American author |
| Charles William Shirley Brooks (1816–1874), English novelist, playwright and journalist |
| Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794?–1845), American poetess |
| Phillips Brooks (1835–1893), American clergyman and author |
| Preston Smith Brooks (1819–1857), American Congressman |
| Federick Napier Broome (1842–1896), English public official |
| William Broome (1689–1745), English scholar and poet |
| Charles de Broqueville (1860–1940), Belgian statesman |
| Moritz Brosch (1829–1907), German historian |
| Charles de Brosses (1709–1777), French magistrate and scholar |
| Alphonse Brot (1807–1895), French novelist |
| Richard Brothers (1757–1824), British religious fanatic |
| Fanny Whiteside Brough (1854–1914), English actress |
| John Brough (1811–1865), “War governor” of Ohio |
| Robert Brough (1872–1905), British painter |
| John Brougham (1810–1880), British actor |
| Lord Brougham (1778–1868), Lord Chancellor of England |
| Hugh Broughton (1549–1612), English scholar and divine |
| John Cam Hobhouse, Baron Broughton (1786–1869), English writer and politician |
| Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920), English novelist |
| François Joseph Victor Broussais (1772–1838), French physician |
| Claude Brousson (1647–1698), Huguenot martyr |
| Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761–1807), French naturalist |
| Adriaen Brouwer (1605/6–1638), Dutch painter |
| Benjamin Gratz Brown (1826–1885), American statesman and soldier |
| Chad Brown (d. c. 1665), elder in the Baptist Church |
| Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), American novelist |
| Ford Madox Brown (1821–1893), English painter |
| Francis Brown (1849–1916), American Semitic scholar |
| Sir George Brown (1790–1865), British soldier |
| George Brown (1818–1880), Canadian journalist and statesman |
| Goold Brown (1791–1857), American grammarian |
| Harvey Brown (1795–1874), American soldier |
| Henry Billings Brown (1836–1913), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States |
| Henry Kirke Brown (1814–1886), American sculptor |
| Jacob Brown (1775–1828), American soldier |
| John Brown (1715–1766), British divine and author |
| John Brown (1722–1787), Scottish divine |
| John Brown (1735–1788), Scottish physician |
| John Brown (1736–1803), American merchant and philanthropist |
| John Brown (1784–1858), Scottish divine |
| John Brown (1800–1859), American abolitionist |
| Dr. John Brown (1810–1882), Scottish physician and author |
| Sir John Brown (1816–1896), English armour plate manufacturer |
| John Calvin Brown (1827–1889), American soldier |
| John George Brown (1831–1913), American painter |
| Joseph Emerson Brown (1821–1894), “War governor” of Georgia |
| Olympia Brown (1835–1926), American preacher and lecturer |
| Peter Hume Brown (1850–1918), Scottish historian |
| Robert Brown (1773–1858), British botanist |
| Robert Brown (1842–1895), Scotch traveller |
| Robert Brown, Jr. (b. 1844), English author |
| Samuel Brown (1817–1856), Scottish chemist, poet and essayist |
| Samuel Gilman Brown (1813–1885), American educator and author |
| Thomas Brown (1662–1704), English satirist |
| Thomas Brown (1778–1820), Scottish philosopher |
| Thomas Edward Brown (1830–1897), British poet, scholar and divine |
| Sir William Brown (1784–1864), British merchant and banker |
| William Laurence Brown (1755–1830), Scottish divine |
| Edward Harold Browne (1811–1891), English Bishop |
| Frances Browne (1816–1879), known as the “Blind Poetess of Ulster,” |
| Hablot Knight Browne (“Phiz”) (1815–1882), English artist |
| Isaac Hawkins Browne (1706–1760), English poet |
| James Browne (1793–1841), Scottish man of letters |
| Sir James Browne (1839–1896), Anglo-Indian engineer and administrator |
| John Hutton Balfour Browne (1845–1921), English jurist and legal writer |
| Maximilian Ulysses, Count von Browne (1705–1757), Austrian field marshal |
| Peter Browne (c. 1666–1735), Irish divine and Bishop of Cork and Ross |
| Robert Browne (c. 1550–1633), a leader among the early Separatist Puritans |
| Robert William Browne (1809–1895), English clergyman and educational writer |
| Sir Thomas Browne (1605–1682), English author and physician |
| William Browne (c. 1590–c. 1645), English pastoral poet |
| Gertrude Hall Brownell (1863–1961), American author and vocalist |
| Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872), American author
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