| Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English poet |
| John Moses Browning (1855–1926), American inventor |
| Oscar Browning (1837–1923), English writer |
| Robert Browning (1812–1889), English poet |
| Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard (1817–1894), British physiologist and neurologist |
| Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803–1876), American theological, philosophical and sociological writer |
| Bruce, name of an old Scottish family of Norman descent |
| Alexander Balmain Bruce (1831–1899), Scottish divine |
| Blanche Kelso Bruce (1841–1898), American politician |
| Sir David Bruce (1855–1931), British bacteriologist |
| George Bruce (1781–1866), type-founder |
| James Bruce (1730–1794), Scottish explorer in Africa |
| John Collingwood Bruce (1805–1892), English antiquary |
| Michael Bruce (1746–1767), Scottish poet |
| Max Bruch (1838–1920), German musical composer |
| Johann Jakob Brucker (1696–1770), German historian of philosophy |
| Franz Ernst Brückmann (1697–1753), German mineralogist |
| Alexander Brückner (1834–1896), German historian |
| Anton Bruckner (1824–1896), Austrian musical composer |
| Pieter Bruegel (c. 1525–1569), Flemish painter |
| Karl Brugmann (1849–1919), German philologist |
| Heinrich Brugsch (1827–1894), German Egyptologist |
| Count Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763), German statesman at the court of Saxony |
| Beau Brummell (1778–1840), English man of fashion |
| Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune (1763–1815), Marshal of France |
| Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934), French musical composer |
| Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859), English engineer |
| Marc Isambard Brunel (1769–1849), British inventor and engineer |
| Filippo Brunelleschi (1377–1446), Italian architect |
| Richard François Philippe Brunck (1729–1803), French classical scholar |
| Jacques-Charles Brunet (1780–1867), French bibliographer |
| Ferdinand Brunetière (1849–1906), French critic and man of letters |
| Brunhilda (534–613), Queen of Austrasia |
| Leonardo Bruni (1369–1444), Italian scholar |
| Heinrich Brunner (1840–1915), German historian |
| Franz Brünnow (1821–1891), German astronomer |
| Saint Bruno (c. 1030–1101), founder of the Carthusians |
| Saint Bruno (925?–965), Archbishop of Cologne, third son of the German King Henry I. |
| Giordano Bruno (1548–1600), Italian philosopher of the Renaissance |
| Saint Bruno of Querfurt (c. 975–1009), German missionary Bishop and martyr |
| Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick (1735–1806), German general |
| August Wilhelm, Duke of Brunswick-Bevern (1715–1781), Prussian soldier |
| Mary Brunton (1778–1818), Scottish novelist |
| George de Forest Brush (1855–1941), American painter |
| Aleksei Brusilov (1853–1926), Russian general |
| Simon William Gabriel Bruté de Rémur (1779–1839), American prelate |
| Brutus, surname of several distinguished Romans |
| Theodor de Bry (1528–1598), German engraver and publisher |
| William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925), American political leader |
| Jacob Bryant (1715–1804), English antiquarian and writer on mythological subjects |
| Sophie Bryant (1850–1922), British educationist |
| William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), American poet and journalist |
| Bryaxis (fl. c. 350 B.C.), one of the four great sculptors who worked on the mausoleum at Halicarnassus |
| George Bryce (1844–1931), Canadian clergyman and educator |
| James Bryce (1838–1922), British jurist, historian, politician and diplomatist |
| Jacques Brydaine (1701–1767), French Roman Catholic preacher |
| Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (1762–1837), English genealogist and miscellaneous writer |
| Nicephorus Bryennius (c. 1062–1137), Byzantine soldier, statesman and historian |
| Tadeusz Brzozowski (1749–1820), nineteenth general of the Jesuits |
| Dukes of Buccleuch |
| Martin Bucer (1491–1551), German Protestant reformer |
| Leopold von Buch (1774–1853), German geologist and geographer |
| Earls of Buchan |
| Alexander Buchan (1829–1907), British meteorologist |
| Elspeth Buchan (1738–1791), founder of a Scottish religious sect |
| John Buchan (1875–1940), British author |
| Peter Buchan (1790–1854), Scottish editor |
| Claudius Buchanan (1766–1815), English divine |
| George Buchanan (1506–1582), Scottish humanist |
| James Buchanan (1791–1868), fifteenth President of the United States |
| Robert Buchanan (1841–1901), British poet, novelist and dramatist |
| Franz Bücheler (1837–1908), German classical scholar |
| Lothar Bucher (1817–1892), German publicist |
| Philippe-Joseph-Benjamin Buchez (1796–1865), French author and politician |
| Ludwig Büchner (1824–1899), German philosopher and physician |
| Jean Alexandre Buchon (1791–1846), French scholar |
| Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955), American philologist |
| Dudley Buck (1839–1909), American musical composer |
| John Buckeridge (c. 1562–1631), English divine |
| Johann Buckholdt (1509–1536), Dutch Anabaptist fanatic |
| Earls, Marquesses and Dukes of Buckingham |
| George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1592–1628), English statesman |
| George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (1628–1687), English statesman |
| Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham (1454?–1483), English noble |
| James Silk Buckingham (1786–1855), English author and traveller |
| John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham (1648–1721), English statesman and poet |
| Earls of Buckinghamshire |
| Francis Trevelyan Buckland (1826–1880), English zoologist |
| William Buckland (1784–1856), English divine and geologist |
| George Earle Buckle (1854–1935), English editor and man of letters |
| Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862), English historian |
| Simon Bolivar Buckner (1823–1914), American soldier and political leader |
| John Charles Bucknill (1817–1897), the father of the English volunteer soldiery, and a well-known surgeon |
| John Baldwin Buckstone (1802–1879), English actor and dramatic writer |
| Johann Franz Buddeus (1667–1729), German Lutheran divine |
| Buddha (c. 480–c. 400 B.C.), religious founder |
| Buddhaghosa (Fifth Century A.D.), celebrated Buddhist writer |
| Guillaume Budé (1468–1540), French scholar |
| Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1857–1934), English archæologist |
| Eustace Budgell (1686–1737), English man of letters |
| Max Büdinger (1828–1902), German historian |
| Don Carlos Buell (1818–1898), American soldier |
| Buffalo Bill (1846–1917), American scout and showman |
| Claude Buffier (1661–1737), French philosopher, historian and educationalist |
| Adelbert Rinaldo Buffington (1837–1922), American soldier |
| Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), French naturalist |
| John Buford (1826–1863), American general |
| Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (1807–1883), American general and engineer |
| Thomas Robert Bugeaud, duc d’Isly (1784–1849), Marshal of France |
| Johann Bugenhagen (1485–1558), German Protestant reformer |
| Sophus Bugge (1833–1907), Norwegian philologist |
| Johann Gottlieb Buhle (1763–1821), German scholar and philosopher |
| Georg Bühler (1837–1898), German Indologist |
| Buḥturī (820–897), Arabian poet |
| Ferdinand Édouard Buisson (1841–1932), French educationalist |
| Bukhārī (810–870), Arabic author |
| Charles Bulfinch (1763–1844), American architect |
| Bulgarus (d. 1166), Italian jurist |
| George Bull (1634–1710), English divine |
| John Bull (c. 1562–1628), English composer and organist |
| Ole Bull (1810–1880), Norwegian violinist |
| Robert Lee Bullard (1861–1947), American soldier |
| Arthur Henry Bullen (1857–1920), British man of letters |
| Frank Thomas Bullen (1857–1915), British novelist |
| Charles Buller (1806–1848), English politician |
| Redvers Buller (1839–1908), British general |
| Heinrich Bullinger (1504–1575), Swiss reformer |
| William Bullock (c. 1657–c. 1740), English actor |
| Bernhard Ernst von Bülow (1815–1879), Danish and German statesman |
| Bernhard von Bülow (1849–1929), German statesman |
| Dietrich Heinrich, Freiherr von Bülow (1757–1807/8), Prussian soldier and military writer |
| Friedrich Wilhelm, Freiherr von Bülow (1755–1816), Prussian general |
| Hans von Bülow (1830–1894), German pianist and conductor |
| Karl von Bülow (1846–1921), German field-marshal |
| Sir Richard Bulstrode (1610–1711), English author and soldier |
| Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873), English novelist and politician |
| Henry William Bunbury (1750–1811), English caricaturist |
| Oliver Bell Bunce (1828–1890), American author |
| Edward Buncombe (1742–1778), soldier |
| Alfred Bunn (1796–1860), English theatrical manager |
| Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896), American writer |
| Christian Charles Josias, Baron von Bunsen (1791–1860), Prussian diplomatist and scholar |
| Robert Bunsen (1811–1899), German chemist |
| Jabez Bunting (1779–1858), English Wesleyan divine |
| Sir Percy William Bunting (1836–1911), British journalist |
| John Bunyan (1628–1688), English religious writer |
| Appiano Buonafede (1716–1793), Italian philosopher |
| Bupalus and Athenis (fl. Sixth Century B.C.), Greek sculptors |
| James Burbage (d. 1597), English actor |
| Richard Burbidge (1847–1917), English merchant |
| Jakob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss writer on art |
| George Burder (1752–1832), English Nonconformist divine |
| Sir Francis Burdett (1770–1844), English politician |
| Sir Henry Burdett (1847–1920), English economist and philanthropist |
| Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts (1814–1906), English philanthropist |
| William Burdett-Coutts (1851–1921), English politician |
| Robert Jones Burdette (1844–1914), American humorist and lecturer |
| Sir John Burdon-Sanderson (1828–1905), English physiologist |
| Gottfried August Bürger (1747–1794), German poet |
| Thomas François Burgers (1834–1881), President of the Transvaal Republic |
| Franco Petri Burgersdijk (1590–1635), Dutch logician |
| George Burges (1786?–1864), English classical scholar |
| Daniel Burgess (1645–1713), English Presbyterian divine |
| Thomas Burgess (1756–1837), English divine |
| Burgh, name of an historic Irish house |
| Hubert de Burgh (d. 1243), Chief Justiciar of England |
| Henry Burghersh (c. 1290–1340), English Bishop and chancellor |
| William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520–1598), English statesman |
| Hans Burgkmair (1473–1531), German painter and engraver on wood |
| John William Burgon (1813–1888), English divine |
| John Burgoyne (1722–1792), English general and dramatist |
| Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1782–1871), British field marshal |
| Burgred (fl. 852–874), King of Mercia |
| Burgundio (d. 1194), Italian jurist |
| Stephan, Graf Burián von Rajecz (1851–1922), Austro-Hungarian statesman |
| Jean Buridan (1300–1358), French philosopher |
| Edmund Burke (1729–1797), British statesman and political writer |
| Sir John Bernard Burke (1814–1892), British genealogist |
| Robert O’Hara Burke (1821–1861), Australian explorer |
| William Burke (1792–1829), Irish criminal |
| Jean Jacques Burlamaqui (1694–1748), Swiss publicist |
| William Henry Burleigh (1812–1871), American author |
| Albert Sidney Burleson (1863–1937), American lawyer and politician |
| Anson Burlingame (1820–1870), American legislator and diplomat |
| Pieter Burmann (1668–1741), Dutch classical scholar |
| Pieter Burmann (1713–1778), Dutch philologist |
| Richard Burn (1709–1785), English legal writer |
| Fred Burnaby (1842–1885), English traveller and soldier |
| Francis Cowley Burnand (1836–1917), English humorist |
| Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), English painter and designer |
| Arthur Coke Burnell (1840–1882), English Sanskrit scholar |
| Robert Burnell (d. 1292), English Bishop and chancellor |
| Sir Alexander Burnes (1805–1841), British traveller and explorer |
| Gilbert Burnet (1643–1715), English Bishop and historian |
| Sir John James Burnet (1859–1938), Scottish architect |
| Thomas Burnet (1635?–1715), English divine |
| Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849–1924), Anglo-American novelist |
| Charles Burney (1726–1814), English musical historian |
| Frances (Fanny) Burney (Madame d’Arblay) (1752–1840), English novelist and diarist |
| Daniel Hudson Burnham (1846–1912), American architect |
| Edward Levy-Lawson, Baron Burnham (1833–1916), English newspaper proprietor |
| Eugène Burnouf (1801–1852), French orientalist |
| Anthony Burns (1834–1862), fugitive slave |
| Francis Burns (1809–1863), colored Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church |
| Sir George Burns (1795–1890), English shipowner |
| John Burns (1858–1943), English politician |
| John Lawrence Burns (1794–1872), American soldier |
| Robert Burns (1759–1796), Scottish poet |
| Ambrose Everett Burnside (1824–1881), American soldier |
| Aaron Burr (1756–1836), American political leader |
| George Lincoln Burr (1857–1938), American educator |
| Elihu Burritt (1810–1879), American philanthropist |
| George Burroughs (c. 1652–1692), American congregational pastor |
| John Burroughs (1837–1921), American poet and writer on natural history |
| Ronald Montagu Burrows (1867–1920), English classical scholar and archæologist |
| Conrad Bursian (1830–1883), German philologist and archæologist |
| Thomas Burt (1837–1922), British Labour politician |
| Sir Frederic William Burton (1816–1900), British painter and art connoisseur |
| John Hill Burton (1809–1881), Scottish historical writer |
| Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821–1890), British consul, explorer and orientalist |
| Robert Burton (1577–1640), English writer |
| William Evans Burton (1802–1860), English actor and playwright |
| John Bagnell Bury (1861–1927), British historian |
| Richard de Bury (1287–1345), English bibliophile, writer and Bishop |
| Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq (1522–1592), Flemish writer and traveller |
| Richard Busby (1606–1695), English clergyman, and headmaster of Westminster school |
| Moritz Busch (1821–1899), German publicist |
| Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), German caricaturist |
| Anton Friedrich Büsching (1724–1793), German theologian and geographer |
| Hermann Busenbaum (1600–1668), Jesuit theologian |
| David Bushnell (1742–1824), American inventor |
| Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), American theologian |
| Būṣīrī (1213?–1296?), Arabian poet |
| Busiris, Egyptian King |
| George Busk (1807–1886), British surgeon, zoologist and palæontologist |
| Conrad Busken-Huet (1826–1886), Dutch literary critic |
| Fedor Ivanovich Buslaev (1818–1897), Russian author and philologist |
| Frances Mary Buss (1827–1894), English schoolmistress |
| Benjamin Bussey (1757–1842), American patriot and philanthropist |
| Cyrus Bussey (1833–1915), American soldier |
| Bussy-Rabutin (1618–1693), French memoir-writer |
| Anastasio Bustamente (1780–1853), Mexican physician, soldier and statesman |
| Richard Busteed (1822–1898), American lawyer |
| Butades (fl. c. 600 B.C.?), first Greek modeller in clay |
| Samuel Butcher (1850–1910), English classical scholar |
| John Stuart, Earl of Bute (1713–1792), English Prime Minister |
| Butler, name of a family famous in the history of Ireland |
| Alban Butler (1711–1773), English Roman Catholic priest and hagiologist |
| Benjamin Franklin Butler (1818–1893), American lawyer, soldier and politician |
| Charles Butler (1750–1832), British lawyer and miscellaneous writer |
| Clement Moore Butler (1810–1890), American clergyman and author |
| George Butler (1774–1853), English schoolmaster and divine |
| John Butler (d. 1794), colonial soldier |
| Joseph Butler (1692–1752), English divine and philosopher, Bishop of Durham |
| Nicholas Murray Butler (1862–1947), American educator |
| Pierce Mason Butler (1798–1847), American soldier |
| Samuel Butler (1612–1680), English poet |
| Samuel Butler (1774–1839), English classical scholar and schoolmaster, and Bishop of Lichfield |
| Samuel Butler (1835–1902), English author |
| William Allen Butler (1825–1902), American author and lawyer |
| William Archer Butler (1814?–1848), Irish historian of philosophy |
| Sir William Francis Butler (1838–1910), English soldier and author |
| William Orlando Butler (1791–1880), American patriot |
| Clara Butt (1872–1936), English contralto singer |
| Isaac Butt (1813–1879), Irish lawyer and Nationalist leader |
| Daniel Butterfield (1831–1901), American soldier |
| William Butterfield (1814–1900), English architect |
| Eva Buttlar (1670–1721), fanatic |
| Philipp Karl Buttmann (1764–1829), German philologist |
| Isaac Butts (1816–1874), American journalist |
| Jedediah Buxton (1707–1772), English arithmetician |
| Sydney, Earl Buxton (1853–1934), British politician and administrator |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton (1786–1845), English philanthropist |
| Johann Buxtorf (1564–1629), German Hebrew and rabbinic scholar |
| Johann Buxtorf (1599–1664), German Hebrew scholar |
| Mather Byles (1707–1788), American clergyman |
| John Byng (1704–1757), British admiral |
| Julian Hedworth George, Viscount Byng (1862–1935), British general |
| Cornelius van Bynkershoek (1673–1743), Dutch jurist |
| William Byrd (1540?–1623), English musical composer |
| John Byrom (1692–1763), English poet, writer of hymns and inventor of a system of shorthand |
| Lord Byron (1788–1824), English poet |
| Henry James Byron (1835–1884), English playwright |
| John, Baron Byron (1598/9–1652), English cavalier |
| John Byron (1723–1786), British vice-admiral |
| Johan Niklas Byström (1783–1848), Swedish sculptor |
| Ingram Bywater (1840–1914), English classical scholar |
| Fernán Caballero (Cecilia Böhl de Faber) (1796–1877), Spanish novelist |
| Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889), French painter |
| Pierre Jean Georges Cabanis (1757–1808), French physiologist |
| François Cabarrus (1752–1810), French adventurer and Spanish financier |
| Nicolaus Cabasilas (d. 1371), Byzantine mystic and theological writer |
| George Washington Cable (1844–1925), American author |
| Simon Caboche (fl. 1411–1415), French insurrectionist |
| George Cabot (1752–1823), American political leader |
| John Cabot (d. 1498?), Italian navigator and discoverer of North America |
| Ramón Cabrera (1806–1877), Carlist general |
| Giulio Caccini (1551–1618), Italian musical composer |
| José Cadalso Vazquez (1741–1782), Spanish author |
| Alvise Cadamosto (1432–1488), Venetian explorer, navigator and writer |
| George Cadbury (1839–1922), British manufacturer and philanthropist |
| John Cade (d. 1450), English rebel and leader of the rising of 1450 |
| Cadmus of Miletus, oldest of the logographi |
| William, Earl Cadogan (1672?–1726), British soldier |
| Luigi Cadorna (1850–1928), Italian general |
| Georges Cadoudal (1771–1804), leader of the Chouans during the French Revolution |
| Caecilius (First Century B.C.–First Century A.D.), Greek rhetorician |
| Caecilius Statius (c. 220–c. 168 B.C.), Roman comic poet |
| Caecīna, name of a distinguished Etruscan family of Volaterrae |
| Cædmon (d. c. 680), earliest English Christian poet |
| Quintus Servilius Caepio (fl. 100–90 B.C.), Roman general
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