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Authors (B)

This is an index of authors whose last names begin with the letter "B". Authors whose names appear in bold are very well-known authors or authors with very well-known works. See also the category Authors-B, which is by nature a (usually) more complete but less organized list.

Ba

• Babbage, Charles (1791 – 1871)
• Babcock, Kendric Charles (1864 – 1932)
• Babcock, Maltbie (1858 – 1901)
• Babelon, Ernest Charles François (1854 - 1924)
• Baber, Edward Cresswell (1850 – 1910)
• Baber, Henry Hervey (1775 – 1869)
• Babeuf, François-Noel (1760 – 1797)
• Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685 – 1750)
• Bacheler, O. R. (1817 – 1901)
• Bachelet, Michelle (1951 – present)
• Bacheller, Irving (1859 – 1950)
• Bacher, Wilhelm (or William); or Bacher Vilmos (1850-1913)
• Bacon, Benjamin Wisner (1860 - 1932)
• Bacon, Francis (1561 – 1626)
• Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam (1876 – 1961)
• Bacon, Roger (1214 – 1294)
• Baden, Frances L. Henshaw (1835 – 1911)
• Baden-Powell, Baden Fletcher Smyth (1860 – 1937)
• Baden-Powell, Robert (1857 – 1941)
• Badoureau, Jean Paul Albert (1853 – 1923)
• von Baerenbach, Friedrich (1856 – 1914)
• Bagehot, Walter (1826 – 1877)
• Bagenal, Philip Henry (1850 – 1927)
• Bagwell, Richard (1840 – 1918)
• Bahá'u'lláh (Husayn-Ali Nurí) (1817 – 1893)
• Bahu, Sultan (1628 – 1691)
• Bai Juyi (772 – 846)
• Bailey, Alfred Marshall (1894 – 1978)
• Bailey, Cyril (1871 - 1957)
• Bailey, John Burn (1821 – 1895)
• Bailey, John Eglington (1840 – 1888)
• Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1858 – 1954)
• Baillie, James Black (1872 – 1940)
• Baily, Francis (1774 – 1844)
• Bain, Alexander (1818 – 1903)
• Bain, Robert Nisbet (1854 – 1909)
• Baines, Sir Jervoise Athelstane (1847-1925)
• Baird, Henry Carey (1825 – 1912)
• Baird, Henry Martyn (1832 – 1906)
• Baird, Spencer Fullerton (1823 - 1887)
• Baird, William Raimond (1848 – 1917)
• Bale, Edwin (1842 - 1923)
• Baker, Benjamin (1840 – 1907)
• Baker, Henry Frederick (1866 – 1956)
• Baker, Ira Osborn (1853 – 1925)
• Baker, John Gilbert (1834 – 1920)
• Baker, Julian Levett (1873 - 1958)
• Baker, Newton D. (1871 – 1937)
• Baker, Ray Stannard (1870 – 1946)
• Baker, Richard (1568 – 1645)
• Bakewell, Robert (1768 – 1843)
• Bakunin, Mikhail (1814 – 1876)
• Baldry, Alfred Lys (1858 - 1939)
• Baldwin, Charles Sears (1867 – 1935)
• Baldwin, Henry (1780 – 1844)
• Baldwin, James (1841 – 1925)
• Baldwin, Simeon Eben (1840-1927)
• Baldwin, Stanley (1867 – 1947)
• Balfe, Michael William (1808 – 1870)
• Balfour, Sir Andrew (1630 – 1694)
• Balfour, Sir Andrew (1873 – 1931)
• Balfour, Arthur (1848 – 1930)
• Balfour, Isaac Bayley (1853 – 1922)
• Balfour, John Hutton (1808 – 1884)
• Ball, Benjamin West (1823 – 1896)
• Ball, Charles James (1851 - 1924)
• Ball, Clifford (1896 – 1947)
• Ball, Henry William (1833 – 1914)
• Ball, John (1338 – 1381)
• Ball, John (1818 – 1889)
• Ball, Robert Stawell (1840 – 1913)
• Ballagh, James Curtis (1866 – 1944)
• Ballantyne, R. M. (1825 – 1894)
• Ballard, Robert (1839 – 1912)
• Ballin, Ada Sarah (1863 – 1906)
• Ballou, Adin (1803 – 1890)
• Ballou, Sullivan (1829 – 1861)
• Balzac, Honoré de (1799 – 1850)
• Balzani, Ugo (1847 – 1916)
• Bambridge, William Samuel (1820 – 1879)
• Bancroft, Frederic (1860 – 1945)
• Bancroft, George (1800 – 1891)
• Bancroft, Hubert Howe (1832 – 1918)
• Bangs, John Kendrick (1872 – 1922)
• Banim, John (1798 – 1842)
• Banks, Joseph (1743 – 1820)
• Bannerman, Helen (1862 – 1946)
• Bannister, Thomas (1799 – 1874)
• Bao Zheng (999 – 1062)
• Baratynsky, Evgeny (1800 – 1844)
• Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743 – 1825)
• Barbeau, Charles Marius (1883 – 1969)
• Barber, Amherst W. (fl. 1894)
• Barber, Margaret Fairless (1869 – 1901)
• Barbour, Erwin Hinckly (1856 – 1947)
• Barbour, John (c. 1316 – 1395)
• Barbour, Philip Pendleton (1783 – 1841)
• Barbusse, Henri (1873 – 1935)
• Barclay, Robert (1648 – 1690)
• Barclay, Robert (1833 – 1876)
• Barclay, Sir Thomas (1853-1941)
• Bard, Ralph Austin (1884 - 1975)
• Barham, Richard Harris (1788 – 1845)
• Barine, Arvède (1840 – 1908)
• Baring, Maurice (1874 - 1945)
• Baring-Gould, Sabine (1834 – 1924)
• Barker, Aldred Farrer (1868 - 1964)
• Barker, Ernest (1874 – 1960)
• Barker, Eugene Campbell (1874 – 1956)
• Barker, George Fisher Russell (1848 – 1927)
• Barker, George Frederick (1835 – 1910)
• Barker, James Nelson (1784 – 1858)
• Barker, Theodore Gaillard (1832 – 1917)
• Barkley, Henry Charles (1837 – 1903)
• Barlow, Chester (? – 1902)
• Barlow, Hilaro William Wellesley (1861 - 1941)
• Barlow, Robert Hayward (1918 – 1951)
• Barnabei, Felice (1842 - 1922)
• Barnard, Frederick Augustus Porter (1809 – 1889)
• Barnard, George Henry (1868 – 1954)
• Barnard, Lady Anne (1750 – 1825)
• Barnard, William Stebbins (1849 – 1888)
• Barnby, Joseph (1838 – 1896)
• Barne, Kitty (1883 – 1961)
• Barnes, Arthur K. (1911 – 1969)
• Barnes, Djuna (1892 – 1982)
• Barnes, James Strachey (1890 – 1955)
• Barnett, Percy Arthur (1858 – 1941)
• Barnett, Samuel Augustus (1844 – 1913)
• Barnfield, Richard (1574 – 1627)
• Barnum, Phineas Taylor (1810 – 1891)
• Baroja, Pío (1872 – 1956)
• Baron, David (1855 – 1926)
• Barr, Elizabeth N. (1800's – 1900's)
• Barraclough, Sir Samuel Henry Egerton (1871–1958)
• Barrett, Eaton Stannard (1786 – 1820)
• Barrett, Lawrence (1838 – 1891)
• Barrie, James Matthew (1860 – 1937)
• Barron, Oswald (1868 – 1939)
• Barrows, David Prescott (1873 – 1954)
• Barry, James (1741 – 1806)
• Barse, Mary Emma Salisbury (1887 – c. 1950)
• Barthélemy St. Hilaire, Jules (1805–1895)
• Bartlet, James Vernon (1863 – 1940)
• Bartlett, James
• Bartlett, John (1820 – 1905)
• Bartlett, Rosamund (? – present)
• Bartley, George Christopher Trout (1842 - 1910)
• Bartoli, Adolfo (1833 - 1894)
• Bartoli, Daniello (1608–1685)
• Barton, George Burnett (1836 – 1901)
• Bartram, William (1739 – 1823)
• Barwick, George Frederick (1853 – 1931)
• Bary, Heinrich Anton de (1831 – 1888)
• Bashkirtseff, Maria Constantinova (1858–1884)
• Bashō, Matsuo (1644 – 1694)
• Basilides (c. 117 – 138)
• Basilios, Abuna (1891 – 1970)
• Bassett, John Spencer (1867 – 1928)
• Bassler, John H. (1834 – 1916)
• Bastable, Charles Francis (1855-1945)
• Bastian, Henry Charlton (1837 – 1915)
• Bastiat, Frédéric (1801 – 1850)
• Batchelor, John (1854 – 1944)
• Bateman, Edgar (? – ?)
• Bateman, Harry (1882 – 1946)
• Bates, Albert Carlos (1865 – 1954)
• Bates, Charlotte Fiske (1838 – 1916)
• Bates, Katharine Lee (1859 – 1929)
• Bates, William Horatio (1860 – 1931)
• Bateson, Mary (1865 – 1906)
• Bateson, Thomas (c. 1570 – 1630)
• Batten, John Dickson (1860 – 1932)
• Battye, James Sykes (1871 – 1954)
• Baucus, Max (1941 – present)
• Baudelaire, Charles (1821 – 1867)
• Baudin, Nicolas Thomas (1754 – 1803)
• Baudouin, Charles (1893 – 1963)
• Bauer, Ferdinand (1760 – 1826)
• Bauer, Franz (or Francis) Andreas (1758 – 1840)
• Bauerman, Hilary (1833 - 1909)
• Bauhin, Gaspard (or Caspar) (1560 – 1624)
• Baum, L. Frank (1856 – 1919)
• Baum, Paull Franklin (1886 – 1964)
• von Baumhauer, Eduard Hendrik (1820 – 1885)
• Bax, Ernest Belfort (1854 – 1926)
• Baxendale, Walter
• Bayard, Edward (1806 – 1889)
• Bayen, Malaku E. (1900 – 1940)
• Bayh, Evan (1955 – present)
• Bayly, Thomas Haynes (1797 – 1839)
• Bayliss, Wyke (1835 – 1906)
• Bayne, Julia Taft (1845 – 1933)
• Bayne, Ronald (1859 – 1922)
• Bayne, Thomas Levingston (1824 – 1891)
• Bayne, Thomas Wilson (1845 – 1931)
• Baynes, Thomas Spencer (1823 – 1887)

Be

• à Beckett, Gilbert (1811 – 1856)
• Beach, Chandler B. (1839 – 1928)
• Beadle, John Hanson (1840 – 1897)
• Bealby, John Thomas (1858 - 1944)
• Beale, Jr., Joseph Henry (1861 – 1943)
• Beale, Lionel Smith (1828 – 1906)
• Beale, Octavius Charles (1850 – 1930)
• Beard, Charles Austin (1874 – 1948)
• Beard, George Miller (1839 – 1833)
• Beare, Sir Thomas Hudson (1859 – 1940)
• Beattie, James (1735 – 1803)
• Beatty, William (1773 – 1842)
• Beatty-Kingston, William (1837 – 1900)
• Beaumont, Francis (1584 – 1616)
• Beaumont, William (1785 – 1853)
• de Beauvois, Palisot (1752 – 1820)
• Beazley, Sir Charles Raymond (1868 – 1955)
• Beccaria-Bonessana, Cesare, Marchese de (1738 – 1794)
• Becher, Johann Joachim (1635 – 1682)
• Bechhold, Heinrich (1866–1937)
• Beck, Frederick George Meeson (1883 – 1924)
• Beck, Lewis White (1913 – 1997)
• Beck, Rollo (1870 – 1950)
• Beck, Theodric Romeyn (1791 – 1855)
• Becke, Archibald Frank (1871 - 1947)
• Becker, August (1900 – 1967)
• Becket, Thomas à (1118 – 1170)
• Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe, Edmund (1816 - 1905)
• Beckford, William Thomas (1760 – 1884)
• Beckwith, Martha Warren (1871 – 1959)
• Becquerel, Alexandre-Edmond (1820 – 1891)
• Becquerel, Antoine-César (1788 – 1878)
• Becquerel, Antoine-Henri (1852 – 1908)
• Bécu, Jeanne (1743–1793)
• Beddard, Frank Evers (1858 – 1925)
• Bede (c. 673 – c. 735)
• Bédier, Joseph (1864 – 1938)
• Beecher, Henry Ward (1813 – 1887)
• Beeching, Henry Charles (1859 – 1919)
• Been, Johan Hendrik (1859–1930)
• Beer, Max (1864 – 1943)
• Beerbohm, Max (1872 – 1956)
• Beers, Ethel Lynn (1827 – 1879)
• Beers, William George (1843 – 1900)
• Beesly, Augustus Henry (1839 – 1909)
• van Beethoven, Ludwig (1770 – 1827)
• Beets, Henry (1869 – 1947)
• von Beetz, Wilhelm (1822 – 1886)
• Begbie, Edward Howard (1871 – 1929)
• le Bègue, Lambert (1131–1177)
• Behn, Aphra (c. 1640 – 1689)
• Beik, Arthur Kennedy (1882 – 1949)
• Belcher, Admiral Sir Edward (1799 – 1877)
• Belding, Lyman (1829 – 1917)
• Belfour, John (1768 – 1842)
• Belgrave, Dalrymple James (1851 – 1922)
• Bell, Alexander Graham (1847 – 1922)
• Bell, Archibald Graeme (1868 - 1948)
• Bell, Charles (1774 – 1842)
• Bell, Charles Frederic Moberly (1847-1911)
• Bell, Clara (1834 – 1927)
• Bell, Edward Ingress (1837 – 1914)
• Bell, George (1883 - 1958)
• Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (1868 – 1926)
• Bell, Henry Thomas Mackenzie (1856 – 1930)
• Bell, Louis (1864 - 1923)
• Bell, Malcolm
• Bell, Walter A. (1889 – 1969)
• Bellamy, Edward (1850 – 1898)
• Bellamy, Francis (1855 – 1931)
• de Bellesme, Georges Louis Marie Félicien Jousset (1839 – 1925)
• Belloc, Hilaire (1870 – 1953)
• Bellows, Henry Adams (1803 – 1873)
• Belmont, A. H. (1900's)
• Beloe, Edward Milligen (1827 – 1907)
• Belt, Thomas (1832 – 1878)
• Bémont, Charles (1848 - 1939)
• Benamozegh, Elijah (1822 – 1900)
• Benda, Władysław Teodor (1873–1948)
• Bendall, Cecil (1856 – 1906)
• Benedict, Sir Julius (1804 – 1885)
• Benedict XIII, Pope (1649 – 1730)
• Benedict XIV, Pope (1675 – 1758)
• Benedict XV, Pope (1854 – 1922)
• Benedict XVI, Pope (1927 – present)
• Bénédite, Léonce (1856 - 1925)
• Benét, Stephen Vincent (1898 – 1943)
• Ben-Gurion, David (1886 – 1973)
• Benham, William (1831 – 1910)
• Beniuk, Andrew (? – )
• Benjamin, Marcus (1857 – 1932)
• Bennet, Henry Grey (1777 – 1836)
• Bennett, Alfred William (1833 – 1902)
• Bennett, Arnold (1867 – 1931)
• Bennett, Henry Leigh (1833 – 1912)
• Bennett, John Hughes (1812 – 1875)
• Bennett, John Joseph (1801 – 1876)
• Bennett, Joseph (1831 – 1911)
• Bennett, Richard Bedford (1870 – 1947)
• Bennett, William Henry (1855 – 1920)
• Benoit, Pierre (1886 – 1962)
• Benson, Arthur Christopher (1862 – 1925)
• Benson, Edward Frederic (1867 – 1940)
• Benson, Ezra T. (1811 – 1869)
• Benson, George Vere (1848 – 1929)
• Benson, W. A. S. (1854 – 1924)
• Bent, Arthur Cleveland (1866 – 1954)
• Bent, James Theodore (1852 – 1897)
• Bentham, George (1800 – 1884)
• Bentham, Jeremy (1748 – 1832)
• Bentley, Edmund Clerihew (1875 – 1956)
• Benton, Elbert Jay (1871 – 1946)
• Benton, Mildred Catherine (1902 – unknown)
• Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak (1884 – 1963)
• Beresford Hope, Sir Alexander James Beresford (1820 – 1887)
• Berger, Alwin (1871 – 1931)
• Berger, Jean-François (1779 – 1833)
• Bergholt, Ernest (1856 – 1925)
• Bergson, Henri (1859 – 1941)
• Berkeley, George (1685 – 1753)
• Berkeley, Miles Joseph (1803 – 1889)
• Berkman, Alexander (1870 – 1936)
• Berle, Adolf (1895 – 1971)
• Berlin, Irving (1888 – 1989)
• Bernard, Claude (1813 – 1878)
• Bernard, John Henry (1860 - 1927)
• Bernatitus, Ann (1912 – 2003)
• Bernays, Edward (1891 – 1995)
• Bernstein, Eduard (1850 - 1932)
• Bernstein, Herman (1876 – 1935)
• Bernstein, Julius (1839 – 1917)
• Berry, Alexander (1781 – 1873)
• Berry, David (1971 – present)
• Berry, George Andreas (1853 - 1940)
• Berryman, Jeff
• Bert, Paul (1833 – 1886)
• Berthier, Jean-Baptiste (1840 – 1908)
• Bertie, Charles Henry (1875–1952)
• Bertillon, Jacques (1851 – 1922)
• Bertram, Martin H. dates unknown
• Bertrin, Georges Michel (1851 – 1924)
• Besant, Annie (1847 – 1933)
• Besant, Walter (1836 – 1901)
• Best, John (1861 – 1923)
• Betham-Edwards, Matilda (1836 – 1919)
• Bethell, Henry Arthur (1861 - 1939)
• Bettany, George Thomas (1850 – 1891)
• Betts, Beverly R.
• Beulé, Charles Ernest (1826 – 1874)
• Bevan, Edwyn Robert (1870-1943)
• Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah (1862 – 1927)
• Beveridge, Henry (1799 – 1863)
• Beveridge, Henry (1837 – 1929)
• Beveridge, William (1637 – 1708)
• Bevington, Louisa Sara (1845 – 1895)
• Bezzenberger, Adalbert (1851 – 1922)

Bh

• Bhownagree, Mancherjee Merwanjee (1851-1933)

Bi

• Bianchi, Giovanni Battista (1681 – 1761)
• Bibó, István (1911 – 1979)
• Bicheno, James Ebenezer (1785 – 1851)
• Bickley, Augustus Charles (1857 – 1902)
• Bicknell, Algernon Sidney (1832 – 1911)
• Biden, Joe (1942 – present)
• Bidwell, Shelford (1848-1909)
• Bidwill, John Carne (1815 – 1853)
• Bierce, Ambrose (1842 – c. 1914)
• Bigelow, John (1817 – 1911)
• Bigg, Charles (1840 - 1908)
• Biggar, Charles Robert Webster (1847 - 1909)
• Biggar, Henry Percival (1872-1938)
• Biggers, Earl Derr (1884 – 1933)
• Bilac, Olavo (1865 – 1918)
• Billings, William (1746 – 1800)
• Billson, William Weldon (1847 – 1923)
• Bilson, John (1856 - 1943)
• Bindloss, Harold Edward (1866 – 1945)
• Binet, Alfred (1857 – 1911)
• Bing, Julius
• Bingham, Clifton (1859 - 1913)
• Bingham I, Hiram (1789 - 1869)
• Bingham III, Hiram (1875-1956)
• Binyon, Laurence (1869 – 1943)
• Bird, Henry (1830 – 1908)
• Bird, Isabella Lucy (1831 – 1904)
• Birdwood, George (1832-1917)
• Birkner, Ferdinand (1868 – 1944)
• Birrell, Augustine (1850 – 1933)
• Birukoff, Paul (1860 – 1931)
• Biruni, Abu Rayhan (973 – 1048)
• Biryukov, Paul (1800's – 1900's)
• Bishop, Elizabeth (1911 – 1979)
• Bishop, William Henry (1847 – 1928)
• Bismil, Ram Prasad (1897 - 1927)
• Bissel, Daniel (1768 – 1833)
• Bista, Daulat Bikram (1925 – 2002)
• Bixby, James Thompson (1843 – 1921)

Bj

• Bjerring, Hans C. (1931 – )
• Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne Martinius (1832 – 1910)

Bl

• Black, Cornelius (1822 – 1887)
• Black, Hugo (1886 – 1971)
• Black, James Rush (1827 – 1895)
• Black, James Tait (1826 – 1911)
• Black, John Sutherland (1846 – 1923)
• Black, William George (1857 – 1932)
• Blacker, Beaver Henry (1821 – 1890)
• Blackett, Herbert Field dates unknown
• Blackie, John Stuart (1809 – 1895)
• Blackman, Vernon Herbert (1872 - 1967)
• Blackmar, Frank Wilson (1854 – 1931)
• Blackmore, R.D. (1825 – 1900)
• Blackmun, Harry (1908 – 1999)
• Blackstone, Sir William (1723 – 1780)
• Blackstone, William Eugene (1841 – 1935)
• Blackwell, Antoinette Brown (1825 – 1921)
• Blackwell, Emily (1826 – 1910)
• Blackwell, Thomas (1701 – 1757)
• Blackwood, Algernon (1869 – 1951)
• Blaikie, William Garden (1820 – 1899)
• Blain, William (? - 1908)
• Blair, Andrew Alexander (1848 - 1932)
• Blair, David (1820 – 1899)
• Blair, John (1732 – 1800)
• Blair, Robert (1699 – 1746)
• Blair, Tony (1953 – present)
• Blake, Eubie (1887 – 1983)
• Blake, Euphemia Vale (1817 – 1904)
• Blake, Robert (1598–1657)
• Blake, William (1757 – 1827)
• Blake, William Hume (1861 – 1924)
• Blakeney, Edward Henry (1869 – 1955)
• Blakiston, Herbert Edward Douglas (1862 – 1942)
• Blamey, Thomas (1884 - 1951)
• Blanc, Louis (1811 – 1882)
• Blanchard, Charles Émile (1819 – 1900)
• Blanchard, Samuel Laman (1804 – 1845)
• Bland, James (1854 - 1911)
• Bland, John Otway Percy (1863 – 1945)
• Blandford, George Fielding (1829 – 1911)
• Blatchford, Samuel (1820 – 1893)
• Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (1834–1891)
• Blease, Walter Lyon (1884 – 1963)
• Bleecker, Ann Eliza (1752 – 1783)
• Bleek, Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel (1827 – 1875)
• Blennerhassett, William Lewis (1882 – 1958)
• Blewitt, Octavian (1810 – 1884)
• Blicher, Steen Steensen (1782 – 1848)
• Bligh, William (1754 – 1817)
• Bloch, Robert (1917 – 1994)
• Block, Adriaen (Aerjan) (c. 1567–1627)
• Blok, Alexander (1880 – 1921)
• Blok, Petrus Johannes (1855–1929)
• Blomefield, Francis (1705 – 1752)
• Blomfield, Reginald (1856 – 1942)
• Blöndal, Sigfús (1874 - 1950)
• Bloomfield, Maurice (1855 – 1928)
• Bloomfield, Robert (1766 – 1823)
• Blount, Bertram (1867 - 1921)
• Blowitz, Henri Georges Stephane Adolphe Opper de (1825 - 1903)
• Bloxam, Matthew Holbeche (1805 – 1888)
• Blum, Paul Charles (1898 – 1981)
• Blume, Clemens (1862 – 1932)
• Blume, Wilhelm von (1867 – 1927)
• Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich (1752 – 1840)
• Blunt, Charles Jasper (1866 - 1933)
• Blunt, Herbert William (1864 - 1940)
• Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen (1840 – 1922)
• Bly, Nellie (1864 – 1922)
• Blyth, James (1839 - 1906)
• Blyton, Enid (1897 – 1968)

Bo

• Boake, Barcroft Henry Thomas (1866 – 1892)
• Boas, Franz (1858 – 1942)
• Boas, Frederick Samuel (1862 – 1957)
• Boase, George Clement (1829 – 1897)
• Bobelis, Kazys (1923—)
• Bobowski, Wojciech (1610 – 1675)
• Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313 – 1375)
• Bock, Hieronymus (1498 – 1554
• Böckh, Philipp August (1785 – 1867)
• Bode, John Ernest (1816 - 1874)
• Bodley, John Edward Courtenay (1853 – 1925)
• Boerhaave, Herman (1668 – 1738)
• Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (480 – 525)
• Bogg, Edward (19th century)
• von Böhm-Bawerk, Eugen (1851 – 1914)
• Böhme, Jakob (1575 – 1624)
• Böhme, Traugott (1884 – 1954)
• Bohn, Henry George (1796 – 1884)
• Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (1636 – 1711)
• du Bois-Reymond, Emil (1818 – 1896)
• van Boisot, Lodewijk (c. 1530–1576)
• Boissier, Marie-Louis-Antoine-Gaston (1823 – 1908)
• Bojer, Johan (1872 – 1959)
• Bok, Edward (1863 – 1930)
• Boker, George Henry (1823 – 1890)
• Bolintineanu, Dimitrie (1819 – 1872)
• Bollman, Charles Harvey (1868–1889)
• Bolton, Augustus Samuel (1825 – 1886)
• Bolton, Edmund Mary (1575 – 1633)
• Bolton, Guy (1884 – 1979)
• Bolton, Henry Carrington (1843 – 1903)
• Boltzmann, Ludwig Eduard (1844 – 1906)
• Bonaparte, Charles Joseph (1851 – 1921)
• Bonaparte, Charles Louis Napoléon (1808–1873)
• Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769 – 1821)
• Bonar, Horatius (1808 – 1889)
• Bonar, James (1852 - 1941]]
• Bond, Thomas (1841 – 1901)
• Bonetti, Augusto (1831 – 1903)
• Boniface VIII, Pope (1235 – 1303)
• Bonifacio, Giovanni (1538 – 1606)
• Bonnet, Charles (1720 – 1793)
• Bonney, Thomas George (1833 – 1923)
• Bonpland, Aimé (1773 – 1858)
• Bonvalot, Gabriel (1853–1933)
• Bonwick, James (1817 – 1906)
• Boodle, R. W. (dates unknown)
• Booth, William (1829 – 1912)
• Boothby, Brooke (1743 – 1824)
• Borden, Robert (1854 – 1937)
• Borlaug, Norman Ernest (1914 – 2009)
• Borley, John Oliver (1872 - 1938)
• Born, Ignaz von (1742 – 1791)
• Bornet, Jean-Baptiste Édouard (1828 – 1911)
• Borochov, Dov Ber (1881 – 1917)
• Borrow, George (1803 – 1881)
• Borthwick, 1st Baron Glenesk, Sir Algernon (1830 – 1908)
• Bosanquet, Robert Holford Macdowall (1841 – 1912)
• Bosch, Roelof Benjamin van den (1810 – 1862)
• Bose, Subhas Chandra (1897 – 1945)
• Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne (1627 – 1704)
• Bostock, Hewitt (1864 – 1930)
• Bostwick, Arthur Elmore (1860 – 1942)
• Bostwick, Elisha (1749 – 1834)
• Boswell, James (1740 – 1795)
• Bothne, Gisle (1860 – 1934)
• Botsford, George Willis (1862 - 1917)
• Botta, Anne Lynch (1815 – 1891)
• Botto, Giuseppe Domenico (1791 – 1865)
• Bottomley, Gordon (1874 – 1948)
• Bottomley, William Beecroft (1863 – 1922)
• Bouchier, Edmund Spenser (1876 – 1930)
• Boucicault, Dion (1820 – 1890)
• Boucke, Ewald Augustus (1871 – 1943)
• Boudinhon, Auguste (1858 - 1948)
• Bouix, Marcel (1806–1889)
• Boulenger, George Albert (1858 – 1937)
• Boulger, Demetrius Charles (1853 – 1928)
• Boulger, George Edward Simonds (1853 – 1922)
• Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin (1859 – 1935)
• Bourbon, Marie Antoine Josephine Jeanne "Marie Antoinette" de (1755 – 1793)
• Bourchier, James David (1850 – 1920)
• Bourdaloue, Louis (1632 – 1704)
• de Bourdeille, Pierre (1540 – 1614)
• Bourget, Paul (1852 – 1935)
• Bourguignon, Louis Dominique (1693–1721)
• Bourne, Gilbert Charles (1861 – 1933)
• Bourne, Randolph (1886 – 1918)
• Bournon, Jacques Louis de (1751 – 1825)
• Bousset, Wilhelm (1865 – 1920)
• Boutell, Charles (1812 - 1877)
• Bovill, Charles Harry (1887 – 1918)
• Bowden, John William (1798 – 1844)
• Bowditch, Nathaniel (1773 - 1838)
• Bowell, Mackenzie (1823 – 1917)
• Bowen, Edward Ernest (1836–1901)
• Bowen, Rt. Hon. Sir George (1821 – 1899)
• Bower, Frederick Orpen (1855 – 1948)
• Bowering, Marilyn (1949 – )
• Bowes, Robert (1835 – 1919)
• Bowker, Richard Rogers (1848 – 1933)
• Bowles, William Lisle (1762 – 1850)
• Bowman, Euday Louis (1887 – 1949)
• Bowring, Edgar Alfred (1826 – 1911)
• Bowring, John (1792 – 1872)
• Box, George Herbert (1869 – 1933)
• Boxer, Barbara Levy (1940 – 1940)
• Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison (1825 – 1899)
• Boyd, David Ross (1853 – 1936)
• Boyd, Nathaniel (1853 – 1941)
• Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848 – 1895)
• Boyle, George David (1828 – 1901)
• Boyle, Joseph W. (1867 – 1923)
• Boyle, Robert (1627 – 1691)
• Boys, Charles Vernon (1855 – 1944)

Br

• Brabner, John Henry Fryday (1838 – 1911)
• Brabrook, Edward William (1839 - 1907)
• Brace, Dewitt Bristol (1859 – 1905)
• Bracken, Thomas (1843 – 1898)
• Bradbrook, Muriel Clara (1909 – 1993)
• Bradby, Godfrey Fox (1863 – 1947)
• Bradford, 1st Baronet, John Rose (1863 - 1935)
• Bradlaugh, Charles (1833 – 1891)
• Bradley, Andrew Cecil (1851 – 1935)
• Bradley, Arthur Granville (1850 – 1943)
• Bradley, Rev. E. (? – ?)
• Bradley, Edward (1827 – 1889)
• Bradley, Emily Tennyson (1862 – 1946)
• Bradley, F. H. (1846 – 1924)
• Bradley, George Granville (1821 – 1903)
• Bradley, Henry (1845 – 1923)
• Bradley, Joseph Philo (1813 – 1892)
• Bradley, Mary Emily (1835 – 1898)
• Bradshaw, George (1801 – 1853)
• Bradstreet, Anne (1612 – 1672)
• Brady, Jasper Ewing (1797 – 1871)
• Braekstad, Hans Lien (1845-1915)
• Bragg, Billy (1957 -)
• Braham, Philip (1881 – 1934)
• Braim, Thomas Henry (1814 – 1891)
• Brainard, Charles Rollin
• Brainard, David Legge (1856 – 1496)
• Braithwaite, Lawrence Ytzhak (1963 – 2008)
• Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878 – 1962)
• Braley, Berton (1882 – 1966)
• Bramwell, Edwin (1873 - 1952)
• Bramwell, Frederick Joseph (1818 – 1903)
• Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (1856 – 1941)
• Brandin, Louis Maurice (1874 - 1940)
• Brandis, Christian August (1790 – 1867)
• Brandis, Dietrich (1824 - 1907)
• Branner, John Casper (1850 - 1922)
• Bransom, Paul (1885 – 1979)
• Brassington, William Salt (1859 – 1939)
• Braun, Joseph (1857 - 1947)
• Brayshaw, Alfred Neave (1861 – 1940)
• Breck, Edward (1861 – 1929)
• Bréhier, Emile (1876 – 1952)
• Bréhier, Louis René (1868 – 1951)
• Breiter, Yitzchok (1886 – 1943)
• Brengle, Samuel Logan (1860 – 1936)
• Brennan, James Alexander (1885 – 1956)
• Brennan, William Joseph (1906 – 1997)
• Brent, Joseph Lancaster (1826 – 1905)
• Brentano, Franz Clemens (1838 – 1917)
• Breton, André (1896 – 1966)
• Breton, Nicholas (1545 – 1626)
• Breuer, Josef (1842 – 1925)
• Breuer, Miles John (1889 – 1945)
• Brewer, David Josiah (1837 – 1910)
• Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1810 – 1897)
• Brewer, John Sherren (1810 – 1879)
• Brewer, Thomas Mayo (1814 – 1880)
• Brewer, William Henry (1828 – 1910)
• Brewitt-Taylor, Charles Henry (1857 – 1938)
• Brewster, Sir David (1781 – 1868)
• Brewster, William (1851 – 1919)
• Brewster, William Tenney (1869 – 1961)
• Breyer, Stephen (1938 – present)
• Brezhnev, Leonid (1906 – 1982)
• Brickwood, Edwin Dampier (1837 - 1906)
• Bridge, Cyprian (1839 – 1924)
• Bridgeman, George Thomas Orlando (1823 – 1895)
• Bridges, Robert (1844 – 1930)
• Bright, Charles Tilston (1832 – 1888)
• Bright, James W. (1852 – 1926)
• Bright, John (1811 – 1889)
• Bright, Richard (1789 – 1858)
• Brightman, Rev. Frank Edward (1856-1932)
• Briliant, Oscar (1875 - 1924)
• Brill, Abraham Arden (1874 – 1948)
• Brinkley, Francis (or Frank) (1841 – 1912)
• Brinton, Daniel Garrison (1837 – 1899)
• Britten, James (1846 – 1924)
• Broadbent, John Francis Harpin (1865 - 1946)
• Broadfoot, William (1841 – 1922)
• Broca, Paul (1824 – 1880)
• Brochard, Victor (1848 – 1907)
• Brock, Sir Isaac (1769 – 1812)
• Brock, Robert Alonzo (1839 – 1914)
• Brockhausen, Carl (1859 – 1951)
• Brodie, Benjamin Collins (1817 – 1880)
• Brodie, James (1744 – 1824)
• Brodie, Robert Henry (1859 – 1943)
• Brodie, Thomas Gregor (1866 - 1916)
• Brodribb, Arthur Aikin (1850 – 1927)
• Brodribb, William Jackson (1829 – 1905)
• Brodrick, George Charles (1831 – 1903)
• Brogan, James C.
• Brome, Richard (1590 – 1643)
• Bromfield, Louis (1896 – 1956)
• Brongniart, Adolphe-Théodore (1801 – 1876)
• Brontë, Anne (1820 – 1849)
• Brontë, Branwell (1817 – 1848)
• Brontë, Charlotte (1816 – 1855)
• Brontë, Emily (1818 – 1848)
• Brooke, Rupert (1887 – 1915)
• Brooke, Stopford Augustus (1832 – 1916)
• Brooker, Bertram (1888 – 1955)
• Brooks, Elbridge Streeter (1846 – 1902)
• Brooks, David Marshall (1902- ?)
• Brooks, Frederick Vincent (1848 - 1921)
• Brooks, Phillips (1835 – 1893)
• Brooks, Preston (1819 – 1857)
• Brooks, Shelton (1886 – 1975)
• Brooks, Sydney (1872 – 1937)
• Brooks, William Keith (1848 – 1908)
• Brooks, William Robert (1844 – 1921)
• Lady Broome, Mary Anne (1831 - 1911)
• Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter (1778 – 1868)
• Broun, Peter (1797 – 1846)
• Broun, Thomas Lee (1823 – 1914)
• Brown, Abbie Farwell (1875 – 1927)
• Brown, Audrey Alexandra (1904 – 1998)
• Brown, Edmund Woodward (1831 – 1902)
• Brown, Ford Madox (1821 – 1893)
• Brown, Frank Herbert (1868 – 1959)
• Brown, Gerard Baldwin (1845 – 1932)
• Brown, Gordon (1951 – present)
• Brown, Henry Billings (1836 – 1913)
• Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes (1854 - 1926)
• Brown, James Duff (1862 - 1914)
• Brown, John (1735 – 1788)
• Brown, John (1800 – 1859)
• Brown, John (1830 – 1922)
• Brown, John Newton (1803 – 1868)
• Brown, John Taylor (1811 – 1901)
• Brown, Robert (1773 – 1858)
• Brown, Runham (fl. 1926)
• Brown, Thomas Edward (1830 – 1897)
• Brown, Thomas Storrow (1803 – 1888)
• Brown, William Baker (1864 – 1947)
• Brown, William Wells (1814 – 1884)
• Browne, Charles Farrar (1834 – 1867)
• Browne, Edward Granville (1862 – 1926)
• Browne, Frances (1816 – 1887)
• Browne, James (1793 – 1841)
• Browne, Junius Henri (1833 – 1902)
• Browne, Patrick (1720 – 1790)
• Browne, Richard Charles (1838 – 1907)
• Browne, Thomas (1605 – 1682)
• Browne, Thomas Alexander (1826 – 1915)
• Browne, Walter Raleigh (1842 – 1884)
• Browne, William (1590 – 1645)
• Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806 – 1861)
• Browning, Hanworth Stephen (fl. 1910-1920)
• Browning, Oscar (1837 – 1923)
• Browning, Robert (1812 – 1889)
• Brownlow, William Robert (1830 - 1901)
• Brownson, Henry Francis (1835 – 1913)
• Bruce, Alexander Balmain (1831 – 1899)
• Bruce, Henry Addington Bayley (1874 – 1959)
• Bruce, Henry Harvey (1862 – 1948)
• Bruce, James (1730 - 1794)
• Bruce, Lewis Campbell (1866 - 1945)
• Bruce, Philip Alexander (1856 – 1933)
• Bruce, William Cabell (1860 – 1946)
• Bruce, William Speirs (1867 – 1921)
• Brummel, George Bryan "Beau" (1778–1840)
• Bruneau, Raymond (1917 – 1970)
• Brunetière, Ferdinand (1849 – 1906)
• de Bruni d'Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph (1739 – 1793)
• Brunton, Thomas Lauder (1844 - 1916)
• Brush, George Jarvis (1831 – 1912)
• Brutus, Marcus Junius (85 BCE – 42 BCE)
• Bryan, Mary Baird (1869 – 1930)
• Bryan, Vincent (1878 – 1937)
• Bryan, William Jennings (1860 – 1925)
• Bryant, Charles S. (1808 – 1885)
• Bryant, John Delavau (1811 – 1817)
• Bryant, Margaret (? – ?)
• Bryant, Maria Warren Whitman (1808 – 1888)
• Bryant, William Cullen (1794 – 1878)
• Bryce, George (1844 - 1931)
• Bryce, James (1838 – 1922)
• Brydges, 1st Baronet, Sir Samuel Egerton (1762 – 1837)
• Brydon, John McKean (1840 – 1901)
• Burgon, John William (1813 – 1888)

Bu

• Buchan, Alexander (1829 – 1907)
• Buchan, John (1875 – 1940)
• Buchanan, George (1506 – 1582)
• Buchanan, James (1791 – 1868)
• Buchanan, John (1819 - 1898)
• Buchanan, Joseph Rodes Buchanan (1814 – 1899)
• Buchanan, Robert Williams (1841 – 1901)
• Buchanan, William Ashbury (1876 – 1954)
• Buchanan-Hamilton, Francis (1762 – 1829)
• Buchheim, Carl Adolf (1828 – 1900)
• Buchner, Max Joseph August Heinrich Markus (1846 – 1921)
• Buchwald, Georg Apollo (1859 – 1947)
• Buck, Carl Darling (1866 – 1955)
• Bucke, Richard Maurice (1837–1902)
• Buckingham, James Silk (1786 – 1855)
• Buckland, Augustus Robert (1857 – 1942)
• Buckland, Francis Trevelyan (1826 – 1880)
• Buckland, William (1784 – 1856)
• Buckley, Arabella Burton (1840 – 1929)
• Buckley, James Monroe (1836 - 1920)
• Buckley, Robert John (1847 ― 1938)
• Bucknill, John Charles (1817 – 1897)
• Buddha, Gautama (c. 563 BCE – c. 483 BCE)
• Budé, Guillaume (1467 – 1540)
• Budge, Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis (1857 – 1934)
• Budgell, Eustace (1686 – 1737)
• Budry, Edmond Louis (1854 – 1932)
• Bühler, Georg (1837 – 1898)
• Bulfinch, Thomas (1796 – 1867)
• Bullen, Arthur Henry (1857 – 1920)
• Buller, Antony (19th century, dates unknown)
• Bullialdus, Ismaël (1605 – 1694)
• Bullinger, Ethelbert William (1837 – 1913)
• Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton (1803 – 1873)
• Bumstead, Henry Andrews (1870 – 1920)
• Bunbury, Edward Herbert (1811 – 1895)
• Bunce, Oliver Bell Bunce (1828 – 1890)
• Bunin, Ivan (1870 – 1953)
• Bunn, Alfred (1796 – 1860)
• Bunner, Henry Cuyler (1855 – 1896)
• von Bunsen, Christian Charles Josias (1791–1860)
• Bunyan, John (1628 – 1688)
• Burckhardt, Jacob (1818 – 1897)
• Burckhardt, John Lewis (1784 – 1817)
• Burder, George (1752 – 1832)
• Burdett, Sir Henry (1847-1920)
• Burdon-Sanderson, Ghetal (1833 – 1909)
• Bürger, Gottfried August (1747 – 1794)
• Burger, Warren E. (1906 – 1995)
• Burgess, James (1832 - 1916)
• Burgess, John (1855–1929)
• Burgess, Thornton (1874 – 1965)
• Burke, Edmund (1729 – 1797)
• Burkitt, Francis Crawford (1864-1935)
• Burks, Arthur (1915 – 2008)
• Burman, Nicolaas Laurens (1734 – 1793)
• von Burmeister, Karl Hermann Konrad (1807–1892)
• Burn, Rev. Andrew Ewbank (1864-1927)
• Burnet, George Wardlaw (1853 – 1901)
• Burnett, Alice Hale
• Burnett, Charles P. A. (1849 - ?)
• Burnett, Ernie (1894 – 1959)
• Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849 – 1924)
• Burnett, Swan Moses (1847 – 1906)
• Burney, Charles (1726–1814)
• Burney, Frances (1752–1840)
• Burney, James (1750 – 1821)
• Burnham, Frederick Russell (1861 – 1947)
• Burnie, Robert William (1851 – 1933)
• Burnley, James (1838 – 1919)
• Burns, James Drummond (1823 – 1864)
• Burns, Robert (1759 – 1796)
• Burnside, William (1852 - 1927)
• Burpee, Lawrence Johnstone (1873-1946)
• Burr, Charles
• Burr, Roy C.
• Burrell, Martin (1858 – 1938)
• Burrough, Edward (1634 – 1663)
• Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875 – 1950)
• Burroughs, John (1837 – 1921)
• Burrows, Montagu (1819 – 1905)
• Burrows, Ronald Montagu (1867 – 1920)
• Burrows, Winfrid Oldfield (1858 - 1929)
• Bursill, Henry Wayte (1832 – 1871)
• Burstall, Sara Annie (1859–1939)
• Burton, Harold Hitz (1888 – 1964)
• Burton, Joseph (? – ?)
• Burton, Richard Francis (1821 – 1890)
• Burton, William (1863 – 1941)
• Bury, Charlotte (1775 – 1861)
• Bury, John Bagnell (1861 – 1927)
• de Busbecq, Ogier Ghiselin (1520 – 1592)
• Bush, Charles P. (1813 – 1880)
• Bush, George (1796 – 1859)
• Bush, George Herbert Walker (1924 – present)
• Bush, George W. (1946 – present)
• Bush, Laura (1946 – present)
• Bush, Wendell T. (1866 – 1941)
• Bushby, Frances, Lady (1838 – 1925)
• Bussell, John (1803 – 1875)
• Bussenius, Clara E. (? ― ?)
• Bussey, George Moir (1807–1864)
• Butcher, Samuel Henry (1850 – 1910)
• Butler, Alfred Joshua (1850 - 1936)
• Butler, Arthur John (1844 – 1910)
• Butler, Benjamin Franklin (1818 – 1893)
• Butler, Edward Cuthbert (1858 – 1934)
• Butler, Edward Dundas (1842 - 1919)
• Butler, Ellis Parker (1869 – 1937)
• Butler, Francis Henry (1849 - 1935)
• Butler, Gerald (1907 – 1988)
• Butler, Harold Beresford (1883 – 1951)
• Butler, Nicholas Murray (1862 – 1947)
• Butler, Pierce (1866 – 1939)
• Butler, Samuel (1835 – 1902)
• Butler, William (1825 – 1902)
• Butterworth, Hezekiah (1839 – 1905)
• Büttner, Carl Gotthilf (1848 – 1893)

By

• Byers, Samuel Hawkins Marshall (1838 – 1933)
• Byles, Cyril Beuzeville (1871 – 1942)
• Byng, John (1704 – 1757)
• Byrd, Robert C. (1917 – 2010)
• Byrne, Oliver (1810 – 1880)
• Byrnes, James Francis (1879 – 1972)
• Byron, Augusta Ada (1815–1852)
• Lord Byron (1788 – 1824)
• Bywater, Ingram (1840 – 1914)
• Bywater, Witham Matthew (1826 – 1911)