Authors by B

Charles Bukowski 555

American writer 1920–1994

Kobe Bryant 32

American basketball player 1978–2020

Henri Barbusse 197

French novelist 1873–1935

Robert Browning 179

English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era 1812–1889

Mikhail Bakunin 63

Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collect… 1814–1876

Saul Bellow 103

Canadian-born American writer 1915–2005

Tim Burton 43

American filmmaker 1958

Robert Baden-Powell 23

lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and… 1857–1941

The Notorious B.I.G. 19

American rapper 1972–1997

Samuel Beckett 122

Irish novelist, playwright, and poet 1906–1989

Augustine Birrell	British politician	1850–1933
John Birtwhistle	English poet	1946
Harrison Birtwistle	British composer	1934
Óscar Elías Biscet	Cuban activist	1961
Anne Bishop	American fiction writer	1955
Elizabeth Bishop	American poet	1911–1979
Isabel Bishop	American painter	1902–1988
Jim Bishop	American journalist and author	1907–1987
Michael Bishop	American writer	1945
Otto von Bismarck	German statesman, Chancellor …	1815–1898
Otto von Bismark	German statesman, Chancellor …	1815–1898
Ram Prasad Bismil	revolutionary, poet & writer	1897–1927
Tom Bissell	American journalist	1974
Paulo Bitencourt		1966
Mark Bittman	American journalist, food wri…	1950
Wilhelm Bittrich	German general	1894–1979
Cedric Bixler-Zavala	American singer	1974
Georges Bizet	French composer	1838–1875
Björk	Icelandic singer-songwriter	1965
Magnus Björnstjerna	Swedish count and general (17…	1779–1847
Gerrit Blaauw	Dutch computer scientist	1924–2018
Aloe Blacc	American soul singer, rapper …	1979
Bob Black	American anarchist	1951
Campbell Black	Scottish author	1944–2013
Conrad Black	Canadian-born newspaper publi…	1944
Holly Black	American children's fiction w…	1971
Hugo Black	U.S. Supreme Court justice	1886–1971
Jack Black	American actor, comedian, mus…	1969
Jenna Black	American writer	1965
Lewis Black	American stand-up comedian, a…	1948
Michael Ian Black	American comedian, actor, wri…	1971
Pippa Black	actress	1982
Richard H. Black	American politician	1944
Shane Black	American actor, screenwriter …	1961
Colin Blackburn, Baron Blackburn	British judge	1813–1896
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn	British Liberal statesman, wr…	1838–1923
Marsha Blackburn	American politician	1952
Olly Blackburn	Film director and screenwriter
Simon Blackburn	British academic philosopher	1944
Valentine Blacker	British colonial administrator	1778–1826
William Blacker
John Stuart Blackie	Scottish scholar and man of l…	1809–1895
Malorie Blackman	Author	1962
Nicole Blackman	American musician	1971
Richard Blackmore	English poet and physician	1654–1729
Ritchie Blackmore	British guitarist and songwri…	1945
Susan Blackmore	British writer and academic	1951
Harry Blackmun	Associate Justice of the Supr…	1908–1999
R. P. Blackmur	American literary critic	1904–1965
Terri Blackstock	American writer	1957
William Blackstone	English jurist, judge and Tor…	1723–1780
Antoinette Brown Blackwell	American minister	1825–1921
Elizabeth Blackwell	England-born American physici…	1821–1910
Nigel Blackwell
Algernon Blackwood	English short story writer an…	1869–1951
Richard Blackwood	British comedian	1972
Rubén Blades	Panamanian musician, singer, …	1948
Rod Blagojevich	Former Governor of Illinois	1956
Manolo Blahnik	Spanish fashion designer	1942
David Blaine	American illusionist and endu…	1973
James G. Blaine	American Republican politician	1830–1893
Geoffrey Blainey	Australian historian	1930
Cherie Blair	British barrister and wife of…	1954
Hugh Blair	British philosopher	1718–1800
Leonard Paul Blair	Catholic archbishop	1949
Linda Blair	actress, producer, animal rig…	1959
Robert Blair	British writer	1699–1746
Tony Blair	former Prime Minister of the …	1953
James A. Blaisdell	American academic	1867–1957
James Blake	American tennis player	1979
Michael Blake	American writer	1945–2015
Peter Blake	British artist	1932
Quentin Blake	English cartoonist, illustrat…	1932
William Blake	English Romantic poet and art…	1757–1827
Colin Blakemore	British neuroscientist	1944
Art Blakey	American jazz drummer and ban…	1919–1990
Jolene Blalock	actress	1975
Raymond Blanc	French chef	1949
Olivier Blanchard	French economist	1948
Samuel Laman Blanchard	British author and journalist	1804–1845
Cate Blanchett	Australian actress	1969
David Blanchflower	British economist	1952
Maurice Blanchot	French writer, philosopher, a…	1907–2003
Cuauhtémoc Blanco	Mexican footballer	1973
Jesús Tirso Blanco	Argentinian bishop	1957–2022
Tia Blanco		1997
William H. P. Blandy	American admiral	1890–1954
Steve Blank	American businessman	1953
Louis Auguste Blanqui	French socialist and politica…	1805–1881
Marlena de Blasi		1952
Bill de Blasio	American politician and mayor…	1961
Sarah Blasko	Australian singer-songwriter,…	1976
Robert Blatchford	British writer and activist	1851–1943
William Peter Blatty	American writer and filmmaker	1928–2017
Mark Blaug	British economist	1927–2011
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky	occult writer	1831–1891
Hazel Blears	British politician	1956
Alexis Bledel	American actress	1981
Ann Eliza Bleecker	American poet, correspondent	1752–1783
Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg	German ethnologe, sociologe, …	1929