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

William G. Boykin	Recipient of the Purple Heart…	1948
Jennifer Finney Boylan	American author	1958
Frankie Boyle	Scottish comedian	1972
Robert Boyle	English natural philosopher, …	1627–1691
Susan Boyle	British singer	1961
T.C. Boyle	American novelist and short s…	1948
Willard Boyle	Canadian physicist and invent…	1924–2011
John Boyne	Irish novelist, author of chi…	1971
Ego Boyo	Nigerian actress and movie pr…	1968
C. V. Boys	British physicist	1855–1944
Pet Shop Boys
Gilad Bracha	American software engineer
Viktor Brack	SS officer	1904–1948
Peg Bracken	American writer	1918–2007
Thomas Bracken	poet	1843–1898
Anna Brackett	American philosopher	1836–1911
Joseph Brackett	American songwriter	1797–1882
Leigh Brackett	American novelist and screenw…	1915–1978
Celestino Aós Braco	Roman Catholic cardinal	1945
Malcolm Bradbury	English author and academic	1932–2000
Ray Bradbury	American writer	1920–2012
Mary Elizabeth Braddon	English author	1835–1915
James Dean Bradfield	Welsh musician, lead singer a…	1969
Barbara Taylor Bradford	British author	1933
D. S. Bradford	musician	1982
John Bradford	English Protestant Reformer a…	1510–1555
William Bradford	English Separatist leader in …	1590–1657
Charles Bradlaugh	British freethinker, and radi…	1833–1891
Ed Bradley	News correspondent	1941–2006
F. H. Bradley	British philosopher	1846–1924
James Bradley	English astronomer; Astronome…	1693–1762
Marion Zimmer Bradley	Novelist, editor	1930–1999
Omar Bradley	United States Army field comm…	1893–1981
Timothy Bradley	American boxer	1983
Anne Bradstreet	Anglo-American poet	1612–1672
Thomas Bradwardine	Theologian; Archbishop of Can…	1300–1349
Ian Brady	British serial killer, perpet…	1938–2017
Tom Brady	American football quarterback	1977
Joshua Braff	American writer	1967
Zach Braff	American actor, director, scr…	1975
Claude Bragdon	American architect	1866–1946
Billy Bragg	English singer-songwriter and…	1957
Melvyn Bragg	British broadcaster and author	1939
William Henry Bragg	British scientist	1862–1942
Rémi Brague	French historian	1947
Ajahn Brahm	Buddhist monk	1951
Caryl Brahms	English critic, novelist, and…	1901–1982
Johannes Brahms	German composer and pianist	1833–1897
James Braid	Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, …	1795–1860
John Gardiner Calkins Brainard	American writer	1795–1828
Mary Gardiner Brainard	American poet	1837–1905
John Braine	English novelist	1922–1986
Valentino Braitenberg	Italian-Austrian neuroscienti…	1926–2011
Ernest Bramah	English author	1868–1942
Tom Bramble	Australian trade unionist
Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton	British judge	1817–1907
Sally Brampton	British writer	1955–2016
James Bramston	British writer	1694–1744
Michelle Branch	American singer-songwriter an…	1983
Constantin Brâncuși	French-Romanian artist	1876–1957
Max Brand	American novelist, and short …	1892–1944
Russell Brand	British comedian, actor, and …	1975
Stewart Brand	American writer	1938
Dorothea Brande	American writer and editor	1893–1948
Louis Brandeis	American Supreme Court Justice	1856–1941
Nathaniel Branden	Canadian–American psychothera…	1930–2014
Georg Brandes	Danish literature critic and …	1842–1927
Marlon Brando	American screen and stage act…	1924–2004
Gyles Brandreth	British writer, broadcaster a…	1948
Karl Brandt
Willy Brandt	German social-democratic poli…	1913–1992
Buck Brannaman	Horse trainer	1962
Lewis M. Branscomb	physicist and science policy …	1926
Richard Branson	English business magnate, inv…	1950
Larry Brantley	American stand-up comedian	1966
Georges Braque	French painter and sculptor	1882–1963
Harpal Brar	British politician	1939
Tiffany Brar	Indian Social Activist	1988
Nuno Brás	Portuguese priest	1963
Giannina Braschi	Puerto Rican writer	1953
Ann Brashares	American children's writer	1967
Dave Brat	American economist and profes…	1964
Benjamin Bratt	American actor	1963
Nicolas Bratza	British judge	1945
Walther von Brauchitsch	German field marshal	1881–1948
Fernand Braudel	French historian and a leader…	1902–1985
Carol Moseley Braun	American politician and lawyer	1947
Lilian Jackson Braun	author	1913–2011
Wernher von Braun	German, later an American, ae…	1912–1977
Richard Brautigan	American novelist, poet, and …	1935–1984
Ysabella Brave	American singer	1979
Libba Bray	American teen writer	1964
Tim Bray	Canadian software developer	1955
T. Berry Brazelton	American pediatrician	1918–2018
Brendan Brazier	Canadian triathlete, publishe…	1975
Donna Brazile	American author, educator, an…	1959
Michel Bréal	French philologist	1832–1915
Berkeley Breathed	American cartoonist	1957
Catherine Bréchignac	French physicist	1946
Bertolt Brecht	German poet, playwright, thea…	1898–1956