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

Frank Bruno	British boxer	1961
Giordano Bruno	Italian philosopher, mathemat…	1548–1600
Doyle Brunson	American poker player	1933–2023
Paul Brunton	British philosopher	1898–1981
Günter Brus	Austrian artist	1938
Steven Brust	American fantasy and science …	1955
Robert Brustein	American writer	1927
Marcus Junius Brutus	Roman politician	-85–-42 BC
Jean de La Bruyère	17th-century French writer an…	1645–1696
Albert Bryan	Governor of the United States…	1968
Daniel Bryan	American professional wrestler	1981
Richard Bryan
William Jennings Bryan	United States Secretary of St…	1860–1925
Anita Bryant	American singer	1940
Bear Bryant	American college football coa…	1913–1983
Edwin Bryant	American indologist	1957
Kobe Bryant	American basketball player	1978–2020
William Cullen Bryant	American romantic poet and jo…	1794–1878
James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce	British academic, jurist, his…	1838–1922
Bill Bryson	American author	1951
Bryan Bryson	researcher (ORCID 0000-0003-1…
Zbigniew Brzeziński	Polish-American political sci…	1928–2017
bts	ruler of the Akkadian Empire
Ajahn Maha Bua	monk	1913–2011
Martin Buber	German Jewish Existentialist …	1878–1965
Maurice Bucaille	French physician and author	1920–1998
John Buchan	British politician	1875–1940
James Buchanan	American politician, 15th Pre…	1791–1868
James M. Buchanan	American economist	1919–2013
Mark Buchanan	American physicist	1961
Patrick Buchanan	American politician and comme…	1938
Robert Williams Buchanan	Scottish poet, novelist and d…	1841–1901
Frank Buchman	Evangelical theologist	1878–1961
Georg Büchner	German dramatist and writer o…	1813–1837
Art Buchwald	journalist, humorist, United …	1925–2007
Chris Buck
Jack Buck	American sportscaster	1924–2002
Joe Buck	American sportscaster	1969
Pearl S. Buck	American writer	1892–1973
Tim Buck	Canadian politician	1891–1973
Richard Maurice Bucke	prominent Canadian psychiatri…	1837–1902
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham	English statesman and poet	1628–1687
Lilia Buckingham	American actress, author and …	2003
Marcus Buckingham	British writer	1966
William Buckland	English clergyman, geologist …	1784–1856
Henry Thomas Buckle	English historian	1821–1862
Frank Buckles	United States Army soldier an…	1901–2011
Christopher Buckley	American writer	1952
Jeff Buckley	American singer, guitarist an…	1966–1997
Lord Buckley	American actor and comedian	1906–1960
Walter F. Buckley	American sociologist	1922–2006
Neal Buckon	American Roman Catholic bishop	1953
Salah Al Budair	Imaam at Masjid al-Nabawi	1971
Ted Budd	American politician	1971
Gautama Buddha	philosopher, reformer and the…	-563–-483 BC
Buddhaghosa	Indian writer
Gersh Budker	Soviet physicist	1918–1977
Brent Budowsky	American journalist	1952
Algis Budrys	American writer	1931–2008
Frederick Buechner	Poet, novelist, short story w…	1926
Federico Buffa	Italian journalist, writer an…	1959
Jimmy Buffett	American singer–songwriter an…	1946
Warren Buffett	American business magnate, in…	1930
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon	French natural historian	1707–1788
Gianluigi Buffon	Italian association football …	1978
Salwa Bugaighis	Libyan activist	1963–2014
Lois McMaster Bujold	Science Fiction and fantasy a…	1949
Nikolai Bukharin	Soviet politician	1888–1938
Charles Bukowski	American writer	1920–1994
NoViolet Bulawayo	Zimbabwean writer and educator	1981
Mikhail Bulgakov	Russian author primarily know…	1891–1940
Boris III of Bulgaria	Tsar of Bulgaria	1894–1943
John D. Bulkeley	United States Navy Medal of H…	1911–1996
Bart Bull	American journalist
Emma Bull	American writer	1954
Hedley Bull	Australian academic	1932–1985
Sitting Bull	Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man …	1831–1890
Arthur Henry Reginald Buller	British–Canadian mycologist	1874–1944
Gerald Bullett	British writer	1893–1958
Sandra Bullock	American actress and producer	1964
Hans von Bülow	German musician	1830–1894
Rudolf Karl Bultmann	German theologian	1884–1976
Edward Bulwer-Lytton	English novelist, poet, playw…	1803–1873
Dmitri Bulykin	Russian association football …	1979
Rodger Bumpass	American character actor and …	1951
Ralph Bunche	American diplomat	1904–1971
Brooke Bundy	American actress	1944
Ted Bundy	American serial killer	1946–1989
Mario Bunge	Argentine philosopher and phy…	1919
Antonius Subianto Bunjamin	Indonesian catholic priest	1968
Alfred Bunn	British businessman, libretti…	1796–1860
Henry Cuyler Bunner	American writer	1855–1896
Basil Bunting	Poet	1900–1985
Luis Buñuel	film director	1900–1983
John Bunyan	English Christian writer and …	1628–1688
Michelangelo Buonarroti	Italian sculptor, painter, ar…	1475–1564
John Bura	Ukrainian Catholic bishop in …	1944–2023
Luther Burbank	American botanist, horticultu…	1849–1926
Geoffrey Burbidge	British astronomer	1925–2010
Michael Francis Burbidge	American Catholic bishop	1957