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

Nina Bangs
Devendra Banhart	American folk singer	1981
Melissa Bank	American writer	1961
Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank	British architect	1935
Tallulah Bankhead	American actress	1902–1968
Ernie Banks	American baseball player and …	1931–2015
Iain Banks	Scottish writer	1954–2013
Joseph Banks
Lynne Reid Banks	British writer	1929
Maya Banks	Author	1964
Nathaniel Banks	politician of Massachusetts a…	1816–1894
Robert Banks	American filmmaker	1966
Russell Banks	American author	1940
Tony Banks	British politician	1942–2006
Tyra Banks	American model, author and te…	1973
Banksy	pseudonymous England-based gr…
Hassan Banna	Egyptian politician	1906–1949
Duncan Bannatyne	Scottish entrepreneur, philan…	1949
Benjamin Banneker	free African American scienti…	1731–1806
Frances Bannerman	Canadian poet	1855–1940
Émile Banning	academic, civil servant	1836–1898
Roger Bannister	English physician and athlete	1929–2018
Steve Bannon	American media executive and …	1953
Nick Bantock	British artist	1949
John Banville	Irish writer	1945
Ruzbihan Baqli	Persian poet, mystic, and Sufi	1128–1209
Theda Bara	Silent film actress	1885–1955
Albert-László Barabási	Hungarian-Eomanian physicist	1967
Ehud Barak	Israeli politician and prime …	1942
Amiri Baraka	African-American writer	1934–2014
Paul A. Baran	American Marxist economist	1909–1964
Ziauddin Barani	Indian Muslim historian and p…	1285–1357
Ron Barassi
Carl Barât	English musician	1978
Evgeny Baratynsky	Russian poet	1800–1844
Kian barazandeh	Actor , Model	1998
Kian Barazandeh	Iranian Super-model & Actor	1998
Gerald Barbarito	Bishop of the Catholic Dioces…	1950
Anna Laetitia Barbauld	English author	1743–1825
Adrienne Barbeau	actress from the United States	1945
Benjamin R. Barber	US political scientist	1939–2017
Margaret Barber	English Christian writer	1869–1901
Gina Barberi
Klaus Barbie	SS-Hauptsturmführer, soldier …	1913–1991
Duarte Barbosa	Portuguese explorer and writer	1480–1545
John Barbour	Scottish poet	1316–1395
Henri Barbusse	French novelist	1873–1935
James Barbut	English painter and naturalist
Pedro Calderón de la Barca	Spanish dramatist	1600–1681
Robert Barclay	Scottish Quaker apologist	1648–1690
William Barclay	Church of Scotland minister a…	1907–1978
John Bardeen	American physicist and engine…	1908–1991
Franz Bardon	Czech hermeticist, illusionis…	1909–1958
Brigitte Bardot	French model, actor, singer a…	1934
Michele Bardsley	American writer	1970
Goran Bare	Croatian rock musician, singer	1965
Bishr the Barefoot	Muslim saint	769–841
Sara Bareilles	American pop rock singer-song…	1979
Syed Ahmad Barelvi	Muslim activist	1786–1831
Daniel Barenboim	Israeli Argentine-born pianis…	1942
Richard Harris Barham	British writer and priest	1788–1845
Alessandro Baricco	Italian writer	1958
Maurice Baring	English writer	1874–1945
Sabine Baring-Gould	English hagiographer, antiqua…	1834–1924
Clive Barker	author, film director and vis…	1952
Dan Barker	American atheist activist	1949
George Barker	British poet	1913–1991
Jane Barker	British writer	1652–1732
Nicola Barker	English novelist	1966
Pat Barker	British writer	1943
Travis Barker	American drummer and music pr…	1975
Charles Barkley	American basketball player	1963
Carl Barks	American cartoonist, author, …	1901–2000
Coleman Barks	American poet	1937
Samantha Barks	Manx singer and actress	1990
Ernst Barlach	German expressionist sculptor…	1870–1938
John Barlas	British writer	1860–1914
Lou Barletta	American politician	1956
George Barlow
Harold Barlow
Joel Barlow	American diplomat	1754–1812
John Perry Barlow	American poet and essayist	1947–2018
Chester Barnard	American businessman	1886–1961
Christiaan Barnard	South-African physician	1922–2001
Neal D. Barnard	American physician, author, a…	1953
Albert Barnes	American theologian	1798–1870
Djuna Barnes	American Modernist writer, po…	1892–1982
Ernest Barnes	English mathematician and cle…	1874–1953
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
John Barnes	American science fiction writ…	1957
Julian Barnes	English writer	1946
Kevin Barnes
Peter Barnes	British writer	1931–2004
Simon Barnes	British journalist	1951
Steven Barnes	American writer and author	1952
William Barnes	English writer, poet, clergym…	1801–1886
Cynthia Barnett	American journalist	1966
Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett	British politician	1923–2014
Matthew Barney	American artist	1967
Natalie Clifford Barney	writer and salonist	1876–1972