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

Rabia Basri	Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
Ellen Bass	American writer	1947
Jules Bass	American composer and filmmak…	1935–2022
Kyle Bass	businessperson	1969
Saul Bass	American graphic designer and…	1920–1996
Franco Bassani	Italian physicist	1929–2008
Basshunter	Swedish singer, record produc…	1984
Robert Bassili		1972
Bayazid Bastami	Persian Sufi mystic	804–846
Ol' Dirty Bastard	American rapper	1968–2004
Thomas Bastard
Frédéric Bastiat	French classical liberal theo…	1801–1850
Tomáš Baťa	Czech businessman	1876–1932
Georges Bataille	French intellectual and liter…	1897–1962
Mario Batali	American chef, writer, restau…	1960
Shiv Kumar Batalvi	Indian poet	1936–1973
Brian Bates	British academic	1944
Marston Bates	American entomologist	1906–1974
Gregory Bateson	English anthropologist, socia…	1904–1980
Mary Catherine Bateson	American anthropologist	1939
Thomas Bateson
William Bateson	British geneticist and biolog…	1861–1926
Elizabeth Bath	English poet	1776–1844
William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath	English politician	1684–1764
Andy Bathgate	Canadian ice hockey player	1932–2016
Kamal Hanna Bathish	Israeli-Arab Roman Catholic b…	1931
Gabriel Batistuta	Argentine association footbal…	1969
Dinanath Batra	Indian school teacher	1930
Ramón Calderón Batres	Mexican Roman Catholic bishop	1938
Gregory Battcock		1937–1980
John Battelle	American writer	1965
Cyia Batten	American actress	1972
Gerard Batten	British politician	1954
Mark Batterson	American pastor and writer	1969
Franco Battiato	Italian singer-songwriter, co…	1945
Ibn Battuta	Moroccan explorer	1304–1377
Jean-Dominique Bauby	French journalist, author and…	1952–1997
Frank Baude	Swedish politician	1936
Charles Baudelaire	French poet	1821–1867
Thierry Baudet	Dutch writer and jurist	1983
Charles Baudouin	French-Swiss psychoanalyst	1893–1963
Jean Baudrillard	French sociologist and philos…	1929–2007
Bruno Bauer	German philosopher and histor…	1809–1882
Friedrich Bauer	German computer scientist	1924–2015
Marion Bauer	American composer	1882–1955
Yehuda Bauer	Israeli historian of the Holo…	1926
L. Frank Baum	Children's writer, editor, jo…	1856–1919
Neil Bauman		1951
Zygmunt Bauman	Polish philosopher and sociol…	1925–2017
Philippe Baumard	French academic	1968
Felix Baumgartner	Austrian skydiver, daredevil …	1969
William J. Baumol	American economist	1922–2017
Dotsie Bausch	cyclist	1973
Dave Bautista	American actor and profession…	1969
Michel Bauwens
Timoci Bavadra	Fijian politician	1934–1989
Ernest Belfort Bax	British barrister and journal…	1854–1926
Anne Baxter	American actress	1923–1985
Charles Baxter
J. Sidlow Baxter	Australian theologian	1903–1999
Richard Baxter	English Puritan church leader…	1615–1691
Stephen Baxter	author	1957
James Bay	British singer-songwriter	1990
Pierre Bayle	French philosopher and writer	1647–1706
Trevor Baylis	English inventor	1937–2018
Thomas Haynes Bayly	English poet, songwriter, dra…	1797–1839
Pauline Baynes	English illustrator of childr…	1922–2008
Frédéric Bazille	French painter	1841–1870
André Bazin	French film critic	1918–1958
William Baziotes	American painter	1912–1963
Layne Beachley	Australian surfer	1972
George Beadle
Peter S. Beagle	American writer	1939
Ishmael Beah	Sierra Leone writer	1980
Frances M. Beal	American activist	1940
Jennifer Beals	American actress and a former…	1963
Henry Hamilton Beamish	British antisemite (1873-1948)	1873–1948
Alan Bean	American astronaut and painter	1932–2018
Elizabeth Bear	American novelist	1971
Greg Bear	American writer best known fo…	1951
Hollow Horn Bear	19th century Lakota chief and…	1850–1913
Charles A. Beard	American historian	1874–1948
Henry N. Beard	American writer, co-founder a…	1945
James Beard	American chef	1903–1985
Mary Beard	English classicist	1955
Peter Beard	American photographer and wri…	1938–2020
Aubrey Beardsley	English illustrator and author	1872–1898
David Beasley	113th Governor of South Carol…	1957
Ann Beattie	Short story writer, novelist,…	1947
James Beattie	Scottish poet, moralist and p…	1735–1803
Melody Beattie	American writer	1948
Peter Beattie	36th Premier of Queensland	1952
Bob Beatty	American-football player (195…	1955
David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty	Royal Navy officer	1871–1936
Paul Beatty	American writer	1962
Pierre Beaumarchais	French playwright diplomat an…	1732–1799
Francis Beaumont	British dramatist	1584–1616
Simone de Beauvoir	French writer, intellectual, …	1908–1986
Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook	Anglo-Canadian business tycoo…	1879–1964
Eli Bebout	American politician and busin…	1946