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

Warren Berger	American writer	1958
Cyrano de Bergerac	French novelist, dramatist, s…	1619–1655
Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey	Franco-Spanish actress	1986
Dennis Bergkamp	Dutch footballer	1969
Richard Bergland	neuroscientist
Ingmar Bergman	Swedish filmmaker	1918–2007
Ingrid Bergman	Film actress from Sweden	1915–1982
Henri Bergson	French philosopher	1859–1941
Lavrentiy Beria	Georgian Soviet NKVD police c…	1899–1953
Luciano Berio	Italian composer	1925–2003
George Berkeley	Anglo-Irish philosopher	1685–1753
Elizabeth Berkley	American actress	1972
Alexander Berkman	anarchist and writer	1870–1936
Steven Berkoff	English actor, playwright, au…	1937
Martin Berkofsky	American classical pianist	1943–2013
Eyal Berkovic	Israeli footballer and manager	1972
Adolf A. Berle	American diplomat	1895–1971
Milton Berle	American comedian and actor	1908–2002
Arnold Berleant	American philosopher	1932
Chip Berlet	American political analyst	1949
Irving Berlin	American composer	1888–1989
Isaiah Berlin	Russo-British Jewish social a…	1909–1997
Lucia Berlin	American writer	1936–2004
Jacques Berlinerblau	Associate Professor, Director…	1966
Hector Berlioz	French Romantic composer	1803–1869
Silvio Berlusconi	Italian politician	1936
Boris Berman	Russian/American musician	1948
Chris Berman	American sportscaster	1955
Morris Berman	American historian	1944
Russell Berman	American academic	1950
Dan Bern	American musician	1965
Folke Bernadotte	Swedish diplomat	1895–1948
John Desmond Bernal	British scientist	1901–1971
Ben Bernanke	American economist	1953
Georges Bernanos	French writer	1888–1948
Claude Bernard	French physiologist	1813–1878
Jeffrey Bernard	British journalist	1932–1997
Eitan Bernath	American entertainer and chef	2002
Edward Bernays	American public relations con…	1891–1995
Paul Bernays	Swiss mathematician	1888–1977
Eric Berne	Canadian psychiatrist	1910–1970
Tim Berners-Lee	British computer scientist, i…	1955
Sandra Bernhard	American actress	1955
Thomas Bernhard	Austrian writer	1931–1989
Sarah Bernhardt	French actress	1844–1923
Francesco Berni	Italian poet	1497–1535
François Bernier	French physician and traveller	1620–1688
Maxime Bernier	Canadian politician	1963
Louis De Bernières	English novelist	1954
François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis	Catholic cardinal	1715–1794
Daniel Bernoulli
Jacob Bernoulli	Swiss mathematician	1655–1705
Andrew Bernstein	American philosopher	1949
Carl Bernstein	American journalist	1944
Charles Bernstein	American writer	1950
Daniel J. Bernstein	American mathematician, crypt…	1971
Eduard Bernstein	German politician	1850–1932
Jared Bernstein	American economist	1955
Jeremy Bernstein	American physicist	1929
Leonard Bernstein	American composer, conductor,…	1918–1990
Peter L. Bernstein	American academic	1919–2009
William J. Bernstein	economist	1948
Peter Bernus	Hungarian-Australian computer…	1949
Petar Beron
Yogi Berra	American baseball player, man…	1925–2015
John Berridge	British priest	1716–1793
Daniel Berrigan	American Catholic priest, pea…	1921–2016
Philip Berrigan	Priest and anti-war activist	1923–2002
Chuck Berry	American rock-and-roll musici…	1926–2017
Halle Berry	American actress	1966
Paul Berry	North Ireland politician	1976
Rynn Berry	American historian of vegetar…	1945–2014
Scyld Berry	English cricket journalist	1954
Siân Berry	British politician	1974
Steve Berry
Thomas Berry	American priest	1914–2009
Wendell Berry	author	1934
Guy Berryman	bassist	1978
John Berryman	American poet	1914–1972
Ludwig von Bertalanffy	austrian biologist and philos…	1901–1972
Marcellin Berthelot	French chemist and politician	1827–1907
Jacques Bertin	French geographer and cartogr…	1918–2010
Leon Bertoletti		1971
Jöns Jacob Berzelius	Swedish chemist	1779–1848
Betty Berzon	American psychotherapist	1928–2006
Annie Besant	British socialist, theosophis…	1847–1933
Walter Besant	English novelist and historian	1836–1901
Timothee Besset	French software programmer
André Bessette	Canadian Catholic brother and…	1845–1937
Luc Besson	French film director, writer,…	1959
George Best	British footballer	1946–2005
Steven Best	American activist	1955
Alfred Bester	American science fiction auth…	1913–1987
Henry Beston	American writer	1888–1968
Fridolin Ambongo Besungu	Congolese theologian and cath…	1960
Íngrid Betancourt	Colombian-French politician	1961
Andre Beteille	Indian sociologist	1934
Hans Bethe	German-American nuclear physi…	1906–2005
Antoine Bethea	American football player, def…	1984
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg	German chancellor during Worl…	1856–1921