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BiographiesSelected Biographies A to Z
B- Charles Babbage, mathematician, inventor,
- Roger Babson, statistician, business forecaster, writer
- Judy Baca, Artist
- Lauren Bacall, actress
- Catherine Bach, actor
- Pamela Bach, actor
- Burt Bacharach, composer, songwriter,
- Kevin Bacon, actor
- Erykah Badu, musician
- Karl Baedeker, publisher
- Joan Baez, singer
- Frodo Baggins, fictional character
- Baha'u'llah, religious figure
- Maria Bailey, entrepreneur, writer, radio host
- Beryl Bainbridge, writer
- Scott Baio, actor
- Ella Baker, civil rights activist
- Joe Don Baker, actor
- Josephine Baker, singer, dancer,
- Kathy Baker, actress
- Kenny Baker, actor
- LaVern Baker, singer
- Russell Baker, writer
- Bonny Lee Bakley, murder victim
- Scott Bakula, actor, TV producer,
- George Balanchine, choreographer, dancer,
- Alec Baldwin, actor
- James Baldwin, writer
- William Baldwin, actor
- Christian Bale, actor
- Lucille Ball, actor, comedian,
- J.G. Ballard, writer
- Martin Balsam, actor
- Balthus, artist
- Eric Bana, actor
- Anne Bancroft, actor
- Edward Bancroft, scientist, spy,
- Antonio Banderas, actor
- Tallulah Bankhead, actress
- Dennis Banks, Anishinabe (Ojibwa) activist
- Russell Banks, writer
- Tyra Banks, model
- Benjamin Banneker, mathematician
- Ian Bannen, actor
- John Banner, actor
- Sir Roger Bannister, runner, physician,
- Frederick Banting, physician
- Ban Zhao, writer, educator,
- John Banville, writer
- Theda Bara, actress
- Paul Baran, inventor
- Christine Baranski, actress
- Ehud Barak, soldier, political figure,
- Amiri Baraka, playwright, poet, activist
- Adrienne Barbeau, actor
- Joseph Barbera, animator, producer,
- Barbie, doll
- Hannibal Barca, military Leader
- Javier Bardem, actor
- Brigitte Bardot, actor
- Barenaked Ladies, Canadian folk-rock group
- Bob Barker, game show host
- Clive Barker, writer, director,
- Ellen Barkin, actress
- Charles Barkley, basketball player
- David Barkley, Soldier
- Christiaan Barnard, pioneering heart surgeon
- Julius Barnathan, television executive
- Barney, TV dinosaur
- Ben Barnes, actor
- P.T. Barnum, showman, entrepreneur,
- Pamela Des Barres, groupie
- Rona Barrett, gossip columnist, entrepreneur,
- Fantasia Barrino, singer, talent show contestant,
- Chuck Barris, game show host
- Robert Joseph Barro, economist
- Ana Beatriz Barros, model
- Clyde Champion Barrow, robber, murderer,
- Dave Barry, columnist, author,
- Drew Barrymore, actor
- Ethel Barrymore, actress
- John Barrymore, actor
- Lionel Barrymore, actor
- Maurice Barrymore , actor
- Richmond Barthé, American sculptor
- Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross
- Billy Barty, actor
- Mikhail Baryshnikov, dancer, choreographer,
- Count Basie, pianist, bandleader, jazz musician
- Kim Basinger, actor
- Angela Bassett, actress
- Tomas Bata, industrialist
- Kathy Bates, actress
- Erzsebet Bathory, murderer
- Batman, fictional superhero
- Kathleen Battle, operatic soprano
- Gary Bauer, political figure
- Anne Baxter, actress
- Evan Bayh, U.S. Senator
- Adam Beach , actor
- John Beal, actor
- The Beatles, rock band
- Ned Beatty, actor
- Warren Beatty, actor, filmmaker,
- Simon Beaufoy, screenwriter
- Simone de Beauvoir, writer, feminist,
- Beck, rock musician
- David Beckham, soccer player
- Victoria Beckham, singer, actor,
- Kate Beckinsale, actor
- Irene Bedard, actor, singer,
- Roy Bedichek, writer, teacher, naturalist
- Catherine Beecher , Writer and educator
- James Van Der Beek, actor
- Geoffrey Beene, fashion designer
- Charlotte Beers, advertising executive
- Noah Beery, actor
- Noah Beery, Jr. , actor
- Aphra Behn, writer
- Jean-Jacques Beineix, director, producer, screenwriter
- Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, TV producer
- Shari Belafonte-Harper , model, actress ,
- Barbara Bel Geddes, actress
- Art Bell, radio personality
- Kristen Bell, actor
- Marion Bell, singer, actress,
- Theresa Hayward Bell, American Indian activist
- Ralph Bellamy, actor
- Bellerophon, mythical figure
- Saul Bellow, novelist
- Monica Bellucci, actor, model,
- James Belushi, actor
- John Belushi, actor, comedian,
- Ben Folds Five, alternative rock group
- Stephen Vincent Benét, writer
- Peter Benchley, novelist
- Robert Benchley, writer, actor, critic
- Roberto Benigni, actor, filmmaker,
- Annette Bening, actor
- Elsa Benitez, model
- Tony Bennett, jazz singer
- Jack Benny, comedian
- Robert Benton, director, screenwriter,
- Beowulf, mythical figure
- Senda Berenson , athlete
- Bruce Beresford, director, screenwriter, producer
- Peter Berg, actor, filmmaker,
- Candice Bergen, actress
- Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist, comedian,
- Ingmar Bergman, filmmaker
- Ingrid Bergman, actor
- Nate Berkus, interior decorator
- Milton Berle, comedian
- Irving Berlin, composer
- Charles Frambach Berlitz, educator, publisher,
- Ben Bernanke, economist, government official
- Tim Berners-Lee, computer scientist
- Sandra Bernhard, actress comedian
- Sarah Bernhardt, actor
- Leonard Bernstein, composer, conductor,
- Daniel Berrigan, clergyman, activist
- Philip Berrigan, activist, clergyman
- Albert Berry, soldier, parachutist,
- Chuck Berry, rock musician
- Halle Berry, actor
- Sunni Ali Ber, Songhai emperor
- Bernardo Bertolucci, director, screenwriter,
- Ahmed Best, actor, dancer,
- Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, activist,
- Jeff Bezos, business personality
- Benazir Bhutto, Prime Minister of Pakistan
- Frank P. Bibas, radio, television, and film producer
- Jill Biden, political relative
- Joseph Biden, U.S. Senator
- Michael Biehn, actor
- Jessica Biel, actor
- Ambrose Bierce, writer, missing person,
- Big Brown, racehorse
- Bigfoot, mysterious creature
- John Biggers, artist
- Billy the Kid, outlaw
- Maeve Binchy, writer, journalist,
- Ah Bing, horticulturist, namesake of the Bing cherry,
- Sir Rudolf Bing, opera impresario
- Hildegard von Bingen, catholic nun, composer, religious figure
- Juliette Binoche, actor
- John Birch, missionary, spy,
- Thora Birch, actress
- King Birendra, King of Nepal
- Joey Bishop, comedian, actor,
- Walter Bishop, Jr., musician
- Emily Bissell, Christmas Seal designer
- Jacqueline Bisset, actress
- Bill Bixby, actor, TV director,
- Björk, singer, songwriter,
- Cathleen Black, publisher
- Charles Black, Jr.,
- Clint Black, singer, songwriter,
- Conrad Moffat Black, financier
- Jack Black, actor, rock musician,
- Shirley Temple Black, actress
- Sir Basil Blackwell, publisher, bookseller,
- Emily Blackwell, physician
- Ruben Blades, actor, musician, composer
- Rod Blagojevich, state governor
- David Blaine, magician
- John Blair, framer of the Constitution, justice,
- Linda Blair, actor
- Tony Blair, political Leader
- Robert Blake, actor, murder suspect,
- Jolene Blalock, actor
- Cate Blanchett, actor
- Mel Blanc, actor, voice specialist
- Bill Blass, fashion designer
- Yasmine Bleeth, actor
- Mary J. Blige, singer, songwriter,
- Herblock, editorial cartoonist
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, fictional villain
- Claire Bloom, actress
- Leopold Bloom, fictional character
- Orlando Bloom, actor
- Michael Bloomberg, political figure, business personality,
- Deep Blue, chess computer
- Blues Traveler, blues/rock band
- Judy Blume, writer
- Nellie Bly, journalist
- Steven Bochco, television producer, writer,
- William Edward Boeing, aircraft manufacturer
- Budd Boetticher, film director
- Dirk Bogarde, actor, director,
- Humphrey Bogart, actor
- Peter Bogdanovich, filmmaker, actor, writer
- Grace Lee Boggs, activist
- Eric Bogosian, actor, playwright, monologuist
- Brigitte Boisselier, chemist
- Sissela Bok, writer, philosopher, educator
- Eavan Boland, poet
- Ray Bolger, dancer, actor,
- John Bolton, political figure
- Michael Bolton, singer, songwriter,
- Erma Bombeck, writer, humorist,
- Danny Bonaduce, actor, radio personality,
- James Bond, fictional superspy
- Barry Bonds, baseball player
- John Bonham, drummer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian, clergyman
- Jon Bon Jovi, musician, songwriter,
- Bono, rock musician, Humanitarian,
- Sonny Bono, singer, actor, political figure
- George Boole, mathematician
- D. Boon, rock musician, guitarist,
- Daniel Boone, explorer
- Pat Boone, singer, actor,
- Betty Boop, animated character
- Lizzie Borden, murder suspect
- Victor Borge, pianist, comedian,
- Ernest Borgnine, actor
- Amar Bose, physicist
- Tom Bosley, actor
- Carol Botwin, writer, social critic,
- Vicky Botwright, squash player
- Edward Alexander Bouchet, physicist, chemist,
- Pierre Boulez, avant-garde conductor, composer,
- Randolph Bourne, writer
- Caprice Bourret, model, actor,
- Jim Bouton, baseball player, writer,
- Clara Bow, actress
- Edward Bowes, entrepreneur, radio impresario,
- David Bowie, rock musician, actor,
- Billy Bowlegs , Seminole leader
- Camilla Parker Bowles , The Duchess of Cornwall; wife of Britain's Prince Charles
- Erskine Bowles, U.S. public official
- Paul Bowles, writer, composer,
- Barbara Boxer, senator from California
- Bat Boy, fictional character
- Peck's Bad Boy, fictional character
- The Fox Chase Boy, murder victim
- Charles Boyer, actor
- Gregory 'Pappy' Boyington, aviator, world war II figure,
- Danny Boyle, filmmaker
- Lara Flynn Boyle, actor
- Peter Boyle, actor
- Beastie Boys, rappers
- The Backstreet Boys, singers
- Beach Boys, surfer sound rock group
- Boyz II Men, R&B/hip-hop group
- Ray Bradbury, writer
- Benjamin Bradley, inventor
- Bill Bradley, political figure, basketball player,
- Omar Bradley, military Leader, world war II figure,
- Owen Bradley, record producer
- Anne Bradstreet, poet
- Tom Brady, football player
- Eric Braeden, actor
- Zach Braff, actor, filmmaker,
- Billy Bragg, singer, songwriter,
- Tycho Brahe, astronomer
- Johannes Brahms, composer, pianist
- Kenneth Branagh, actor, director, producer
- Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor, director,
- Marlon Brando, actor
- Brandy, actress, singer,
- Robbie Tilley Branscum, writer
- Herman Russell Branson, physicist
- Richard Branson, business personality
- Benjamin Bratt, actor
- André Braugher, actor
- Eva Braun, political relative, world war II figure,
- Richard Brautigan, writer, poet,
- Toni Braxton, R&B singer
- David Brearley, framer of the Constitution, justice,
- Arthur Bremer, attempted assassin
- Walter Brennan, actor
- Jeremy Brett, actor
- Stephen Breyer, United States Supreme Court Associate Justice
- Beau Bridges, actor
- Jeff Bridges, actor
- Lloyd Bridges, actor
- Wilford Brimley, actor
- Sergey Brin, computer scientist, business personality
- Christie Brinkley, model
- Vera Brittain, novelist, poet,
- Jim Broadbent, actor
- Matthew Broderick, actor
- Jascha Brodsky, violinist, teacher,
- Adrien Brody, actor
- Tom Brokaw, TV journalist
- Josh Brolin, actor
- Emanuel Bronner, soapmaker, nusiness personality
- Charles Bronson, actor
- Kelly Brook, model, actor,
- Robert Somers Brookings, business executive, philanthropist,
- Albert Brooks, actor, director, screenwriter
- Avery Brooks, actor
- Garth Brooks, country musician, country singer,
- James L. Brooks, director, producer, writer
- Mel Brooks, comedian, filmmaker,
- Jacob Broom, framer of the Constitution, politician,
- Pierce Brosnan, actor
- Dr. Joyce Brothers, psychologist, television personality,
- Marx Brothers, comedians
- Armin Brott, writer, columnist
- Charlie Brown, comic strip character
- Bryan Brown, actor
- Dan Brown, writer
- Foxy Brown, rapper
- Gordon Brown, political leader
- Helen Gurley Brown, magazine editor, writer,
- James Brown, singer, songwriter,
- Jerry Brown, political figure, lawyer
- John Brown, antislavery activist
- Melanie Brown, singer
- Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown, baseball player
- Rita Mae Brown, author, social activist,
- Tina Brown, magazine publisher
- Sylvia Browne, psychic
- John Moses Browning, gunsmith, inventor,
- Blanche Bruce, political figure
- Lenny Bruce, comedian
- Jerry Bruckheimer, producer, filmmaker,
- Carla Bruni, model
- Charles Francis Brush, engineer, inventor,
- Robert Brustein, director, drama critic, playwright
- John Henry Bryan, Jr., business executive
- Mark Bryan, guitarist
- Anita Bryant, entertainer
- Kobe Bryant, basketball player
- Yul Brynner, actor
- David Bryson, guitar player
- Bucephalus, horse
- Edna Buchanan, crime reporter, mystery writer,
- Pat Buchanan, political figure, TV personality,
- Pearl S(ydenstricker) Buck, novelist
- Jeff Buckley, singer, songwriter,
- Jimmy Buffett, singer, songwriter,
- Genevieve Bujold, actress
- Fernando Bujones, ballet dancer
- Sitting Bull, native american Leader
- Eugene Jacques Bullard, aviator
- Edward Bullins, playwright
- Sandra Bullock, actor
- Carlos Bulosan, writer
- Gisele Bundchen, model
- Chang and Eng Bunker, medical curiosity, twins,
- Bugs Bunny, animated character
- The Easter Bunny, holiday figure
- Robert Bunsen, inventor, chemist
- Emma Bunton, singer
- Gary Burghoff, actor
- Bille Burke, actress
- Brooke Burke, model, TV personality,
- Carol Burnett, comedian
- Mark Burnett, creator of Survivor
- Murray Burnett, writer, high school teacher,
- Arthur F. Burns, economist
- Brooke Burns, actor
- Edward Burns, writer, director, actor
- George Burns, actor, comedian,
- Ken Burns, filmmaker
- Steve Burns, actor, musician,
- Anne Burras, early colonist
- Sir William Burrell, ship-owner, art collector,
- William S. Burroughs, writer
- Raymond Burr, actor
- Ellen Burstyn, actress
- Amanda Burton, actor
- LeVar Burton, actor
- Tim Burton, filmmaker
- Richard Burton, actor
- Ian Buruma, journalist, novelist,
- Steve Buscemi, actor
- Gussie Busch, brewer
- Gary Busey, actor
- Bush, rock band
- Barbara Bush, U.S. first Daughter
- Barbara Bush, U.S. first Lady
- George Prescott Bush, political relative
- Jeb Bush, state governor
- Jeb Bush, Jr., political relative
- Jenna Bush, political relative
- Jenna and Barbara Bush, political relatives, twins,
- Laura Bush, U.S. first Lady
- Lauren Bush, political relative, model,
- Neil Mallon Bush, political relative
- Noelle Bush, political relative
- Prescott Bush, U.S. senator
- Reggie Bush, football player
- Jeanie Buss, sports management executive
- Brett Butler , actor, comedian,
- Gerard Butler, actor
- Octavia Butler, writer
- Billy Butlin, holiday camp promoter
- Ebenezer Butterick, inventor, fashion business executive,
- Beavis & Butthead, cartoon characters
- Red Buttons, actor, comedian ,
- Amanda Bynes, actor
- Rhonda Byrne, movie producer, self-help specialist
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