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- Baal (Canaanite god)
- Bacchus (Roman god)
- Bacon, Nicholas (Sir)
- Baden-Powell, Robert (Colonel)
- Badr al-Din Baysari (Mamluk emir)
- Baldung, Hans (artist)
- Bali (Hindu demon king)
- Baltimore Painter (vase painter)
- Banks, Sir Joseph (botanist)
- Banting, John (artist)
- Barbari, Jacopo de' (artist)
- Barbarossa (Ottoman admiral)
- Barocci, Federico (artist)
- Bartolommeo, Fra (artist)
- Bartolozzi, Francesco (artist)
- Basil I (Byzantine emperor)
- Basil II (Byzantine emperor)
- Bastet (Egyptian goddess)
- Bateman, Henry Mayo (cartoonist)
- Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (artist)
- Beccafumi, Domenico (artist)
- Becket, Thomas (Christian saint, archbishop of Canterbury)
- Beckford, William (collector)
- Beckmann, Max (artist)
- Beham, Sebald (artist)
- Behrens, Peter (artist, designer)
- Belcher, Edward (explorer)
- Belkin, Veniamin Pavlovich (designer)
- Bella, Stefano della (artist)
- Bellange, Jacques (artist)
- Bellerophon (Greek mythological hero)
- Bellini, Gentile (artist)
- Bellini, Giovanni (artist)
- Bellini, Jacopo (artist)
- Bellows, George (painter)
- Belzoni, Giovanni-Battista (archaeologist)
- Bembo, Pietro (Venetian scholar and writer)
- Bendis (Thracian goddess)
- Benson, William (historian and artist)
- Bentley, Thomas (ceramist)
- Benzaiten (Japanese goddess)
- Berenice I (queen of Egypt)
- Berlin Painter (vase painter)
- Bernardi, Giovanni (gem cutter and engraver)
- Berthoud, Ferdinand (clockmaker)
- Bes (Egyptian god)
- Bewick, Thomas (artist)
- Bhu (Hindu goddess)
- Biliotti, Sir Alfred (archaeologist)
- Binyon, Robert Laurence (poet)
- Bird Jaguar IV (Maya ruler)
- Blake, William (poet and artist)
- Boleslaus II (duke of Bohemia)
- Boleyn, Anne (queen of England)
- Bonaparte I, Napoleon (emperor)
- Bonnard, Pierre (artist)
- Bonnet, Louis Marin (artist)
- Bos, Cornelis (engraver)
- Bosch, Hieronymous (artist)
- Bosse, Abraham (artist)
- Bossuet, Jacques-Benigne (bishop)
- Böttger, Johann Friedrich (scientist and ceramist)
- Boucher, François (artist)
- Boucheron, Frederic (jeweller)
- Boulton, Matthew (manufacturer and engineer)
- Bouquet, David (watchmaker)
- Bowyer, William (clockmaker)
- Bradley, Jack (bare-fist fighter)
- Brahma (Hindu god)
- Brahmani (Hindu goddess)
- Bramante, Donato (architect)
- Brandt, Marianne (artist, designer)
- Brant, Isabella (wife of Rubens)
- Braque, Georges (artist)
- Breguet, Abraham Louis (clockmaker)
- Breguet, Louis Antoine (clockmaker)
- Brenchley, Julius (collector)
- Brett, John (artist)
- Bril, Paulus (artist)
- Briot, Nicholas (coin engraver)
- Britannia (personification of Britain)
- Brocard, Philippe Joseph (craftsman)
- Bronzino, Angelo di Cosimo (artist)
- Bruce, Thomas (7th Earl of Elgin and 11th Earl of Kincardine)
- Bruegel, Pieter 'The Elder' (artist)
- Brutus, Marcus Junius (assassin of Julius Caesar)
- Brygos Painter (vase painter)
- Buddha
- Buddha Amitabha
- Buddha Maitreya
- Buddha Vairocana
- Budge, Ernest Alfred Wallis (archaeologist)
- Bulan, Tama (Kenyah chief)
- Burges, William (architect and designer)
- Burgkmair, Hans (artist)
- Burke, Edmund (political writer and statesman)
- Burnaburiash II (king of Babylonia)
- Burne-Jones, Edward (artist)
- Buschmann, Hans 'the elder' (clockmaker)