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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)
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