| Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736–1793) |
| Francis Baily (1774–1844) |
| Alexander Bain (1818–1903) |
| Charles Washington Baird (1828–1887) |
| Henry Martyn Baird (1832–1906) |
| Robert Baird (1798–1863) |
| Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887) |
| József Bajza (1804–1858) |
| Harriette Newell Woods Baker (1815–1893) |
| Ray Stannard Baker (1870–1946) |
| Sir Samuel White Baker (1821–1893) |
| William Mumford Baker (1825–1883) |
| Baki (1526–1600) |
| Victor Balaguer (1824–1901) |
| Gasparo Balbi (Sixteenth Century) |
| Count Cesare Balbo (1789–1853) |
| Bernardo de Balbuena (1568–1627) |
| Francesco Baldovini (1635–1716) |
| Francesco Balducci (1579–1642) |
| John Denison Baldwin (1809–1883) |
| John Bale (1495–1563) |
| Charles Wolcott Balestier (1861–1891) |
| Alexander Balfour (1767–1829) |
| Arthur James, Earl of Balfour (1848–1930) |
| Sir Robert Stawell Ball (1840–1913) |
| James Ballantine (1808–1877) |
| Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825–1894) |
| Hosea Ballou (1796–1861) |
| Maturin Murray Ballou (1820–1895) |
| Michael Bałucki (1837–1901) |
| Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) |
| Jean Louis Guez de Balzac (1597?–1654) |
| Matija Ban (1818–1903) |
| George Bancroft (1800–1891) |
| Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918) |
| Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) |
| Matteo Bandello (1485–1561) |
| John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) |
| John Banim (1798–1842) |
| Michael Banim (1796–1874) |
| Louis Albert Banks (1855–1933) |
| John Banvard (1815–1891) |
| Joseph Banvard (1810–1887) |
| Théodore de Banville (1823–1891) |
| Louis Pierre Marie François Baour-Lormian (1770–1854) |
| Rafael María Baralt (1810–1860) |
| Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière, Baron de Barante (1782–1866) |
| Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800–1844) |
| Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) |
| Jules Barbey d’Aurévilly (1808–1889) |
| Henri Auguste Barbier (1805–1882) |
| Jules Barbier (1825–1901) |
| Raffaello Barbiera (1851–1934) |
| Giuseppe Barbieri (1774–1852) |
| John Barbour (c. 1320–1395) |
| Alexander Barclay (1475?–1552) |
| Florence Louisa Barclay (1862–1921) |
| John Barclay (1582–1621) |
| Giuseppe Baretti (1719–1789) |
| Richard Harris Barham (Thomas Ingoldsby) (1788–1845) |
| Bar Hebraeus (1226–1286) |
| Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) |
| Matthew Henry Barker (1790–1846) |
| Jane Barlow (1857–1917) |
| Joel Barlow (1754–1812) |
| Lady Anne (Lindsay) Barnard (1750–1825) |
| Charles Barnard (1838–1920) |
| Henry Barnard (1811–1900) |
| John Barnard (1681–1770) |
| Albert Barnes (1798–1870) |
| Barnabe Barnes (1569?–1609) |
| William Barnes (1801–1886) |
| Richard Barnfield (1574–1627) |
| Jules Romain Barni (1818–1878) |
| Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810–1891) |
| Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (1831–1919) |
| Robert Barr (1850–1912) |
| Léon Barracand (1840–1919) |
| Vicente Barrantes (1829–1898) |
| Maurice Barrès (1862–1923) |
| Benjamin Fisk Barrett (1808–1892) |
| J. M. Barrie (1860–1937) |
| Jean François Barrière (1786–1868) |
| Théodore Barrière (1823–1877) |
| Antonio Giulio Barrili (1836–1908) |
| João de Barros (1496–1570) |
| Frances Elizabeth Mease Barrow (1822–1894) |
| Sir John Barrow (1764–1848) |
| John Henry Barrows (1847–1902) |
| John Daniel Barry (1866–1942) |
| Auguste Marseille Barthélemy (1796–1867) |
| Jean-Jacques Barthélemy (1716–1795) |
| Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire (1805–1895) |
| Armand Barthet (1830–1874) |
| John Bartlett (1820–1905) |
| John Russell Bartlett (1805–1886) |
| Samuel Colcord Bartlett (1817–1898) |
| Ludwig von Bartók (b. 1851) |
| Cyrus Augustus Bartol (1813–1900) |
| Adolfo Bartoli (1833–1894) |
| Bernard Barton (1784–1849) |
| William Eleazar Barton (1861–1930) |
| John Bartram (1699–1777) |
| John Bascom (1827–1911) |
| Johan Bernhard Basedow (1724–1790) |
| Marie Bashkirtseff (1860–1884) |
| Giambattista Basile (c. 1575–c. 1632) |
| Olivier Basselin (c. 1400–c. 1450) |
| Frédéric Bastiat (1801–1850) |
| Arlo Bates (1850–1918) |
| Charlotte Fiske Bates (1838–1916) |
| Clara Doty Bates (1838–1895) |
| Harriet Leonora Vose Bates (1856–1886) |
| Katharine Lee Bates (1859–1929) |
| Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller (1878–1952) |
| János Batsányi (1763–1845) |
| Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867) |
| Wolf Heinrich, Count von Baudissin (1789–1878) |
| Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) |
| Klara Bauer (1836–1876) |
| Adolf Bäuerle (1786–1859) |
| Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890) |
| Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) |
| Rudolf Baumbach (1840–1905) |
| Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792–1860) |
| Richard Baxter (1615–1691) |
| Sylvester Baxter (1850–1927) |
| William Baxter (1820–1880) |
| Jean François Alfred Bayard (1796–1853) |
| Robert von Bayer (1835–1902) |
| Pierre Bayle (1647–1706) |
| Frances Courtenay Baylor (1848–1920) |
| Ada Ellen Bayly (Edna Lyall) (1857–1903) |
| Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797–1839) |
| César Lécat, Baron de Bazancourt (1810–1865) |
| René Bazin (1853–1923) |
| Rex Beach (1877–1949) |
| Lord Beaconsfield (1804–1881) |
| Daniel Carter Beard (1850–1941) |
| George Miller Beard (1839–1883) |
| Eben Edwards Beardsley (1808–1891) |
| James Beattie (1735–1803) |
| Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732–1799) |
| Francis Beaumont (1584–1616) |
| Sir John Beaumont (1583–1627) |
| Beaunoir (1746–1823) |
| August Bebel (1840–1913) |
| Heinrich Bebel (1472–1518) |
| Antonio Beccadelli (1394–1471) |
| Agostino Beccari (1510?–1590?) |
| Ludwig Bechstein (1801–1860) |
| Karl Beck (1817–1879) |
| Louis Becke (1855–1913) |
| August Becker (1828–1891) |
| Karl Friederich Becker (1777–1806) |
| Nikolaus Becker (1809–1845) |
| William Beckford (1760–1844) |
| Henri Becque (1837–1899) |
| Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870) |
| Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849) |
| Saint Bede the Venerable (673–735) |
| Cuthbert Bede (1827–1889) |
| Catherine Esther Beecher (1800–1878) |
| Charles Beecher (1815–1900) |
| Edward Beecher (1803–1895) |
| Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887) |
| Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) |
| Thomas Kinnicut Beecher (1824–1900) |
| Ethelinda Elliott Beers (Ethel Lynn) (1827–1879) |
| Henry Augustin Beers (1847–1926) |
| Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) |
| Nicolaas Beets (1814–1903) |
| Aphra Behn (1640–1689) |
| Adam Bełcikowski (1839–1909) |
| Vissárion Grigoryevich Belinsky (1811–1848) |
| Lilian Bell (1867–1929) |
| Robert Bell (1800–1867) |
| Edward Bellamy (1850–1898) |
| Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (1837–1900) |
| Jacobus Bellamy (1757–1786) |
| Joseph Bellamy (1719–1790) |
| Rémy Belleau (1528–1577) |
| Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791–1863) |
| Carl Michael Bellman (1740–1795) |
| Andrés Bello (1781–1865) |
| Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) |
| Henry Whitney Bellows (1814–1882) |
| Pierre-Laurent Buirette de Belloy (1727–1775) |
| Louis Belmontet (1798–1879) |
| Adolphe Belot (1829–1890) |
| Pietro Bembo (1470–1547) |
| Prosper Bender (1844–1917) |
| David Benedict (1779–1874) |
| Frank Lee Benedict (1834–1910) |
| Victoria Benedictsson (1850–1888) |
| Vladimir Benediktov (1807–1873) |
| Roderich Benedix (1811–1873) |
| Illona Beniczky-Bajza (1840–1905) |
| Judah Philip Benjamin (1811–1884) |
| Park Benjamin (1809–1864) |
| Park Benjamin, Jr. (1849–1922) |
| Samuel Greene Wheeler Benjamin (1837–1914) |
| Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) |
| Charles Wesley Bennett (1828–1891) |
| William Cox Bennett (1820–1895) |
| Benoît de Sainte-Maure (Twelfth Century) |
| James Berry Bensel (1856–1886) |
| Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691) |
| Arthur Christopher Benson (1862–1925) |
| Edward Frederic Benson (1867–1940) |
| Eugene Benson (1839–1908) |
| Robert Hugh Benson (1871–1914) |
| Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) |
| Guido Bentivoglio (1579–1644) |
| Richard Bentley (1662–1742) |
| Joel Benton (1832–1911) |
| Thomas Hart Benton (1782–1858) |
| Count Karl Christian Ernst von Bentzel-Sternau (1767–1849) |
| Th. Bentzon (Thérèse Blanc) (1840–1907) |
| Zsolt Beöthy (1848–1922) |
| Pierre Jean de Béranger (1780–1857) |
| Bernhard Berenson (1865–1959) |
| Giovanni Berchet (1783–1851) |
| Árpád Berczik (1842–1919) |
| Cyrano de Bergerac (1619–1655) |
| Émile Bergerat (1845–1923) |
| Henry Bergh (181?3–1888) |
| Pieter Theodoor Helvetius van den Bergh (1799–1873) |
| Theodor Bergk (1812–1881) |
| Vilhelm Bergsöe (1835–1911) |
| Henri Bergson (1859–1941) |
| George Berkeley (1685–1753) |
| Götz von Berlichingen (1480–1562) |
| Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) |
| Charles de Bernard (1804–1850) |
| Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090/1–1153) |
| Bernard of Cluny (Twelfth Century) |
| Pierre-Joseph Bernard (1710–1775) |
| Demetrios Bernardakis (1834–1907) |
| Diogo Bernardes (c. 1530–1605) |
| Bernart de Ventadorn (Twelfth Century) |
| Juliana Berners (b. 1388?) |
| Carl Bernhard (1798–1865) |
| Theodor von Bernhardi (1802–1887) |
| Gottfried Bernhardy (1800–1875) |
| Aaron Bernstein (1812–1884) |
| William Berrian (1787–1862) |
| Vittorio Bersezio (1830–1900) |
| Jean Bertaut (1552–1611) |
| Élie Berthet (1815–1891) |
| Franz Berthold (1802–1839) |
| Antoine Bertin (1752–1790) |
| Annie Besant (1847–1933) |
| Sir Walter Besant (1836–1901) |
| Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (1797–1837) |
| George Washington Bethune (1805–1862) |
| Vittorio Betteloni (1840–1910) |
| Craven Langstroth Betts (1853–1941) |
| Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (1862–1927) |
| Bhatti (Seventh Century?) |
| Bhavabhuti (Eighth Century) |
| Lucien Biart (1828–1897) |
| Bibbiena (1470–1520) |
| Ersilio Bicci (b. 1845) |
| Edward Henry Bickersteth (1825–1906) |
| Albert Smith Bickmore (1839–1914) |
| Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (1874–1948) |
| Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844) |
| Karl Biedermann (1812–1901) |
| August Bielowski (1806–1876) |
| Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865–1910) |
| Johann Christoph Biernatzki (1795–1840) |
| João Ernesto Biester (1829–1880) |
| John Bigelow (1817–1911) |
| Poultney Bigelow (1855–1954) |
| Earl Derr Biggers (1884–1933) |
| Anna Bijns (1493–1575) |
| Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831) |
| Adam Billaut (1602–1662) |
| Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818–1885) |
| Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) |
| Laurence Binyon (1869–1943) |
| Bion of Smyrna (fl. c. 100 B.C.) |
| Robert Montgomery Bird (1806–1854) |
| Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer (1800–1868) |
| James Gillespie Birney (1792–1857) |
| Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) |
| Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (1837–1902) |
| William Henry Bishop (1847–1928) |
| Elizabeth Bisland (1861–1929) |
| Otto von Bismarck (1815–1898) |
| Edwin Cone Bissell (1832–1894) |
| Alexandre Bisson (1848–1912) |
| Arthur Bitter (1821–1872) |
| Henrik Anker Bjerregaard (1792–1842) |
| Björnstjerne Björnson (1832–1910) |
| Ebenezer Charlton Black (1861–1927) |
| Hugh Black (1868–1953) |
| William Black (1841–1898) |
| William Maxwell Blackburn (1828–1898) |
| John Stuart Blackie (1809–1895) |
| Sir Richard Blackmore (1654–1729) |
| Richard Doddridge Blackmore (1825–1900) |
| William Blackstone (1723–1780) |
| Alice Stone Blackwell (1857–1950) |
| Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell (1825–1921) |
| Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) |
| William Blaikie (1843–1904) |
| James Gillespie Blaine (1830–1893) |
| Hugh Blair (1718–1800) |
| Robert Blair (1699–1746) |
| James Vila Blake (1842–1925) |
| Mary Elizabeth McGrath Blake (1840–1907) |
| William Blake (1757–1827) |
| Charles Blanc (1813–1882) |
| Amy Ella Blanchard (1856–1926) |
| Edward Laman Blanchard (1820–1889) |
| August Blanche (1811–1868) |
| Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1867–1928) |
| Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891) |
| Henri Blaze (1813–1888) |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe (1809–1877) |
| Karl August Bleibtreu (1859–1928) |
| Marguerite, Lady Blessington (1789–1849) |
| Jean Blewett (1862–1934) |
| Steen Steensen Blicher (1782–1848) |
| Mathilde Blind (1841–1896) |
| Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne) (1845–1905) |
| Philipp Blommaert (1809–1871) |
| Robert Bloomfield (1766–1823) |
| Ernest Blum (1836–1907) |
| Franziska Blumenreich (1849–1899) |
| Oscar Blumenthal (1852–1917) |
| Wilfred Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) |
| Viktor Blüthgen (1844–1920) |
| Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832–1912) |
| George Dana Boardman (1828–1903) |
| Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) |
| Friedrich von Bodenstedt (1819–1892) |
| Johann Jakob Bodmer (1698–1783) |
| Ludvig Bödtcher (1793–1874) |
| Hector Boece (c. 1465–1536) |
| Boethius (d. 524) |
| Adriaan Bogaers (1795–1870) |
| William Henry Bogart (1810–1888) |
| Ippolit Feodorovich Bogdanóvich (1744–1802?) |
| Modést Ivanovich Bogdanóvich (1805–1882) |
| Erik Bögh (1822–1899) |
| Mirko Bogovič (1816–1893) |
| Wojciech Bogusławski (1757–1829) |
| Helene Böhlau (1859–1940) |
| Jakob Böhme (1575–1624) |
| Matteo Maria Boiardo (c. 1434–1494) |
| Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (1636–1711) |
| François Marie Boisard (1744–1833) |
| Fortuné du Boisgobey (1821–1891) |
| Gaston Boissier (1823–1908) |
| Arrigo Boito (1842–1918) |
| Edward William Bok (1863–1930) |
| George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| Conrad von Bolanden (1828–1911) |
| Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751) |
| Dimitrie Bolintineanu (1819?–1872) |
| Frank Bolles (1856–1894) |
| Charles Knowles Bolton (1867–1950) |
| Henry Carrington Bolton (1843–1903) |
| Sarah Knowles Bolton (1841–1916) |
| Sarah Tittle Bolton (1814–1893) |
| Maria Alinda Bonacci-Brunamonti (1842–1903) |
| Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) |
| Saint Bonaventura (c. 1217–1274) |
| Clemente Bondi (1742–1821) |
| John Henry Boner (1845–1903) |
| Ruggero Bonghi (1826–1895) |
| Émile de Bonnechose (1801–1875) |
| Robert de Bonnières (1850–1905) |
| Stephen Bonsal (1865–1951) |
| Mary Louise Booth (1831–1889) |
| Frederick St. George de Lautour Booth-Tucker (1853–1929) |
| Pétrus Borel (1809–1859) |
| Ludwig Börne (1786–1837) |
| Giraut de Borneil (Twelfth Century) |
| Wilhelm Bornemann (1766–1851) |
| Henri de Bornier (1825–1901) |
| George Borrow (1803–1881) |
| Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom (1812–1886) |
| Juan Boscán (d. 1542) |
| Kate Langley Bosher (1865–1932) |
| Ferdinando Bosio (1827–1881) |
| Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627–1704) |
| Sir Alexander Boswell (1775–1822) |
| James Boswell (1740–1795) |
| Giuseppe Botero (1815–1885) |
| Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815–1891) |
| Carlo Botta (1766–1837) |
| Adolf Böttger (1815–1870) |
| Carl Wilhelm Böttiger (1807–1878) |
| Joseph Bouchardy (1810–1870) |
| Maurice Bouchor (1855–1929) |
| Dion Boucicault (1820/22–1890) |
