Baez, Joan (1941-)
Baldwin, Monica (1896-1975)
Bankhead, Tallulah (1902-1968)
Barnacle, Nora, wife of James Joyce (1884-1951)
Barr, Amelia (1831-1919)
Barrymore, John (1882-1942)
Beecher, Henry Ward (1813-1887)
Bellow, Saul (1915-2005)
Ben-Gurion, David (1886-1973)
Benchley, Robert (1889-1945)
Benedict, Ruth (1887-1948)
Berenson, Bernard (1865-1959)
Berne, Eric, M.D. (1910-1970)
Bernstein, Al (1950-)
Berra, Yogi (1925-2015)
Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914?)
Billings, Josh (1818-1885)
Blake, William (1757-1827)
Bohr, Niels (1885-1962)
Bok, Derek (1930-)
Bombeck, Erma (1927-1996)
Bonanno, Margaret (1950-2021)
Bonaparte, Napoleon (1769-1821)
Boorstin, Daniel J. (1914-2004)
Boosler, Elayne (1952-)
Borges, Jorge Luis (1899-1986)
Boswell, James (1740-1795)
Brecht, Bertolt (1898-1956)
Bristol, Claude M. (1891-1951)
Brogan, Colm (1902-1977)
Brooks, Phillips (1835-1893)
Broun, Heywood (1888-1939)
Brown, Larry (1951-2004)
Broyard, Anatole (1920-1990)
Buck, Pearl S. (1892-1973)
Buddha (563 B.C.E.-483)
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. (1803-1873)
Bundsen, Jerry (1915-2000)
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Burbank, Luther (1849-1926)
Burritt, Elihu (1810-1879)
Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997)
Bush, George H. W. (1924-2018)
Butler, Octavia E. (1947-2006)