| Joseph Andrew Blackwell | 1798–1886 | 1 |
| Sarah Ellen Blackwell | 1828–1901 | 1 |
| Algernon Blackwood | 1869–1951 | 15 |
| William Blades | 1824–1890 | 1 |
| Willem Blaeu | 1571–1638 | 1 |
| Francis William Blagdon | 1778–1819 | 1 |
| William Garden Blaikie | 1820–1899 | 1 |
| Mary E. Blain | 1872–1950 | 2 |
| James Gillespie Blaine | 1830–1893 | 2 |
| Emma Helen Blair | 1851–1911 | 27 |
| Robert Blair | 1699–1746 | 1 |
| Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell | 1847–1927 | 1 |
| Mary Frances Blaisdell | 1874–1950 | 2 |
| Emily Calvin Blake | 1882–1951 | 1 |
| Katherine Devereux Blake | 1858–1950 | 1 |
| W. H. (William Hume) Blake | 1861–1924 | 1 |
| Warren Barton Blake | 1883–1918 | 1 |
| William Blake | 1757–1827 | 2 |
| Henry Blanc | 1831–1911 | 2 |
| Neltje Blanchan | 1865–1918 | 3 |
| Amy Ella Blanchard | 1856–1926 | 2 |
| Jonathan Blanchard | 1811–1892 | 1 |
| Lucy Mansfield Blanchard Blanchard | born 1870 | 1 |
| Phyllis Blanchard | 1895–1986 | 1 |
| August Blanche | 1811–1868 | 1 |
| Wilton W. (Wilton Wallace) Blancké | 1884–1949 | 1 |
| Manuel Blanco | 1778–1845 | 1 |
| J. O. P. (John Otway Percy) Bland | 1863–1945 | 1 |
| Vicente Blasco Ibáñez | 1867–1928 | 17 |
| Harriot Stanton Blatch | 1856–1940 | 1 |
| Robert Blatchford | 1851–1943 | 1 |
| H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky | 1831–1891 | 3 |
| Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of | 1789–1849 | 1 |
| Willard Grosvenor Bleyer | 1873–1935 | 1 |
| Steen Steensen Blicher | 1782–1848 | 2 |
| William Bligh | 1754–1817 | 2 |
| Hendrik Blink | 1852–1931 | 1 |
| James Blish | 1921–1975 | 1 |
| Anders Blixt | born 1959 | 1 |
| Robert Bloch | 1917–1994 | 1 |
| Dorothy F. Blomfield | 1858–1932 | 1 |
| Wheeler P. Bloodgood | 1871–1930 | 1 |
| Maurice Bloomfield | 1855–1928 | 1 |
| Nathaniel Bloomfield | 1759–1831 | 1 |
| Robert Bloomfield | 1766–1823 | 5 |
| George Henry Blore | 1870–1960 | 1 |
| Thomas Blossom | 1801–1882 | 1 |
| Pierre Blot | 1818–1874 | 1 |
| Matthew Holbeche Bloxam | 1805–1888 | 1 |
| E. L. (Ernest Leonard) Blumenschein | 1874–1960 | 1 |
| Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein | 1869–1958 | 1 |
| Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal | 1864–1942 | 1 |
| Edmund Blunden | 1896–1974 | 2 |
| John Henry Blunt | 1823–1884 | 1 |
| Katharine Blunt | 1876–1954 | 1 |
| Wilfrid Scawen Blunt | 1840–1922 | 1 |
| James Blyth | 1864–1933 | 1 |
| Samuel G. (Samuel George) Blythe | 1868–1947 | 1 |
| Emile Blémont | 1839–1927 | 1 |
| Samuel Ward Boardman | 1830–1917 | 1 |
| Timothy Boardman | 1754–1838 | 1 |
| Frederick S. (Frederick Samuel) Boas | 1862–1957 | 1 |
| John Franklin Bobbitt | 1876–1956 | 1 |
| Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage | 1765–1805 | 7 |
| Giovanni Boccaccio | 1313–1375 | 6 |
| Wilhelm von Bode | 1845–1929 | 1 |
| Guillermo Bodenbender | 1857–1941 | 1 |
| Jean Bodin | 1530–1596 | 1 |
| R. C. (Richard Constant) Boer | 1863–1929 | 1 |
| Herman Boerhaave | 1668–1738 | 3 |
| Boethius | 480–525 | 2 |
| Abraham Bogaert | 1663–1727 | 1 |
| S. E. (Sara Elisabeth) Boggs | born 1843 | 1 |
| Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue | 1882–1964 | 1 |
| Nicolas Boileau Despréaux | 1636–1711 | 1 |
| Paul Boiteau d'Ambly | 1830–1886 | 1 |
| Johan Bojer | 1872–1959 | 1 |
| Edward William Bok | 1863–1930 | 2 |
| George H. (George Henry) Boker | 1823–1890 | 1 |
| Rolf Boldrewood | 1826–1915 | 2 |