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- Brabham, Jack, (born 1926), Australian race driver
- Bracco, Lorraine, (born 1955), actress
- Bracero, Rafael, sportscaster
- Brackett, Leigh, (1915-1978), US science fiction author
- Bradbury, Malcolm, author of The History Man
- Bradbury, Norris, (died 1997), physicist
- Bradbury, Ray, (born 1920), US Science Fiction author
- Braddock, Edward, (1695?-1755), 18th century British General
- Braddock, Jameds, (1905-1974), boxing champion
- Braddon, Mary Elizabeth, (1837-1915), English novelist
- Braden, Bernard, comedian and satirist
- Bradford, Andrew, (1686-1742), American colonial printer
- Bradford, Augustus Williamson, governor
- Bradford, Barbara Taylor, (born 1933), author
- Bradford, Catherine, Canadian writer
- Bradford, Karleen, Canadian writer
- Bradford, William, (1590-1657) Leader of Plymouth Colony
- Bradford, William, (1663-1752), Colonial American printer
- Bradford, William, (1722-91), American Revolutionary printer
- Bradford, William, (1729-1808), American Senator
- Bradford, William, (1755-97), US jurist and Attourney General
- Bradlee, Benjamin, (born 1921), journalist
- Bradley, Bill, (born 1943), basketball player, US Senator
- Bradley, Ed, (born 1941), journalist, 60 Minutes correspondent.
- Bradley, F. H, philosopher
- Bradley, James, (1693-1762), astronomer
- Bradley, Marion Zimmer, (1930-1999), US fantasy writer
- Bradley, Milton, (1836-1911), maufacturer, lithographer, game maker
- Bradley, Omar, (1893-1981), WW2 US general
- Bradley, Tom, (1917-1998), mayor of Los Angeles, California
- Bradley, Tom, author
- Bradman, Sir Donald, (1908-2001), cricket player
- Bradshaw, John, psychologist
- Bradshaw, Terry, (born 1948), football quarterback
- Bradshaw, Tiny, (1905-1958), musician
- Bradwardine, Thomas (c. 1290-1349), philosopher, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Brady, Charles, astronaut
- Brady, John Green, US Governor of Alaska
- Brady, Paul, musician
- Braga, Brannon, (born 1964), writer, director
- Braga, Sonia, (born 1950), actress
- Brag, Braxton, (1817-1876), Confederate general
- Bragg, Billy, (born 1957), composer, singer-songwriter, musician
- Bragg, Melvyn, television presenter
- Brahe, Nils, (1604-1632)
- Brahe, Nils Magnus, (1790-1844), Swedish politician
- Brahe, Per, (1602-1680), Swedish politician
- Brahe, Tycho, (1546-1601), Danish-born astronomer
- Brahms, Johannes, (1833-1897), German composer
- Braille, Louis, (1809-1852), inventor
- Brain, Dennis, (1922-1957), French horn player
- Braine, John, author of Room at the Top and The Jealous God
- Braithwaite, Max, (1911-1995), praire depression era fiction
- Braithwaite, William, (1878-1962), poet
- Brakhage, Stan, (1933-2003), filmmaker
- Bramante, Donato, (1444-1514), Italian architect
- Bramhendra, Sadasiva, Indian composer
- Branagh, Kenneth, (born 1960), film director, actor
- Branca, Remo
- Brancati, Vitaliano, novelist
- Brance, Ralph, (born 1926), baseball star
- Branco, Camilo Castelo, (writer)
- Brancusi, Constantin, (1876-1957), sculptor
- Brand, Dionne, Canadian writer
- Brandeis, Louis, (born 1856), U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Brand, Jo, British stand-up comedian
- Brand, Vance, astronaut
- Branden, Nathaniel, (born 1930), psychologist, philosopher, Ayn Rand fan
- Brandenstein, Daniel, astronaut
- Brand, Max, (1893-1944), author
- Brand, Neville, (1920-1992), actor
- Brando, Marlon, (born 1924), US actor
- Brandstrom, Elsa, (born 1888), "The Angel of Siberia"
- Brandt, Di, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic
- Brandt, Jozef, Polish painter
- Brandt, Karl, (1904-1948)
- Brandt, Willy, (1913-1992), West German chancellor
- Branigan, Laura, US singer
- Brankovic, Djuradj, (1427-1456), Serbian monarch
- Brankovic, Lazar, (1456-1458), Serbian monarch
- Brankovic, Stefan, (1458-1459), Serbian monarch
- Branson, Richard, (born 1950)
- Branstad, Terry E, US politician
- Branting, Hjalmar, (1860-1925), politician
- Braque, Georges, (1882-1963), sculptor
- Brasch, Thomas, dramatist, author
- Brassaï, (1899-1984), photographer
- Brassard, Jean-Luc, freestyle ski - moguls, Olympic Gold Medal - 1994
- Brasseur, Isabelle, (born 1970), figure skating champion
- Brasseur, Pierre, (born 1905)
- Brassova, Princess, (1880-1952)
- Brastins, Ernest, (1892-1942), organizer of Dievturiba
- Bratianu, Ion
- Bratko, Ivan, (born 1946), computer scientist.
- Bratlie, Jens, (1912-1913), Norwegian Prime Minister
- Brattain, Walter Houser, (born 1902), transistor co-inventor
- Bratteli, Trygve, (1973-1976), Norwegian Prime Minister
- Brauchitsch, Walter von, German soldier
- Braud, Wellman, (1891-1966), jazz string-bass musician
- Braudel, Ferdinand, historian
- Brault, Jacques, (born 1933), Canadian writer
- Braun, Carl Ferdinand, physicist
- Braun, Eva, (1912-1945), Hitler's mistress
- Braun, Karl Ferdinand, (1850-1918), 1909 Nobel Prize in physics
- Braun, Lily, (1865-1916), writer
- Braun, Pinkas, (born 1923), actor and film director
- Braun, Russell, operatic baritone
- Braun, Volker, dramatist, author
- Braun, Wernher von, (1912-1977), German rocket scientist
- Brautigan, Richard, (1935-1984), US novelist, poet
- Braxton, Anthony, (alto)
- Braxton, Toni, (born 1968), US musician
- Bray, Alan, (born 1946), American painter
- Brazier, Arthur M, Minister, community activist, civil rights leader
- Brazzi, Rossano, (1916-1994), Italian actor
- Breathed, Berke, US Cartoonist and creator ofBloom County
- Breau, Lenny, musician
- Brecht, Bertolt, (1898-1956), German Three-penny Opera lyricist
- Breckinridge, John C, (died 1875), Vice President of the United States
- Breda, Carl Fredrik von, (1759-1818), painter
- Bregovic, Goran, composer
- Breguet, Abraham Louis, (1747-1823), watchmaker
- Bregwin, (St.) 761
- Brehm, Alfred, (1829-1884), zoologist
- Brehme, Andreas, athlete
- Breitner, Paul, athlete
- Brel, Jacques, (1929-1978), actor, composer, director, writer
- Bremer, Arthur Herman, – would-be assassin of George Wallace
- Bremer, Fredrika, (1801-1865), Swedish writer
- Bremner, Billy, athlete
- Bremner, Rory, (born 1961), British comedian
- Brendan, Saint, Irish abbot who allegedly sailed the Atlantic Ocean
- Brennan, Don, (died 1985), cricketer
- Brennan, Eileen, (born 1938), actress
- Brennan, Walter, (1894-1974), Academy Award winning actor
- Brenner, David, comedian, stand-up comedian
- Brenner, Ernst, (1856-1911), Swiss president
- Brentano, Clemens, (1778-1842), poet
- Brentano, Franz, (1853-1920), philosopher
- Brereton, Lewis Hyde, Major general
- Breslin, Jimmy, (born 1930), writer
- Bresslaw, Bernard, (1934-1993), British comedian
- Bresson, Robert, (1907-1999), French film director
- Brest, Vida, (born 1925), poet
- Bretislav I, (1035-1055), Bohemian aristocrat
- Bretislav II, (1092-1100), Bohemian aristocrat
- Bretnor, Reginald, (1911-1992), author
- Breton, Elisa, (died 2002), surrealist
- Breton, Nicholas, (1542-1626), poet
- Brett, Brian, Canadian writer
- Brett, Jeremy, (1933-1995), actor
- Brett, Lily, novelist
- Brett, Simon, (born 1945), (whodunnits)
- Breuer, Jim, comedian
- Breuer, Marcel Lajos, (1902-1981), architect
- Brewer, Teresa, (born 1931), singer
- Brewster, David, (1781-1868), Scottish physicist
- Brewster, Harlan Carey, 1916-11-23 to 1918-03-01
- Breytenbach, Breyten, (born 1939), South African poet, writer and painter
- Brezhnev, Leonid, (1906-1982), leader of the Soviet Union
- Brezina, Thomas, (born 1968), author
- Breznev, Leonid Illich, Soviet general secretary
- Briand, Aristide, (1915-1917), French Prime Minister
- Brice, Fanny, (1891-1951), singer, comedienne, actress
- Brice, Franny, comedian
- Brice, James, governor
- Brice, Pierre, (born 1929), actor
- Brickell, Edie, (born 1966), singer
- Bricklin, Dan, co-creator of VisiCalc, the first personal spreadsheet program
- Brickman, Marshall, (born 1941), screenwriter
- Bricusse, Leslie, songwriter
- Bridge, Frank, (1879-1941), composer
- Bridger, Jim, (1804-1881), pioneer
- Bridges, Beau, (born 1941), US actor
- Bridges, Jeff, (born 1949), US actor
- Bridges, Lloyd, (1913-1998), US actor
- Bridges, Robert, (1844-1930), poet
- Bridges, Roy, astronaut
- Brigaglia, Manlio
- Briggs, Henry, (1556-1630), English mathematician
- Briggs, Robin, historian
- Bright, John
- Brightman, Sarah, (born 1960), US singer
- Brightwell, Emily, author
- Brigode, Ace ( d. 1960), US bandleader
- Brillault, Ashley, (born 1987), actress
- Brilliart, Julie (1751 - 1816), Roman Catholic nun, foundress of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur
- Brimley, Wilford, (born 1934), actor
- Brin, David, (born 1950), US science fiction writer
- Brindley, James, (1716-1772), canals, watermills
- Bringhurst, Robert, Canadian writer
- Brinkley, Christie, (born 1954), US model
- Brinkley, David, (1920-2003), broadcast journalist
- Brinkley, John R, televangelist
- Brinkley, Richard, scholastic philosopher
- Brinnin, John Malcol, poet
- Brisbois, Danielle, musician
- Briscoe, Dolph, (1973-1979), Governor of Texas
- Brissaud, Pierre, (1885-1964), French illustrator, painter
- Bristol, Arthur L, (1886-1942), US Navy admiral
- Brito, Bonushomo, scholastic philosopher
- Brito, Radulphus, scholastic philosopher
- Britten, Benjamin, (1913-1976), composer, opera composer
- Broadbent, Jim, (born 1949), actor
- Broca, Paul, (born 1824), anthropologist
- Broch, Hermann, dramatist, author
- Brock, Daniel De Lisle, (1821-1843), British bailiff
- Brockhouse, Bertram, designed the Triple-Axis Neutron Spectroscope
- Brock, Isaac, (1769-1813)
- Brock, Lou, (born 1939), baseball star
- Brocquy, Louis le, (born 1916), Saoi of Aosdána, painter
- Brod, Max, (1884-1968), author
- Brodar, Srecko, (1893-1987), paleontologist.
- Broderick, James, (died 1982), actor
- Brodie, John, (born 1935), professional football player
- Brodie, Steve, (died 1992), actor
- Brodowski, Antoni, Polish painter
- Brodsky, Daniel Louis, poet
- Brodsky, Joseph, (1940-1996), poet
- Brody, Adrien, (born 1973), actor
- Brody, Bruiser, (1946-1988), wrestler
- Brokaw, Charles, (died 1975), journalist
- Brokaw, Tom, (born 1940), US TV news anchorman
- Brolin, James, (born 1940), actor
- Bromberg, Brian
- Bromfield, Louis, (1896-1956), writer
- Bromhead, Jerome de, member of Aosdána
- Bromige, David, Canadian writer
- Bron, Eleanor, British comedian
- Brondo, Antioco
- Bronfman, Charles, (born 1931), industrialist
- Bronfman, Samuel, "Seagrams" distillery founder
- Broniewski, Wladyslaw, poet
- Bronk, William, (died 1999), poet
- Bronson, Charles, (born 1921), US-born actor
- Bronson, Rick, Former Coca-cola employee
- Brønsted, Johannes Nicolaus, (1879-1947), physical chemist.
- Bronstatt, Pierre Victor Besenval de, (1721-1791)
- Bronstein, David, (born 1924), chess player
- Bronte, Louisa, British author
- Bronzino, Agnolo, painter
- Brood, Herman, (1946-2001), rock musician and artist
- Brook, Peter, (born 1925), theatre director
- Brooke, Alan, (1883-1963), British Field Marshal
- Brooke, Rupert, (1887-1925), English poet
- Brooker, Bertram, theosophist painter
- Brookes, Norman, (Australia)
- Brooke, Sorrell, (died 1994), actor
- Brookmeyer, Bob, musician
- Brookner, Anita, English novelist
- Brooks, Albert, (born 1947), comedian
- Brooks, Avery, (born 1948), US actor
- Brooks, Cindy, (born 1965), rower
- Brooks, Garth, (born 1962), US country musician
- Brooks, Gwendolyn, (born 1917), poet
- Brooks, Hadda, (1916-2002), musician
- Brooks, Harriet, (1876-1933), physicist
- Brooks, James L, (born 1940), producer, writer
- Brooks, Louise, (1906-1985), actor
- Brooks, Mel, (born 1926), US comedian
- Brooks, Meredith, US musician
- Brooks, Overton, (1897-1961), US Congressman
- Brooks, Shelton, (1886-1975), songwriter
- Brooks, Terry, (born 1944), US fantasy author
- Broom, Robert, (1866-1951), paleontologist
- Broonzy, Big Bill, (born 1893), musician
- Brosnan, Pierce, (born 1953), Irish-born James Bond Actor
- Brossa, Joan, (1919-1998), poet
- Brossard, Nicole, (born 1943), formalist poet
- Brossolette, Pierre, French Resistance activist
- Brothers, Allen, musician
- Brötzmann, Peter, (alto, tenor, bass)
- Brothers, Joyce, (born 1928), US sex psychologist & television personality
- Brough, Louise, tennis player
- Broughton, Rhoda, (1840-1920), novelist
- Broun, Heywood Hale, (1918-2001), sports commentator
- Brouwer, Luitzen Egbertus Jan, (1881-1966), mathematician
- Brovina, Flora, poet
- Broward, Napoleon Bonaparte, US Governor of Florida
- Brown, Alistair, (born 1970), English cricket player.
- Brown, Arthur, (born 1944), musician
- Brown, A. Whitney, comedian
- Brown, B. Gratz, governor
- Brown, Bob, Green leader and Senator
- Brown, Bobby, (born 1969), singer
- Brown, Capability, (1716-1783), landscape architect
- Brown, Carter, US crime writer
- Brown, Cecily, painter
- Brown, Charles, (1922-1999), musician
- Brown, Charles Brockden, US novelist
- Brown, Chester, US cartoonist
- Brown, Christy, (1932-1981), author
- Brown, Clarence, (1890-1987), film director
- Brown, Clarence Gatemouth, musician
- Brown, Clifford, (1930-1956), musician
- Brown, Curtis, astronaut
- Brown, David M, (1956-2003), astronaut
- Brown, Dee, (1908-2002), writer, historian
- Brown, Derren, (born 1971), magician
- Brown, Edmund G, (died 1996), Governor of California
- Brown, Eric, (born 1960), author
- Brown, Ford Madox, (1821-1893), painter
- Brown, Frank, governor
- Brown, Fredric, (1906-1972), author
- Brown, George, (1818-1880)
- Brown, Gordon, (born 1951), Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Brown, Guillermo E, musician
- Brown, Isaac N, (1817-1889) US and Confederate Naval Officer
- Brown, J, invented the washing machine
- Brown, James Justin, (born 1973), Abstract Painter
- Brown, James, (born 1928), Soul Brother Number One
- Brown, Jim, (born 1936), American football star
- Brown, Joe E, comedian
- Brown, John, (1800-1859), US abolitionist
- Brown, John, (born 1953), publisher
- Brown, Lee P, Mayor of Houston, Texas from 1997 to 2003
- Brown, Les, (1912-2001), band leader
- Brown, Marcia, Puss in Boots
- Brown, Mark, astronaut
- Brown, Michael, painter
- Brown, Milton, musician
- Brown, Paul, (1908-1991), National Football League coach
- Brown, Peter (not the singer), historian
- Brown, Rabbit, US blues musician
- Brown, Ray, (died 2002), musician
- Brown, Robert R, televangelist
- Brown, Ron, US politician
- Brown, Rosemary, (1930-2003), Canadian politician
- Brown, Roy, musician
- Brown, Rush, (born 1948), American painter
- Brown, Ruth, (born 1928), musician
- Brown, Sterling A, poet
- Brown, Steve, musician
- Brown, Thomas, US Governor of Florida
- Brown, Thomas Edward, (1830-1897), poet
- Brown, Thomas Townsend, (1905-1985), scientist
- Brown, Tom (trombonist), (1888-1958), musician
- Brown, William Hill, US novelist
- Brown, Willie, (born 1934), mayor of San Francisco, California -2003
- Browne, Charles Farrar, (1834-1867), (Artemus Ward)
- Browne, Christy, author of My Left Foot
- Browne-Bartroli, Eliane, (1917-1944), SOE agent, WW II heroine
- Browne, Jackson, (born 1948), musician
- Browne, Noel, (1948-51)
- Browne, Whit
- Browne, William, (1588-1643), poet
- Brownell, Herbert Jr, (1904-1996), US Attorney General
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, (1806-1861), English poet
- Browning, Frederick, lieutenant general of airborne troops
- Browning, John Moses, (1855-1926), inventor
- Browning, Kurt, (born 1966), figure skater
- Browning, Robert, (1812-1889), English poet
- Browning, Tod, (1882-1962), actor, director, writer, producer
- Brownlee, John E, (1884-1961), Canadian politician
- Brubeck, Dave, (born 1920), composer, musician
- Bruce, David, Pivotal typecaster 1838
- Bruce, Jack, (born 1943), musician
- Bruce, Lenny, (1925-1966), American satirist
- Bruce, Nigel, (died 1953), actor
- Bruce, Thomas, (1766-1841), UK ambasador and antiquities collector
- Bruch, Max, (1838-1920), composer
- Bruch, Walter, (1908-1990), engineer
- Bruckheimer, Jerry, (born 1945), US film and television producer
- Bruckner, Anton, (1824-1896), composer
- Bruckner, Christine, (1921-1996), author
- Bruckner, Ferdinand, dramatist, author
- Brudenell, James Thomas, Earl of Cardigan (d. 1868), UK military leader
- Brueghel, Jan, the Elder, (1568-1625), painter
- Brueghel, Jan, the Younger, (1601-1678), painter
- Brueghel, Pieter, the Younger, (1564-1638), painter
- Brueghel the Elder, Pieter, (c.1520-1569), Belgian painter
- Brugger, Ernst, (1914-1998), Swiss Federal Councilor
- Bruguera, Sergi, (Spain)
- Bruhns, Nicolaus (1665-1697), composer
- Bruinov, Boris, (1922-1997), actor
- Brumel, Antoine, (c.1475-c.1520), composer
- Brumel, Valeri, (1942-2003), athlete
- Brumel, Valeriy, (died 2003), track and field athlete
- Brummel, Beau, (born 1778), British fashion leader
- Brun, Viggo (1885-1978), mathematician
- Bruna, Dick (born 1927), graphical artist
- Brundage, Avery (1887-1975), International Olympic Committee President
- Brundtland, Gro Harlem, Norwegian politician
- Brune, Guillaume Marie Anne (1763-1815), French soldier
- Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, (1806-1859), bridgebuilder, shipbuilder
- Brunel, Marc Isambard, (1769-1849), engineer
- Brunelleschi, Filippo, (1377-1446), Italian architect
- Bruner, Cliff, musician
- Brunhoff, Jean de, (1899-1937), The Story of Babar
- Brunies, George, (1902-1974), jazz trombonist
- Bruning, Dale, musician
- Brüning, Heinrich, (1885-1970), Chancellor of the Weimar Republic (Center Party)
- Brunner, John, (1934-1995), British science fiction writer
- Bruno, Frank, boxer
- Bruno, Giordano, (1548-1600), Italian philosopher
- Bruno, Jimmy, musician
- Brusilov, Aleksei
- Brust, Alfred, dramatist, author
- Brust, Steven, (born 1955), US author
- Bruton, John, Irish politician
- Brutus, (c. 85-42 BC), conspirator against, and murderer of Julius Caesar
- Brvar, Andrej, (born 1945), poet
- Bryan, Gerald Jackson, (1959-1962)
- Bryan, William Jennings, (1860-1925), Secretary of State
- Bryant, Kobe (1978-)
- Bryant, William Cullen, (1794-1878), poet
- Bryars, Gavin, (born 1943), composer
- Bryden, John G, Canadian senator
- Bryll, Ernest, poet
- Brynner, Yul, (1915?-1985), US actor
- Bryson, Peabo, (born 1951), pop singer
- Bryusov, Valeri, (1873-1924), poet, novelist, critic
- Brzezinski, Zbigniew, (born 1928), Pole
- Brzozowski, Tadeusz, Polish painter
