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Bea
- Beach, Amy, (1867-1944), composer
- Beach, Sylvia, (born 1887), publisher
- Beagle, Peter S., (born 1939), US fantasy author
- Beals, Jennifer (born 1963) US actress
- Beamon, Bob, (born 1946), athlete
- Bean, Alan, (born 1932), astronaut
- Bear, Greg, (born 1951), US science fiction author
- Beard, Charles A., (born 1874), historian
- Beard, James, (1903-1985), chef, cookbook writer
- Beard, Stephanie, Canadian radio and television personality, voice actress
- Beard, Stymie, (1925-1981), actor
- Beard, Thomas, (born 1962), musician, composer
- Bearden, Milton, US spy, author
- Bearden, Romare, (1914-1988), painter
- Beardsley, Aubrey, (1872-1898), illustrator
- Beardsley, Monroe (1915-1985), U.S. philosopher
- Béart, Emmanuelle, (born 1965), French actor
- Beatrice, Princess of Portugal, (1372-1410), heiress to the throne and wife of John I of Castile
- Beatrice of Spain
- Beatrix, Queen of the Netherlands, (born 1938)
- Beattie, Ann, (born 1947), writer
- Beatty, Alfred Chester, Sir, (1875-1968)
- Beatty, Clyde, (1903-1965), circus performer, hunter
- Beatty, David, (1871-1936), British
- Beatty, Ned, (born 1937), actor
- Beatty, Warren, (born 1937), US film director
- Beauchamp-Proctor, Andrew, (1894-1921), fighter pilot
- Beaudoin, Gerald A., Canadian senator
- Beaufort, John, 1st Earl of Somerset
- Beaufort, Margaret, (1443-1509), mother of Henry VII of England
- Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de, (1732-1799), comedy playwright
- Beaumier, Colleen, Canadian politican
- Beaumont, Charles, (died 1967), writer
- Beaumont, Florence (c1912-1967), activist
- Beaumont, Francis, (1586-1616), poet
- Beauregard, Alcide, SOE agent, WW II hero
- Beauregard, P.G.T., (1818-1893), general
- Beausoleil, musician
- Beauvoir, Simone de, (1908-1986), French author
- Beaux, Cecilia, painter
- Beaven, Robert
- Beaverbrook, Maxwell Aitken, Lord, (1879-1964), UK politician & newspaper tycoon
Beb
Bec
Bec - Becj
- Bécaud, Gilbert, (died 2001), musician
- Beccaria, Giovanni Battista, (1716-1781)
- Bechdel, Alison, US cartoonist
- Becher, Ulrich, dramatist, author
- Bechet, Sidney, (1897-1959), jazz musician
- Bechstein, Carl, (1826-1900), piano manufacturer
- Bechstein, Ludwig, (1801-1860), narrator and poet
- Bechtle, Robert, (born 1932), painter
Beck
- Beck
- Beck, (born 1970), singer-songwriter, musician
- Beck, Aaron, psychologist
- Beck, Beatrix, (born 1914), writer
- Beck, C.C., (1910-1989), creator of the original Captain Marvel
- Beck, Dave, (flourished mid-20th century) union leader
- Beck, Jeff, (born 1944), singer-songwriter, musician
- Beck, Joe, musician
- Beck, Kimberly, (born 1956), actor
- Beck, Ludwig, (1880-1944), General and member of the July Plot
- Beckenbauer, Franz, (born 1945), footballer
- Becker, Boris, (born 1967), (Germany)
- Becker, Donald, Linux programmer
- Becker, Gary, (born 1930), economist
- Becker, Jurek, dramatist, author
- Becker, Jürgen, dramatist, author
- Becket, Thomas
- Beckett, Arthur William a, (died 1909), British journalist
- Beckett, Gilbert Abbott a, (1811-1856), writer
- Beckett, Gilbert Arthur a, (died 1891), British writer
- Beckett, Margaret
- Beckett, Samuel, (1906-1989), Irish-born playwright
- Beckham, Brice, (born 1976), actor.
- Beckham, David, (born 1975), association football player
- Beckinsale, Kate, (born 1973), actress
- Beckman, Joshua, poet
- Beckmann, Max, (1884-1950), painter
- Beckwith, Alan, (born 1952)
Becl - Becz
Bed - Bek
Bed
- Bédard, Myriam, (born 1969), Olympic Gold Medal
- Beddoes, English writer in Germany
- Bede, (c. 672-735 C.E.), scholastic philosopher, historian
- Bedford, David, (born 1937), composer
- Bedi, Kabir, (born 1946), actor
- Bedrich, (1172-1173), Bohemian aristocrat
Bee
- Beebe, Charles William, (1877-1962), biologist
- Beefheart, Captain, (born 1941), avant garde blues musician and painter
- Beekman, Yolande, (1911-1944), SOE agent, WW II heroine
- Beerbohm, Max, (1873-1956), theater critic
- Beer, Wilhelm, (1797-1850), astronomer
- Beernaert, Auguste, Nobel Peace Prize 1908
- Beery, Noah, (died 1946), actor
- Beery, Wallace, (1885-1949), actor
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, (baptized 1770-1827), German-born composer
Bef
Beg
- Beg, Ulugh, (1394-1394), astronomer
- Beghal, Djamel, alleged Al-Qaida terrorist
- Beghe, Jason, actor
- Begin, Menachmen, (1913-1992), Israeli prime minister
- Begley, Donal, Chief Herald of Ireland, 1981-95
- Begley, Ed, Jr, (born 1949), actor
- Bégué, Georges, (1911-1993), SOE agent, WW II hero
Beh
- Behaim, Martin, (1436-1507), cartographer
- Behan, Brendan, (1923-1964), playwright, novelist
- Behan, John, sculptor, Aosdána
- Beheim-Schwarzenbach, Martin, (1900-1985), narrator, lyricist and essayist
- Behlendorf, Brian, Apache
- Behn, Aphra, (1640-1689), poet
- Behn, Ari, (born 1972), author
- Behring, Emil Adolf von, (1854-1917), winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901
- Behr, Jason, (born 1973), actor
Bei
Bej
Bek
Bel
Bela - Belk
- Belafonte, Harry, (born 1927), US singer
- Belafonte, Shari, (born 1954), US actor and singer
- Bélanger, Mauril, Canadian politician
- Belasco, David, (died 1931), writer, producer
- Belasco, Lionel, (1881-1967), musician
- Belen, Ana, musician
- Belgrano, Manuel
- Belisarius, (505-565), Roman general
- Belitt, Ben, poet
- Beliveau, Jean, ice hockey player
- Belkom, Edo Van, Canadian writer
Bell
- Bell
- Bell, Alexander Graham, (1847-1922), inventor
- Bell, Art, (b. 1945), American paranormal radio host
- Bell, Arthur William, (1929-1935), British bailiff
- Bell, Chris, musician
- Bell, Derek, harpist
- Bell, Eric Temple, (1883-1960), mathematician
- Bell, Gertrude, (1868-1926), archaeologist, writer, spy
- Bell, Gordon, (born 1934), computer engineer
- Bell, Jamie, (born 1986), actor
- Bell, Johnathan, (born 19??), televangelist
- Bell, Jocelyn, astronomer
- Bell, Karen Nelson, producer, director and musician
- Bell, Madison Smartt, Waiting for the End of the World (1985), and A Soldier's Joy (1989) amongst others
- Bell, Marilyn, first person to swim Lake Ontario
- Bell, Mary, British woman who killed two children at ages 10 and 11
- Bell, Marvin, poet
- Bell, Peter Hansbrough, (1849-1853), American Governor of Texas
- Bell, Robert, (born 1950), bassist, singer
- Bell, Steve, (born 1951), contemporary British political cartoonist
- Bell, Vanessa, (1879-1961), painter
- Bell, William, Canadian musician, writer
- Bella, Ivan, astronaut
- Bellairs, John, (1938-1991), author
- Bellamy, Ralph (1904-1991), actor
- Bellamy, Edward, US author
- Bellamy, Madge (1899-1990), US actress
- Beller, Kathleen, (born 1956), actress
- Belli, Giuseppe Gioacchino, (Roman dialect)
- Belli, Gioconda, (born 1948), poet
- Belli, Melvin, (1907-1996), attorney, actor
- Bellingham, John, assassin
- Bellingham, Linda, actress
- Bellini, Gentile, (c.1429-1507), Italian painter
- Bellini, Giovanni, (c.1430-1516), Italian painter
- Bellini, Jacopo, (c.1400-1470), Italian painter
- Bellini, Vincenzo, (1801-1835), Italian composer
- Bellisario, Donald P., (born 1936), US television producer
- Bellit, Francesco
- Bellman, Carl Michael, (1740-1795), Swedish musician
- Bello C., Emiliano, Chilean president
- Bello, Frank, (born 1965), bassist in the Anthrax rock band
- Belloc, Hilaire, poet
- Bellocchio, Marco, film director
- Bellocq, Ernest J., (1873-1949), photographer
- Belloni, Allessandra, musician
- Bellotto, Bernardo, Polish painter
- Bellow, Saul, (born 1915), writer
- Bellows, George Wesley, (1882-1925), American painter
Belm - Belz
- Belmondo, Jean-Paul, (born 1933), French actor
- Belson, Louie, musician
- Belushi, James, (born 1954), US actor
- Belushi, John, (1949-1982), US comedian
- Bely, Andrey, (1880-1934), poet and author
- Belyayev, Pavel Ivanovich, (1925-1970), cosmonaut
- Belzer, Richard, (born 1944), actor, comedian
Bem - Ben
Bem
Ben
Bena - Benm
- Benaderet, Bea, (died 1968), actress
- Benante, Charlie, (born 1962), musician
- Benatar, Pat (born 1953), US singer
- Benaud, Richie, (born 1930), Australian cricket player
- Ben, Gottfried, German poet
- Ben Bella, Ahmed, Algerian pro-independence leader
- Ben-Gurion, David, (1886-1973), founder and prime minister of Israel
- Benacerraf, Paul, philosopher
- Benatzky, Ralph, (1884-1957), songwriter
- Bench, Johnny, (born 1947), Baseball Hall of Famer
- Benchley, Robert, (1889-1945), writer, actor
- Bendix, William, (1906-1964), actor
- Benedict
- Benedict of Nursia, scholastic philosopher
- Benedict, Julius, (born 1804), composer
- Benedict of Aniane, (died 821), monastic founder and saint
- Benedict I, Pope, (pope 575-579)
- Benedict II, Pope, (pope 682-683)
- Benedict III, Pope, (pope 855-858)
- Benedict IV, Pope, (900-903)
- Benedict V, Pope, (pope 964-965)
- Benedict VI, Pope, (pope 972-974)
- Benedict VII, Pope, (pope 975-983)
- Benedict VIII, Pope, (pope 1012-1024)
- Benedict IX, Pope, (Theophylactus, c. 1012-maybe 1055 or 1065)
- Benedict X, Pope, (reigned 1058-1059; died c. 1073 or 1080)
- Benedict XI, Pope, (pope 1303-1304), (possibly poisoned)
- Benedict XII, Pope, (pope 1334-1342)
- Benedict XIII, Pope, (pope 1724-1730)
- Benedict XIV, Pope, (1740-1758),
- Benedict XV, Pope, (1914-1922)
- Benedict, Ruth
- Benediktsson, Bjarni, (1963-1970), prime minister
- Beneke, Tex, (1914-2000), bandleader, singer, saxophone player
- Benes, Edvard, (1884-1948), Czech president-in-exile
- Benet, Eric, (born 1970), singer
- Benet Rose, William, poet
- Benét, Stephen Vincent, (1898-1943), poet
- Benford, Gregory, (born 1941), US science fiction author
- Benhadugah, Abdelhamid, (born 1925), novelist
- Benigni, Roberto, (born 1952), Italian actor
- Bening, Annette, (born 1958), US actor
- Benitez, Clara, matriarch of famous boxing family
- Benitez, John
- Benitez, Lucecita singer
- Benitez, Wilfredo, (born 1958), world champion boxer
- Benjamin II of Alexandria, (1327-1339), Coptic Pope
- Benjamin I, Patriarch, patriarch of Constantinople
- Benjamin, Judah, (1811-1884), Secretary of State for the Confederate States of America
- Benjamin, Richard, (born 1938), actor
- Benjamin, Walter, (1892-1940), literary critic and writer
Benn
- Benn, Gottfried, (1886-1956), dramatist, author
- Benn, Nigel, (born 1964), world champion boxer
- Benn, Tony, (1925-), British politician
- Bennett
- Bennett, Arnold, (1867-1931), English novelist
- Bennett, Bruce, (born 1909), actor
- Bennett, Constance, (1904-1965), actress
- Bennett, Donald, Air Vice-Marshal of RAF
- Bennett, Duster, musician
- Bennett, Gwendolyn B., poet
- Bennett, Henry Gordon, Major General of Australian Imperial Forces
- Bennett, James Gordon, Jr., (1841-1918), publisher
- Bennett, Joan, (1910-1990), actress
- Bennett, Nigel, Canadian writer
- Bennett, Oli, (1972-2001), financial journalist, WTC attack victim
- Bennett, Richard Bedford, (1870-1947), eleventh Prime Minister of Canada
- Bennett, Tony, (born 1926), musician
- Bennett, W.A.C., (1900-1979), Canadian politician
- Bennett, William, British flautist
- Bennett, William, (born 1943), former US Secretary of Education and "drug czar"
- Bennett, William Andrew Cecil, (1952-1972)
- Bennett, William R., (born 1932), Canadian politician
- Bennett, William Richards, (1975-1986)
- Benni, Stefano, (born 1947)
- Bennington, Chester, (born 1976), musician
- Bennit, Nigel, actor
- Benny, Jack, (1894-1974), actor, comedian
Beno - Benz
- Benoist, Robert, (1895-1944), race car driver, war hero
- Beňovský, Móric (1746-1786), Slovak explorer, soldier, writer, king of Madagascar
- Bensaïd, Daniel (born 1946), philosopher and Trotskyist politician
- Bense, Max, (1910-1990), philosopher
- Benso, Camillo, count of Cavour
- Benson, Edward White, (1829-1896), Archbishop of Canterbury
- Benson, Frank Weston, (1862-1951), American painter
- Benson, George, (born 1943), musician
- Bent, Charles, (died 1847), New Mexico pioneer
- Bentham, Jeremy, (1748-1832), lawyer, eccentric, and philosopher
- Bentine, Michael, (1922-1996)
- Bentley, Edmund Clerihew, (1875-1956), author
- Bentley, Robert, (died 1958), humorist, actor
- Benton, Bernard, world boxing champion
- Benton, Brook, (1931-1988), musician
- Benton, George, former boxer, noted boxing trainer
- Benton, Robert, film director
- Benton, Thomas Hart, (1889-1975), painter
- Benvenuti, Nino, (born 1938), world boxing champion
- Ben-Yehuda, Eliezer, (born 1858), responsible for revival of Hebrew language
- Benzinger, Todd, (born 1963), US baseball player
- Benz, Karl, (1844-1929), automotive pioneer
Beo - Beq
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Ber
Bera - Berf
- Bercovici, Leonardo, (died 1995), writer, director
- Berdarin, Alain, (died 1994), founder/owner of "Le Crazy Horse Saloon"
- Beregovoi, Georgi, (1921-1995), astronaut
- Beregovoi, Georgi Timofeyevich, (1921-1995), cosmonaut
- Bérégovoy, Pierre, (died 1993), Prime Minister of France
- Berenger, Tom, (born 1949), US actor
- Berenguela of Castile, (1180-1246), Castilian monarch
- Beresford, Bruce, (born 1940), film director
- Berezhnaya, Elena, (born 1977), figure skating star
- Berezovoy, Anatoly, astronaut
Berg
- Berg
- Berg, Alan, (died 1984), radio talk show host
- Berg, Alban, (1885,-1935), Austrian composer
- Berg, Carol, author
- Berg, Dave, (1920-2002), cartoonist for Mad magazine
- Berg, Gertrude, (1899-1966), actress
- Berg, Maimu, Estonian writer and politician
- Berg, Moe, US spy and baseball player
- Berge, Abraham, Norwegian Prime Minister
- Bergen, Candice, (born 1946), actress
- Bergen, Edgar, (1903-1978), US ventriloquist
- Berger, Helmut, (born 1944), actor
- Berger, Peter, (born 1925), British Vice-Admiral
- Berger, Senta, (born 1941), actress
- Berger, Wilhelm Peterson, Swedish musician
- Bergh, Henry, (1811-1888), founder of SPCA
- Berghaus, Ruth, (1927-1996), choreographer, film director
- Berghmans, Ingrid, judoka
- Bergier, Arnold Henry, sculptor
- Bergkamp, Dennis, (born 1969), athlete
- Bergman, Ingmar, (1918-), Swedish film director
- Bergman, Ingrid, (1915-1982), Swedish-born actress
- Bergner, Elisabeth, (died 1986), actress
- Bergomi, Giuseppe, athlete
- Bergonzoli, Annibale, Lieutenant-General at Bardia
- Bergson, Henri, (1859-1941), Nobel Prize Winner
Berh - Berm
Berh
Beri
- Beria, Lavrenty, (1899-1953), Soviet leader of NKVD
- Bering, Vitus, (1680-1741)
- Berio, Luciano, (1925-2003), opera composer
- Berisha, Sali, (1992-1997), Albanian president
Berj
Berk
- Berkeley, Anthony, mystery writer
- Berkeley, Busby, (1895-1976), film director
- Berkeley, George, (1685-1753), philosopher
- Berkowitz, David, "Son of Sam", US serial killer
Berl
- Berlage, Henrik Petrus, architect
- Berle, Milton, (1908-2002), US actor, comedian
- Berliner, Emil, (1851-1929), telephone and recording pioneer
- Berlin, Irving, (1888-1989), composer, songwriter, musician
- Berlin, Isaiah, (1909-1997), philosopher
- Berliner, Emile, (1851-1929) gramophone inventor
- Berlinguer, Enrico, (1922-1984), politician
- Berlinguer, Mario
- Berlioz, Hector, (1803-1869), French composer
- Berlusconi, Silvio, (born 1936)
Berm
Bern
- Bernadotte, Folke, (1895-1948), Swedish count and diplomat
- Bernall, Cassie, victim of the Columbine massacre
- Bernard
- Bernard of Chartres, scholastic philosopher
- Bernard of Clairvaux, (1090-1153), French scholastic philosopher
- Bernard, Carlos, actor
- Bernard Prince of Netherlands
- Bernard, Emerik, (born 1927), painter.
- Bernard, Francis, (1712-1779), colonial governor of New Jersey and Massachusetts
- Bernard, Nejc, (born 1970), poet
- Bernard, Sue, (born 1948), Playboy playmate
- Bernard, Tristan, (1866-1947), writer
- Bernardi, Herschel, (1923-1986), actor
- Bernardo, Paul, (born 1964)
- Bernays, Jakob, (died 1881), philologist
- Berne, Eric, (1910-70), US psychiatrist, founder of Transactional Analysis
- Berners-Lee, Tim, inventor of the World Wide Web
- Bernhard
- Bernhardt, Sarah, (1844-1923), French actor
- Bernier, Sylvie, Canada's first gold medal in Olympic diving
- Bernik, Janez, (born 1933), painter and graphic artist
- Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, (1598-1680), Italian architect, sculptor, painter
- Bernoulli, Daniel, (1700-1782), Switzerland
- Bernoulli, Jakob, (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician
- Bernoulli, Johann, (1667-1748), Swiss mathematician
- Bernoulli, Johann, III, (born 1744), Swiss mathematician
- Berns, Bert, songwriter
- Bernsen, Corbin, (born 1954), US actor
- Bernstein, Elmer, (born 1922), composer
- Bernstein, Leonard, (1918-1990), US composer
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Bero
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Berq
Berr
- Berra, Yogi, (born 1925), US baseball player
- Berrigan, Bunny, musician
- Berrigan, Daniel, poet
- Berrigan, Philip, (1923-2002), anti-war activist
- Berrios, Angel O., mayor
- Berrios, Ruben, (born 1939), politician
- Berroa, Ignacio, musician
- Berruguete, Alonso, (1480-1561)
- Berry
- Berry, Chu, musician
- Berry, Chuck, (born 1926), US musician
- Berry, Fred, (1951-2003), US actor
- Berry, Halle, (born 1966), US actor
- Berry, Ken, (born 1933), actor
- Berry, Richard, musician
- Berry, Sir Anthony, (1925-1984), British politician
- Berry, Wendell, poet
- Berryman, John, poet
Bers - Berz
- Berthelm, Archbishop of Canterbury
- Berthier, Pierre, chemist
- Berthlaume, Treffle, (1803-1884), sculptor
- Berthold, of Moosburg, scholastic philosopher
- Berthollet, Claude Louis, (1748-1822)
- Bertolucci, Bernardo, (born 1940), film director
- Berton, Pierre, (born 1920), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist
- Bertram, Laura, actor
- Bertrand, Joseph Louis Francois, (1822-1900), mathematician
- Bertwald, (St.) 693
- Berwald, Frans, (1796-1868), composer
- Berwanger, Jay, (1914-2002), US football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy
- Berwick, Dennison, (born 1956), literary travel author now working in fiction
- Berzelius, Jöns Jacob, (1779-1848), chemist
Bes - Bez
- Besant, Annie, (1847-1933), British mystic
- Besemer, Jen, (born 1970), surrealist poet and painter
- Beskow, Elsa, (1874-1953), painter
- Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm, (1784-1846), astronomer, mathematician
- Bessemer, Henry, (1813-1898), investor of Bessemer steel
- Besser, Joe, (1907-1988), US actor, member of the Three Stooges
- Bessette, Gerard, (born 1920), Quebecois author
- Bessler, Johann Ernst Elias (1680-1745), inventor[1]
- Besson, Luc, (born 1959), French film director
- Best, Charles, (1899-1978), medical scientist, co-discovered insulin
- Best, George, (born 1946), footballer
- Bester, Alfred, (1913-1987), US science fiction writer
- Best, Pete, (born 1941), drummer
Bet
- Betancourt, Ingrid, (born 1961), Colombian politician
- Betancourt, Rómulo, Venezuelan president
- Betanzos, Miguel
- Bethge, Hans, (born 1876), writer
- Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, (died 1917), Prussian Prime Minister
- Bethune, Norman, (1890-1939), battlefield surgeon
- Betjeman, John, (1906-1984), poet
- Bettauer, Hugo, novelist
- Bettelheim, Bruno, (1903-1990), child psychologist, psychiatrist
- Bettencourt, Liliane, majority owner of L'Oreal, wealthiest person in France
- Bettenhausen, Gary, (born 1941), race car driver
- Bettenhausen, Tony, (1916-1961), race car driver
- Betts, Dickie, (born 1943), musician (The Allman Brothers)
Beu
Bev
- Bevan, Aneurin, (1897-1960), politician
- Bevc, Joze, (born 1925), film director
- Bevilacqua, Alberto, novelist
- Bevin, Ernest, British politician
- Bevington, Helen
- Bevk, Ivan, (1890-1970), author
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