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Charles Babbage |
UK mathematician/inventor |
(1792–1871) |
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Lauren Bacall |
US actress |
(1924– ) |
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Francis Bacon |
UK philosopher/politician |
(1561–1626) |
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Walter Bagehot |
UK economist/journalist |
(1826–1877) |
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Pearl Bailey |
US Singer/actress |
(1918-1988) |
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Philip James Bailey |
Poet |
(1816-1902) |
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George Balanchine |
Ballet dancer/choreographer |
(1903-1983) |
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Christina Baldwin |
US author |
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Honoré de Balzac |
French writer |
(1799-1850) |
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Frederick G. Banting |
Canadian physiologist (discoverer of
insulin) |
(1891-1941) |
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Daniel Barenboim |
Brazilian pianist/conductor |
(1942-) |
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Joel Barker |
US futurist |
(1944-) |
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Raymond Charles Barker |
US religious educator |
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Chester Barnard |
US businessman |
(1886-1961) |
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James M. Barrie |
UK novelist/dramatist |
(1860–1937) |
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Frank Barron |
US Psychologist |
(1922-) |
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Ethel Barrymore |
US actress |
(1879-1959) |
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John Barton |
UK stage director |
(1928-) |
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Bernard Mannes Baruch |
US statesman |
(1870-1965) |
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Basho |
Japanese poet |
(1644-1694) |
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Charles Pierre Baudelaire |
French poet |
(1821-1867) |
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Trevor Baylis |
UK inventor |
(1937-) |
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Cecil Beaton |
UK photographer/designer |
(1904-1980) |
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Samuel Beckett |
Irish playwright |
(1906-1989) |
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Henry Ward Beecher |
US cleric |
(1813-1887) |
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Ludwig van Beethoven |
German composer |
(1770-1827) |
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R. Meredith Belbin |
UK management expert |
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Alexander Graham Bell |
Scottish scientist |
(1847–1922) |
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George Bellows |
US artist/lithographer |
(1882-1925) |
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Ruth Benedict |
US anthropologist |
(1887-1948) |
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Arnold Bennett |
UK novelist |
(1867-1931) |
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Warren Bennis |
US business guru |
(1925-) |
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Bernard Berenson |
US art critic and writer |
(1865–1959) |
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Thomas Berger |
US author |
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Henri Bergson |
Philosopher |
(1859–1941) |
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Irving Berlin |
Russian-American composer |
(1888-1989) |
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Isaiah Berlin |
Jewish scholar |
(1725-1799) |
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Hector Berlioz |
French composer |
(1803-1869) |
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Claude Bernard |
French physiologist |
(1813-1878) |
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Bill Bernabach |
US Advertising executive |
(1911-1982) |
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Yogi Berra |
US baseball player (real name Laurence Peter Berra) |
(1925– ) |
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Henry Bessemer |
UK inventor |
(1813–1898) |
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Benazir Bhutto |
Pakistani stateswoman |
(1923-) |
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A. W. Bickerton |
NZ physics/chemistry professor |
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Ambrose Bierce |
US writer/journalist |
(1842– 1914) |
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Josh Billings |
US humorist |
(1818-1885) |
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Wilfred Bion |
UK psychotherapist |
(1897-1979) |
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William Blake |
UK poet |
(1757–1827) |
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
Russian founder of theosophy |
(1831–1891) |
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Paul Bley |
Canadan Jazz Musician |
(1932-) |
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Arthur Bloch |
US author |
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Henry Bohm |
UK scientist |
|
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Niels Bohr |
Danish physicist |
(1885–1962) |
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Erma Bombeck |
US humorist |
(1927-1996) |
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Napoleon Boneparte |
French Emperor |
(1769-1821) |
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Edward de Bono |
UK physician/writer |
(1933– ) |
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Daniel J. Boorstin |
US historian |
(1914-) |
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Jorge Luis Borges |
Argentinian writer |
(1899-1986) |
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Antoine Bourdelle |
French artist |
(1861-1929) |
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Christian Bovée |
US lawyer |
(1820-1904) |
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Elizabeth Bowen |
Irish author |
(1899-1973) |
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Ray Bradbury |
US science fiction author |
(1920-) |
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John Braine |
UK author |
(1922-1986) |
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Alfred Brandt |
German engineer |
(1846-1899) |
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Werhner von Braun |
German rocket scientist |
(1912-1977) |
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William Bragg |
UK physicist |
(1862-1942) |
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Bertolt Brecht |
German dramatist/poet |
(1898–1956) |
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William Bridges |
US writer |
|
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P. W. Bridgman |
US physicist |
(1829-1889) |
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Ashleigh Brilliant |
US comic artist |
(1933-) |
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William Bryant |
US poet |
(1794–1878) |
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Jacob Bronowski |
UK scientist/writer |
(1908–1974) |
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Charlotte Brontë |
UK novelist |
(1816–1855) |
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Joyce Brothers |
US psychologist |
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Charles Brower |
US advertising executive |
|
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Michael Brown |
US Nobel laureate (medicine, 1985) |
(1941-) |
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Rita Mae Brown |
US feminist/writer |
(1944-) |
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John Mason Brown |
UK scientist/author |
(1900-1969) |
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John Seely Brown |
US researcher/author (Xerox) |
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Les Brown |
US author/speaker |
|
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
UK poet |
(1806–1861) |
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Robert Browning |
UK poet |
(1812–1889) |
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Gautama Buddha |
Founder of Buddhism |
(c. –483 BC) |
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George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
French naturalist |
(1707–1788) |
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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton |
UK novelist and politician |
(1803–1873) |
|
Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
UK poet and politician (aka. Owen
Meredith) |
(1831–1891)) |
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Charles Bukowski |
German/US poet |
(1920-1994) |
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Ralph Bunche |
US statesman |
(1904-1971 |
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Luther Burbank |
US naturalist |
(1849-1926) |
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Edmund Burke |
UK politician |
(1729–1797) |
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Robert Burns |
Scottish poet |
(1756-1796) |
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John Burroughs |
US naturalist |
(1837–1921) |
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Leo Burnett |
US Advertising executive |
(1891-1971) |
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Leo Buscaglia |
US psychologist |
(1924-1998) |
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Edward B. Butler |
American scientist |
|
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Nolan Bushnell |
US Founder of Atari |
|
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Nicholas Butler |
US educator |
(1862-1947) |
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Samuel Butler |
UK satirist |
(1612–1680) |
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Sydney Charles Buxton |
UK Earl / statesman |
(1853-1934) |
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George Byron |
UK Lord, poet |
(1788-1824) |
