Name
- Benvoglienti, Uberto1
- Bernouilli, Jean, Professor of Mathematics at Basle1
- Besmaux, Governor of the Bastille1
- Besoigne, Jérôme1
- Bilius, Hubert1
- Blom, Nicolaas1
- Blumenbach, Johann Friedrich, of Göttingen University1
- Blumenthal, Joachim Friedrich, Envoy from Brandenburg to the States General1
- Boddens, Johannes Baptista1
- Bodoni, Giovanni Battista1
- Boreel, Johan, Dutch Ambassador in London1
- Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Abbé, afterwards Bishop of Troyes1
- Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne, Bishop of Meaux1
- Bouquet, Boisbertrand1
- Brancas, Georges, Duc de Villars, Governor of Honfleur1
- Brancas, Louis Bufile, Comte de Forcalquier1
- Broglie, François Marie, Duc de Broglie, Maréchal1
- Brovaert, Louis1
- Bruno, Henricus, Rector of the School at Rheenen1
- Brückmann, Ernst Ludwig, MD1