Name
- Bancroft, George, American historian and Democrat politician, 1800-18911
- Bandinel, Bulkeley, librarian, scholar, ecclesiastic, 1781-18611
- Baring, William Bingham, 2nd Baron Ashburton, politician, 1799-18641
- Barrow, John, 1st Baronet, author; Second Secretary to the Admiralty, 1764-18481
- Behnes, William, sculptor1
- Bessel, Friederich Wilhelm, German astronomer1
- Bethell, Richard, 1st Baron Westbury1
- Birch, Samuel, Keeper of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum, 1813-18851
- Birkbeck, George, physician and educationist, 1776-18411
- Blanc, Louis, political writer1
- Bloomfield, Benjamin, 1st Baron Bloomfield, 1768-18461
- Bond, Edward Augustus, KCB, Principal Librarian British Museum1
- Bosworth, Joseph, Anglo-Saxon scholar1
- Botfield, Beriah, bibliographer1
- Brand, Barbarina, poet and writer, 1768-18541
- Bray, Anna Eliza, novelist1
- Brinkley, John, DD, Bishop of Cloyne, 1st Astronomer Royal for Ireland1
- British Museum, 1753-1
- Brougham, Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, statesman, 1778-18681
- Brown, Rawdon Lubbock, editor of Venetian archives1