Name
- Baker, Henry, naturalist and poet, 1698-17743
- Bampfield, Joseph, army officer and spy; called 'Jo Nownan', 1622-16853
- Barker, Ralph, Chaplain to Archbishop Tillotson, 1648-17083
- Barnes, Joshua, author; Regius Professor of Greek, Cambridge University, 1654-17123
- Barth, Johann Matthaeus, German naturalist, fl 17373
- Bell, Beaupré, the younger; antiquary3
- Bentinck, Hans Willem, 1st Earl of Portland3
- Beverningh, Hieronymus, Dutch envoy to England, 1614-16903
- Billy, Jacques, SJ; French astronomer, d 16793
- Bondeli, Emmanuel, Seigneur de Châtelard3
- Borlase, William, FRS; Vicar of Ludgvan and St Just; antiquary3
- Bose, Georg Matthias, German mathematician3
- Bower, Archibald, church historian3
- Bradshaw, John, regicide; d.16593
- Brandenburg, Elector of. Frederick William3
- Bromfield, William, surgeon3
- Brown, John, DD, Vicar of Newcastle on Tyne3
- Browne, Richard, Baronet, Clerk to the Privy Council3
- Brun, MD; of Montpellier3
- Brémond, François, French translator of the 'Philosophical Transactions'3