Name
- Bartram, John, American botanist, 1699-17771
- Baster, Job, Dutch physician and botanist, 1711-17751
- Batts, Thomas, settler in Virginia, fl 16711
- Beach, Thomas, of West Ashton, Wiltshire, fl 17321
- Beccaria, Giovanni Battista, Italian physicist1
- Bell, Beaupré, the younger; antiquary1
- Benvenuti, Giuseppe, Italian physician1
- Bermingham, Michel, surgeon, of Paris1
- Bernoulli, Daniel, FRS; Swiss mathematician and naturalist1
- Bertrand, Elie, Pastor at Berne1
- Beust, Carl Christoph Friedrich, of Mossbach, in Saxony1
- Bianchini, Francesco, Italian astronomer and antiquary, d 17291
- Boccone, Paolo Sylvio, Italian naturalist1
- Bose, Georg Matthias, German mathematician1
- Boulliau, Ismael, French astronomer1
- Bradley, James, Reverend; DD, FRS; Astronomer Royal1
- Breynius, Joannes Philippus, filius Jacobi1
- Brooke, Richard, of Maryland1
- Brouncker, William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker, Chancellor and Keeper of the Great Seal to Queen Catherine, 1620?-16841
- Brownrigg, William, MD, FRS; chemist1