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| − | [[Irving Babbitt]] | + | *[[Irving Babbitt]] (1865-1933), philosopher |
| + | *[[Nathaniel Bacon]] (1647-1676), political leader | ||
| + | *[[George Frederick Baer]] (1842-1914), financier | ||
| + | *[[Newton Diehl Baker]] (1871-1937), political leader | ||
| + | *[[Ray Stannard Baker]] (1870-1946), journalist and reformer | ||
| + | *[[George Balanchine]] (b. 1904), choreographer | ||
| + | *[[James Arthur Baldwin]] (b. 1924), writer | ||
| + | *[[George Bancroft]] (1800-1891), historian, political leader | ||
| + | *[[Benjamin Banneker]] (1731-1806), scientist | ||
| + | *[[Joel Barlow]] (1754-1812), poet | ||
| + | *[[Henry Barnard]] (1811-1900), educator | ||
| + | *[[Phineas Taylor Barnum]] (1810-1891), impresario | ||
| + | *[[John Barrymore]] (1882-1942), actor | ||
| + | *[[Bruce Barton]] (1886-1967), advertising executive, writer | ||
| + | *[[Clara Barton]] (1821-1912), nurse, reformer | ||
| + | *[[Bernard Mannes Baruch]] (1870-1965), financier | ||
| + | *[[Thomas Francis Bayard]] (1828-1898), political leader, diplomat | ||
| + | *[[Charles Austin Beard]] (1874-1948), historian | ||
| + | *[[William Beaumont]] (1785-1853), physician | ||
| + | *[[Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard]] (1818-1893), military leader | ||
| + | *[[Sidney Bechet]] (1897-1959), musician | ||
| + | *[[Henry Ward Beecher]] (1813-1887), religious leader | ||
| + | *[[David Belasco]] (1853-1931), theatrical producer | ||
| + | *[[Alexander Graham Bell]] (1847-1922), inventor, scientist, educator | ||
| + | *[[Edward Bellamy]] (1850-1898), reformer, writer | ||
| + | *[[Saul Bellow]] (b. 1915), writer | ||
| + | *[[George Wesley Bellows]] (1882-1925), artist | ||
| + | *[[August Belmont]] (1813-1890), financier, political leader | ||
| + | *[[Ruth Fulton Benedict]] (1887-1948), anthropologist | ||
| + | *[[James Gordon Bennett]] (1795-1872), editor | ||
| + | *[[James Gordon Bennett Jr]] (1841-1918), publisher | ||
| + | *[[Arthur Fisher Bentley]] (1870-1957), political and social scientist, philosopher | ||
| + | *[[Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858)]], political leader | ||
| + | *[[Thomas Hart Benton]] (b. 1889), artist | ||
| + | *[[Bernard Berenson]] (1865-1959), art critic | ||
| + | *[[Victor Louis Berger]] (1860-1929), newspaper editor, political leader | ||
| + | *[[William Berkeley]] (1606-1677), colonial governor | ||
| + | *[[Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr]] (1895-1971), lawyer | ||
| + | *[[Irving Berlin]] (b. 1888), composer | ||
| + | *[[Leonard Bernstein]] (b. 1918), musician, composer | ||
| + | *[[Mary McLeod Bethune]] (1875-1955), educator | ||
| + | *[[Albert Jeremiah Beveridge]] (1862-1927), political leader, historian | ||
| + | *[[Robert Beverley]] (1673-1722), historian | ||
| + | *[[Nicholas Biddle]] (1786-1844), banker | ||
| + | *[[Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce]] (1842-1914), writer | ||
| + | *[[Albert Bierstadt]] (1830-1902), artist | ||
| + | *[[John Shaw Billings]] (1838-1913), physician, librarian | ||
| + | *[[William Billings]] (1746-1800), composer | ||
| + | *[[George Caleb Bingham]] (1811-1879), artist | ||
| + | *[[James Gillespie Birney]] (1792-1857), reformer | ||
| + | *[[Hugo Lafayette Black]] (1886-1971), jurist, political leader | ||
| + | *[[Elizabeth Blackwell]] (1821-1910), physician | ||
| + | *[[James Gillespie Blaine]] (1830-1893), political leader | ||
| + | *[[Francis Preston Blair]] (1791-1876), journalist | ||
| + | *[[Herbert Lawrence Block]] (b. 1909), cartoonist | ||
| + | *[[Franz Boas]] (1858-1942), anthropologist | ||
| + | *[[Charles Eustis Bohlen]] (1904-1974), diplomat | ||
| + | *[[Edward William Bok]] (1863-1930), journalist | ||
| + | *[[Thomas Bond]] (1713-1784), physician | ||
| + | *[[Daniel Boone]] (1734-1820), explorer | ||
| + | *[[John Wilkes Booth]] (1838-1865), actor | ||
| + | *[[William Edgar Borah]] (1865-1940), political leader | ||
| + | *[[Norman Ernest Borlaug]] (b. 1914), scientist | ||
| + | *[[Jonathan Boucher]] (1738-1804), religious leader | ||
| + | *[[Randolph Silliman Bourne]] (1886-1918), writer | ||
| + | *[[Nathaniel Bowditch]] (1773-1838), scientist | ||
| + | *[[Claude Gernade Bowers]] (1878-1958), historian, diplomat | ||
| + | *[[Samuel Bowles III]] (1826-1878), journalist | ||
| + | *[[William Bradford]] (1590-1657), religious and political leader | ||
| + | *[[Omar Nelson Bradley]] (b. 1893), military leader | ||
| + | *[[Mathew B Brady]] (1823-1896), photographer | ||
| + | *[[Louis Dembitz Brandeis]] (1856-1941), jurist | ||
| + | *[[John Cabell Breckinridge]] (1821-1875), political leader | ||
| + | *[[Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge]] (1866-1948), social worker, educator | ||
| + | *[[Kingman Brewster Jr]] (b. 1919), educator | ||
| + | *[[Harry Renton Bridges]] (b. 1901), labor leader | ||
| + | *[[Gwendolyn Brooks]] (b. 1917), poet | ||
| + | *[[Earl Russell Browder]] (1891-1973), political leader | ||
| + | *[[John Brown]] (1800-1859), abolitionist | ||
| + | *[[Moses Brown]] (1738-1836), businessman, reformer | ||
| + | *[[William Wells Brown]] (c1815-1884), writer, reformer | ||
| + | *[[Blanche Kelso Bruce]] (1841-1898), political leader | ||
| + | *[[William Jennings Bryan]] (1860-1925), political leader | ||
| + | *[[William Cullen Bryant]] (1794-1878), writer | ||
| + | *[[James Buchanan]] (1791-1868), president | ||
| + | *[[Charles Bulfinch]] (1763-1844), architect | ||
| + | *[[Ralph Johnson Bunche]] (1904-1971), diplomat | ||
| + | *[[McGeorge Bundy]] (b. 1919), educator | ||
| + | *[[Luther Burbank]] (1849-1926), horticulturist | ||
| + | *[[Daniel Hudson Burnham]] (1846-1912), architect | ||
| + | *[[Aaron Burr]] (1756-1836), political leader | ||
| + | *[[Vannevar Bush]] (b. 1890), scientist | ||
| + | *[[Benjamin Franklin Butler]] (1818-1893), political and military leader | ||
| + | *[[Nicholas Murray Butler]] (1862-1947), educator | ||
| + | *[[Richard Evelyn Byrd]] (1888-1957), naval officer, explorer | ||
| + | *[[William Byrd]] (1674-1744), planter, writer | ||
| + | *[[James Francis Byrnes]] (1879-1972), political leader, jurist | ||
[[Category:United States biographical dictionaries|Encyclopedia of American Biography]] | [[Category:United States biographical dictionaries|Encyclopedia of American Biography]] | ||
