- Bacon, Francis, Lord Verulam, and Viscount St. Alban's
- Bacon, Roger
- Bage, Robert
- Bagehot, Walter
- Bailey, Philip James
- Baillie, Joanna
- Baillie, Lady Grizel
- Baillie, Robert
- Bain, Alexander
- Baker, Sir Richard
- Baker, Sir Samuel White
- Bale, John
- Ballantine, James
- Ballantyne, Robert Michael
- Bancroft, George
- Banim, John
- Bannatyne, Richard
- Barbauld, Anna Letitia
- Barbour, John
- Barclay, Alexander
- Barclay, John
- Barclay, Robert
- Barham, Richard Harris
- Barlow, Joel
- Barnard, Lady Anne (Lindsay)
- Barnes, Barnabe
- Barnes, William
- Barnfield, Richard
- Barrow, Isaac
- Barton, Bernard
- Baynes, Thomas Spencer
- Baxter, Richard
- Bayly, Ada Ellen
- Bayly, Thomas Haynes
- Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of
- Beattie, James
- Beaumont, Francis
- Beaumont, Sir John
- Beckford, William
- Beddoes, Thomas Lovell
- Bede or Bæda
- Beecher, Henry Ward
- Behn, Aphra (Johnston)
- Bell, Henry Glassford
- Ballantyne, John
- Bellenden, or Ballantyne, John
- Bentham, Jeremy
- Bentley, Richard
- Beresford, James
- Berkeley, George
- Berners, Bernes, or Barnes, Juliana
- Berners, John Bourchier, 2nd Lord
- Besant, Sir Walter
- Bickerstaffe, Isaac
- Bird, Robert Montgomery
- Bishop, Samuel
- Black, William
- Blackie, John Stuart
- Blacklock, Thomas
- Blackmore, Sir Richard
- Blackmore, Richard Doddridge
- Blackstone, Sir William
- Blair, Hugh
- Blair, Robert
- Blake, William
- Blamire, Susanna
- Blessington, Margaret (Power), Countess of
- Henry the Minstrel
- Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel
- Blind, Mathilde
- Bloomfield, Robert
- Bodenham, John
- Boethius
- Boece, or Boethius, Hector
- Boker, George Henry
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, 1st Viscount
- Bonar, Horatius
- Boorde, or Borde, Andrew
- Borrow, George
- Boston, Thomas
- Boswell, Sir Alexander
- Boswell, James
- Boucicault, Dion
- Bowdler, Thomas
- Bower, Archibald
- Bower, or Bowmaker, Walter
- Bowles, William Lisle
- Bowring, Sir John
- Boyd, Andrew Kennedy Hutchison
- Boyd, Zachary
- Boyle, The Hon. Robert
- Bradley, Edward
- Bradwardine, Thomas
- Braithwaite, or Brathwaite, Richard
- Bramston, James
- Bray, Anna Eliza
- Breton, Nicholas
- Brewster, Sir David
- Broke, or Brooke, Arthur
- Brome, Richard