- 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
- Bronté, Charlotte
- Brooke, Fulke Greville, Lord
- Brooke, Henry
- Brooks, Charles William Shirley
- Brooks, Maria (Gowan)
- Broome, William
- Brougham and Vaux, Henry, 1st Lord
- Broughton, John Cam Hobhouse, 1st Lord
- Brown, Charles Brockden
- Brown, George Douglas
- Brown, Dr. John
- Brown, Thomas
- Brown, Thomas Edward
- Brown, Tom
- Browne, Charles Farrar
- Browne, Isaac Hawkins
- Browne, Sir Thomas
- Browne, William
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
- Browning, Robert
- Bruce, James
- Bruce, Michael
- Brunton, Mary (Balfour)
- Bryant, Jacob
- Bryant, William Cullen
- Brydges, Sir Samuel Egerton
- Buchanan, George
- Buchanan, Robert
- Buckingham, George Villiers, 2nd Duke of
- Buckingham and Normanby, John Sheffield, 1st Duke of
- Buckingham, James Silk
- Buckland, Francis Trevelyan
- Buckle, Henry Thomas
- Budgell, Eustace
- Bull, George
- Bulwer, E.L.
- Bunyan, John
- Burckhardt, John Lewis
- Burke, Edmund
- Burnet, Gilbert
- Burnet, Thomas
- Burns, Robert
- Burton, John Hill
- Burton, Sir Richard Francis
- Burton, Robert
- Bury, Lady Charlotte
- Bury, Richard de
- Butler, Joseph
- Butler, Samuel
- Byron, George Gordon, 6th Lord Byron
- Byron, Henry James
- Cædmon
- Caird, Edward