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- Baca, Jimmy Santiago
- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Baiteke (under Kiribati)
- Baiul, Oksana
- Baker, Josephine
- Bálint, Lea
- Ballinger, John
- Bankhead, Tallulah
- Banks, John
- Barber, Dee Seton
- Barberie, Jillian
- Bartholomew, Freddie
- Bartram, John
- Basavis (under Devadasi)
- Bates, Daisy
- Batley, Robert Thompson (under Honorific Adoption)
- Baulch, Jamie
- Bauro (under Kiribati)
- Bay, Michael
- Bayard, James Asheton, Sr.
- Beachley, Layne
- Bear Woman
- Bede
- Beley, Ennis
- Bellwood, James Charles
- Bemo, John
- Ben Sira, Eva
- Berglas, David
- Bergman, Ingrid
- Berlin, Andy
- Best, James
- Bhagwat Singh (under India - Princely States: 4)
- Bhanu Pratap Singh (under India - Princely States: 10)
- Bhattacharya, Namita Kaul
- Bhayats (under India - Princely States)
- Bhupendra Vijay Singh (under Princely States: 10)
- Big Day, William
- Bijani, Laden & Laleh
- Bilderback, Nicole
- Bird, A. John
- Bishop, Bernice Pauahi (under Hawai'ian Royal Families)
- Bishop, Elizabeth
- Björk, Carl Axel
- Black, Pauline
- Blackburn, Tom (see Deacon, Joseph John)
- Blood Clot Boy
- Bloodvessel, Buster
- Bogams (under Devadasi)
- Bokassa I
- Bolívar, Simón
- Bonaly, Surya
- Boone, Daniel (under Honorific Adoption)
- Boson of Arles
- Bowen, Jim
- Bradford, William
- Brady, John Green
- Braimoh, Dilly
- Brainerd, David
- Brakhage, Stan
- Brickley, James
- Brimeyer, Alex
- Brodkey, Harold
- Brooks-Randolph, Angie
- Brosnan, Pierce
- Brown, James
- Brown, Leslie Calvin
- Brown, Lester Raymond
- Brown, Matthew
- Brown, Mick
- Brown, Rita Mae
- Bullock, Thomas (under Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)
- Burke, Andrew Horace
- Burke, Kathy
- Burnum, Burnum
- Burton, Richard
- Bussell, Darcey Andrea
- Bustamante, William Alexander
- Bute, John Crichton-Stuart
- Byrd, Robert C.
Baca, Jimmy Santiago
When their parents divorced and abandoned them, Baca, aged two, and his siblings were sent to live with grandparents. By the time he was five his mother had been murdered by her second husb... [more]
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bach was born in Eisenach, the eighth and last child of Johann Ambrosius and Maria Elisabeth Bach. His mother died in 1694 and his father in 1695. The nine-year-old orphan and his brother J... [more]
Baiteke (under Kiribati)
The Pacific island country of Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands) includes the atoll of Abemama, inhabited by the tribe of Abemama, Kuria and Aranuka. The hereditary high chiefs of thes... [more]
Baiul, Oksana
Baiul was born in Dnepropetrovsk. Different sources give the year as 1977 or 1978 and the date as 26 February, 16 October and 16 and 26 November. Her surname is spelled Bayul or Baiul, acco... [more]
Baker, Josephine
Baker (the surname of her second husband) was born Josephine Carson to an unmarried couple in the slums of St. Louis, Missouri. Her father abandoned the family before she was a year old, an... [more]
Bálint, Lea
Balint spent part of World War II living under an assumed name in a Polish convent in Brwinow, near Warsaw. Her parents placed her there when she was five and she emerged at the end of the ... [more]
Ballinger, John
Ballinger was orphaned as a child and left school at 14. He got a job as an assistant in the Cardiff Public Library in 1875 and rose to be chief librarian by 1885. In 1908 he became the fir... [more]
Bankhead, Tallulah
Bankhead was born into an illustrious American political family: her father was Speaker of the House of Representatives 1936-40. Her mother died shortly after she was born, and she was sent... [more]
Banks, John
Banks was a New Zealand National Party MP from 1981 to 1999 and has been Minister of Tourism; Sport, Fitness and Leisure; Local Government; and Civil Defence (he resigned his cabinet posts ... [more]
Barber, Dee Seton
Barber was adopted in 1938 by Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946) and his second wife, Julia Moses Buttree. Seton had founded the Woodcraft movement in 1902 in Connecticut, which developed in... [more]
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