- Charles Babbage
- Eve Babitz
- Miriam Bäckström
- Francis Bacon
- Francis Bacon
- Kevin Bacon
- David Bailey
- John Baldessari
- Hugo Ball
- J.G. Ballard
- Roger Ballen
- James Balog
- Dmitri Baltermants
- Lewis Baltz
- Honoré de Balzac
- Tallulah Bankhead
- Olivo Barbieri
- Brigitte Bardot
- Matthew Barney
- Tina Barney
- John Barrymore
- Uta Barth
- Roland Barthes
- Lillian Bassman
- George Bataille
- Geoffrey Batchen
- Charles Baudelaire
- Jean Baudrillard
- Hippolyte Bayard
- Herbert Bayer
- André Bazin
- Peter Beard
- Cecil Beaton
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Bernd Becher
- Hilla Becher
- Samuel Beckett
- Max Beckman
- Hans Bellmer
- Walter Benjamin
- Max Bense
- Harry Benson
- John Berger
- Ruth Bernhard
- Alphonse Bertillon
- Walead Beshty
- Dawoud Bey
- Ambrose Bierce
- Albert Bierstadt
- Ilse Bing
- Howard Bingham
- Werner Bischof
- Gus Blaisdell
- William Blake
- Karl Blossfeldt
- Erwin Blumenfeld
- Mel Bochner
- Christian Boltanski
- Napoleon Bonaparte
- Pierre Bonnard
- Daniel Boorstin
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Edouard Boubat
- Pierre Bourdieu
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Elizabeth Bowen
- Matthew Brady
- Stan Brakhage
- Constantin Brâncuşi
- Bill Brandt
- Brassaï
- Lola Alvarez Bravo
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Bertolt Brecht
- André Breton
- Susie Bright
- Alexey Brodovitch
- Peter Brook
- Malcolm Browne
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Francis Bruguière
- Charles Bukowski
- Angela Bulloch
- Wynn Bullock
- Peter Bunnell
- Chris Burden
- Victor Burgin
- David Burnett
- René Burri
- William Burroughs
- Larry Burrows
- Nancy Burson
- George W. Bush
- Jean-Marc Bustamante
- Judith Butler
- Samuel Butler
- David Byrne
Charles Babbage
[Mathematician, analytical philosopher, proto-computer scientist, b. 1791, London, England, d. 1871, London.]



