Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Botticelli, Sandro (Italian painter)
Boucher, François (French painter)
Boudicca (English stateswoman)
Boulanger, Nadia Juliette (Classical Artist)
Boulez, Pierre (French musician)
Bourbon (French royal family)
Bourbon, Duc Charles de (French-Italian royalty)
Bourgeois, Léon Victor Auguste (French statesman & philosopher)
Bourgeois, Louise (French-American sculptor)
Bourke-White, Margaret (American photographer & writer)
Boutros-Ghali, Boutros (Egyptian UN secretary-general)
Bovet, Daniel (Italian pharmacologist)
Bow, Clara (American actress)
Bowditch, Nathaniel (American navigator & mathematician)
Bowell, Sir Mackenzie (Canadian statesman)
Bowen, Catherine Drinker (American writer of semifictional biographies)
Bowen, Elizabeth Dorothea Cole (English-Irish novelist)
Bowie, James (American military leader)
Bowman, William Scott (Canadian hockey coach)
Boyd Orr, Lord John (agriculturalist & scientist)
Boyle, Kay (American writer)
Boyle, Robert (Chemist / Physicist)
Braddock, Edward (English military leader)
Bradford, Roark (American writer)
Bradford, William (1590–1657, governor of Plymouth Colony)
Bradford, William (1663–1752, British printer in the American colonies)
Bradley, Francis Herbert (English philosopher)
Bradley, Henry (English lexicographer)
Bradley, Omar Nelson (Military Leader / World War II Figure)
Bradley, Thomas (Californian politician)
Brady, James Buchanan (American financier)
Brady, Mathew B. (American photographer)
Braganza (dynasty of Portuguese rulers)
Bragg, Braxton (American military leader)
Bragg, Sir William Henry (English physicist)
Brahe, Tycho (Astronomer)
Brahms, Johannes (Composer / Pianist)
Braille, Louis (Inventor / Educator)
Braine, John (English novelist)
Bramante, Donato (Italian architect & painter)
Brancusi, Constantin (Romanian sculptor)
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz (American jurist)
Brandt, Willy (German statesman)
Brant, Joseph (American-Canadian military leader & chief)
Branting, Karl Hjalmar (Swedish statesman)
Braque, Georges (French painter)