Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
Concise biographies of noteworthy people in history, sports, politics, business and entertainment from the respected American Heritage Dictionary — when the people flourished, what they accomplished and why they're famous.
On this page: Brecht, Bertolt to Bruckner, Anton.

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Brecht, Bertolt (German poet and playwright)
Brent, Margaret (English-born colonist and feminist)
Breton, André (French poet and literary theorist)
Breuer, Marcel Lajos (Hungarian-born American architect)
Brewster, William (English Pilgrim colonist)
Breyer, Stephen Gerald (American jurist)
Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich (Soviet leader)
Brian Boru (Irish king)
Briand, Aristide (French politician)
Brice, Fannie (American entertainer)
Bridger, James (American frontiersman and fur trader)
Bridges, Harry (American labor leader)
Bridges, Robert Seymour (British poet and essayist)
Briggs, Henry (English mathematician)
Bright, John (British politician)
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme (French politician and gourmet)
Brinkley, David (American radio and television news broadcaster)
Brinton, Daniel Garrison (American anthropologist)
Britten, (Edward) Benjamin (British composer)
Brockhouse, Bertram Neville (Canadian physicist)
Brodsky, Joseph (Russian poet and essayist)
Broglie, Louis Victor de (French physicist)
Brontë (Family of British novelists and poets)
Brooke, Rupert Chawner (British poet)
Brooks, Van Wyck (American literary historian)
Brown, Charles Brockden (American writer and editor)
Brown, Clifford (American jazz trumpeter)
Brown, Herbert Charles (British-born American chemist)
Brown, James (American singer)
Brown, James Nathaniel (American football player)
Brown, John (American abolitionist)
Brown, Margaret Wise (American author of children's picture books)
Brown, Olympia (American minister and suffragist)
Brown, Robert (Scottish botanist)
Browne, Charles Farrar (American humorist)
Browne, Sir Thomas (English physician and writer)
Browning, John Moses (American firearms inventor)
Browning, Robert (British poet)
Brubeck, David Warren (American jazz pianist and composer)
Bruce, Blanche Kelso (American political leader)
Bruce, Lenny (American comedian)
Bruce, Sir David (Australian physician and bacteriologist)
Bruce, Stanley Melbourne (Australian politician)
Bruckner, Anton (Austrian organist and composer)