Dictionary - People

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, published by Houghton Mifflin Company
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Baal Shem Tov (personage)
Bab, the (Persian founder of Babism)
Babashoff, Shirley (American swimmer)
Babbage, Charles (Mathematician / Inventor)
Babbitt, Irving (American writer)
Babbitt, Milton Byron (Classical Artist)
Baber (Indian statesman/stateswoman)
Bach, Johann Sebastian (Composer / Organist)
Bacon, Francis (English philosopher and statesman)
Bacon, Francis (English painter)
Bacon, Nathaniel (American politician)
Bacon, Roger (English scholar, philosopher & scientist)
Baden-Powell, Robert Stephenson Smyth, Sir (English military leader & sociologist)
Baedeker, Karl (German non-fiction writer)
Baekeland, Leo Hendrik (American chemist)
Baez, Joan (Singer / Activist)
Baffin, William (English explorer)
Bagehot, Walter (English sociologist)
Bahaullah (Religious Figure)
Bailey, Nathan (British lexicographer)
Baker, George (American Protestant historian)
Baker, Josephine (Singer / Dancer)
Baker, Samuel White, Sir (African-English explorer)
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich (Russian linguist and literary critic)
Bakst, Léon Nikolaevich (Russian painter and scenic designer)
Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich (Russian politician)
Balakirev, Mili Alekseevich (Russian musician)
Balanchine, George (American-Russian dancer)
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de (Central American-Spanish explorer)
Balch, Emily Greene (American economist & sociologist)
Baldwin I (Latin king of Jerusalem)
Baldwin, James Arthur (Writer / Civil Rights Figure)
Baldwin, Roger Nash (American sociologist)
Baldwin, Stanley (English statesman/stateswoman)
Balenciaga, Cristóbal (French fashion designer)
Balfour, Arthur James (British politician)
Ball, John (English historian)
Ball, Lucille (Actor / Comedian)
Balthazar (One of the three Magi)
Baltimore, David (American microbiologist)
Balzac, Honoré de (French novelist)
Bancroft, George (American historian & statesman/stateswoman)
Bandelier, Adolph Francis Alphonse (American archaeologist)
Bankhead, Tallulah Brockman (American actress)
Banks, Joseph, Sir (English botanist & financier)
Banneker, Benjamin (Mathematician)
Bannister, Roger (Runner / Physician)
Bara, Theda (American actress of the silent film era)
Barabbas (New Testament)