text: Dan Bankhead - He was the first African American pitcher in Major League Baseball. Before that, he played in Negro League baseball for the Birmingham Black Barons and the Memphis Red Sox from 1940 to 1947.
  Nick Barone – boxer (1950s), the "Fighting Marine"
  Thomas D. Barr – attorney with Cravath, Swaine & Moore, "father of modern big-case litigation"
  James Lee Barrett – Tony Award-winning writer (Shenandoah)
  Carmen Basilio – world champion boxer, Boxing Hall of Famer
  Hank Bauer – professional baseball player
  Paul Baxley – actor and stunt coordinator best known for his work as a stunt coordinator on Star Trek: The Original Series and as William Shatner's stunt double
  Jim Beaver – actor, writer, star of Deadwood and Supernatural
  John Beckett – college football star and coach
  Bob Bell – Bozo the Clown (TV)
  Glen Bell – founder of Taco Bell fast food chain
  Terrel Bell – U.S. Secretary of Education (1981-1984) during the Reagan administration
  Donald P. Bellisario – television producer and screenwriter of Magnum, P.I., JAG, and NCIS
  Henry Bellmon – Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator (OK-R)
  Peter Benchley – Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominated author, screenwriter and ocean activist (Jaws, The Deep)
  Paul Benedict – actor (Cold Turkey, Jeremiah Johnson)