text: John Besh – chef and restaurant owner
  Patty Berg – LPGA golfer
  Rod Bernard – swamp pop musician
  Larry Blyden – Tony Award-winning actor and game show host (What's My Line?, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever)
  Charles F. Bolden, Jr. – NASA shuttle pilot and administrator
  Robert Bork – retired federal judge, law professor and Supreme court nominee
  Blackbear Bosin – artist
  Harold Bradley Jr.  – football player, International artist, actor and musician
  Vance D. Brand – Astronaut who also served in the U.S. Air Force (Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35)
  Hugh Brannum – "Mr. Green Jeans" on Captain Kangaroo
  Donald Bren  – CEO, The Irvine Company
  Randolph Bresnik – NASA astronaut, Space Shuttle Crew STS-129, and ISS Flight Engineer/Commander 52/53
  Daniel B. Brewster – U.S. Senator from Maryland
  Wilford Brimley – Award-winning-actor (The Thing, Cocoon, The Natural, The China Syndrome, Tender Mercies)
  Richard Brooks – Academy Award-winning filmmaker and novelist (In Cold Blood, Blackboard Jungle, Crossfire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Elmer Gantry)
  Art Buchwald – humor columnist
  Dale Bumpers – Governor of Arkansas, U.S. Senator from Arkansas
  Jack Burke Jr. – professional golfer who won the 1956 Masters Tournament and the 1956 PGA Championship
  Lem Burnham – American football player