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- John Bunyan
- Presentation
- He became a target for slander and libel.
- Thomas Baines
- Presentation
- For thirty years was an active promoter of liberal interests in Lancashire.
- Johann Georg Bühler
- Presentation
- He was a scholar of ancient Indian languages and law.
- Benjamin Brierley
- Presentation
- He was an English weaver and writer in Lancashire dialect.
- Auguste Bailly
- Presentation
- He was a French writer.
- Samuel Beal
- Presentation
- He was an Oriental scholar.
- Jacqueline Bouchot-Saupique
- Presentation
- She was curator at the Cabinet des Dessins du Louvre.
- Germain Bazin
- Presentation
- He was an art historian, curator at the Louvre Museum.
- Isabella Varley Banks
- Presentation
- She was a 19th-century writer of English poetry and novels, born in Manchester.
- Horatio Bridge
- Presentation
- He was an officer of the United States Navy.
- Robert Stawell Ball
- Presentation
- He was astronomer who founded the screw theory.