Lives listing by occupation: poet
- Blake, William (born 1757–died 1827), English poet, author
- Boileau-Despréaux, Nicolas (born 1636–died 1711), French author, poet, critic
- Bonneval, René de, chevalier d’Ogrinville (born 1700–died 1760), French author, poet
- Boothby, Sir Brooke, 7th baronet (born 1744–died 1824), English gentleman, poet
- Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe (born 1711–died 1787), Croatian churchman, Jesuit, physicist, astronomer, poet, academician
- Bourette, Charlotte [née Reynier] (born 1714–died 1784), French café owner, poet, tradesman
- Bourgeois, Nicolas Louis (born 1710–died 1776), French author, poet, historian, academician
- Boutet de Monvel, Noël Barthélemy (born 1768–died 1847), French civil servant, private secretary, poet, playwright
- Bowles, Reverend William Lisle (born 1762–died 1850), English churchman, poet
- Brembati, Francesco, conte Brembati (born 1705–died 1768), Italian author, poet, historian, academic, scholar
- Breuil, Louis Marie Patris de (born 1778–died 1858), French lawyer, judge, poet
- Broome, William (born 1689–died 1745), English author, poet, translator
- Brown, John (born 1715–died 1766), Scottish author, poet, moralist
- Byles, Mather (born 1707–died 1788), American churchman, poet
- Byron, George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron Byron (born 1788–died 1824), English aristocrat, poet
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