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  • Bahaeddin SakirDoctor and member of the Committee of Union and Progress; the Holocaust Memorial Museum names him field director of the Special Organization.
  • Baiju BhattCo-founder of Robinhood Markets; its co-CEO from 2013 to 2020.
  • Baldur von SchirachNazi Party youth leader; told the Nuremberg tribunal in 1946 that Ford’s book had shaped his antisemitism; convicted of crimes against humanity.
  • Barack ObamaPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
  • Bari WeissEditor-in-chief of CBS News from 2025.
  • Barney BarnatoDiamond-mining businessman; one of the four first holders of De Beers Consolidated Mines.
  • Barre SeidChicago manufacturer; gave $1.6 billion to the Marble Freedom Trust.
  • Barry C. LynnDirector of the Open Markets program at New America until 2017.
  • Bartolomé de las CasasDominican friar and bishop of Chiapa who argued against the conquests; opposed Sepúlveda at Valladolid in 1550.
  • Bayezid II c. 1447–1512Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1481 to 1512.
  • BelindaWoman enslaved by Isaac Royall for forty years who petitioned the Massachusetts legislature in 1783.
  • Ben Bernanke 1953Chairman of the Federal Reserve during the crisis of 2008.
  • Benedict XVIPope from 2005 to 2013.
  • Benjamin FranklinAmerican diplomat in Paris who signed the French alliance in 1778 and the loan contract of 1782.
  • Benjamin MadleyHistorian at UCLA; author of An American Genocide (2016).
  • Benjamin NetanyahuPrime Minister of Israel; subject of an ICC arrest warrant issued on 21 November 2024.
  • Benjamin Strong Jr.Banker who became the first governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
  • Benny MorrisIsraeli historian of the 1948 war and of the flight of Arab residents.
  • Bernal Díaz del CastilloSoldier in Cortés's army who wrote a long account of the conquest of Mexico in old age.
  • Bernard ArnaultPresident and chief executive of LVMH.
  • Bernard MadoffInvestment adviser who pleaded guilty in 2009 to securities fraud and other charges and was sentenced to 150 years.
  • Bernardino de SahagúnFranciscan friar under whose supervision the Florentine Codex, in Nahuatl and Spanish, was put together in the 1500s.
  • Bill ClintonU.S. President who hosted the Camp David summit of July 2000.
  • Bill Gates 28 Oct 1955 –Co-founder of Microsoft; co-founder of the Giving Pledge.
  • Bill ThomasU.S. politician, a member of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission who dissented from its report.
  • Billy TauzinFormer U.S. Representative from Louisiana; chaired the House Energy and Commerce Committee, then led PhRMA.
  • Black KettleCheyenne chief at the camp on Sand Creek in 1864.
  • BoaliWoman whom the Commission of Inquiry questioned in 1904 about the loss of her foot.
  • Bob McDonnellFormer Governor of Virginia (R) whose bribery convictions were vacated by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016.
  • Bob MenendezFormer U.S. senator (D) from New Jersey, found guilty in July 2024 of taking part in a bribery scheme; sentenced to 11 years; his appeal was pending in the sources read.
  • Bob NeyOhio congressman who pleaded guilty in September 2006 to conspiracy to commit multiple offenses in the Abramoff investigation, the Justice Department said.
  • Boleslaus the PiousDuke of Greater Poland who issued the charter of 1264 known as the Statute of Kalisz.
  • Boniface Ngulinzira until Apr 1994Rwanda’s Foreign Minister during the Arusha negotiations; killed in April 1994.
  • Boris BrasolRussian monarchist exile who published an American edition of the Protocols, a forgery, in 1920.
  • Boris Yeltsin 1 Feb 1931 – 23 Apr 2007First President of Russia (1991–1999).
  • Bosquet N. WevNavy captain; director of the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency in 1948.
  • Boutros Boutros-GhaliEgyptian diplomat; UN Secretary-General from 1992 to 1996.
  • Bret TaylorAmerican technology executive; chair of OpenAI's board since November 2023.
  • Brett KavanaughJustice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • Brooksley BornLawyer who chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1998 and sat on the commission that reported on the crisis.
  • Bruce SacerdoteEconomist at Dartmouth College; co-author of the 2020 and 2022 studies of senators’ and House members’ trades and of the 2026 study of all members.
  • Bryan NewlandAssistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs, author of the boarding school reports.
  • Bryan SteilRepublican U.S. Representative from Wisconsin; chair of the House Administration Committee and lead sponsor of the Stop Insider Trading Act.
  • Buzz Aldrin 1930 –American astronaut, lunar module pilot of Apollo 11.