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| Ari Þorgilsson (1067–1148) |
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| Averroës (1126–1198) |
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| François Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) |
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| Vicente Bacallar y Sanna (1669–1726) |
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| John Bachman (1790–1874) |
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| Delia Bacon (1811–1859) |
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| Caspar van Baerle (1584–1648) |
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| Hermann Bahr (1863–1934) |
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| Karl Friedrich Bahrdt (1741–1792) |
| Bahya Ben Joseph ibn Pakuda (fl. Eleventh Century) |
| Jean Antoine de Baïf (1532–1589) |
| Gamaliel Bailey (1807–1859) |
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| Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858–1954) |
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