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Billy Billingham
Mark 'Billy' Billingham MBE QCB is a retired SAS sergeant major (Parachute Regiment 1983–1991, SAS from 1991 or 1992) and Chief Instructor of Channel 4's SAS: Who Dares Wins, former bodyguard, and author.
Billy Claiborne
Billy Claiborne (1860-1882), Tombstone cowboy nicknamed "Billy the Kid" after Bonney's death, fled the O.K. Corral gunfight and was killed by Buckskin Frank Leslie in 1882.
Billy Mitchell
Billy Mitchell (1879-1936), US Army brigadier general and father of the US Air Force, proved aircraft could sink battleships in the 1921 Ostfriesland tests and was court-martialed in 1925 for insubordination.
Billy Waugh
Billy Waugh (William Dawson Waugh) was an American Special Forces soldier and CIA paramilitary officer whose career spanned from the Korean War to Afghanistan in 2001.
Bipin Rawat (बिपिन रावत)
Bipin Rawat (बिपिन रावत), 1958–2021, Indian Army four-star general and India's first Chief of Defence Staff from December 2019; earlier Chief of Army Staff; championed theaterisation; died in a Mi-17 V5 crash near Coonoor, Tamil Nadu.
Birbal (बीरबल)
Birbal (बीरबल), born Maheshdas c. 1528, was a Brahman courtier, poet (Kavi Ray 1573), and 2,000-strong mansabdar in Akbar's court, one of the Navratnas; he died February 1586 in the Yusufzai ambush at the Malandari Pass with 8,000 men. The famous Akbar-Birbal jokes are largely fictional, first printed in 1888.
Birender Singh Dhanoa
Birender Singh Dhanoa (BS Dhanoa, nickname Tony) is a retired Indian Air Force Air Chief Marshal, 25th Chief of the Air Staff (2016–2019), Chairman COSC 2019, Kargil No. 17 Squadron (Golden Arrows) commander, and later a Hero MotoCorp director.
Bishnu Shrestha (विष्णु श्रेष्ठ)
Bishnu Prasad Shrestha (विष्णु श्रेष्ठ), born 1975 in Parbat, Nepal, is a Naik of the 7/8 Gorkha Rifles, Indian Army, who fought 30-40 train robbers alone with a khukuri on the Maurya Express in 2010 and received gallantry medals.
Black Hawk (Sauk leader)
Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, "Black Sparrow Hawk"), Sauk war leader born 1767 at Saukenuk, Illinois, who repudiated the 1804 treaty, led the 1832 Black Hawk War, and dictated a famous 1833 autobiography.
Blackbeard
Blackbeard (Edward Teach, c. 1680–1718) was an English pirate whose flagship Queen Anne's Revenge, the captured French slaver La Concorde, blockaded Charleston in 1718 and wrecked at Beaufort Inlet, where its 1996-discovered wreck has yielded over 400,000 artifacts.
Blaise Metreweli
Blaise Metreweli (born 1977) is a British intelligence officer and the 18th Chief of MI6, known as 'C', the first woman to lead the Secret Intelligence Service. Formerly Director General 'Q' for technology, she took office 1 October 2025, succeeding Sir Richard Moore.
Bo Dietl
Bo Dietl (Richard Dietl) is a retired NYPD detective (1970-1985), decoy officer mugged 500+ times, investigator of the East Harlem nun murder and Palm Sunday Massacre, founder of Beau Dietl & Associates, author of One Tough Cop, and 2017 NYC mayoral candidate.
Bo Gritz
Bo Gritz (James Gordon Gritz, 1939-2026), decorated US Army Special Forces lieutenant colonel of the Vietnam War, led private 1980s POW rescue missions into Laos, ran for president in 1992, and negotiated at Ruby Ridge.
Bo Hmu Aung
Bo Hmu Aung (ဗိုလ်မှူးအောင်, 1910–2004) was a Burmese military officer and politician, one of the Thirty Comrades trained by Japan and regarded as a founder of the Tatmadaw.
Bo Min Yaung
Bo Min Yaung was a Burmese resistance leader who fought British forces after the 1885 annexation of Upper Burma and was captured and executed in 1887.
Bo Setkya
Bo Setkya (ဗိုလ်စကြာ), born Thakin Aung Than, was a Burmese soldier and politician, one of the Thirty Comrades and at various times Chief-of-Staff and military attaché to Tokyo.
Bo Teza
Bo Teza (ဘိုတေဇ) was the military nom de guerre of Aung San, the Burmese independence leader who founded the Tatmadaw; adopted with the Thirty Comrades, Teza means "fire".
Bo Zeya
Bo Zeya was a Burmese military leader and one of the Thirty Comrades who founded the Burma Independence Army, later leading the Communist Party of Burma.
Bo'orchu
Bo'orchu (Боорчи; Bo'erchu) was a Mongol general and one of Genghis Khan's earliest companions, a member of the "Four Steeds" who commanded the right wing of the Mongol army from 1206 until his death around 1226.
Bob Denard
Bob Denard (Gilbert Bourgeaud, 1929–2007), French mercenary of the Katanga, Yemen, and Comoros campaigns; led four Comoros coups, ran Abdallah's presidential guard, convicted for the 1977 Benin and 1995 Comoros putsches.
Bobby Ray Inman
Bobby Ray Inman (born 1931), retired US Navy admiral; Director of NSA 1977-1981, Deputy Director of CIA 1981-1982; Clinton's 1993 Defense Secretary nominee who withdrew in January 1994.
Bogenbay Batyr
Bogenbay Batyr (Бөгенбай батыр) was an eighteenth-century Kazakh batyr and army commander of the Middle Horde, a leader of the resistance to the Dzungar invasions.
Bohdan Ruzhynsky
Bohdan Ruzhynsky (Богдан Ружинський), also called Bohdanko, was a Cossack hetman of a Lithuanian-Ruthenian princely family who died in 1576 besieging the Tatar fortress Aslan Kermen.
Bon-Adrien Jeannot de Moncey
Bon-Adrien Jeannot (Jannot) de Moncey, duc de Conegliano (1754–1842), Marshal of the Empire and first Inspector General of the French Gendarmerie (1801–1815); later Governor of the Invalides who received Napoleon's ashes in 1840.
Bonner Fellers
Bonner Frank Fellers (1896–1973), US Army brigadier general, military attaché in Cairo 1940–1942 whose intercepted Black Code reports aided Rommel, and MacArthur's military secretary who helped shield Emperor Hirohito from trial.
Boris Korchilov (Борис Александрович Корчилов)
Boris Aleksandrovich Korchilov (Борис Александрович Корчилов, 1937–1961), Soviet Navy engineer-lieutenant and remote-control group commander aboard submarine K-19, died of radiation exposure after leading the 4 July 1961 reactor repair; posthumously awarded the Order of Lenin.
Boris Pash
Boris Pash (Boris Pashkovsky, 1900–1995), US Army intelligence colonel who ran Manhattan Project counterintelligence at Berkeley and commanded the Alsos Mission, capturing the Haigerloch lab and Werner Heisenberg in 1945.
Boris Sarafov
Boris Sarafov (Борис Сарафов, 1872–1907) was a Bulgarian army officer and revolutionary who chaired the Supreme Macedonian Committee and served on the Ilinden uprising general staff.
Boston Corbett
Boston Corbett, born Thomas P. Corbett, was an English-born American hatter and Union Army sergeant who shot and killed John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin, in 1865.
Bou-Maza
Bou-Maza (بومعزة), "the man with the goat," was the nom de guerre of Algerian resistance leader Mohamed ben Abdallah, who led the 1845 Dahra insurrection against France.