List of Alumni of Jesuit Educational Institutions - B

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• John Boler - Chairman, President & CEO, Boler Co.; see Hendrickson International (John Carroll University)
• Jack Breen - former CEO, Sherwin-Williams (John Carroll University)
• Claude Bachet - French mathematician (pupil of the Jesuit mathematician Jacques de Billy at the Jesuit College in Rheims)
• Mohsen Badawi - Egyptian entrepreneur, political activist and writer (Collège de la Sainte Famille)
• Fr. Eugene Balabin, SJ - Russian Catholic priest, collaborator with Martynov and Gagarin, developer of Jesuit "Slavic" Library at Meudon (attended seminary at Vals near Le-Puy-en-Velay)
• Jakob Balde - German Latinist and poet (University of Ingolstadt)
• José Celso Barbosa - medical doctor, sociologist, and political leader (first racially mixed resident to attend Puerto Rico's Jesuit Seminary)
• George Barna - American political pollster (Boston College)
• Kevin Barry - martyr of the Irish War of Independence (Belvedere College)
• John Barrymore - American Shakespearean actor (Georgetown Preparatory School)
• Jyoti Basu - Communist politician from West Bengal, India (St. Xavier's Collegiate School)
• Elgin Baylor - American basketball player, (Seattle University)
• Steve Bellan - Cuban baseball player (Fordham University)
• Tom Benson - New Orleans Saints owner (Loyola University New Orleans)
• Saint Robert Bellarmine - (Gregorian University)
• Pope Benedict XIV - Italian Pope (Collegium Clementianum)
• Robert Bennett - prominent Washington, D.C. attorney (Brooklyn Prep, Georgetown College, Georgetown University School of Law)
• William Bennett - former US Secretary of Education and author (Gonzaga College High School)
• Joseph Berardino - former CEO of Arthur Andersen (Fairfield University)
• Fr. Daniel Berrigan, SJ - peace activist, author and professor, Woodstock College (Brooklyn Prep, Le Moyne College, Fordham University)
• Philip Berrigan - author and activist (College of the Holy Cross)
• Rubén Berríos - President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola of Puerto Rico)
• Sabeer Bhatia - Founder of Hotmail (St Joseph's College, Bangalore, India)
• Jacques de Billy - French Jesuit mathematician
• Daniel Birman Ripstein - film producer (Universidad Iberoamericana)
• William Peter Blatty - American author (Brooklyn Prep and Georgetown University)
• Georg Freiherr von Boeselager - German officer (Aloisiuskolleg)
• Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager - German officer (Aloisiuskolleg)
• Fr. Jean Bolland, SJ - educator, scholar, researcher, hagiographer, founder of the Bollandists, original editor and author of the Acta Sanctorum (Jesuit colleges at Maastricht and Antwerp, Louvain)
• Jean-Charles de Borda - French mathematician, physicist, political scientist and sailor (Jesuit college at La Fleche)
• Gutzon Borglum - American sculptor (Creighton Preparatory School)
• Roger Boscovich - Croatian Jesuit astronomer (Jesuit College in Ragusa)
• Charles Bossut - French mathematician, confrere of the Encyclopaedists (Jesuit College of Lyon)
• Robert Bourassa - Quebec politician, (College Jean-de-Brebeuf, Montreal)
• Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet - French bishop and theologian (Collège des Godrans)
• Isaac Broid Zajman - Mexican architect (Universidad Iberoamericana)
• Till Brönner - German musician (Aloisiuskolleg in Bonn, Germany)
• Prof. Brendan F.X. Brown - American jurist, philosopher, prosecutor, professor, natural law expert (Creighton University and Creighton University School of Law)
• Jerry Brown - American politician (St. Ignatius High School and Santa Clara University)
• Christopher Brennan - Australian author (St Ignatius' College, Riverview, Sydney)
• John O. Brennan - US Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security (Fordham University)
• Carlos Brito - CEO, InBev (educated by Jesuits in his native Brazil)
• John Bruton - former Taoiseach of Ireland (Clongowes Wood College)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski - Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, United States National Security Advisor (Loyola High School)
• Pat Buchanan - American journalist (Gonzaga College High School and Georgetown University)
• William F. Buckley, Jr. - American author, conservative commentator and public intellectual (Beaumont College in England)
• Clara de Buen Richkarday - Mexican architect (Universidad Iberoamericana)
• Georges Buffon - French naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist and author (Jesuit College of Godrans in Dijon)
• Jim Bunning - American senator and baseball player (Xavier University)
• Luis Buñuel - Spanish filmmaker (Jesuit College, Aragon, Spain)