B
| Name | Main Title | Dynasty | Date | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Babaef | Vizier | 4th dynasty | (fl. c. 26th century BC) | Also known as Khnumbaf. He was a vizier during the reign of king Shepseskaf. He was probably the son of the vizier Duaenre. |
| Bakenkhonsu | High Priest of Amun | 19th dynasty | (c. 1303 BC – c. 1213 BC) | From the time of pharaoh Ramesses II. |
| Bakenranef | Pharaoh | 24th dynasty | (reigned 725 BC – 720 BC) | Also known as Bocchoris. Was briefly a king of the 24th dynasty of Egypt. Based at Sais in the western Delta. Captured and executed by Shabaka, a king of the 25th dynasty. |
| Baketwernel | Queen | 20th dynasty | (fl. c. late-12th century BC) | Great Royal Wife of Ramesses IX. |
| Baskakeren | King of Kush | (fl. c. late-5th century BC) | King of Kush (reigned c. 405 BC –c. 404 BC) and was probably a son of King Malewiebamani and the younger brother of King Amanineteyerike. He succeeded Amanineteyerike to the throne. | |
| Baufra | Prince | 4th dynasty | (fl. c. 26th century BC) | Also known as Baufre or Bauefre. Baufra was a son of Pharaoh Khufu. |
| Bay Irsu | Chancellor | 19th dynasty | (fl. c. late-13th century BC) | Served under pharaoh Seti II and later became an influential powerbroker in the closing stages of the 19th dynasty. Executed. |
| Bebi | Vizier | 11th dynasty | fl. c. 21st century BC | Egyptian vizier under king Mentuhotep II. |
| Bebiankh | Pharaoh | 16th dynasty | fl. c. early-16th century BC | Also known as Seuserenre Bebiankh. The successor of king Semenre. |
| Behenu | Queen | 6th dynasty | fl. c. 23rd century BC | She is thought to have been the wife of either Pepi I or of Pepi II. |
| Bek (or Bak) | Royal Sculptor | 18th dynasty | fl. c. mid-14th century BC | Chief royal sculptor during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Bek followed the king to Akhetaten, the city founded by Akhenaten. He oversaw the construction of the great temple statues of the king. |
| Beketamun | Princess | 18th dynasty | (fl. c. mid-15th century) | Also known as Beket. A daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III. |
| Beketaten | Princess | 18th dynasty | (fl. c. mid-14th century BC) | She was the youngest daughter of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Tiye and thus the sister of Pharaoh Akhenaten. |
| Benerib | Queen | 1st dynasty | (fl. 31st century BC) | Benerib was most likely a wife of pharaoh Hor-Aha, but she was not the mother of his heir, Djer. |
| Berenice | Princess/Queen | Ptolemaic | (fl. 261 BC – 246 BC) | Also known as Berenice Syra. Daughter of the Egyptian king Ptolemy II Philadelphus and Arsinoe I. She married the Seleucid monarch Antiochus II Theos who divorced his wife, Laodice I. When Antiochus II died, Berenice claimed the regency for her son, Seleucus. However, both Berenice and her son were then killed by Laodice I. |
| Berenice I | Queen | Ptolemaic | (c. 340 BC – c. 275 BC) | A Macedonian noblewoman who, through her marriage to Ptolemy I Soter, became the first queen of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt. Berenice travelled to Egypt as a lady-in-waiting to Eurydice, Ptolemy I's wife. Ptolemy I married Berenice in 317 BC. |
| Berenice II | Queen | Ptolemaic | (c. 267 BC – c. 221 BC) | The daughter of Magas of Cyrene and Queen Apama II. Her husband, Demetrius the Fair, a Macedonian prince, moved to Cyrene where he became the lover of her mother Apama. So Berenice had him killed in Apama's bedroom. Afterwards she married the Egyptian king, Ptolemy III Euergetes. |
| Berenice III | Queen | Ptolemaic | (120–80 BC) | She ruled jointly with her uncle/husband Ptolemy X Alexander I (101 BC–88 BC). After Ptolemy X died, Ptolemy IX Lathyros reclaimed the throne, but when he died in 81 BC, Berenice took over the throne. The Roman Republic intervened and forced her to marry Ptolemy XI Alexander II, but he had her killed 19 days later. |
| Berenice IV | Queen | Ptolemaic | (77 BC – 55 BC) | Reigned 57 BC – 55 BC. She was a daughter of Ptolemy XII and Cleopatra V. After Cleopatra V's death, Berenice assumed the throne but was forced to marry Seleucus VII Kybiosaktes. So she had him murdered to remain sole ruler. After Ptolemy XII retook the throne with the aid of Roman soldiers, he had Berenice executed. |
| Betrest | Queen | 1st dynasty | (fl. c. 30th century BC) | Betrest was the mother of the pharaoh Semerkhet. |
| Bintanath | Queen | 19th dynasty | (fl. c. 13th century BC) | Also known as Bentanath. A daughter and later wife of the 19th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II. |
| Buneb | Prince | 4th dynasty | (fl. c. 26th century BC) | A son of Nefermaat, the eldest son of pharaoh Sneferu and Itet. |
| Bunefer | Queen | 4th/5th dynasty | (fl. c. 26th century BC) | Bunefer's titles as a priestess of Shepseskaf mean she may have been a wife or daughter of Shepseskaf or she was the wife of king Thamphthis. |
Read more about this topic: List Of Ancient Egyptians