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| Name | Nationality | Century | Main area/s explored |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Back | British | 19th | Canadian Arctic khoa |
| William Baffin | British | 17th | Northwest Passage |
| Samuel Baker | British | 19th | Africa |
| Vasco Núñez de Balboa | Spanish | 16th | Panama, 'discovered' the Pacific Ocean |
| Robert Ballard | American | 20th | deep sea wrecks, Titanic |
| Joseph Banks | British | 18th | Newfoundland and Labrador, South Pacific |
| Giosafat Barbaro | Italian | 15th | Black Sea, Near East |
| Pêro de Barcelos | Portuguese | 15th/16th | North America |
| Willem Barentsz | Dutch | 16th | Northeast Passage, Novaya Zemlya, Svalbard |
| Heinrich Barth | German | 19th | Central and northern Africa |
| Robert Bartlett | Canadian | early 20th | Arctic |
| George Bass | Australian | 18th | Australia |
| Henry Walter Bates | British | 19th | Amazonia |
| Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta | Marinid | 14th | Africa, Central Asia, China, Europe, Indian subcontinent, Middle East, Russia, Southeast Asia |
| Nicolas Baudin | French | 18th | Australia |
| William Beebe | American | 20th | deep sea |
| Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | Baltic German | 19th | Antarctica |
| Joseph René Bellot | French | 19th | Arctic |
| Benjamin of Tudela | Navarrese | 12th | Syria, Palestine, Baghdad, Persia, Arabian Peninsula |
| Móric Benyovszky | Hungarian | 18th | northern Pacific Ocean |
| Vitus Bering | Danish | 18th | northern Pacific Ocean |
| Hiram Bingham III | American | 20th | Machu Picchu, Peru |
| John Blashford-Snell | British | 20th/21st | various |
| Adriaen Block | Dutch | early 17th | East Coast of the United States |
| Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra | Spanish | 18th | Pacific Northwest |
| Vittorio Bottego | Italian | 19th | Somalia |
| Pierre Savorgan de Brazza | Italian/French | 19th | Congo |
| Saint Brendan | Irish | 6th | Atlantic Ocean, Iceland |
| Jim Bridger | American | 19th | Western United States |
| James Bruce | British | 18th | Algeria, the Middle East, Egypt |
| William S. Bruce | British | early 20th | Antarctica |
| Étienne Brûlé | French | 17th | Canada |
| Lafayette Bunnell | American | 19th | Yosemite Valley |
| Johann Ludwig Burckhardt | Swiss | 19th | Middle East, Sudan |
| Robert O'Hara Burke | Irish | 19th | Australia |
| Richard Francis Burton | British | 19th | East Africa |
| José de Bustamante y Guerra | Spanish | 18th | Pacific Ocean |
| Richard E. Byrd | American | 20th | North Pole, Antarctica |
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