List of Latvians - B

B

• Helmuts Balderis (1952) – ice hockey player, forward
• Jānis Balodis (1881–1965) – army officer and politician
• Jānis Balodis (1950) – Latvian/Australian playwright
• Kārlis Balodis (1864–1931) – notable economist, financist, statistician and demographist
• Krišjānis Barons (1835–1923) – "the father of Latvian folk songs", who compiled and edited the first publication of Latvian folk-song texts "Latvju Dainas" (1894–1915)
• Mihails Barišņikovs (1948) – ballet-dancer
• Kārlis Baumanis (1835–1905) – composer, author of the national anthem of the Republic of Latvia "Dievs, svētī Latviju!" (God bless Latvia!)
• Vizma Belševica (1931–2005) – author, candidate for Nobel Prize in Literature
• Eduards Berklavs (1914–2004) – politician, leader of Latvian national-communists
• Krišjānis Berķis (1884–1942) – general
• Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) – philosopher
• Eduard Berzin (1894–1938) – soldier in the Red Army, later Head of Dalstroy, the Kolyma forced-labour camps in North-Eastern Siberia
• Karlis Betinš (1867–1943) – chess player
• Andris Biedriņš (1986) – basketball player
• Gunnar Birkerts (1925) – architect
• Miervaldis Birze (1921–2000) – writer
• Ernests Blanks (1894–1972) – Latvian publicist, writer, historian, the first to publicly advocate for Latvia's independence
• Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863–1908) – writer and playwright
• Himans Blūms (1913–2009) – painter
• Ārons Bogoļubovs (1938) – Olympic medalist judoka
• Baiba Broka (1973) – actress
• Erika Burkevičs-Arrau (1909–1997) – opera singer
• Inguna Butane – fashion model