American Famous Names Starting with Letter B

Was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer. She won 17 races, 2 w

Was an Honors Graduate from MIT and a world champion offshore powerboat racer. She won 17 races, 2 world championships (1977 and 1979), and three time APBA US champion (1978, 1979, 1981).

Is a Canadian politician and a current member of the Senate of Canada, from Alberta, Canada having b

Is a Canadian politician and a current member of the Senate of Canada, from Alberta, Canada having been appointed in January 2012. Outside of politics Unger owned and operated a successful Alberta nursing services company for many years.In 2004 she ran as a candidate in the 2004 Alberta senate nominee election. She finished a close second place behind Bert Brown. She is the first Albertan woman to be elected a Senator in waiting. On January 6, 2012, she was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Governor General David Johnston.

Is an American art teacher and author, best known for her 1979 book, Drawing on the Right Side of th

Is an American art teacher and author, best known for her 1979 book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. She taught and did research at the California State University, Long Beach[1] until she retired in the late '90s. While there, she founded the Center for the Educational Applications of Brain Hemisphere Research.She received a Bachelor’s in Art from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, 1947), a Master's of Art from California State University, Northridge, and a Doctorate in Art, Education, and Psychology from UCLA (1978).

Was an African-American R&B singer and pianist. She is known for her biggest hit single "The Shoop S

Was an African-American R&B singer and pianist. She is known for her biggest hit single "The Shoop Shoop Song (It's in His Kiss)."In 1957, she moved to Chicago to pursue a career in music. She recorded for various small local labels before she was discove

Was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the

Was an American feminist, activist and writer, best known for starting what is commonly known as the "Second Wave" of feminism through the writing of her book The Feminine Mystique.As a young girl, Betty was active in Marxist and Jewish circles; she later wrote how she felt isolated from the community at times, and felt her "passion against injustice...originated from my feelings of the injustice of anti-Semitism". She went to high school in Peoria. She briefly became involved in her high school newspaper, but when she was turned down for a column, she and six other friends launched a literary magazine called Tide. In this magazine, Betty and her friends talked about home life as opposed to school life.

Is an American actress, comedian and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. How

Is an American actress, comedian and dancer who belonged to the golden era of the movie musical. However, she is probably best known for a pair of roles in two prominent 1970s sitcoms.

Is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of

Is a Canadian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1960s. She was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 500 m event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Was an American dancer, singer, and actress

Was an American dancer, singer, and actress

Was an American pianist and singer.Jones's father was George Arthur Bigby, a cornetist and leader of

Was an American pianist and singer.Jones's father was George Arthur Bigby, a cornetist and leader of a brass band. She learned piano from her uncle in California, where she was raised after her family moved there when she was a child. She married a banjoi

Is an American Soul Singer. Her recording career in the 1960s produced three hit records that made t

Is an American Soul Singer. Her recording career in the 1960s produced three hit records that made the Billboard R&B and pop charts: "Cry to Me" (1963), "His Kiss" (1964) and "Nearer to You" (1967). However, her reputation among soul music connoisseurs fa

Was an American film actress and singer.

Was an American film actress and singer.

Born on May 9, 1919 in Norman, Oklahoma) is an American professional golfer

Born on May 9, 1919 in Norman, Oklahoma) is an American professional golfer

A Canadian painter, photographer, and documentary filmmaker.Ondaatje studied at the Ontario College

A Canadian painter, photographer, and documentary filmmaker.Ondaatje studied at the Ontario College of Art and McGill University. She completed a M.A. in Canadian Literature at Queen's University, while on a teaching fellowship. Until 1964, Ondaatje served as a part-time lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University and Sherbrooke University. In the early 1960s she returned to the visual arts again and by 1965 was painting full time. In 1967, with fellow Canadian artists Jack Chambers and Tony Urquhart, she founded Canadian Artists Representation (CAR), which today is the Canadian Artists Representation/Frontes des Artistes Canadiens (CARFAC). CAR was the first artist organization in the world to establish a fee structure for museum and gallery exhibitions of contemporary artists.

Is an American former female professional wrestler. She wrestled in the United States, Canada, and J

Is an American former female professional wrestler. She wrestled in the United States, Canada, and Japan. She was also influential in helping lift the ban of women's wrestling in the state of New York.She wrestled in a series of matches with and against K

Is a former American singer, most famous for her tenure in the popular Motown singing group Martha a

Is a former American singer, most famous for her tenure in the popular Motown singing group Martha and the Vandellas.Born in Attalla, Alabama, Kelly's family moved to Detroit, Michigan when Kelly was a child. Like many children growing up in the city, Kelly found herself aspiring for a career in music

Is a Tony Award-winning American theater, film, and television actress and singer.Buckley made her B

Is a Tony Award-winning American theater, film, and television actress and singer.Buckley made her Broadway debut in 1969 and has been called "The Voice of Broadway" by New York Magazine. Her rendition of "Memory" in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats established

Is a film and television actress with a career spanning 60 years. White is perhaps best known for he

Is a film and television actress with a career spanning 60 years. White is perhaps best known for her close association with the game show, "Password", her affiliation with animal charities (Actors and Others for Animals), and her roles in the television sitcoms The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mama's Family and The Golden Girls, as well as being a regular panelist on the extremely popular 1970s game show Match Game.

Was a Canadian figure skater who competed in pairs with partner John McKilligan.

Was a Canadian figure skater who competed in pairs with partner John McKilligan.

Was an American artist and legendary art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expression

Was an American artist and legendary art dealer known for her early promotion of Abstract Expressionism. She was known as "the den mother of Abstract Expressionism" [1] In 1946 she opened the Betty Parsons Gallery, which specialized in Abstract Expressionism. She showed work by Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Clyfford Still, Ellsworth Kelly, Mark Rothko and Robert Rauschenberg among others. Helen Frankenthaler, the painter, who met Parsons in 1950, said: "Betty and her gallery helped construct the center of the art world. She was one of the last of her breed." Many of the Abstract Expressionist artists she launched left her gallery for more commercial galleries. Art critic, B. H. Friedman: "She was resentful. She had struggled so long to get them established, and other dealers capitalized on her efforts." Her other artists include Agnes Martin, Richard Pousette-Dart and Richard Tuttle. She ran the gallery until her death in 1982. [2]

Is the Iowa State Representative from the 76th District. She has served in the Iowa House of Represe

Is the Iowa State Representative from the 76th District. She has served in the Iowa House of Representatives since 2001.De Boef currently serves on several committees in the Iowa House - the Agriculture committee; the Appropriations committee; and the Env

Was an American blues singer who became most famous with her version of the song Take the "A" Train.

Was an American blues singer who became most famous with her version of the song Take the "A" Train. She started her career by winning a Harlem Apollo Theater amateur contest, sang with the Savoy Sultans from 1941 to 1942 and with Duke Ellington in the 19

Was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.Betty Goodwin used a large var

Was a Canadian printmaker, sculptor, painter, and installation artist.Betty Goodwin used a large variety of media, including collage, sculpture, printmaking, painting and drawing, assemblage and etchings. Her subject matter almost always revolves around the human form and deals with it in a highly emotional way.[3] Many of her ideas came from clusters of photographs, objects or drawings on the walls in her studio. She also used the “germ” of ideas that are left after being erased from a work.[4]

Is an American soul music singer, best known for her 1967 hit song “Make Me Yours.”She grew up i

Is an American soul music singer, best known for her 1967 hit song “Make Me Yours.”She grew up in Arcadia, Louisiana, one of 14 children, and moved to Los Angeles, California in 1963. Although some sources state that she was in a vocal group known as The

An American artist, known for her work in the field of assemblage. Her education included a time at

An American artist, known for her work in the field of assemblage. Her education included a time at the University of California, Los Angeles, from where she received a degree in design in 1949, and graduate studies in printmaking and education at Pasadena City College, California State University, Long Beach. Her interest in assemblage was inspired by a 1968 exhibition by Joseph Cornell, though she also cites the influence of Simon Rodia's Watts Towers, which she witnessed being built in her childhood.[1] She began creating work typically consisting of found objects arranged within boxes or windows, with items drawing on various different cultures reflecting Saar's own mixed heritage (African, Native American, Irish and Creole).[1]

Is an American singer of Latin pop music. Born in Chicago, Illinois, to Puerto Rican and Mexican par

Is an American singer of Latin pop music. Born in Chicago, Illinois, to Puerto Rican and Mexican parents, Betzaida released her debut self-titled album in 2004 on Fonovisa Records.[1] She first gained fame through her song "La Copa Será Tuya Al Final" whi