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- Alonzo Babers – Airline pilot and Olympic athlete
- Jacob “Buddy” Baer – Boxer, film and TV actor
- Max Baer, Jr. – Film actor
- Max Baer, Sr. – Boxer and World Heavyweight Champion, Film and TV actor
- Parley Baer – Film and television actor
- Hobey Baker – Amateur hockey player
- Bernt Balchen – Norwegian-born aviation explorer
- Thomas Scott Baldwin – Pioneer balloonist
- Martin Balsam – Oscar-winning film actor
- John Banner – Film and television actor
- Sy Bartlett – Screenwriter and producer, co-author of Twelve O'Clock High
- Warren Beatty – Oscar-winning film actor, filmmaker, producer and screenwriter
- Don Beddoe – Film and television actor
- Chuck Bednarik – Professional football player
- Art Bell – Talk radio personality
- Brooks Benedict – Actor of the silent and sound film eras who served with the American Ambulance Corps and in the U.S. Army Air Service during the First World War
- Lloyd Bentsen – Senator from Texas, 1988 vice presidential nominee, 69th Secretary of the Treasury
- Elmer Bernstein – Oscar and Emmy-winning and Grammy Award-nominated film composer
- Charles A. Berry – Flight surgeon during the Apollo space program and Director of Life Sciences at the NASA
- Mark H. Berry – American politician
- James Best – Film and television actor
- Edward Binns – Film and television actor
- John Birch – East China missionary
- Barry Bishop – Member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest
- Whit Bissell – Film and television actor
- Charles F. Blair, Jr. – General officer and husband of actress Maureen O'Hara
- Esther Blake – First female member of the United States Air Force
- Michael Blake – Oscar-winning screenwriter and author of Dances with Wolves and its 1988 best-selling novel
- William Peter Blatty – Oscar-winning screenwriter, film producer, director and author known for his 1971 novel The Exorcist and for writing and producing the hugely successful 1973 film adaptation
- Guion Bluford – Astronaut and first African American to fly in space (STS-8, STS-61-A, STS-39, STS-53)
- John Boccieri – Member of Congress of Ohio.
- Paul Bogart – Five-time Emmy Award-winning television director and producer
- Richard Bong – American Ace of Aces
- Frank Borman – Astronaut (Gemini 7 and Apollo 8 – first flight to orbit the Moon)
- Robert Sidney Bowen – Newspaper journalist, magazine editor and author of the Dave Dawson War Adventure Series and the Red Randall Series. Served as a fighter pilot in both the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the United States Army Air Service, and as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service (AFS) during World War I.
- William Bowers – Screenwriter
- Boxcar Willie – Country music entertainer
- John Boyd – Air Force fighter pilot and Pentagon consultant during the second half of the 20th century who, together with Thomas Christie, created the Energy–Maneuverability theory of aerial combat, which became the world standard for the design of fighter aircraft
- Vance D. Brand – Astronaut who also served as a naval aviator in the U.S. Marine Corps (Apollo–Soyuz Test Project, STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35)
- Albert Brenner – Five-time Oscar-nominated production designer and art director
- Lewis H. Brereton – Aviation pioneer and only active duty member of USAF and all of its forebears
- John Briley – Oscar-winning screenwriter
- Charles Bronson – Emmy Award-nominated film and television actor
- Rand Brooks – Film and television actor ( Babes in Arms , Gone with the Wind )
- Al Brown – Film and television actor known for The Wire who served 29 years in the Air Force including two tours in Vietnam
- Charles Q. Brown Jr. – USAF general who is currently serving as the 21st chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as of January 2024
- Clarence Brown – Six-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker who served as a fighter pilot and flight instructor with the U.S. Army Air Service during World War I
- Dale Brown – Author
- Roscoe C. Brown, Jr. – Tuskegee Airman, educator, and TV personality
- Roger Browne – Film actor best known for his work in the peplum and Eurospy films popular in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
- Robert Brubaker – Film and TV actor
- Don Budge – American tennis player most famous as the first tennis player to win the Grand Slam
- John Bunch – Jazz pianist
- William Bundy – CIA analyst and foreign affairs advisor
- George W. Bush – 43rd President of the United States
- Aaron Bushnell – 25-year-old airman who live streamed his self-immolation and resultant death outside the front gate of the Embassy of Israel in Washington, D.C. in protest of genocide and United States support for Israel in the Gaza war
- Craig D. Button – Victim of mysterious flight and crash
- Red Buttons – Oscar-winning film actor
