Lives listing by nationality: French
- Beauvoir, François Jean de, marquis de Chastellux (born 1734–died 1788), French soldier, army officer
- Beaux, Justin (born 1740–died 1794), French lawyer, politician, revolutionary
- Beauzée, Nicolas (born 1717–died 1789), French university teacher, grammarian, encyclopædist, academician
- Bécu, Marie Jeanne, comtesse Du Barry (born 1743–died 1793), French mistress
- Beffroi de La Grange-aux-Bois, Louis Jacques Marie de, marquis de Beffroi de La Grange-aux-Bois (born 1730–died after 1794), French aristocrat, army officer
- Bégon, M. — (flourished c. 1739), French lawyer
- Begon de Saint-Venant, M. — (flourished 1756–1762), French tradesman
- Béguillet, Edme (died 1786), French scientist, historian, academician
- Bel, Jean Jacques (born 1693–died 1738), French literary critic, academician
- Bélanger, François Joseph (born 1744–died 1818), French architect
- Beljambe, Pierre Guillaume Alexandre (born 1759–died 1820), French engraver
- Bellart, Nicolas François (born 1767–died 1826), French lawyer, politician
- Bellemare, M. — de [Pierre Quesnel] (pseudonym/initials used 1699–1774), French churchman, Jansenist, historian
- Belloney, père —, abbé Belloney (flourished 1775–1776), French churchman, Catholic, poet
- Bellot, M. — (flourished 1750–1790), French theatre employee
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