Albrizzi Giovanni Battista (1698-1777) was a prominent Italian cartographer and publisher of books and maps active in Venetian during the mid-18th century.
Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was a French geographer, and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making. D'Anville became cartographer to the king, who purchased his cartographic materials, the largest collection in France.
Aaron Arrowsmith (1750–1823) was an English cartographer, engraver, map maker and publisher and founding member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers.
Balbi, Adriano (1782 -1848), was an Italian professor of geography at the college of San Michele in Murano; in 1811-1813 he was professor of physics at the Lyceum of Fermo.
Baldwin and Cradock (1810-1860) were London based publishers working in the early to mid 19th century. Published under the superintendence of the SDUK later succeeded by Charles Knight.
Bartholomew, John George (1860–1920) was a Scottish cartographer and geographer for George Philip. He was subsequently assistant to the German geographer August Petermann.
Bartlett, William Henry. (1809-1854) was a British artist, engraver, topographer and illustrator of picturesque travel books during early Victorian times.
Sébastien Pontault de Beaulieu (1612–1674) was an eminent French engineer, who is considered to be the first military topographer, or rather the inventor of that art, during the reign of Louis XIV.
François de Belleforest, an author, poet and translator of France, lived with Sebastian Münster for about twenty years and deserves a memorable credit for his endorsement of Cosmographia to the French public.