Theodorus Bailey served as U.S. Representative, briefly U.S. Senator, and New York City Postmaster for 24 years, and rose to Brigadier General after Revolutionary War service and militia leadership service.
Theodorus Bailey joined the U.S. Navy at 13, rose to Rear Admiral, captured New Orleans in 1862, served 48 years, and was later honored with three Navy ships named for him.
Herman Baker founded Baker Book House in 1939 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, later Baker Publishing Group, which expanded from religious bookselling into seven divisions publishing religious, academic, and general-interest titles.
Erik Barnouw, Dutch-born American media historian, helped launch University Players, led wartime radio education, taught at Columbia, headed the Library of Congress media division, and authored landmark broadcasting histories works.
James Van Der Beek is an American actor best known as Dawson Leery on Dawson’s Creek, which launched his career, later including film roles and a self-parody on Don’t Trust the B---- in Apartment 23.
Martin Bekins founded Bekins Van Lines in Sioux City, Iowa, in 1891, leading its early growth as chief executive into a major North American and international moving company today worldwide.
Lodewijk van den Berg was a Dutch-American payload specialist who flew aboard Spacelab-3 in 1985, spending 168 hours in space, selected as a scientist turned astronaut for efficiency by NASA.
George David Birkhoff was a leading American mathematician, renowned for foundational work in dynamical systems and the ergodic theorem, and a longtime Harvard professor influential in twentieth-century mathematics.
Harmanus Bleecker of Albany lawyer and Dutch American statesman, served as a Federalist congressman from New York (1811–1813) and later as U.S. chargé d’affaires to the Netherlands (1837–1842).
Nicolaas Bloembergen was a Dutch-American physicist and longtime Harvard professor, awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for pioneering contributions to laser and electron spectroscopy.
