Vladimir Matveevich Bakhmetyev was a Russian Soviet writer, literary critic and journalist.

Vladimir Bartol was a writer from the Slovene minority in Italy. He is best known for his 1938 novel Alamut, the most popular work of Slovene literature around the world, which has been translated into numerous languages.

Vladimir Pavlovich Basov was a Soviet Russian actor, film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1983).

Vladimir Alexandrovich Bazarov was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, journalist, philosopher, and economist, born Vladimir Alexandrovich Rudnev. Bazarov is best remembered as a pioneer in the development of economic planning in the Soviet Union. He was one of the Russian Machists, as Lenin dubbed the term, and was a close friend to Alexander Bogdanov.

Vladimir Beekman was an Estonian writer, poet and translator.

Vladimir Sergeyevich Begunov is a Russian guitarist, songwriter, founder and permanent member of the Chaif band.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Bekhterev was a Russian neurologist and the father of objective psychology. He is best known for noting the role of the hippocampus in memory, his study of reflexes, and Bekhterev’s disease. Moreover, he is known for his competition with Ivan Pavlov regarding the study of conditioned reflexes.

Vladimir Beșleagă is a Moldovan writer and politician.

Vladimir Ivanovich Belsky was a Russian poet and opera librettist, known for his collaborations with the composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908).

Vladimir Pavlovich Belyaev was a Soviet and Russian writer born in Ukraine. He is famous for his trilogy The Old Fortress about boys living in Kamenets-Podolsky during the Russian Civil War. The trilogy was written in 1937–1951 and was awarded the Stalin Prize of 1952.