in Wilmington Huck Betts (1897–1987) – Major League Baseball player, born in Millsboro Mahlon Betts (1795–1867) – banker; transportation businessman Stephen Biddle (born 1959) – author; historian; policy analyst; columnist Beau Biden (1969–2015) – lawyer; Attorney General of Delaware; son of Joe Biden Jill Biden (born 1951) – college professor; current First Lady of the United States Joe Biden (born 1942) – current President of the United States; former Vice President of the United States (2009–2017); longtime Senator from Delaware (1973–2009); (born in Scranton, PA) Benjamin T. Biggs (1821–1893) – U.S. Representative; Governor of Delaware John Biggs Jr. (1895–1979) – former Chief Judge of the 3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Clyde Bishop – U.S. Ambassador to the Marshall Islands Emily Bissell (1861–1948) – anti-suffragist; introduced Christmas seals to the U.S. Bn–Bz J. Caleb Boggs (1909–1993) – Governor of Delaware; U.S. Senator from Delaware Cedella Booker (1926–2008) – singer; Jamaica native, lived in Delaware; mother of singer Bob Marley Nicole Bosso (born 1986) – Miss Delaware USA 2007 William H. Boyce (1855–1942) – Justice of the Superior Court; U.S. Representative from Delaware John Walter Bratton (1867–1947) – Tin Pan Alley composer Madison Brengle (born 1990) – tennis player; 2007 Juniors Wimbledon runner-up Jay Briscoe (born 1984) – professional wrestler; ROH World Champion and eight-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with his brother Mark Briscoe Mark Briscoe (born 1985) – professional wrestler; eight-time ROH World Tag Team Champion with brother Jay Dennis Brockenborough – trombone player Franklin Brockson (1865–1942) – State Representative and U.S. Representative from Delaware James M. Broom (1776–1850) – lawyer and U.S. Representative from Delaware Hugh T. Broomall (born 1948) – Major General, Delaware Air National Guard Clifford Brown (1930–1956) – jazz trumpeter, born in Wilmington C. Douglass Buck (1890–1965) – Governor of Delaware; U.S. Senator from Delaware David P. Buckson (1920-2017) – Attorney General of Delaware; Governor of Delaware Edward G. Budd (1870–1946) – automotive inventor; founder, Budd Company Colin Burns (born 1982) – professional soccer player in Norway Hiram R. Burton (1841–1927) – physician and U.S. Representative from Delaware William Burton (1789–1866) – physician and Governor of Delaware Randy Bush (born 1958) – MLB pitcher and executive; born in Dover William Sharp Bush (1786–1812) – U.S. Marine-award winner, War of 1812; born in Wilmington C Ca–Cm Henry Seidel Canby (1878–1961) – educator; editor, The Saturday Review of Literature Annie Jump Cannon (1863–1941) – pioneering female astronomer