All articles starting with B

Barbagallo

Barbagallo is the 1992–2018 name of Wanneroo Raceway, a 2.411 km, seven-turn permanent circuit at Wanneroo near Perth, opened March 1969, operated by the WA Sporting Car Club, host of Supercars since 1973.

Barbale Dorsa

Barbale Dorsa is a 1,200-km-long ridge (dorsum) on Venus at 15N, 143E, named for the Georgian sun goddess and approved by the IAU in 1997, mapped in Magellan radar data.

Barban

Barban (CAS 101-27-9, Carbyne) is a carbamate ester herbicide, 4-chlorobut-2-ynyl N-(3-chlorophenyl)carbamate, formerly used as a selective post-emergence wild oat herbicide in cereals; no longer approved in the EU or registered in the US.

Barbapapa

Barbapapa (バーバパパ) is a French children's picture-book series created in 1970 by Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, about a pink shape-shifting character, his wife Barbamama, and seven colored children; translated into over 30 languages.

Sep 19, 2026

Barbar ovens

The Barbar ovens are Bronze Age copper-working installations at the Barbar temple complex on Bahrain's north coast, where copper from Oman was processed and cast in the Dilmun culture.

Sep 19, 2026

Barbar Temple

The Barbar Temple is a complex of three superimposed ancient temples on two tells near Barbar village in northern Bahrain, built by the Dilmun culture and served by a natural freshwater spring.

Sep 19, 2026

Barbara

Barbara, born Monique Serf (1930–1997), was a French singer-songwriter of the rive gauche chanson tradition, counted with Brel and Brassens among the "three Bs", best known for "L'Aigle noir" (1970).

Oct 3, 2026

Barbara (2012 film)

Barbara is Christian Petzold's 2012 German drama, also known as Barbara (2012), starring Nina Hoss as an East German doctor punished for an exit visa application. It won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin 2012 and was Germany's Oscar nominee.

Barbara A. Block

Barbara A. Block is a marine biologist and fish physiologist, professor at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station since 1994, known for discovering how fishes generate heat and for electronic tagging of tunas and sharks.

Barbara A. Gilchrest

Barbara A. Gilchrest is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist known for photomedicine, melanoma biology, and skin aging; she chaired dermatology at Boston University from 1985 to 2008.

Barbara A. Schaal

Barbara A. Schaal is an American plant evolutionary geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies gene flow and crop domestication, including identifying the wild progenitor of cassava.

Barbara Abrams

Barbara Abrams is an American epidemiologist and registered dietitian, a UC Berkeley professor who served on the 1990 and 2009 US pregnancy weight gain guidelines.

Barbara Alyn Woods

Barbara Alyn Woods (born 1962, Chicago) is an American actress known as Diane Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show and Deb Scott on One Tree Hill, later in Chucky, and mother of actresses the Lind sisters.

Barbara Amiel

Barbara Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour (born 1940, Watford), British-Canadian columnist, first female editor of the Toronto Sun, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph columnist, and wife of Conrad Black since 1992; author of Friends and Enemies (2020).

Barbara Anderson (actress)

Barbara Jeanne Anderson (born 1945), American retired actress; former Miss Memphis; played Officer Eve Whitfield on Ironside (1967–1971), winning a 1968 Emmy; also Star Trek's Lenore Karidian and Mission: Impossible's Mimi Davis; distinct from the ex-Jehovah's Witness activist of the same name.

Barbara Ann Crancer

Barbara Ann Crancer (born 1938), daughter of Jimmy Hoffa and sister of James P. Hoffa, was a St. Louis County associate circuit judge 1992-2008 who sued the Justice Department for the FBI's Hoffa file.

Barbara Ann Gilchrest

Barbara Ann Gilchrest is an American dermatologist known for research on how ultraviolet radiation damages and pigments skin, and longtime Chair of Dermatology at Boston University.

Barbara Ann Halkier

Barbara Ann Halkier is a plant biochemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for identifying the transporters that move glucosinolates, defense compounds of brassica plants, into seeds.

Barbara Ann Scott

Barbara Ann Scott (1928–2012), known as "Canada's Sweetheart," was a Canadian figure skater who won women's singles gold at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, a two-time World champion.

Sep 27, 2026

Barbara B. Crabb

Barbara B. Crabb, full name Barbara Brandriff Crabb, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin since 1979.

Sep 20, 2026

Barbara B. Kahn

Barbara B. Kahn is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who studies fat tissue and insulin resistance.

Barbara B. Knowles

Barbara B. Knowles is an American geneticist and stem cell biologist who created the HepG2 liver cell line and the SSEA antibodies for identifying pluripotent stem cells.

Barbara Babcock

Barbara Babcock (born 1937) is an American retired character actress who won the 1981 Emmy for playing Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues, and later Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.

Barbara Bach

Barbara Bach (Barbara Ann Goldbach), American actress and model, Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Force 10 from Navarone; married Ringo Starr in 1981; retired from acting in 1986.

Barbara Bain

Barbara Bain, American actress (born Mildred Fogel), Emmy-winning Cinnamon Carter on Mission: Impossible (1966-69, three consecutive Emmys) and Dr. Helena Russell on Space: 1999; also stage actress and Book PALS literacy founder.

Barbara Baker

Barbara Baker is an American plant biologist who cloned the tobacco N gene, the first plant virus resistance gene isolated, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.

Barbara Barrie

Barbara Barrie (Barbara Ann Berman, born 1931) is an American actress and author, Cannes Best Actress winner for One Potato, Two Potato (1964), Oscar-nominated for Breaking Away, and the original Sarah in Company.

Barbara Bel Geddes

Barbara Bel Geddes (1922–2005), American stage, film, and TV actress; Miss Ellie on Dallas (1978–1990, Emmy 1980), Oscar-nominated for I Remember Mama, originated Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Barbara Berlusconi

Barbara Berlusconi, born 1984, is an Italian businesswoman and daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, a Fininvest director since 2003 and former AC Milan deputy chairman and CEO.