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Barbara Block
Barbara Block is a Stanford University marine biologist who showed that bluefin tuna are warm-bodied and led large electronic tagging programs mapping their ocean migrations.
Barbara Bouchet
Barbara Bouchet, born 1943 in Reichenberg, is a German-born Italian actress, Hollywood starlet of the 1960s, icon of 1970s commedia sexy, and 2026 Nastro d'Argento winner for Finale: Allegro.
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer, born Barbara Levy (1940), Democratic U.S. senator from California 1993-2017, House 1983-1993; first woman to chair Senate Environment and Public Works and Ethics committees; retired 2016, succeeded by Kamala Harris.
Barbara Broccoli
Barbara Broccoli (Barbara Dana Broccoli, born 1960) is an American film and theatre producer who, with half-brother Michael G. Wilson, produced the James Bond films from GoldenEye (1995) to No Time to Die (2021), won the 2024 Thalberg Award, and ceded creative control of Bond to Amazon MGM in 2025.
Barbara Burke
Barbara Burke (Barbara Hannah Anita Burke, 1917-1998), British and South African sprinter-hurdler; 1936 Olympic 4x100m relay silver for Great Britain, 1938 Empire Games 80m hurdles gold for South Africa, and an 11.6 world record.
Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bush (1925–2018), US first lady 1989–1993, wife of President George H. W. Bush and mother of President George W. Bush, second woman after Abigail Adams in both roles, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
Barbara Bush (born 1981)
Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1981), daughter of George W. Bush, is an American social entrepreneur who co-founded Global Health Corps in 2009 and served as its CEO for nine years; author of Sisters First with her twin sister.
Barbara C. Furie
Barbara C. Furie is a hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine, Emerita, at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on blood coagulation and thrombosis.
Barbara C. Hansen
Barbara C. Hansen is an American physiologist and metabolic-disease researcher at the University of South Florida, known for her rhesus monkey studies of type 2 diabetes and calorie restraint.
Barbara Carrera
Barbara Carrera (born Barbara Kingsbury) is a Nicaraguan-born former model, actress, and painter, famous as Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (1983) and Angelica Nero on Dallas; birth year disputed (1945 vs 1952).
Barbara Cartland
Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), English romance novelist billed as the Queen of Romance, wrote 723 books dictated at about 7,000 words a day, selling 750 million to over a billion copies in 36 languages.
Barbara Casadei
Barbara Casadei is an Italian-born British cardiologist who studies atrial fibrillation and heart failure and heads the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.
Barbara Castle
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (1910-2002), British Labour politician, MP for Blackburn 1945-1979 and Cabinet minister under Harold Wilson; introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970, breathalyser, seat belts, and child benefit, and authored the divisive 1969 White Paper In Place of Strife.
Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud (born 1939) is an American and French sculptor and novelist in Paris, known for bronze sculptures draped in silk and the novel Sally Hemings.
Barbara Clark
Barbara Lynne Clark (Parolin), Canadian swimmer born 1958 in Coronation, Alberta; won bronze in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Montreal 1976 and set Commonwealth sprint records.
Barbara Colby
Barbara Colby (1939-1975), American stage, film, and TV actress; Broadway's The Devils, A Doll's House; Columbo's Lilly La Sanka; murdered in Venice, California. Not Barbara Heinzen Colby, CIA director's wife.
Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock, Republican attorney and politician from Virginia, served in the Virginia House of Delegates (2010-2014) and the US House for the 10th District (2015-2019); a former Clinton-era investigator and Justice Department spokesperson, she lost her 2018 reelection to Jennifer Wexton and endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024.
Barbara Conradt
Barbara Conradt is a cell and developmental biologist at University College London known for discovering EGL-1, a key activator of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.
Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (1927–2017), American Broadway soprano and cabaret singer; original Marian in The Music Man (Tony), Cunegonde in Candide, Amalia in She Loves Me; reinvented as a concert interpreter of Sondheim and the American songbook.
Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran is an American real estate entrepreneur who founded the Corcoran Group brokerage in New York in 1973 with a $1,000 loan and later joined Shark Tank.
Barbara Crampton
Barbara Crampton (born 1962) is an American actress and producer, a horror-genre mainstay since Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986) with Stuart Gordon, also known for soap roles on The Young and the Restless and Guiding Light and her 2010s–2020s revival in You're Next and Jakob's Wife.
Barbara Daly Baekeland
Barbara Daly Baekeland, American socialite and model who married Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland; murdered November 17, 1972 in her London penthouse by her son Antony, later dramatized in Savage Grace.
Barbara Dare
Barbara Dare, stage name of Stacy Mitnick (born 1963), American retired pornographic actress of the 1980s video era; first Essex Video and Vivid contract star, 1987 AVN Best New Starlet, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.
Barbara de Lateur
Barbara Jane de Lateur is an American physiatrist who led physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1996.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson, born 1947 in Dunfermline, is a Scottish singer and actress. Known for the UK No. 1 duet "I Know Him So Well" with Elaine Paige, originating Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, two Olivier Awards, and an OBE.
Barbara Dosher
Barbara Dosher is an experimental psychologist and UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences who studies memory, attention, and perceptual learning; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Barbara Dunkelman
Barbara Julie Dunkelman (born 1989, Montreal) is a Canadian voice actress and podcaster, the voice of Yang Xiao Long in RWBY, Rooster Teeth's first community manager and later creative director, host of Always Open, and co-founder of the independent Stinky Dragon podcast company.
Barbara E. Bierer
Barbara E. Bierer is a hematologist and oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Faculty Director of the MRCT Center.
Barbara E. Ehrlich
Barbara E. Ehrlich is an American physiologist and biophysicist, professor of pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine since 1997, known for single-channel studies of intracellular calcium channels.
Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead, 1931, Tucson) is an American actress and singer best known as Jeannie in NBC's I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970), later Harper Valley P.T.A., Dallas, and Jeannie reunion films.