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Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022), American journalist and activist, author of Nickel and Dimed (2001), an undercover minimum-wage bestseller; also For Her Own Good, Bright-Sided, Natural Causes; DSA co-chair; founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Barbara Eichhorst
Barbara Eichhorst is a German hematologist and oncologist at the University Hospital of Cologne, deputy head of the German CLL Study Group, known for the CLL13 and RT1 trials.
Barbara Ensoli
Barbara Ensoli is an Italian virologist and physician, Director of the National HIV/AIDS Research Center at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, known for developing an HIV-1 Tat-based vaccine.
Barbara Estelle Rusinko
Barbara Estelle Rusinko is an American mechanical engineer who rose to president of Bechtel's nuclear business and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.
Barbara F. Walter
Barbara F. Walter is an American political scientist, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at UC San Diego, known for her research on civil wars and violent extremism.
Barbara Favola
Barbara Favola is an American Democratic politician who has represented Virginia's 40th Senate district, covering most of Arlington County, since 2011, after fourteen years on the Arlington County Board.
Barbara Feldon
Barbara Feldon (Barbara Anne Hall, born 1933), American actress and former model, best known as Agent 99 on the spy sitcom Get Smart (1965-70) opposite Don Adams; two Emmy nominations, $64,000 Question winner, author of Getting Smarter.
Barbara Ferrell
Barbara Ferrell (Barbara Ann Ferrell-Edmonson), American sprinter born 1947 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; 1968 Olympic 4x100 m relay gold and 100 m silver, 1972 Olympian, equaled the 11.1 s 100 m world record in 1967.
Barbara Fialho
Barbara Fialho (born 1987), Brazilian model and singer from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais; Victoria's Secret Angel for seven years from the 2012 show, walked for Dior and Louis Vuitton, and records Brazilian and Latin-jazz music including "Samba e Amor" with Seu Jorge.
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts
Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, born 1948 in Ottawa, is a Canadian-born American atmospheric chemist at UC Irvine known for studying chemical reactions on airborne sea-salt and other particles.
Barbara Flynn
Barbara Flynn (Barbara Jay McMurray), English actress born 1948 in Hastings, known for A Family at War, the Beiderbecke trilogy, Cracker, Cranford, Kate & Koji, and Beyond Paradise.
Barbara Forever
Barbara Forever (2026) is Brydie O'Connor's debut documentary about lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), built from her five-decade archive. It won the Sundance Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award and the Berlinale Teddy Award for Best Documentary.
Barbara Fried
Barbara H. Fried (Barbara Fried), Stanford Law School Saunders Professor emerita, legal scholar of distributive justice, taxation, and Robert Hale; mother of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sued by the FTX estate in 2023.
Barbara G. Rosenkrantz
Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, also known as Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, was an American historian of science and medicine at Harvard whose 1972 book Public Health and the State defined public health history.
Barbara Gartner
Barbara Gartner is an American wood scientist and tree physiologist, professor of wood science and engineering at Oregon State University, and a 1996 PECASE recipient.
Barbara Gas Field
Barbara Gas Field is a giant offshore natural gas field about 60 km off Ancona in the north-central Adriatic Sea, Italy, discovered in 1971 and still operated by Eni.
Barbara Gaskin
Barbara Gaskin (born 1950, Hatfield, England) is an English singer, ex-Spirogyra vocalist and Northette backing singer for Hatfield and the North, later of the duo Stewart/Gaskin, whose 1981 single "It's My Party" hit UK number 1.
Barbara Gervin-Hawkins
Barbara Gervin-Hawkins is a Democratic Texas state representative for District 120 in San Antonio, an educator who helped found the George Gervin Academy, and the sister of NBA Hall of Famer George Gervin.
Barbara Göbel
Barbara Göbel (Barbara Ballerstedt), East German breaststroke swimmer born 1943 in Jena; 1960 Olympic 200 m breaststroke bronze, 1961 world record 100 m breaststroke 1:18.2, 1962 European medley relay champion.
Barbara Goodson
Barbara Goodson (Barbara Dale Goodson) is an American voice actress, born 1949 in Brooklyn, best known as the English voice of Rita Repulsa in Power Rangers, Laharl in Disgaea, Mother Talzin in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Turbo Granny in Dandadan.
Barbara Gordon
Barbara Gordon, also Batgirl and Oracle, is a DC Comics character created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino, debuting in Detective Comics #359 (1967), paralyzed by the Joker in The Killing Joke (1988), and reinvented as the information broker Oracle.
Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham (Barbara Wood Graham, 1923–1955), "Bloody Babs," was executed by gas at San Quentin on June 3, 1955, for the 1953 murder of Burbank widow Mabel Monahan; her contested trial inspired I Want to Live! and later reassessments.
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (1922–2017), American actress, Emmy winner 1959, played Della Street on CBS's Perry Mason (1957–1966) with Raymond Burr and in 29 TV movies (1985–1995); film career began at RKO in 1943; wife of actor Bill Williams, mother of William Katt.
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly (born 1951, San Diego) is an American novelist of fantasy, science fiction, and historical mystery, known for the Darwath Trilogy, the Windrose Chronicles, the Benjamin January mysteries, and Star Trek and Star Wars tie-in novels.
Barbara Harris (actress)
Barbara Densmoor Harris (1935-2018), American actress and improv pioneer; co-founder of The Second City, 1967 Tony winner for The Apple Tree, Oscar-nominated for Who Is Harry Kellerman, star of Freaky Friday and Hitchcock's Family Plot.
Barbara Harris (bishop)
Barbara Clementine Harris (1930–2020) was an American Episcopal priest who became the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion, serving as bishop suffragan of Massachusetts from 1989 to 2002.
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), Wakefield-born British abstract sculptor of the St Ives school; known for pierced forms, stringed carvings like Pelagos, Single Form at the UN, and the Trewyn Studio museum.
Barbara Hernandez
Barbara Hernandez is an American Democratic politician who has represented Illinois' 50th House district, covering much of Aurora, since 2023, after serving on the Kane County Board.
Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, 1948) is an American actress of Hannah and Her Sisters, Black Swan, and The Portrait of a Lady. She won Cannes Best Actress two years running (Shy People 1987, A World Apart 1988), an Emmy, and an Oscar nomination, and briefly used the stage name Barbara Seagull.
Barbara Höhn
Barbara Höhn, born 1939, is an Austrian molecular biologist who spent most of her career at the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Basel, studying Agrobacterium-mediated DNA transfer to plants.