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Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912–1979), American Woolworth heiress nicknamed the 'poor little rich girl'; seven marriages, famed jewelry including the Vladimir Tiara, fortune depleted by settlements, taxes, and mismanagement.
Barbara Imperiali
Barbara Imperiali is an American chemical biologist and MIT professor who studies how cells build glycoconjugates, elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
Barbara J. Graves
Barbara J. Graves is an American biochemist and Professor Emerita of Oncological Sciences at the University of Utah, known for mechanistic studies of ETS transcription factors.
Barbara J. King
Barbara J. King is an American anthropologist and primatologist, emerita professor at William & Mary and author of How Animals Grieve and six other books on animal emotion.
Barbara J. Lowery
Barbara J. Lowery (died 2002) was an American nurse scientist and academic administrator at the University of Pennsylvania who applied attribution theory to psychiatric nursing research.
Barbara J. McNeil
Barbara J. McNeil is an American physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School who founded its Department of Health Care Policy and twice served as acting dean.
Barbara J. Meyer
Barbara J. Meyer is an American geneticist and HHMI investigator at UC Berkeley who discovered the master switch of C. elegans sex determination and the dosage compensation complex.
Barbara J. Rothstein
Barbara J. Rothstein, born 1939, is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge in the Western District of Washington appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Barbara J. Stoll
Barbara J. Stoll is an American neonatologist known for research on neonatal sepsis and preterm infant outcomes, and was the first woman dean of McGovern Medical School.
Barbara Jacak
Barbara Jacak is an American experimental nuclear physicist, a professor at UC Berkeley since 2015, whose PHENIX measurements helped show the quark-gluon plasma is a liquid.
Barbara Jakobson
Barbara Joan Jakobson, née Petchesky (1933–2025), was an American art collector and Museum of Modern Art trustee for fifty-one years, known for helping acquire Rauschenberg's Bed.
Barbara Jean Arnold
Barbara Jean Arnold is an American mining engineer who chairs mining engineering at Penn State and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering's class of 2026.
Barbara Jones
Barbara Pearl Jones (Barbara Jones Slater), born 26 March 1937 in Chicago, American sprinter; two-time Olympic 4x100m relay gold medalist (Helsinki 1952, Rome 1960) and youngest female Olympic track and field gold medalist at 15 years 123 days.
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan (1936–1996), Texas lawyer, educator, and Democratic congresswoman; first Black woman from the South in Congress, Watergate impeachment orator, 1976 and 1992 DNC keynote speaker, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Barbara Kahl
Barbara Kahl is an American veterinarian and Republican politician who won the May 2026 primary to become the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Oregon's 1st Congressional District.
Barbara Karinska
Barbara Karinska (Varvara Zhmoudsky, 1886-1983), Ukrainian-born costume designer, longtime Balanchine collaborator at New York City Ballet, inventor of the powder-puff tutu, Oscar winner for Joan of Arc.
Barbara Kendall
Barbara Kendall (born 1967, Papakura, New Zealand) is a windsurfer, the first female Olympic windsurfing champion (Barcelona 1992 gold), with silver 1996 and bronze 2000 across five Games, 11 world medals, and later IOC service.
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet of socially engaged fiction. Author of The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead; only two-time Women's Prize winner and 2024 National Book Award lifetime achievement honoree.
Barbara Kirkmeyer
Barbara Kirkmeyer is an American politician, a Republican member of the Colorado Senate from the 23rd district elected in 2020, who lost the 2026 Republican primary for governor.
Barbara Knox
Barbara Knox, also known as Barbara Mullaney, is an English actress best known for playing Rita Tanner on ITV's Coronation Street, a role she has held continuously since 1972.
Barbara Krause
Barbara Krause (Barbara Krause-Wanja), born 1959 in Berlin, East German freestyle swimmer; triple gold medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympics (100 m, 200 m, 4×100 m relay), former 100 m freestyle world record holder (54.79), Hall of Fame 1988, later revealed as a victim of GDR state doping.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (born 1945, Newark, New Jersey) is an American conceptual artist of the Pictures Generation, formerly a Condé Nast graphic designer, known for black-and-white photos with white-on-red slogans like "I shop therefore I am" and "Your body is a battleground."
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (Barbara Lass), Polish film actress (1940–1995), debut star of Ewa chce spać, first wife of Roman Polański, later wife of Karlheinz Böhm, Radio Free Europe collaborator in Munich.
Barbara L. Hempstead
Barbara L. Hempstead is an American physician-scientist and neuroscientist at Weill Cornell Medicine, known for showing that proneurotrophins promote cell death rather than inactive precursors.
Barbara Lagoa
Barbara Lagoa (born 1967, Miami) is a Cuban-American federal judge on the Eleventh Circuit, formerly a Florida Supreme Court justice appointed by DeSantis in 2019 and a 2020 Trump Supreme Court shortlist contender.
Barbara Landau
Barbara Landau is an American cognitive scientist and Johns Hopkins professor known for research on language learning and spatial cognition in blind children and children with Williams syndrome.
Barbara Lechner Engleder
Barbara Lechner Engleder (Barbara Engleder, nee Lechner), German sport shooter born 1982 in Eggenfelden; four-time Olympian who won gold in the women's 50m rifle three positions at Rio 2016 and the 2010 Munich world title.
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee is an American politician serving as mayor of Oakland, California, elected in 2025 after 27 years in Congress, where she alone voted against the 2001 military force authorization.
Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov, born Barbara Jane Huberman in 1939, is an American computer scientist at MIT who won the 2009 Turing Award for contributions to programming language and system design.
Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden, American actress and filmmaker, wife of Elia Kazan, wrote, directed, and starred in Wanda (1970), her only feature, which won the Venice Critics' Prize, was later reclaimed as a feminist landmark, and ranked in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.