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Barbara Reskin
Barbara Reskin is an American sociologist of gender and workplace inequality at the University of Washington, and was the 93rd president of the American Sociological Association.
Barbara Rhoades
Barbara Rhoades (born 1946 or 1947, Poughkeepsie, New York), also credited as Barbara Rhodes, is an American actress known for Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings in The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968), Donna in The Goodbye Girl, and Soap's Maggie Chandler.
Barbara Roberts
Barbara Roberts, born Barbara Kay Hughey, is an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, becoming the first woman elected to the office.
Barbara Romanowicz
Barbara Romanowicz is a French geophysicist and seismologist known for global seismic tomography, imaging Earth's deep interior from seismic waves. She was Professor of Geophysics at UC Berkeley from 1991 to 2016.
Barbara Ruick
Barbara Ruick (Barbara Joan Ruick, 1932-1974), American actress and singer, MGM contract player, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel (1956), stepsister Esmerelda in Cinderella (1965), wife of composer John Williams, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Reno.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush (1927–2024), American film, TV, and stage actress; Golden Globe-winning star of It Came from Outer Space, Magnificent Obsession, The Young Philadelphians, and Peyton Place.
Barbara Ruskin
Barbara Ruskin is a molecular biologist and patent attorney who, as a Harvard doctoral student in the 1980s, helped establish the biochemistry of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing, including discovery of U2AF.
Barbara Rutherford Hatch House
Barbara Rutherford Hatch House, also called Cyril and Barbara Rutherford Hatch Residence, is a 1917-19 Frederick J. Sterner townhouse at 153 East 63rd Street, Manhattan; a NYC landmark since 1977, once home to Dillingham, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jasper Johns, and Spike Lee.
Barbara S. Hulka
Barbara S. Hulka is an American cancer and reproductive epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for molecular epidemiology and hormone replacement therapy research.
Barbara S. Schuwirth
Barbara S. Schuwirth is a German structural biologist who, as first author, published the first near-atomic-resolution crystal structure of the intact bacterial 70S ribosome in 2005.
Barbara Sahakian
Barbara Sahakian, born in 1952, is a British clinical neuropsychologist and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at Cambridge, known for co-inventing the CANTAB cognitive tests, research on cognitive enhancement, and early detection of Alzheimer's disease.
Barbara Sansoni
Barbara Sansoni (1928-2022), Sri Lankan artist, colourist, and founder of the Barefoot handloom company; also known for Vihares & Verandas and Architecture of an Island, her drawings of vernacular Sri Lankan buildings, and awards including the Kala Suri.
Barbara Scheitz
Barbara Scheitz (born 1965) is a German dairy entrepreneur who has led the family-owned organic dairy Andechser Molkerei Scheitz in Andechs, Bavaria, since 2003, winning EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018.
Barbara Schmidt
Barbara Schmidt is a neonatologist and clinical epidemiologist who led the TIPP, CAP, and Canadian Oxygen trials, which changed care in neonatal intensive care units across North America.
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley (Barbara Teresa Kowin, 1932-2021), British actress known as the "Queen of Hammer" for 1960s horror films including Dracula: Prince of Darkness, The Gorgon, and Quatermass and the Pit, plus Village of the Damned and Doctor Who.
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Barbara Sherwood Lollar is a Canadian isotope geochemist at the University of Toronto known for discovering billion-year-old groundwater in Ontario mines and informing the search for life on Mars.
Barbara Siggers Franklin
Barbara Siggers Franklin was an American gospel singer and pianist, the second wife of C. L. Franklin, and mother of Aretha Franklin. She died in Buffalo, New York, in 1952.
Barbara Simons
Barbara Simons (Barbara Bluestein Simons), born 1941, is an American computer scientist and former ACM president known for research in scheduling theory and voting security advocacy.
Barbara Sinatra
Barbara Sinatra (Barbara Blakeley, later Barbara Marx), American model and Las Vegas showgirl; fourth and final wife of Frank Sinatra from 1976 until his 1998 death; co-founder of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center for abused children in Rancho Mirage.
Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith is an American biomedical engineer and associate professor at Arizona State University who works on optical brain imaging and biomarker discovery, and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Barbara Sollner-Webb
Barbara Sollner-Webb is a molecular biologist and professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for work on ribosomal RNA gene expression and RNA editing.
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens, 1907–1990), American actress of stage, film, and TV; four-time Oscar nominee, honorary Oscar 1982, three Emmys; star of Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve, and TV's The Big Valley.
Bárbara Starfield
Barbara Starfield (1932–2011) was an American pediatrician and health services researcher at Johns Hopkins who spent over 50 years building the evidence base showing that primary care improves health outcomes.
Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele, British actress born in Birkenhead, star of Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) and the iconic face of Italian gothic horror; also appeared in Fellini's 8½, Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, and Cronenberg's Shivers.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham (Barbara Lynn Schilling, 1944-2013), American model and actress, cover model in London, played Daphne in Rollerball (1975), married John Cleese, mother of Camilla Cleese, died in Chicago of leukemia.
Barbara Treutlein
Barbara Treutlein is a quantitative developmental biologist and professor at ETH Zürich since 2019, known for single-cell genomics of human brain and blood vessel organoids.
Barbara Turner (screenwriter)
Barbara Turner (Gloria Rose Turner), American screenwriter and actress (1936–2016), mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh; wrote Petulia, Georgia, Pollock, The Company, Hemingway & Gellhorn; Emmy and WGA nominee.
Barbara Underwood
Barbara D. Underwood, New York Solicitor General since 2007 and the state's 66th and first female Attorney General (2018), formerly Principal Deputy and Acting U.S. Solicitor General; argued roughly 21 Supreme Court cases including Bruen and Commerce v. New York.
Barbara Valent
Barbara Valent is an American plant pathologist at Kansas State University whose research established the rice blast fungus as a model pathogen; she joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Barbara Vickrey
Barbara Grace Vickrey is an American neurologist and health services researcher, chair of neurology at Mount Sinai since 2015, known for the QOLIE-89 epilepsy quality-of-life measure.