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Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil politician)
Barry Andrews, born in Dublin in 1967, is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has sat in the European Parliament since 2020 and chairs its Committee on Development.
Barry Arkles
Barry Arkles is an American organosilicon chemist and entrepreneur who founded Gelest Inc., published over 100 patents, and joined the National Academy of Engineering in 2021.
Barry Bannan
Barry Bannan (Barry Ryan Bannan) is a Scottish central midfielder born in 1989, known for 477 appearances and the captaincy at Sheffield Wednesday and 27 Scotland caps.
Barry Beaty
Barry J. Beaty is an American virologist and University Distinguished Professor at Colorado State University known for research on arboviruses, including dengue and yellow fever.
Barry Boehm
Barry Boehm (1935–2022) was an American software engineer who created the COCOMO cost-estimation model and the spiral model, spending most of his career in aerospace software research.
Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds (Barry Lamar Bonds, born 1964) is MLB's all-time leader in home runs (762) and walks (2,558), a seven-time NL MVP with Pittsburgh and San Francisco, still outside the Hall of Fame.
Barry Bostwick
Barry Bostwick (Barry Knapp Bostwick), American actor and singer born 1945 in San Mateo, California; original Broadway Danny Zuko in Grease (1972), Tony winner for The Robber Bridegroom (1977), Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Golden Globe winner for War and Remembrance, and Mayor Randall Winston on Spin City.
Barry Bradlyn
Barry Jason Bradlyn is a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, known for topological quantum chemistry and a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.
Barry Briggs
Barry Briggs, "Briggo" (born 1934, Christchurch, NZ), New Zealand speedway rider, four-time World Champion (1957, 1958, 1964, 1966), record 18 World Finals, MBE, Swindon and Wimbledon legend; distinct from the Cincinnati civil engineer David Barry Briggs.
Barry Burton
Barry Burton is a Resident Evil character, a veteran S.T.A.R.S. weapons expert debuting in the 1996 game, blackmailed by Wesker, later starring in Resident Evil Gaiden and Revelations 2 (2015).
Barry Buzan
Barry Buzan, British IR scholar, Emeritus Professor at LSE, Fellow of the British Academy. Copenhagen School co-founder of securitization theory, creator of regional security complex theory, and leader of the English School reconvening project.
Barry C. Barish
Barry C. Barish, born in 1936, is an American experimental physicist who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct detection of gravitational waves.
Barry C. Buckland
Barry C. Buckland is an American biochemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 who led bioprocess development for Merck's vaccines, including Gardasil.
Barry C. Johnson
Barry C. Johnson is an American engineer and academic administrator elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, who served as Dean of Engineering at Villanova University from 2002.
Barry Callebaut
Barry Callebaut is a Zurich-based company, the world's largest business-to-business manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa products, making chocolate for brands like KitKat and Magnum; its main global brand is Callebaut.
Barry Can't Swim
Barry Can't Swim is the stage name of Joshua Mainnie, an Edinburgh-born, London-based Scottish house producer. Known for When Will We Land? (2023 Mercury shortlist), Loner (2025), and the 2026 Atlantic single Return To Bhibo.
Barry Commoner
Barry Commoner was an American ecologist and plant physiologist known for tobacco mosaic virus research, the 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle, and a 1980 Citizens Party presidential campaign.
Barry Corbin
Barry Corbin, born Leonard Barrie Corbin in Lamesa, Texas, in 1940, is an American character actor with over 200 roles, best known as Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure.
Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer (1935–2022), English comedy writer and comedian from Leeds, wrote for Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies and Bob Hope, and was a panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue from 1972; OBE in 2001.
Barry D. Bavister
Barry D. Bavister, born in 1943, is a reproductive biologist who identified the buffer conditions Robert Edwards used for the first human in vitro fertilization in 1969.
Barry D. Shur
Barry D. Shur is an American cell biologist known for work on sperm–egg binding and for chairing Cell Biology at Emory University from 1996 to 2010.
Barry Dennen
Barry Dennen (1938-2017), American actor and singer; Emcee in the original West End Cabaret and Pontius Pilate in the album, Broadway, and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar; memoirist of Barbra Streisand; video game voice actor.
Barry Devlin
Barry A. Devlin, Irish IBM engineer who with Paul Murphy defined the first data warehouse architecture and coined business data warehouse in a 1988 IBM Systems Journal paper; later founded 9sight Consulting.
Barry Dickson
Barry J. Dickson, born 1962 in Melbourne, is an Australian neurogeneticist known for mapping the fruitless courtship circuit in fruit flies, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.
Barry Diller
Barry Diller (born 1942) is an American media executive: ABC Movie of the Week creator, Paramount Pictures chairman 1974-1984, founder of Fox Broadcasting Company, and longtime chairman of IAC, now People Incorporated, and Expedia Group.
Barry Dunaway
Barry Dunaway (born 1958) is an American rock bassist, vocalist, and songwriter, bassist for .38 Special since the early 2010s and formerly of Yngwie Malmsteen's band (nine albums, four world tours), Survivor, and the Pat Travers Band.
Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is an American economist and economic historian at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for Golden Fetters, his account of the gold standard and the Great Depression.
Barry Evans (actor)
Barry Evans, also styled Barry Joseph Evans, was an English actor (1943–1997) who starred as Michael Upton in Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large and as Jeremy Brown in Mind Your Language. Not the EastEnders character.
Barry Ferguson
Barry Ferguson (born 1978, Hamilton) is a Scottish former midfielder who captained Rangers and Scotland, won 15 trophies at Rangers, and was Rangers' interim manager February to May 2025.
Barry Finegold
Barry Finegold is an American Democratic politician and lawyer who represents the Second Essex and Middlesex district in the Massachusetts Senate, co-chairs economic development, and focuses on regulating artificial intelligence.