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Barry Fitzgerald
Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields, 1888–1961), Irish Abbey Theatre character actor and Hollywood star; first Irish Oscar winner, uniquely nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way (1944), later Michaeleen Óg in The Quiet Man.
Barry Flatman
Barry Flatman, born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, is a Canadian character actor known for Earth: Final Conflict, Saw III, Fargo, voicing X-Men's Vindicator, and 57 episodes as Don Shade on Private Eyes.
Barry Foster (actor)
Barry Foster (John Barry Foster) was an English actor, star of ITV's Van der Valk and Bob Rusk in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972); died 11 February 2002 aged 70 in Guildford while appearing in Art.
Barry G. Silverman
Barry G. Silverman (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
Barry G.W. Arnason
Barry G.W. Arnason, also known as Barry G. Arnason (1933–2023), was a Canadian-born neurologist and neuro-immunologist who founded the University of Chicago's neurology department and developed Betaseron for multiple sclerosis.
Barry Ganetzky
Barry Ganetzky is an American geneticist and neuroscientist who used fruit flies to work out how nerve cells generate electrical impulses, identifying ion channel genes including a human potassium channel gene named HERG.
Barry Gardiner
Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent West (formerly Brent North, 1997–2024), former DEFRA biodiversity minister, Special Envoy for Forestry, and Shadow International Trade Secretary 2016–2020.
Barry George
Barry George, alias Barry Bulsara, wrongly convicted in 2001 of murdering BBC presenter Jill Dando; conviction quashed in 2007 over firearms residue evidence, acquitted at 2008 retrial, denied compensation in 2013.
Barry Gibb
Barry Gibb (Barry Alan Crompton Gibb, born 1946, Isle of Man) is the Bee Gees' founding singer-songwriter and last surviving brother, known for his falsetto, the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, 16 US No. 1 songwriting credits, a 2018 knighthood, and the 2021 Greenfields album.
Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater (1909-1998), Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee, father of the modern conservative movement, author of The Conscience of a Conservative, Air Force Reserve major general, Medal of Freedom recipient.
Barry Gordon
Barry Gordon (born 1948, Brookline, Massachusetts) is an American actor, singer, attorney, and Screen Actors Guild president 1988–1995, known for "Nuttin' for Christmas," a Tony-nominated A Thousand Clowns, and voicing Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Barry Greenberg
Barry Greenberg is an American cardiologist and clinical trialist who directs the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program at UC San Diego and led cardiac gene therapy trials.
Barry Hall
Barry Hall, AFL power forward (born 1977), played 289 games and 746 goals for St Kilda, Sydney Swans, and Western Bulldogs; captained Sydney's 2005 premiership and entered the AFL Hall of Fame in 2017.
Barry Halliwell
Barry Halliwell is a biochemist at the National University of Singapore known for the Foyer–Halliwell–Asada pathway, the textbook Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine, and the antioxidant paradox.
Barry Hankerson
Barry Hankerson (born 1947) is an American record executive, founder of Blackground Records, and uncle and manager of Aaliyah, whose catalog he controls; known for the 2021 streaming return and ongoing royalty litigation with his son Jomo.
Barry Hawkins
Barry Hawkins (born 1979), nicknamed The Hawk, is an English professional snooker player with five ranking titles, a career-high ranking of number 4, and the 2013 World Championship final loss to Ronnie O'Sullivan.
Barry Hearn
Barry Hearn OBE is an English sports promoter and founder of Matchroom Sport (1982), who as PDC and World Snooker chairman commercialized darts and snooker, chaired Leyton Orient, and received an OBE for services to sport.
Barry Honig
Barry Honig is an American biophysicist at Columbia University, a Columbia professor since 1981, known for the DelPhi electrostatics software and for cadherin-based cell recognition research.
Barry Humphries
Barry Humphries (John Barry Humphries, 1934–2023) was an Australian comedian and satirist, creator and performer of Dame Edna Everage, Sir Les Patterson, and Sandy Stone, honored with AO, CBE, and AC and farewelled at a 2023 Sydney Opera House state memorial.
Barry J. Everitt
Barry J. Everitt is a British behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Cambridge known for the account of drug addiction as a progression from goal-directed action to habit to compulsion.
Barry J. Maron
Barry J. Maron is an American cardiologist who led hypertrophic cardiomyopathy research at the Minneapolis Heart Institute and now practices at Lahey Hospital in Massachusetts.
Barry J. Sanders
Barry J. Sanders (Barry James Sanders), son of NFL great Barry Sanders, is a former running back who played at Stanford 2013-2015 and Oklahoma State in 2016 as a graduate transfer, then joined EA Sports on Madden instead of pursuing the NFL.
Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins, American filmmaker from Miami and Florida State University graduate, director of Medicine for Melancholy, Oscar-winning Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, The Underground Railroad, and Mufasa: The Lion King.
Barry John (theatre director)
Barry John, born 1946, is a British-born Indian theater director and teacher who founded Delhi's Theatre Action Group in 1973 and trained actors including Shah Rukh Khan.
Barry Keoghan
Barry Keoghan (born 1992, Summerhill, Dublin) is an Irish actor known for The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Dunkirk, The Banshees of Inisherin (BAFTA win, Oscar nomination), and Saltburn; cast as Ringo Starr in Sam Mendes's Beatles films.
Barry L. Fanburg
Barry L. Fanburg (1932–2024) was an American physician-scientist in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Tufts Medical Center, known for research on oxygen toxicity and pulmonary hypertension.
Barry L. Karger
Barry L. Karger is an American analytical chemist known for chromatography and capillary electrophoresis who founded the Barnett Institute at Northeastern University in 1973 and led it for more than 40 years.
Barry L. Shoop
Barry L. Shoop is an American electrical engineer and retired Army brigadier general who is Dean of Engineering at Cooper Union and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2019.
Barry L. Zaret
Barry L. Zaret was an American cardiologist at Yale School of Medicine credited with founding nuclear cardiology, the noninvasive imaging of the heart with radioactive tracers.
Barry Lam
Barry Lam (林百里, born 1949 in Shanghai) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Quanta Computer in 1988, the world's largest notebook contract manufacturer, and earlier built Kinpo Electronics.