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Barry Larkin
Barry Louis Larkin, Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame shortstop (1986-2004), 1995 NL MVP, first shortstop with a 30-homer/30-steal season, 1990 World Series champion, elected to Cooperstown in 2012.
Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer from Baltimore, Maryland, who won the Academy Award for Best Director for Rain Man (1988) and made the Baltimore films Diner and Avalon.
Barry Livingston
Barry Livingston (born 1953) is an American actor, full name Barry Gordon Livingston, best known as Ernie Douglas on My Three Sons (1963–72); later character actor in Zodiac, Argo, Jersey Boys, and author of The Importance of Being Ernie.
Barry Lopez
Barry Lopez (1945–2020) was an American essayist and short story writer whose works include Of Wolves and Men and Arctic Dreams, which won the National Book Award.
Barry Loudermilk
Barry Loudermilk, born in 1963, is an American Republican politician and Air Force veteran representing Georgia's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015, after serving in the Georgia legislature.
Barry Lyndon
Barry Lyndon is Stanley Kubrick's 1975 historical drama adapted from Thackeray's 1844 novel, starring Ryan O'Neal as an Irish social climber, famous for candlelit cinematography with NASA Zeiss f/0.7 lenses and four Academy Awards.
Barry M. Brenner
Barry M. Brenner was an American nephrologist who directed the Renal Division at Brigham and Women's Hospital and proposed the glomerular hyperfiltration hypothesis of diabetic kidney disease.
Barry M. Forman
Barry M. Forman is a molecular biologist who works on nuclear hormone receptors, known for identifying the farnesoid X receptor and showing that bile acids are its natural ligands.
Barry M. Gumbiner
Barry M. Gumbiner is a cell biologist known for defining the molecular basis of cell adhesion, the cadherin–catenin complex, and epithelial morphogenesis, and for work on endothelial junctions.
Barry M. Massie
Barry M. Massie was an American cardiologist and heart-failure researcher, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSF, who led the I-PRESERVE and PROTECT trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Barry M. McCoy
Barry M. McCoy is an American theoretical physicist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for exactly solvable statistical mechanics models and the 1999 Heineman Prize.
Barry M. Popkin
Barry M. Popkin is a nutrition epidemiologist and W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at UNC, known for the Nutrition Transition concept and the double burden of malnutrition.
Barry M. Trost
Barry M. Trost, born 1941, is an American organic chemist and Stanford professor known for the Tsuji–Trost palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation reaction and the concept of atom economy.
Barry Magee
Barry Magee, full name Arthur Barrington Magee, is a New Zealand distance runner and coach who won the marathon bronze at the 1960 Rome Olympics behind Abebe Bikila.
Barry Maister
Barry Maister (born 1948), New Zealand field hockey centre forward, NZ Olympian #235; won gold with the 1976 Montreal Black Sticks, played three Olympics with brother Selwyn, later NZOC secretary-general and IOC member 2010-2018.
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus, born 1943, Brooklyn), American adult-contemporary singer-songwriter; 13 AC No. 1 hits including "Mandy" and "Copacabana," 29 platinum albums, Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner, Las Vegas resident headliner.
Barry Mann
Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 1939), American Brill Building songwriter; with wife Cynthia Weil wrote "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", "On Broadway", "Somewhere Out There"; Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.
Barry Mannakee
Barry Mannakee (Barry Albert Mannakee) was a Metropolitan Police personal protection officer and bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, transferred to the Diplomatic Protection Group; he died in a 1987 motorcycle crash ruled accidental, though Diana claimed he was killed.
Barry Marshall
Barry Marshall (born 1951, Kalgoorlie) is an Australian physician who with Robin Warren discovered Helicobacter pylori as the cause of peptic ulcers, proved it by drinking the bacterium in 1984, and shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Barry Mazur
Barry Mazur is an American mathematician at Harvard University who works in number theory and arithmetic geometry, best known for the torsion theorem on elliptic curves and the 1977 paper "Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal."
Barry McCaffrey
Barry Richard McCaffrey, retired four-star U.S. Army general, commanded the 24th Infantry Division's left hook in Desert Storm, led U.S. Southern Command, and was Bill Clinton's drug czar (ONDCP director, 1996-2001), later an NBC News military analyst and consultant.
Barry McGuigan
Barry McGuigan (Finbar Patrick McGuigan, 'The Clones Cyclone'), Irish boxer born 1961 in Clones, Monaghan; WBA featherweight champion 1985–86 after beating Eusebio Pedroza at Loftus Road; retired 1989 at 32–3, 28 KOs; BBC Sports Personality 1985, IBHOF 2005.
Barry McGuire
Barry McGuire (born 1935, Oklahoma City) is an American singer-songwriter, former New Christy Minstrels lead singer, whose 1965 protest hit "Eve of Destruction" topped the Billboard Hot 100; he later became a pioneering contemporary Christian music artist.
Barry Melrose
Barry Melrose (1956-2026), Canadian defenseman, NHL head coach, and Emmy-winning ESPN hockey analyst; led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final and coached the Tampa Bay Lightning briefly in 2008.
Barry Miller (actor)
Barry Miller (Barry Lee Miller, born 1958, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Bobby C. in Saturday Night Fever, Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married, and his 1985 Tony-winning Biloxi Blues role.
Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood)
Barry Byron Mills, known as "The Baron," led the federal faction of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood for decades before being convicted of murder and racketeering in 2006.
Barry Minkow
Barry Minkow is an American fraudster who founded ZZZZ Best in the 1980s. He later became a pastor and was convicted again for securities fraud and church embezzlement.
Barry Moore (Alabama politician)
Barry Moore, born in 1966, is an American Republican politician representing Alabama's 1st district in the U.S. House since 2025 and the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2026.
Barry Morse
Barry Morse (1918-2008), British-Canadian actor of over 3,000 roles, known as Lt. Philip Gerard in The Fugitive and Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999, Shaw Festival director.
Barry Nelson
Barry Nelson (1917-2007), born Haakon Robert Nielsen, was an American stage, film, and TV actor, the first to play James Bond, as American "Jimmy" Bond in CBS's live 1954 Climax! Casino Royale; later Tony-nominated for The Act and Stuart Ullman in The Shining.