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Barry Newman
Barry Foster Newman (1930–2023), American actor known for Kowalski in Vanishing Point (1971) and the NBC legal drama Petrocelli, for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations; died May 11, 2023.
Barry Norman
Barry Norman (1933-2017), British journalist and broadcaster, presenter of BBC's Film 72 to Film 98 for 26 series, later Sky's Film Night; catchphrase 'And why not?' came from Spitting Image, not him.
Barry Odom
Barry Odom, American college football coach; former Missouri linebacker; head coach at Missouri 2016-19 (25-25), UNLV 2023-24 (19-8, 2023 Mountain West Coach of the Year), and Purdue from December 2024; Arkansas defensive coordinator 2020-22.
Barry Orton
Barry Orton (Randal Barry Orton, 1958–2021), ring name Barry O, American wrestler; son of Bob Orton Sr., brother of Bob Orton Jr., uncle of Randy Orton; WWF jobber, 1992 Terry Garvin scandal figure.
Barry P. Rand
Barry P. Rand is an American electrical engineer and professor at Princeton University whose research on organic and perovskite thin films targets solar cells, light emitting devices, and transistors.
Barry P. Rosen
Barry P. Rosen is an American biochemist known for five decades of work on arsenic transport and detoxification, who retired from Florida International University in 2025.
Barry P. Sleckman
Barry P. Sleckman is an American immunologist known for studying how lymphocytes repair the DNA breaks they make to assemble antigen receptor genes, and director of the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB since 2020.
Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper (Barry Robert Pepper), Canadian actor born 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia; known for Private Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Roger Maris in 61, and his Emmy-winning Robert F. Kennedy in The Kennedys.
Barry R. Bloom
Barry R. Bloom (1937–2026) was an American immunologist and infectious-disease researcher known for work on tuberculosis and leprosy, who served as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health until 2008.
Barry R. Weingast
Barry R. Weingast is an American political scientist and economist at Stanford University, known for research on the political foundations of markets, constitutions, and democracy.
Barry Rosenstein
Barry Rosenstein is an American investor who founded JANA Partners in April 2001 with $35 million, a New York event-driven activist fund that buys undervalued companies and engages management to unlock shareholder value.
Barry S. Coller
Barry S. Coller is an American physician-scientist in hematology who established the platelet αIIbβ3 receptor as a drug target, leading to abciximab (ReoPro), approved in 1994.
Barry S. Taylor
Barry S. Taylor is an American computational oncologist and cancer genomicist, formerly a Memorial Sloan Kettering faculty member, now Chief Scientific Officer of Oncology at Eli Lilly.
Barry Sadler
Barry Sadler (1940–1989), Staff Sergeant Barry Allen Sadler, was a US Army Special Forces medic and singer whose patriotic 1966 hit "The Ballad of the Green Berets" topped the Billboard chart for five weeks, and who later wrote the Casca adventure novels before dying after a 1988 shooting in Guatemala.
Barry Sanders
Barry Sanders, Heisman Trophy-winning Oklahoma State running back (1988) and Detroit Lions star (1989-1998), rushed for 15,269 NFL yards, won the 1997 MVP, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004.
Barry Scheck
Barry Scheck is an American lawyer and legal scholar who co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 and served as a DNA expert on the O.J. Simpson defense team.
Barry Schuler
Barry Schuler is an American venture capitalist who co-founded DFJ Growth in 2005 and earlier served as chairman and chief executive officer of America Online.
Barry Schwartz (psychologist)
Barry Schwartz is an American psychologist, long a professor at Swarthmore College, best known for the paradox of choice and his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.
Barry Seal
Barry Seal (Adler Berriman Seal, 1939–1986), American pilot and Medellín cartel drug smuggler turned DEA informant, based at Mena, Arkansas; photographed Sandinista cocaine loading in 1984, assassinated in Baton Rouge 1986.
Barry Shabaka Henley
Barry Shabaka Henley, born Barry Joseph Henley (1954, New Orleans), American character actor; stage name from a 25th-Dynasty pharaoh. Known for Collateral, Miami Vice, The Terminal, Uncle Tunde on Bob Hearts Abishola, and Obie-winning Jitney.
Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer, 500cc world champion 1976 and 1977 on Suzuki, Formula 750 champion 1973, MBE 1978, record 137.15 mph Spa lap, died of cancer 2003 aged 52.
Barry Sherman
Barry Sherman (Bernard Sherman, 1942–2017), Canadian billionaire who founded generic drug maker Apotex in 1974; known for patent litigation, philanthropy, and his unsolved December 2017 murder with wife Honey in Toronto.
Barry Simon
Barry Simon, born 1946 in Brooklyn, is an American mathematical physicist known for Schrödinger operators and spectral theory, a longtime Caltech professor and NAS member whose honors include the 2012 Poincaré Prize.
Barry Sinervo
Barry Sinervo (1960–2021) was a Canadian evolutionary ecologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for the 1996 rock–paper–scissors game of lizard mating strategies and 2010 work on climate-driven lizard extinctions.
Barry Sloane
Barry Sloane (Barry Paul Sloane), Liverpool-born English actor and musician born 1981; known for Hollyoaks' Niall Rafferty, Revenge's Aiden Mathis, SIX's Joe Graves, stage Jerusalem, and voicing Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.
Barry Sonnenfeld
Barry Sonnenfeld (born 1953, New York City) is an American cinematographer-turned-director of Blood Simple, The Addams Family, Get Shorty, and the Men in Black trilogy, and a DGA Award-winning TV director for Pushing Daisies.
Barry Steam Plant
The Barry Steam Plant, formally the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant, is a coal- and gas-fired power plant in Bucks, Alabama, owned by Alabama Power, a Southern Company subsidiary.
Barry Stoddard
Barry L. Stoddard is an American structural biologist and protein engineer at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for determining and redesigning gene-targeting enzymes like homing endonucleases.
Barry Switzer
Barry Switzer, Oklahoma football head coach 1973-88 (157-29-4, .837, three national titles), later Dallas Cowboys coach 1994-97 and Super Bowl XXX winner; nicknamed The King.
Barry T. Moskowitz
Barry T. Moskowitz, also known as Barry Ted Moskowitz, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California since 2019.