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Barbara Chase-Riboud
Barbara Chase-Riboud (born 1939) is an American and French sculptor and novelist in Paris, known for bronze sculptures draped in silk and the novel Sally Hemings.
Barbara Colby
Barbara Colby (1939-1975), American stage, film, and TV actress; Broadway's The Devils, A Doll's House; Columbo's Lilly La Sanka; murdered in Venice, California. Not Barbara Heinzen Colby, CIA director's wife.
Barbara Cook
Barbara Cook (1927–2017), American Broadway soprano and cabaret singer; original Marian in The Music Man (Tony), Cunegonde in Candide, Amalia in She Loves Me; reinvented as a concert interpreter of Sondheim and the American songbook.
Barbara Crampton
Barbara Crampton (born 1962) is an American actress and producer, a horror-genre mainstay since Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986) with Stuart Gordon, also known for soap roles on The Young and the Restless and Guiding Light and her 2010s–2020s revival in You're Next and Jakob's Wife.
Barbara Dare
Barbara Dare, stage name of Stacy Mitnick (born 1963), American retired pornographic actress of the 1980s video era; first Essex Video and Vivid contract star, 1987 AVN Best New Starlet, AVN and XRCO Hall of Fame inductee.
Barbara Dickson
Barbara Dickson, born 1947 in Dunfermline, is a Scottish singer and actress. Known for the UK No. 1 duet "I Know Him So Well" with Elaine Paige, originating Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers, two Olivier Awards, and an OBE.
Barbara Dunkelman
Barbara Julie Dunkelman (born 1989, Montreal) is a Canadian voice actress and podcaster, the voice of Yang Xiao Long in RWBY, Rooster Teeth's first community manager and later creative director, host of Always Open, and co-founder of the independent Stinky Dragon podcast company.
Barbara Eden
Barbara Eden (born Barbara Jean Morehead, 1931, Tucson) is an American actress and singer best known as Jeannie in NBC's I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970), later Harper Valley P.T.A., Dallas, and Jeannie reunion films.
Barbara Feldon
Barbara Feldon (Barbara Anne Hall, born 1933), American actress and former model, best known as Agent 99 on the spy sitcom Get Smart (1965-70) opposite Don Adams; two Emmy nominations, $64,000 Question winner, author of Getting Smarter.
Barbara Fialho
Barbara Fialho (born 1987), Brazilian model and singer from Montes Claros, Minas Gerais; Victoria's Secret Angel for seven years from the 2012 show, walked for Dior and Louis Vuitton, and records Brazilian and Latin-jazz music including "Samba e Amor" with Seu Jorge.
Barbara Flynn
Barbara Flynn (Barbara Jay McMurray), English actress born 1948 in Hastings, known for A Family at War, the Beiderbecke trilogy, Cracker, Cranford, Kate & Koji, and Beyond Paradise.
Barbara Forever
Barbara Forever (2026) is Brydie O'Connor's debut documentary about lesbian experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer (1939-2019), built from her five-decade archive. It won the Sundance Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award and the Berlinale Teddy Award for Best Documentary.
Barbara Gaskin
Barbara Gaskin (born 1950, Hatfield, England) is an English singer, ex-Spirogyra vocalist and Northette backing singer for Hatfield and the North, later of the duo Stewart/Gaskin, whose 1981 single "It's My Party" hit UK number 1.
Barbara Goodson
Barbara Goodson (Barbara Dale Goodson) is an American voice actress, born 1949 in Brooklyn, best known as the English voice of Rita Repulsa in Power Rangers, Laharl in Disgaea, Mother Talzin in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, and Turbo Granny in Dandadan.
Barbara Gordon
Barbara Gordon, also Batgirl and Oracle, is a DC Comics character created by Gardner Fox and Carmine Infantino, debuting in Detective Comics #359 (1967), paralyzed by the Joker in The Killing Joke (1988), and reinvented as the information broker Oracle.
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (1922–2017), American actress, Emmy winner 1959, played Della Street on CBS's Perry Mason (1957–1966) with Raymond Burr and in 29 TV movies (1985–1995); film career began at RKO in 1943; wife of actor Bill Williams, mother of William Katt.
Barbara Hambly
Barbara Hambly (born 1951, San Diego) is an American novelist of fantasy, science fiction, and historical mystery, known for the Darwath Trilogy, the Windrose Chronicles, the Benjamin January mysteries, and Star Trek and Star Wars tie-in novels.
Barbara Harris (actress)
Barbara Densmoor Harris (1935-2018), American actress and improv pioneer; co-founder of The Second City, 1967 Tony winner for The Apple Tree, Oscar-nominated for Who Is Harry Kellerman, star of Freaky Friday and Hitchcock's Family Plot.
Barbara Hepworth
Dame Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975), Wakefield-born British abstract sculptor of the St Ives school; known for pierced forms, stringed carvings like Pelagos, Single Form at the UN, and the Trewyn Studio museum.
Barbara Hershey
Barbara Hershey (born Barbara Lynn Herzstein, 1948) is an American actress of Hannah and Her Sisters, Black Swan, and The Portrait of a Lady. She won Cannes Best Actress two years running (Shy People 1987, A World Apart 1988), an Emmy, and an Oscar nomination, and briefly used the stage name Barbara Seagull.
Barbara Jakobson
Barbara Joan Jakobson, née Petchesky (1933–2025), was an American art collector and Museum of Modern Art trustee for fifty-one years, known for helping acquire Rauschenberg's Bed.
Barbara Karinska
Barbara Karinska (Varvara Zhmoudsky, 1886-1983), Ukrainian-born costume designer, longtime Balanchine collaborator at New York City Ballet, inventor of the powder-puff tutu, Oscar winner for Joan of Arc.
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver (born 1955) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet of socially engaged fiction. Author of The Bean Trees, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, and the Pulitzer-winning Demon Copperhead; only two-time Women's Prize winner and 2024 National Book Award lifetime achievement honoree.
Barbara Knox
Barbara Knox, also known as Barbara Mullaney, is an English actress best known for playing Rita Tanner on ITV's Coronation Street, a role she has held continuously since 1972.
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger (born 1945, Newark, New Jersey) is an American conceptual artist of the Pictures Generation, formerly a Condé Nast graphic designer, known for black-and-white photos with white-on-red slogans like "I shop therefore I am" and "Your body is a battleground."
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass
Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass (Barbara Lass), Polish film actress (1940–1995), debut star of Ewa chce spać, first wife of Roman Polański, later wife of Karlheinz Böhm, Radio Free Europe collaborator in Munich.
Barbara Loden
Barbara Loden, American actress and filmmaker, wife of Elia Kazan, wrote, directed, and starred in Wanda (1970), her only feature, which won the Venice Critics' Prize, was later reclaimed as a feminist landmark, and ranked in the 2022 Sight and Sound poll.
BarBara Luna
BarBara Luna is an American actress whose career spans Broadway, films, and television, best remembered as Marlena Moreau in the 1967 Star Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror".
Barbara Mandrell
Barbara Mandrell (born 1948, Houston, Texas) is an American country singer and multi-instrumentalist, first artist to win CMA Entertainer of the Year in consecutive years (1980, 1981), NBC variety star, Country Music Hall of Fame inductee (2009).
Barbara McNair
Barbara McNair, born Barbara Jean McNair, was an American singer and actress, a nightclub headliner, Motown artist, and Broadway performer who hosted her own TV variety show from 1969 to 1971.