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Barbara A. Block
Barbara A. Block is a marine biologist and fish physiologist, professor at Stanford's Hopkins Marine Station since 1994, known for discovering how fishes generate heat and for electronic tagging of tunas and sharks.
Barbara A. Gilchrest
Barbara A. Gilchrest is an American dermatologist and physician-scientist known for photomedicine, melanoma biology, and skin aging; she chaired dermatology at Boston University from 1985 to 2008.
Barbara A. Schaal
Barbara A. Schaal is an American plant evolutionary geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis who studies gene flow and crop domestication, including identifying the wild progenitor of cassava.
Barbara Abrams
Barbara Abrams is an American epidemiologist and registered dietitian, a UC Berkeley professor who served on the 1990 and 2009 US pregnancy weight gain guidelines.
Barbara Alyn Woods
Barbara Alyn Woods (born 1962, Chicago) is an American actress known as Diane Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show and Deb Scott on One Tree Hill, later in Chucky, and mother of actresses the Lind sisters.
Barbara Amiel
Barbara Amiel, Lady Black of Crossharbour (born 1940, Watford), British-Canadian columnist, first female editor of the Toronto Sun, Sunday Times and Daily Telegraph columnist, and wife of Conrad Black since 1992; author of Friends and Enemies (2020).
Barbara Anderson (actress)
Barbara Jeanne Anderson (born 1945), American retired actress; former Miss Memphis; played Officer Eve Whitfield on Ironside (1967–1971), winning a 1968 Emmy; also Star Trek's Lenore Karidian and Mission: Impossible's Mimi Davis; distinct from the ex-Jehovah's Witness activist of the same name.
Barbara Ann Crancer
Barbara Ann Crancer (born 1938), daughter of Jimmy Hoffa and sister of James P. Hoffa, was a St. Louis County associate circuit judge 1992-2008 who sued the Justice Department for the FBI's Hoffa file.
Barbara Ann Gilchrest
Barbara Ann Gilchrest is an American dermatologist known for research on how ultraviolet radiation damages and pigments skin, and longtime Chair of Dermatology at Boston University.
Barbara Ann Halkier
Barbara Ann Halkier is a plant biochemist and professor at the University of Copenhagen known for identifying the transporters that move glucosinolates, defense compounds of brassica plants, into seeds.
Barbara Ann Scott
Barbara Ann Scott (1928–2012), known as "Canada's Sweetheart," was a Canadian figure skater who won women's singles gold at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, a two-time World champion.
Barbara B. Crabb
Barbara B. Crabb, full name Barbara Brandriff Crabb, is an American jurist and senior United States district judge for the Western District of Wisconsin since 1979.
Barbara B. Kahn
Barbara B. Kahn is an American endocrinologist and physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center who studies fat tissue and insulin resistance.
Barbara B. Knowles
Barbara B. Knowles is an American geneticist and stem cell biologist who created the HepG2 liver cell line and the SSEA antibodies for identifying pluripotent stem cells.
Barbara Babcock
Barbara Babcock (born 1937) is an American retired character actress who won the 1981 Emmy for playing Grace Gardner on Hill Street Blues, and later Dorothy Jennings on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.
Barbara Bach
Barbara Bach (Barbara Ann Goldbach), American actress and model, Bond girl Anya Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Force 10 from Navarone; married Ringo Starr in 1981; retired from acting in 1986.
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain, American actress (born Mildred Fogel), Emmy-winning Cinnamon Carter on Mission: Impossible (1966-69, three consecutive Emmys) and Dr. Helena Russell on Space: 1999; also stage actress and Book PALS literacy founder.
Barbara Baker
Barbara Baker is an American plant biologist who cloned the tobacco N gene, the first plant virus resistance gene isolated, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021.
Barbara Barrie
Barbara Barrie (Barbara Ann Berman, born 1931) is an American actress and author, Cannes Best Actress winner for One Potato, Two Potato (1964), Oscar-nominated for Breaking Away, and the original Sarah in Company.
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes (1922–2005), American stage, film, and TV actress; Miss Ellie on Dallas (1978–1990, Emmy 1980), Oscar-nominated for I Remember Mama, originated Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
Barbara Berlusconi
Barbara Berlusconi, born 1984, is an Italian businesswoman and daughter of Silvio Berlusconi, a Fininvest director since 2003 and former AC Milan deputy chairman and CEO.
Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley (Barbara Lillian Combes, 1915-2010), American actress, June Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver (1957-1963), Airplane! jive cameo (1980), Nanny voice on Muppet Babies; distinct from any namesake.
Barbara Block
Barbara Block is a Stanford University marine biologist who showed that bluefin tuna are warm-bodied and led large electronic tagging programs mapping their ocean migrations.
Barbara Bouchet
Barbara Bouchet, born 1943 in Reichenberg, is a German-born Italian actress, Hollywood starlet of the 1960s, icon of 1970s commedia sexy, and 2026 Nastro d'Argento winner for Finale: Allegro.
Barbara Boxer
Barbara Boxer, born Barbara Levy (1940), Democratic U.S. senator from California 1993-2017, House 1983-1993; first woman to chair Senate Environment and Public Works and Ethics committees; retired 2016, succeeded by Kamala Harris.
Barbara Broccoli
Barbara Broccoli (Barbara Dana Broccoli, born 1960) is an American film and theatre producer who, with half-brother Michael G. Wilson, produced the James Bond films from GoldenEye (1995) to No Time to Die (2021), won the 2024 Thalberg Award, and ceded creative control of Bond to Amazon MGM in 2025.
Barbara Burke
Barbara Burke (Barbara Hannah Anita Burke, 1917-1998), British and South African sprinter-hurdler; 1936 Olympic 4x100m relay silver for Great Britain, 1938 Empire Games 80m hurdles gold for South Africa, and an 11.6 world record.
Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bush (1925–2018), US first lady 1989–1993, wife of President George H. W. Bush and mother of President George W. Bush, second woman after Abigail Adams in both roles, and founder of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.
Barbara Bush (born 1981)
Barbara Pierce Bush (born 1981), daughter of George W. Bush, is an American social entrepreneur who co-founded Global Health Corps in 2009 and served as its CEO for nine years; author of Sisters First with her twin sister.
Barbara C. Furie
Barbara C. Furie is a hematology researcher and Professor of Medicine, Emerita, at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, known for work on blood coagulation and thrombosis.