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Barbara C. Hansen

Barbara C. Hansen is an American physiologist and metabolic-disease researcher at the University of South Florida, known for her rhesus monkey studies of type 2 diabetes and calorie restraint.

Barbara Carrera

Barbara Carrera (born Barbara Kingsbury) is a Nicaraguan-born former model, actress, and painter, famous as Fatima Blush in Never Say Never Again (1983) and Angelica Nero on Dallas; birth year disputed (1945 vs 1952).

Barbara Cartland

Barbara Cartland (1901-2000), English romance novelist billed as the Queen of Romance, wrote 723 books dictated at about 7,000 words a day, selling 750 million to over a billion copies in 36 languages.

Barbara Casadei

Barbara Casadei is an Italian-born British cardiologist who studies atrial fibrillation and heart failure and heads the National Heart and Lung Institute at Imperial College London.

Barbara Castle

Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn (1910-2002), British Labour politician, MP for Blackburn 1945-1979 and Cabinet minister under Harold Wilson; introduced the Equal Pay Act 1970, breathalyser, seat belts, and child benefit, and authored the divisive 1969 White Paper In Place of Strife.

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 Clark

Barbara Lynne Clark (Parolin), Canadian swimmer born 1958 in Coronation, Alberta; won bronze in the 4x100 m freestyle relay at Montreal 1976 and set Commonwealth sprint records.

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 Comstock

Barbara Comstock, Republican attorney and politician from Virginia, served in the Virginia House of Delegates (2010-2014) and the US House for the 10th District (2015-2019); a former Clinton-era investigator and Justice Department spokesperson, she lost her 2018 reelection to Jennifer Wexton and endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024.

Barbara Conradt

Barbara Conradt is a cell and developmental biologist at University College London known for discovering EGL-1, a key activator of programmed cell death in the nematode C. elegans.

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 Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran is an American real estate entrepreneur who founded the Corcoran Group brokerage in New York in 1973 with a $1,000 loan and later joined Shark Tank.

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 Daly Baekeland

Barbara Daly Baekeland, American socialite and model who married Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland; murdered November 17, 1972 in her London penthouse by her son Antony, later dramatized in Savage Grace.

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 de Lateur

Barbara Jane de Lateur is an American physiatrist who led physical medicine and rehabilitation at Johns Hopkins and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1996.

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 Dosher

Barbara Dosher is an experimental psychologist and UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences who studies memory, attention, and perceptual learning; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

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 E. Bierer

Barbara E. Bierer is a hematologist and oncologist, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Faculty Director of the MRCT Center.

Barbara E. Ehrlich

Barbara E. Ehrlich is an American physiologist and biophysicist, professor of pharmacology at Yale School of Medicine since 1997, known for single-channel studies of intracellular calcium channels.

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 Ehrenreich

Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022), American journalist and activist, author of Nickel and Dimed (2001), an undercover minimum-wage bestseller; also For Her Own Good, Bright-Sided, Natural Causes; DSA co-chair; founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.

Barbara Eichhorst

Barbara Eichhorst is a German hematologist and oncologist at the University Hospital of Cologne, deputy head of the German CLL Study Group, known for the CLL13 and RT1 trials.

Barbara Ensoli

Barbara Ensoli is an Italian virologist and physician, Director of the National HIV/AIDS Research Center at the Istituto Superiore di Sanità in Rome, known for developing an HIV-1 Tat-based vaccine.

Barbara Estelle Rusinko

Barbara Estelle Rusinko is an American mechanical engineer who rose to president of Bechtel's nuclear business and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Barbara F. Walter

Barbara F. Walter is an American political scientist, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at UC San Diego, known for her research on civil wars and violent extremism.

Barbara Favola

Barbara Favola is an American Democratic politician who has represented Virginia's 40th Senate district, covering most of Arlington County, since 2011, after fourteen years on the Arlington County Board.

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 Ferrell

Barbara Ferrell (Barbara Ann Ferrell-Edmonson), American sprinter born 1947 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; 1968 Olympic 4x100 m relay gold and 100 m silver, 1972 Olympian, equaled the 11.1 s 100 m world record in 1967.