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Bárbara Mori
Bárbara Mori (Bárbara Mori Ochoa), Uruguayan-Mexican actress born 1978 in Montevideo, star of the telenovela Rubí (2004), the film Kites, and Apple TV+'s Las Azules; producer via Lua Producciones and breast cancer survivor.
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz
Barbara Natterson-Horowitz is an American cardiologist and evolutionary biologist, a UCLA professor and Harvard faculty member best known for coining "zoobiquity," and coauthor of the 2012 bestseller Zoobiquity.
Barbara Nichols
Barbara Nichols (Barbara Marie Nickerauer, 1928-1976), American character actress of brassy comic roles; known for Sweet Smell of Success, Pal Joey, The Pajama Game (1957), Broadway's Let It Ride, and TV guest roles; died of liver failure at 47.
Barbara Niven
Barbara Niven (Barbara Lee Bucholz), American actress, writer, and producer born 1953 in Portland, Oregon; Hallmark staple known as Megan O'Brien in Chesapeake Shores, Peggy Beldon in Cedar Cove, Delores in Hannah Swensen Mysteries, and Marilyn Monroe in The Rat Pack.
Barbara Nowacka
Barbara Nowacka is a Polish politician who serves as Minister of Education, leading the Kompas Jutra reform and introducing health education as a school subject.
Barbara O'Neill
Barbara O'Neill, Australian naturopath and health educator, permanently banned by the NSW HCCC in 2019 for unproven claims that cancer is a fungus treatable with bicarbonate soda, vaccines are unsafe, and raw goat's milk can replace breast milk; still lectures internationally.
Barbara of Cilli
Barbara of Cilli (Barbara Celjska, c. 1392-1451), second wife of Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg, was queen of Hungary, Germany and Bohemia and Holy Roman Empress, later famed as the "Black Queen" and a legendary alchemist of Samobor.
Barbara Olson
Barbara Kay Bracher Olson (1955–2001), American lawyer, federal prosecutor, House investigative counsel, author of Hell to Pay and The Final Days, and prominent conservative TV commentator, died September 11, 2001 aboard hijacked American Airlines Flight 77.
Barbara Orbison
Barbara Orbison (Barbara Anne Marie Wellhöner Jakobs, 1950–2011), German-born music executive, widow and manager of Roy Orbison; ran his estate, founded Still Working Music in Nashville, co-produced the 2008 Soul of Rock and Roll box set, and died of pancreatic cancer on the 23rd anniversary of his death.
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (née Villiers, baptized 1640, died 1709), mistress of Charles II during the 1660s, mother of acknowledged royal children who became dukes of Cleveland, Grafton, and Northumberland.
Barbara Palvin
Barbara Palvin (Palvin Barbara), Hungarian model born 1993 in Budapest, first Hungarian Victoria's Secret Angel (2019-2021), Prada debut 2010, L'Oréal ambassador, married Dylan Sprouse 2023, walked the 2026 VS show six weeks postpartum.
Barbara Panning
Barbara Panning (born 1963) is a Swiss-born molecular biologist and professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UCSF, known for her work on Xist RNA and X chromosome inactivation.
Barbara Park
Barbara Lynne Park (1947-2013), American children's author, creator of the Junie B. Jones series begun in 1992; also wrote Skinnybones and Mick Harte Was Here; over 50 books.
Barbara Parkins
Barbara Parkins is a Canadian actress and photographer, born in 1942 in Vancouver, best known for Peyton Place and the 1967 film Valley of the Dolls.
Barbara Partee
Barbara Partee, born in 1940, is an American linguist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst credited with founding formal semantics by linking Montague's logic to Chomskyan syntax.
Barbara Payton
Barbara Payton (Barbara Lee Redfield, 1927-1967), American film actress of 1949-1955, star of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye with James Cagney, whose career collapsed after the 1951 Tom Neal-Franchot Tone brawl and who died at 39.
Barbara Pepper
Barbara Pepper, born Marion Pepper, was an American actress known for brassy Hollywood film roles of the 1930s and 1940s and for playing Doris Ziffel on Green Acres.
Barbara Petzold
Barbara Petzold (Petzold-Beyer), born 1955 in Oberwiesenthal, East German cross-country skier and first German Olympic champion in the sport, winning the 1980 Lake Placid 10 km and 4×5 km relay after 1976 relay bronze.
Barbara Pym
Barbara Pym, born Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (1913 to 1980), was an English novelist of comic manners about unmarried women and Anglican clergy, revived in 1977 after sixteen years unpublished.
Barbara R. Migeon
Barbara R. Migeon (1931–2023) was an American human geneticist at Johns Hopkins University who spent her career studying X-chromosome inactivation and wrote the book Females Are Mosaics.
Barbara Radziwiłł
Barbara Radziwiłł, Polish Radziwiłłówna and Lithuanian Barbora Radvilaitė, was a Lithuanian noblewoman whose secret 1547 marriage to King Sigismund II Augustus made her Queen of Poland until her death in 1551.
Barbara Rehermann
Barbara Rehermann is a German-trained physician-scientist who leads the Immunology Section of the Liver Diseases Branch at NIH, studying immune responses to hepatitis B and C.
Barbara Reskin
Barbara Reskin is an American sociologist of gender and workplace inequality at the University of Washington, and was the 93rd president of the American Sociological Association.
Barbara Rhoades
Barbara Rhoades (born 1946 or 1947, Poughkeepsie, New York), also credited as Barbara Rhodes, is an American actress known for Penelope 'Bad Penny' Cushings in The Shakiest Gun in the West (1968), Donna in The Goodbye Girl, and Soap's Maggie Chandler.
Barbara Roberts
Barbara Roberts, born Barbara Kay Hughey, is an American politician who served as the 34th Governor of Oregon from 1991 to 1995, becoming the first woman elected to the office.
Barbara Romanowicz
Barbara Romanowicz is a French geophysicist and seismologist known for global seismic tomography, imaging Earth's deep interior from seismic waves. She was Professor of Geophysics at UC Berkeley from 1991 to 2016.
Barbara Ruick
Barbara Ruick (Barbara Joan Ruick, 1932-1974), American actress and singer, MGM contract player, Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel (1956), stepsister Esmerelda in Cinderella (1965), wife of composer John Williams, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Reno.
Barbara Rush
Barbara Rush (1927–2024), American film, TV, and stage actress; Golden Globe-winning star of It Came from Outer Space, Magnificent Obsession, The Young Philadelphians, and Peyton Place.
Barbara Ruskin
Barbara Ruskin is a molecular biologist and patent attorney who, as a Harvard doctoral student in the 1980s, helped establish the biochemistry of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing, including discovery of U2AF.
Barbara Rutherford Hatch House
Barbara Rutherford Hatch House, also called Cyril and Barbara Rutherford Hatch Residence, is a 1917-19 Frederick J. Sterner townhouse at 153 East 63rd Street, Manhattan; a NYC landmark since 1977, once home to Dillingham, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jasper Johns, and Spike Lee.