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Barbara S. Hulka
Barbara S. Hulka is an American cancer and reproductive epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, known for molecular epidemiology and hormone replacement therapy research.
Barbara S. Schuwirth
Barbara S. Schuwirth is a German structural biologist who, as first author, published the first near-atomic-resolution crystal structure of the intact bacterial 70S ribosome in 2005.
Barbara Sahakian
Barbara Sahakian, born in 1952, is a British clinical neuropsychologist and Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at Cambridge, known for co-inventing the CANTAB cognitive tests, research on cognitive enhancement, and early detection of Alzheimer's disease.
Barbara Sansoni
Barbara Sansoni (1928-2022), Sri Lankan artist, colourist, and founder of the Barefoot handloom company; also known for Vihares & Verandas and Architecture of an Island, her drawings of vernacular Sri Lankan buildings, and awards including the Kala Suri.
Barbara Scheitz
Barbara Scheitz (born 1965) is a German dairy entrepreneur who has led the family-owned organic dairy Andechser Molkerei Scheitz in Andechs, Bavaria, since 2003, winning EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2018.
Barbara Schmidt
Barbara Schmidt is a neonatologist and clinical epidemiologist who led the TIPP, CAP, and Canadian Oxygen trials, which changed care in neonatal intensive care units across North America.
Barbara Shelley
Barbara Shelley (Barbara Teresa Kowin, 1932-2021), British actress known as the "Queen of Hammer" for 1960s horror films including Dracula: Prince of Darkness, The Gorgon, and Quatermass and the Pit, plus Village of the Damned and Doctor Who.
Barbara Sherwood Lollar
Barbara Sherwood Lollar is a Canadian isotope geochemist at the University of Toronto known for discovering billion-year-old groundwater in Ontario mines and informing the search for life on Mars.
Barbara Siggers Franklin
Barbara Siggers Franklin was an American gospel singer and pianist, the second wife of C. L. Franklin, and mother of Aretha Franklin. She died in Buffalo, New York, in 1952.
Barbara Simons
Barbara Simons (Barbara Bluestein Simons), born 1941, is an American computer scientist and former ACM president known for research in scheduling theory and voting security advocacy.
Barbara Sinatra
Barbara Sinatra (Barbara Blakeley, later Barbara Marx), American model and Las Vegas showgirl; fourth and final wife of Frank Sinatra from 1976 until his 1998 death; co-founder of the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center for abused children in Rancho Mirage.
Barbara Smith
Barbara Smith is an American biomedical engineer and associate professor at Arizona State University who works on optical brain imaging and biomarker discovery, and received the 2025 PECASE award.
Barbara Sollner-Webb
Barbara Sollner-Webb is a molecular biologist and professor emerita at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, known for work on ribosomal RNA gene expression and RNA editing.
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (Ruby Stevens, 1907–1990), American actress of stage, film, and TV; four-time Oscar nominee, honorary Oscar 1982, three Emmys; star of Double Indemnity, The Lady Eve, and TV's The Big Valley.
Bárbara Starfield
Barbara Starfield (1932–2011) was an American pediatrician and health services researcher at Johns Hopkins who spent over 50 years building the evidence base showing that primary care improves health outcomes.
Barbara Steele
Barbara Steele, British actress born in Birkenhead, star of Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) and the iconic face of Italian gothic horror; also appeared in Fellini's 8½, Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum, and Cronenberg's Shivers.
Barbara Trentham
Barbara Trentham (Barbara Lynn Schilling, 1944-2013), American model and actress, cover model in London, played Daphne in Rollerball (1975), married John Cleese, mother of Camilla Cleese, died in Chicago of leukemia.
Barbara Treutlein
Barbara Treutlein is a quantitative developmental biologist and professor at ETH Zürich since 2019, known for single-cell genomics of human brain and blood vessel organoids.
Barbara Turner (screenwriter)
Barbara Turner (Gloria Rose Turner), American screenwriter and actress (1936–2016), mother of Jennifer Jason Leigh; wrote Petulia, Georgia, Pollock, The Company, Hemingway & Gellhorn; Emmy and WGA nominee.
Barbara Underwood
Barbara D. Underwood, New York Solicitor General since 2007 and the state's 66th and first female Attorney General (2018), formerly Principal Deputy and Acting U.S. Solicitor General; argued roughly 21 Supreme Court cases including Bruen and Commerce v. New York.
Barbara Valent
Barbara Valent is an American plant pathologist at Kansas State University whose research established the rice blast fungus as a model pathogen; she joined the National Academy of Sciences in 2020.
Barbara Vickrey
Barbara Grace Vickrey is an American neurologist and health services researcher, chair of neurology at Mount Sinai since 2015, known for the QOLIE-89 epilepsy quality-of-life measure.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912–1989), American narrative historian and journalist, twice won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction for The Guns of August and Stilwell; self-trained, she wrote best-selling literary history outside academia.
Barbara Wagner
Barbara Wagner (Barbara Aileen Wagner, born 5 May 1938, Toronto) is a Canadian pair figure skater who with Robert Paul won 1960 Olympic gold, four World titles 1957-1960, and the 1959 Lou Marsh Trophy.
Barbara Walters
Barbara Walters was an American broadcast journalist who was the first woman to co-anchor a network evening newscast, spent 15 years on Today, co-hosted 20/20, and created The View in 1997.
Barbara Washington
Barbara Anne Washington is an American Democratic politician and attorney serving in the Missouri Senate from the 9th district, covering southeastern Kansas City, after three years in the Missouri House.
Barbara Windsor
Barbara Windsor (Barbara Ann Deeks, 1937–2020), English actress, star of nine Carry On films and Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders 1994–2016; BAFTA and Tony nominee, made Dame in 2016.
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)
Barbara Wright (Doctor Who) is a fictional First Doctor companion, a Coal Hill School history teacher played by Jacqueline Hill from An Unearthly Child (1963) to The Chase (1965), the first human woman to travel in the TARDIS.
Barbarano Romano
Barbarano Romano, also linked to the ancient name Marturanum, is a medieval village in Viterbo province, Lazio, on a tuff plateau at the Marturanum Regional Park, home to the Etruscan necropolis of San Giuliano.
Barbarathermen at Trier
Barbarathermen (Barbara Baths), Roman thermae in Trier's Augusta Treverorum, built mid-2nd century AD, second largest baths of the Roman Empire at ~42,000 m2, used until the 5th century, UNESCO World Heritage since 1986.