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Barry Briggs

Barry Briggs, "Briggo" (born 1934, Christchurch, NZ), New Zealand speedway rider, four-time World Champion (1957, 1958, 1964, 1966), record 18 World Finals, MBE, Swindon and Wimbledon legend; distinct from the Cincinnati civil engineer David Barry Briggs.

Barry Burton

Barry Burton is a Resident Evil character, a veteran S.T.A.R.S. weapons expert debuting in the 1996 game, blackmailed by Wesker, later starring in Resident Evil Gaiden and Revelations 2 (2015).

Barry Buzan

Barry Buzan, British IR scholar, Emeritus Professor at LSE, Fellow of the British Academy. Copenhagen School co-founder of securitization theory, creator of regional security complex theory, and leader of the English School reconvening project.

Barry C. Barish

Barry C. Barish, born in 1936, is an American experimental physicist who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics for the first direct detection of gravitational waves.

Barry C. Buckland

Barry C. Buckland is an American biochemical engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 who led bioprocess development for Merck's vaccines, including Gardasil.

Barry C. Johnson

Barry C. Johnson is an American engineer and academic administrator elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001, who served as Dean of Engineering at Villanova University from 2002.

Barry Callebaut

Barry Callebaut is a Zurich-based company, the world's largest business-to-business manufacturer of chocolate and cocoa products, making chocolate for brands like KitKat and Magnum; its main global brand is Callebaut.

Barry Can't Swim

Barry Can't Swim is the stage name of Joshua Mainnie, an Edinburgh-born, London-based Scottish house producer. Known for When Will We Land? (2023 Mercury shortlist), Loner (2025), and the 2026 Atlantic single Return To Bhibo.

Barry Commoner

Barry Commoner was an American ecologist and plant physiologist known for tobacco mosaic virus research, the 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle, and a 1980 Citizens Party presidential campaign.

Barry Corbin

Barry Corbin, born Leonard Barrie Corbin in Lamesa, Texas, in 1940, is an American character actor with over 200 roles, best known as Maurice Minnifield on Northern Exposure.

Barry Cryer

Barry Cryer (1935–2022), English comedy writer and comedian from Leeds, wrote for Tommy Cooper, Morecambe and Wise, The Two Ronnies and Bob Hope, and was a panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue from 1972; OBE in 2001.

Barry D. Bavister

Barry D. Bavister, born in 1943, is a reproductive biologist who identified the buffer conditions Robert Edwards used for the first human in vitro fertilization in 1969.

Barry D. Shur

Barry D. Shur is an American cell biologist known for work on sperm–egg binding and for chairing Cell Biology at Emory University from 1996 to 2010.

Barry Dennen

Barry Dennen (1938-2017), American actor and singer; Emcee in the original West End Cabaret and Pontius Pilate in the album, Broadway, and film versions of Jesus Christ Superstar; memoirist of Barbra Streisand; video game voice actor.

Barry Devlin

Barry A. Devlin, Irish IBM engineer who with Paul Murphy defined the first data warehouse architecture and coined business data warehouse in a 1988 IBM Systems Journal paper; later founded 9sight Consulting.

Barry Dickson

Barry J. Dickson, born 1962 in Melbourne, is an Australian neurogeneticist known for mapping the fruitless courtship circuit in fruit flies, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2024.

Barry Diller

Barry Diller (born 1942) is an American media executive: ABC Movie of the Week creator, Paramount Pictures chairman 1974-1984, founder of Fox Broadcasting Company, and longtime chairman of IAC, now People Incorporated, and Expedia Group.

Barry Dunaway

Barry Dunaway (born 1958) is an American rock bassist, vocalist, and songwriter, bassist for .38 Special since the early 2010s and formerly of Yngwie Malmsteen's band (nine albums, four world tours), Survivor, and the Pat Travers Band.

Barry Eichengreen

Barry Eichengreen is an American economist and economic historian at the University of California, Berkeley, best known for Golden Fetters, his account of the gold standard and the Great Depression.

Barry Evans (actor)

Barry Evans, also styled Barry Joseph Evans, was an English actor (1943–1997) who starred as Michael Upton in Doctor in the House and Doctor at Large and as Jeremy Brown in Mind Your Language. Not the EastEnders character.

Barry Ferguson

Barry Ferguson (born 1978, Hamilton) is a Scottish former midfielder who captained Rangers and Scotland, won 15 trophies at Rangers, and was Rangers' interim manager February to May 2025.

Barry Finegold

Barry Finegold is an American Democratic politician and lawyer who represents the Second Essex and Middlesex district in the Massachusetts Senate, co-chairs economic development, and focuses on regulating artificial intelligence.

Barry Fitzgerald

Barry Fitzgerald (William Joseph Shields, 1888–1961), Irish Abbey Theatre character actor and Hollywood star; first Irish Oscar winner, uniquely nominated for both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor for Going My Way (1944), later Michaeleen Óg in The Quiet Man.

Barry Flatman

Barry Flatman, born 1950 in Victoria, British Columbia, is a Canadian character actor known for Earth: Final Conflict, Saw III, Fargo, voicing X-Men's Vindicator, and 57 episodes as Don Shade on Private Eyes.

Barry Foster (actor)

Barry Foster (John Barry Foster) was an English actor, star of ITV's Van der Valk and Bob Rusk in Hitchcock's Frenzy (1972); died 11 February 2002 aged 70 in Guildford while appearing in Art.

Barry G. Silverman

Barry G. Silverman (born 1951) is an American jurist serving as a senior judge of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1998.

Barry G.W. Arnason

Barry G.W. Arnason, also known as Barry G. Arnason (1933–2023), was a Canadian-born neurologist and neuro-immunologist who founded the University of Chicago's neurology department and developed Betaseron for multiple sclerosis.

Barry Ganetzky

Barry Ganetzky is an American geneticist and neuroscientist who used fruit flies to work out how nerve cells generate electrical impulses, identifying ion channel genes including a human potassium channel gene named HERG.

Barry Gardiner

Barry Gardiner, Labour MP for Brent West (formerly Brent North, 1997–2024), former DEFRA biodiversity minister, Special Envoy for Forestry, and Shadow International Trade Secretary 2016–2020.

Barry George

Barry George, alias Barry Bulsara, wrongly convicted in 2001 of murdering BBC presenter Jill Dando; conviction quashed in 2007 over firearms residue evidence, acquitted at 2008 retrial, denied compensation in 2013.