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Barry M. Gumbiner

Barry M. Gumbiner is a cell biologist known for defining the molecular basis of cell adhesion, the cadherin–catenin complex, and epithelial morphogenesis, and for work on endothelial junctions.

Barry M. Massie

Barry M. Massie was an American cardiologist and heart-failure researcher, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at UCSF, who led the I-PRESERVE and PROTECT trials published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Barry M. McCoy

Barry M. McCoy is an American theoretical physicist, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Stony Brook University, known for exactly solvable statistical mechanics models and the 1999 Heineman Prize.

Barry M. Popkin

Barry M. Popkin is a nutrition epidemiologist and W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor at UNC, known for the Nutrition Transition concept and the double burden of malnutrition.

Barry M. Trost

Barry M. Trost, born 1941, is an American organic chemist and Stanford professor known for the Tsuji–Trost palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation reaction and the concept of atom economy.

Barry Magee

Barry Magee, full name Arthur Barrington Magee, is a New Zealand distance runner and coach who won the marathon bronze at the 1960 Rome Olympics behind Abebe Bikila.

Barry Maister

Barry Maister (born 1948), New Zealand field hockey centre forward, NZ Olympian #235; won gold with the 1976 Montreal Black Sticks, played three Olympics with brother Selwyn, later NZOC secretary-general and IOC member 2010-2018.

Barry Manilow

Barry Manilow (Barry Alan Pincus, born 1943, Brooklyn), American adult-contemporary singer-songwriter; 13 AC No. 1 hits including "Mandy" and "Copacabana," 29 platinum albums, Grammy, Emmy and Tony winner, Las Vegas resident headliner.

Barry Mann

Barry Mann (born Barry Imberman, 1939), American Brill Building songwriter; with wife Cynthia Weil wrote "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", "On Broadway", "Somewhere Out There"; Songwriters and Rock and Roll Halls of Fame.

Barry Mannakee

Barry Mannakee (Barry Albert Mannakee) was a Metropolitan Police personal protection officer and bodyguard to Diana, Princess of Wales, transferred to the Diplomatic Protection Group; he died in a 1987 motorcycle crash ruled accidental, though Diana claimed he was killed.

Barry Marshall

Barry Marshall (born 1951, Kalgoorlie) is an Australian physician who with Robin Warren discovered Helicobacter pylori as the cause of peptic ulcers, proved it by drinking the bacterium in 1984, and shared the 2005 Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Barry Mazur

Barry Mazur is an American mathematician at Harvard University who works in number theory and arithmetic geometry, best known for the torsion theorem on elliptic curves and the 1977 paper "Modular curves and the Eisenstein ideal."

Barry McCaffrey

Barry Richard McCaffrey, retired four-star U.S. Army general, commanded the 24th Infantry Division's left hook in Desert Storm, led U.S. Southern Command, and was Bill Clinton's drug czar (ONDCP director, 1996-2001), later an NBC News military analyst and consultant.

Barry McGuigan

Barry McGuigan (Finbar Patrick McGuigan, 'The Clones Cyclone'), Irish boxer born 1961 in Clones, Monaghan; WBA featherweight champion 1985–86 after beating Eusebio Pedroza at Loftus Road; retired 1989 at 32–3, 28 KOs; BBC Sports Personality 1985, IBHOF 2005.

Barry McGuire

Barry McGuire (born 1935, Oklahoma City) is an American singer-songwriter, former New Christy Minstrels lead singer, whose 1965 protest hit "Eve of Destruction" topped the Billboard Hot 100; he later became a pioneering contemporary Christian music artist.

Barry Melrose

Barry Melrose (1956-2026), Canadian defenseman, NHL head coach, and Emmy-winning ESPN hockey analyst; led the Los Angeles Kings to the 1993 Stanley Cup Final and coached the Tampa Bay Lightning briefly in 2008.

Barry Miller (actor)

Barry Miller (Barry Lee Miller, born 1958, Los Angeles) is an American actor known for Bobby C. in Saturday Night Fever, Fame, Peggy Sue Got Married, and his 1985 Tony-winning Biloxi Blues role.

Barry Mills (Aryan Brotherhood)

Barry Byron Mills, known as "The Baron," led the federal faction of the white supremacist Aryan Brotherhood for decades before being convicted of murder and racketeering in 2006.

Barry Minkow

Barry Minkow is an American fraudster who founded ZZZZ Best in the 1980s. He later became a pastor and was convicted again for securities fraud and church embezzlement.

Barry Moore (Alabama politician)

Barry Moore, born in 1966, is an American Republican politician representing Alabama's 1st district in the U.S. House since 2025 and the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in 2026.

Barry Morse

Barry Morse (1918-2008), British-Canadian actor of over 3,000 roles, known as Lt. Philip Gerard in The Fugitive and Professor Victor Bergman in Space: 1999, Shaw Festival director.

Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson (1917-2007), born Haakon Robert Nielsen, was an American stage, film, and TV actor, the first to play James Bond, as American "Jimmy" Bond in CBS's live 1954 Climax! Casino Royale; later Tony-nominated for The Act and Stuart Ullman in The Shining.

Barry Newman

Barry Foster Newman (1930–2023), American actor known for Kowalski in Vanishing Point (1971) and the NBC legal drama Petrocelli, for which he received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations; died May 11, 2023.

Barry Norman

Barry Norman (1933-2017), British journalist and broadcaster, presenter of BBC's Film 72 to Film 98 for 26 series, later Sky's Film Night; catchphrase 'And why not?' came from Spitting Image, not him.

Barry Odom

Barry Odom, American college football coach; former Missouri linebacker; head coach at Missouri 2016-19 (25-25), UNLV 2023-24 (19-8, 2023 Mountain West Coach of the Year), and Purdue from December 2024; Arkansas defensive coordinator 2020-22.

Barry Orton

Barry Orton (Randal Barry Orton, 1958–2021), ring name Barry O, American wrestler; son of Bob Orton Sr., brother of Bob Orton Jr., uncle of Randy Orton; WWF jobber, 1992 Terry Garvin scandal figure.

Barry P. Rand

Barry P. Rand is an American electrical engineer and professor at Princeton University whose research on organic and perovskite thin films targets solar cells, light emitting devices, and transistors.

Barry P. Rosen

Barry P. Rosen is an American biochemist known for five decades of work on arsenic transport and detoxification, who retired from Florida International University in 2025.

Barry P. Sleckman

Barry P. Sleckman is an American immunologist known for studying how lymphocytes repair the DNA breaks they make to assemble antigen receptor genes, and director of the O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB since 2020.

Barry Pepper

Barry Pepper (Barry Robert Pepper), Canadian actor born 1970 in Campbell River, British Columbia; known for Private Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Roger Maris in 61, and his Emmy-winning Robert F. Kennedy in The Kennedys.