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Barry R. Bloom

Barry R. Bloom (1937–2026) was an American immunologist and infectious-disease researcher known for work on tuberculosis and leprosy, who served as dean of the Harvard School of Public Health until 2008.

Barry R. Weingast

Barry R. Weingast is an American political scientist and economist at Stanford University, known for research on the political foundations of markets, constitutions, and democracy.

Barry Rosenstein

Barry Rosenstein is an American investor who founded JANA Partners in April 2001 with $35 million, a New York event-driven activist fund that buys undervalued companies and engages management to unlock shareholder value.

Barry S. Coller

Barry S. Coller is an American physician-scientist in hematology who established the platelet αIIbβ3 receptor as a drug target, leading to abciximab (ReoPro), approved in 1994.

Barry S. Taylor

Barry S. Taylor is an American computational oncologist and cancer genomicist, formerly a Memorial Sloan Kettering faculty member, now Chief Scientific Officer of Oncology at Eli Lilly.

Barry Sadler

Barry Sadler (1940–1989), Staff Sergeant Barry Allen Sadler, was a US Army Special Forces medic and singer whose patriotic 1966 hit "The Ballad of the Green Berets" topped the Billboard chart for five weeks, and who later wrote the Casca adventure novels before dying after a 1988 shooting in Guatemala.

Barry Sanders

Barry Sanders, Heisman Trophy-winning Oklahoma State running back (1988) and Detroit Lions star (1989-1998), rushed for 15,269 NFL yards, won the 1997 MVP, and entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2004.

Barry Scheck

Barry Scheck is an American lawyer and legal scholar who co-founded the Innocence Project in 1992 and served as a DNA expert on the O.J. Simpson defense team.

Barry Schuler

Barry Schuler is an American venture capitalist who co-founded DFJ Growth in 2005 and earlier served as chairman and chief executive officer of America Online.

Barry Schwartz (psychologist)

Barry Schwartz is an American psychologist, long a professor at Swarthmore College, best known for the paradox of choice and his 2004 book The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less.

Barry Seal

Barry Seal (Adler Berriman Seal, 1939–1986), American pilot and Medellín cartel drug smuggler turned DEA informant, based at Mena, Arkansas; photographed Sandinista cocaine loading in 1984, assassinated in Baton Rouge 1986.

Barry Shabaka Henley

Barry Shabaka Henley, born Barry Joseph Henley (1954, New Orleans), American character actor; stage name from a 25th-Dynasty pharaoh. Known for Collateral, Miami Vice, The Terminal, Uncle Tunde on Bob Hearts Abishola, and Obie-winning Jitney.

Barry Sheene

Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer, 500cc world champion 1976 and 1977 on Suzuki, Formula 750 champion 1973, MBE 1978, record 137.15 mph Spa lap, died of cancer 2003 aged 52.

Barry Sherman

Barry Sherman (Bernard Sherman, 1942–2017), Canadian billionaire who founded generic drug maker Apotex in 1974; known for patent litigation, philanthropy, and his unsolved December 2017 murder with wife Honey in Toronto.

Barry Simon

Barry Simon, born 1946 in Brooklyn, is an American mathematical physicist known for Schrödinger operators and spectral theory, a longtime Caltech professor and NAS member whose honors include the 2012 Poincaré Prize.

Barry Sinervo

Barry Sinervo (1960–2021) was a Canadian evolutionary ecologist and professor at UC Santa Cruz, known for the 1996 rock–paper–scissors game of lizard mating strategies and 2010 work on climate-driven lizard extinctions.

Barry Sloane

Barry Sloane (Barry Paul Sloane), Liverpool-born English actor and musician born 1981; known for Hollyoaks' Niall Rafferty, Revenge's Aiden Mathis, SIX's Joe Graves, stage Jerusalem, and voicing Captain Price in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.

Barry Sonnenfeld

Barry Sonnenfeld (born 1953, New York City) is an American cinematographer-turned-director of Blood Simple, The Addams Family, Get Shorty, and the Men in Black trilogy, and a DGA Award-winning TV director for Pushing Daisies.

Barry Steam Plant

The Barry Steam Plant, formally the James M. Barry Electric Generating Plant, is a coal- and gas-fired power plant in Bucks, Alabama, owned by Alabama Power, a Southern Company subsidiary.

Barry Stoddard

Barry L. Stoddard is an American structural biologist and protein engineer at Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, known for determining and redesigning gene-targeting enzymes like homing endonucleases.

Barry Switzer

Barry Switzer, Oklahoma football head coach 1973-88 (157-29-4, .837, three national titles), later Dallas Cowboys coach 1994-97 and Super Bowl XXX winner; nicknamed The King.

Barry T. Moskowitz

Barry T. Moskowitz, also known as Barry Ted Moskowitz, is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California since 2019.

Barry Trotz

Barry Trotz, born 1962 in Winnipeg, is a Canadian hockey executive and former NHL coach who won the 2018 Stanley Cup with Washington and ranks fifth with 914 coaching wins.

Barry University

Barry University, founded 1940 in Miami Shores, Florida, by the Adrian Dominican Sisters as a women's college; private Catholic university with about 9,000 students, law school in Orlando, NCAA Division II Buccaneers, SACSCOC accredited.

Barry Voight

Barry Voight is an American geologist and volcanologist, Professor Emeritus of Geosciences at Penn State, known for the 1988 failure-forecast method for predicting eruptions and his analysis of the 1980 Mount St. Helens rockslide-avalanche.

Barry W. Ashe

Barry W. Ashe, full name Barry Weldon Ashe, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana since 2018.

Barry W. Connors

Barry W. Connors is an American neuroscientist at Brown University known for showing that inhibitory neurons in the cortex communicate through electrical synapses, and for co-authoring the textbook Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain.

Barry W. Glickman

Barry W. Glickman is a Canadian mutation researcher and genetic toxicologist at the University of Victoria, known for the lacI transgenic rodent mutation assay and DNA repair studies.

Barry Watson (actor)

Barry Watson (Michael Barrett Watson, born 1974) is an American actor known as Matt Camden on 7th Heaven (1996–2006), later lead roles in What About Brian and Samantha Who?, and a 2002 Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor.

Barry Weiss

Barry Weiss (music executive), also led Jive Records, Zomba Label Group, RCA/Jive, and Universal's East Coast labels; distinct from the Storage Wars TV personality and from columnist Bari Weiss; co-founded RECORDS with Sony Music in 2015.