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Barbara Comstock
Barbara Comstock, Republican attorney and politician from Virginia, served in the Virginia House of Delegates (2010-2014) and the US House for the 10th District (2015-2019); a former Clinton-era investigator and Justice Department spokesperson, she lost her 2018 reelection to Jennifer Wexton and endorsed Kamala Harris in 2024.
Barbara Corcoran
Barbara Corcoran is an American real estate entrepreneur who founded the Corcoran Group brokerage in New York in 1973 with a $1,000 loan and later joined Shark Tank.
Barbara Daly Baekeland
Barbara Daly Baekeland, American socialite and model who married Bakelite heir Brooks Baekeland; murdered November 17, 1972 in her London penthouse by her son Antony, later dramatized in Savage Grace.
Barbara Dosher
Barbara Dosher is an experimental psychologist and UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Sciences who studies memory, attention, and perceptual learning; she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2011.
Barbara Ehrenreich
Barbara Ehrenreich (1941-2022), American journalist and activist, author of Nickel and Dimed (2001), an undercover minimum-wage bestseller; also For Her Own Good, Bright-Sided, Natural Causes; DSA co-chair; founded the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Barbara F. Walter
Barbara F. Walter is an American political scientist, the Rohr Professor of International Relations at UC San Diego, known for her research on civil wars and violent extremism.
Barbara Favola
Barbara Favola is an American Democratic politician who has represented Virginia's 40th Senate district, covering most of Arlington County, since 2011, after fourteen years on the Arlington County Board.
Barbara Fried
Barbara H. Fried (Barbara Fried), Stanford Law School Saunders Professor emerita, legal scholar of distributive justice, taxation, and Robert Hale; mother of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sued by the FTX estate in 2023.
Barbara G. Rosenkrantz
Barbara G. Rosenkrantz, also known as Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz, was an American historian of science and medicine at Harvard whose 1972 book Public Health and the State defined public health history.
Barbara Gervin-Hawkins
Barbara Gervin-Hawkins is a Democratic Texas state representative for District 120 in San Antonio, an educator who helped found the George Gervin Academy, and the sister of NBA Hall of Famer George Gervin.
Barbara Graham
Barbara Graham (Barbara Wood Graham, 1923–1955), "Bloody Babs," was executed by gas at San Quentin on June 3, 1955, for the 1953 murder of Burbank widow Mabel Monahan; her contested trial inspired I Want to Live! and later reassessments.
Barbara Harris (bishop)
Barbara Clementine Harris (1930–2020) was an American Episcopal priest who became the first woman ordained a bishop in the Anglican Communion, serving as bishop suffragan of Massachusetts from 1989 to 2002.
Barbara Hernandez
Barbara Hernandez is an American Democratic politician who has represented Illinois' 50th House district, covering much of Aurora, since 2023, after serving on the Kane County Board.
Barbara Hutton
Barbara Woolworth Hutton (1912–1979), American Woolworth heiress nicknamed the 'poor little rich girl'; seven marriages, famed jewelry including the Vladimir Tiara, fortune depleted by settlements, taxes, and mismanagement.
Barbara J. King
Barbara J. King is an American anthropologist and primatologist, emerita professor at William & Mary and author of How Animals Grieve and six other books on animal emotion.
Barbara J. McNeil
Barbara J. McNeil is an American physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School who founded its Department of Health Care Policy and twice served as acting dean.
Barbara J. Rothstein
Barbara J. Rothstein, born 1939, is an American jurist, a senior United States district judge in the Western District of Washington appointed by Jimmy Carter in 1980.
Barbara Jordan
Barbara Charline Jordan (1936–1996), Texas lawyer, educator, and Democratic congresswoman; first Black woman from the South in Congress, Watergate impeachment orator, 1976 and 1992 DNC keynote speaker, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient.
Barbara Kahl
Barbara Kahl is an American veterinarian and Republican politician who won the May 2026 primary to become the Republican nominee for the U.S. House in Oregon's 1st Congressional District.
Barbara Kirkmeyer
Barbara Kirkmeyer is an American politician, a Republican member of the Colorado Senate from the 23rd district elected in 2020, who lost the 2026 Republican primary for governor.
Barbara Lagoa
Barbara Lagoa (born 1967, Miami) is a Cuban-American federal judge on the Eleventh Circuit, formerly a Florida Supreme Court justice appointed by DeSantis in 2019 and a 2020 Trump Supreme Court shortlist contender.
Barbara Lee
Barbara Lee is an American politician serving as mayor of Oakland, California, elected in 2025 after 27 years in Congress, where she alone voted against the 2001 military force authorization.
Barbara M. Keenan
Barbara M. Keenan, also known as Barbara Milano Keenan, is an American jurist serving as a senior federal appeals judge on the Fourth Circuit since 2021.
Barbara Mikulski
Barbara Ann Mikulski (1936-), Maryland Democrat, social worker turned senator; served House 1977-1987 and Senate 1987-2017; first Democratic woman senator elected in her own right, first woman to chair Senate Appropriations, longest-serving woman in Congress at retirement, Presidential Medal of Freedom 2015.
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 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 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 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 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.