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Barry Alvarez

Barry Alvarez, Wisconsin Badgers head coach 1990-2005 (118-73-4) and athletic director 2004-2021; three Big Ten titles, three Rose Bowls, walk-on program builder, College Football Hall of Fame 2010.

Barry Andrews (Fianna Fáil politician)

Barry Andrews, born in Dublin in 1967, is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has sat in the European Parliament since 2020 and chairs its Committee on Development.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

Barry Goldwater

Barry Goldwater (1909-1998), Arizona senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee, father of the modern conservative movement, author of The Conscience of a Conservative, Air Force Reserve major general, Medal of Freedom recipient.

Barry Lam

Barry Lam (林百里, born 1949 in Shanghai) is a Taiwanese electronics entrepreneur who founded Quanta Computer in 1988, the world's largest notebook contract manufacturer, and earlier built Kinpo Electronics.

Barry Loudermilk

Barry Loudermilk, born in 1963, is an American Republican politician and Air Force veteran representing Georgia's 11th congressional district in the U.S. House since 2015, after serving in the Georgia legislature.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

Barsal-nuna

Barsal-nuna is a legendary ruler of the First Dynasty of Kish in the Sumerian King List, which assigns him a 1,200-year reign and no contemporary inscriptions.

Barsbay's monopoly of the pepper trade

Barsbay's monopoly of the pepper trade (احتكار الفلفل) was the seizure of the Red Sea pepper trade by the Mamluk sultan al-Ashraf Barsbay, made a royal monopoly in 1432.

Barstool Sports

Barstool Sports is an American digital sports and pop-culture media company founded by Dave Portnoy in Massachusetts in 2003, known for Pardon My Take and Spittin' Chiclets.