Top Celebrity Names Starting With Barbara

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   Barbara Walters

   Age 82 Female
   

   Journalist, Television News Anchor and Talk Show Host

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   Barbara Jill Walters is an American broadcast journalist, author, and television personality. She has hosted morning television shows, the television news magazine, former co-anchor of the ABC World News, and current contributor to ABC News. Walters was first known as a popular TV morning news anchor for over 10 years on NBC's Today, where she worked with Hugh Downs and later hosts Frank McGee and Jim Hartz.… read more

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   Barbara Windsor

   Age 74 Female
   

   Actress

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   Barbara Ann Windsor, MBE, better known by her stage name Barbara Windsor, is an English actress. Her best known roles are in the Carry On films and as Peggy Mitchell in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Born in Shoreditch, London in 1937, Windsor was the only child of John Deeks, a costermonger, and his wife, formerly Rose Ellis, a dressmaker. Windsor is of English and Irish ancestry.… read more

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   Barbara Eden

   Age 77 Female
   

   Actor

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   Barbara Eden is an American film and television actress and singer who is best known for her starring role in the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie.

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   Barbara Hershey

   Age 64 Female
   

   Actress

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   Barbara Hershey, also known as Barbara Seagull, is an American actress. In a career spanning nearly 50 years, she has played a variety of roles on television and in cinema, in several genres including westerns and comedies. She began acting at age 17 in 1965, but did not achieve much critical acclaim until the latter half of the 1980s. By that time, the Chicago Tribune referred to her as "one of America's finest actresses.… read more

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   Barbara Boxer

   Age 71 Female
   

   Politician

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   Barbara Levy Boxer is the junior United States Senator from California (since 1993). A member of the Democratic Party, she previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1983–1993). Born in Brooklyn, New York, Boxer graduated from Brooklyn College. She worked as a stockbroker for several years before moving to California with her husband. During the 1970s, she worked as a journalist for the Pacific Sun and as an aide to U.S. Representative John L. Burton.… read more

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   Barbara Bush

   Age 87 Female
   

   First Lady of the United States

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   Barbara Pierce Bush is the wife of the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush, and served as First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of the 43rd President George W. Bush and of the 43rd Governor of Florida Jeb Bush. Previously she had served as Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989.… read more

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   Barbara Heinemann Landmann

   1795 - 1883 Female
   

   Instrument, Overlord, Believer

   
   

   Barbara Heinemann Landmann was twice a Werkzeug, or Instrument, for the Community of True Inspiration. A Werkzeug, under the influence of the gift of Inspiration, conveys the word of the Lord to believers. Barbara was first a Werkzeug in Germany and in Alsace. She received the gift during the Christmas holidays of 1818, but she lost it when she married George Landmann in 1823.… read more

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   Barbara Cook

   Age 84 Female
   

   Singer, Actress, Musician

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   Barbara Cook is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the latter. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid 1970s, when she began a second career that continues to this day as a cabaret and concert singer. She has also made numerous recordings.… read more

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   Barbara Gordon

   Female
   

   Professor, Librarian, Golfer

   
   
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    Barbara Mandrell

    Age 63 Female
    

    Singer

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    Barbara Ann Mandrell is an American country music singer best known for a 1970s–1980s series of Top 10 hits and TV shows that helped her become one of country's most successful female vocalists of the 1970s and 1980s. She was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2009.… read more

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    Barbara Stanwyck

    1907 - 1990 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Barbara Stanwyck was an American actress. She was a film and television star, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors including Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang and Frank Capra. After a short but notable career as a stage actress in the late 1920s, she made 85 films in 38 years in Hollywood, before turning to television.… read more

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    Barbara Ehrenreich

    Age 70 Female
    

    Socialist, Critic, Feminist

    
    

    Barbara Ehrenreich is an American feminist, democratic socialist, sociologist and political activist, and during the 1980s and early 1990s she was a prominent figure in the Democratic Socialists of America. She is a widely read columnist and essayist, and the author of nearly 20 books.… read more

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    Barbara Lee

    Age 65 Female
    

    Politician

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    Barbara Jean Lee is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1998. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She is the first woman to represent that district. Lee was the Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and was the Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. Lee is notable as the only member of either house of Congress to vote against the authorization of use of force following the September 11, 2001 attacks.… read more

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    Barbara Mikulski

    Age 75 Female
    

    Politician

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    Barbara Ann Mikulski is the senior United States Senator from Maryland and a member of the Democratic Party. Mikulski, a former United States Representative, is the longest-serving female senator in American history, having served since 1987. Raised in the Highlandtown neighborhood of East Baltimore, Mikulski attended Mount Saint Agnes College and the University of Maryland School of Social Work.… read more

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    Barbara Greene

    Age 66 Female
    

    Politician

    
    

    Barbara Greene is a Canadian politician. She served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 1993 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. She was previously a municipal politician in North York, and campaigned for mayor of the city in 1985. She is a Red Tory, and holds progressive views on most social issues.… read more

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    Barbara Harris

    Age 76 Female
    

    Actress, Headliner, Clown

    
    

    Barbara Harris is an American actress who was a Broadway stage star and later became a movie actress. She appeared in such movies as A Thousand Clowns, Plaza Suite, Nashville, Family Plot, Freaky Friday, Peggy Sue Got Married, and Grosse Pointe Blank. Harris has won a Tony Award and has been nominated for an Academy Award and received four Golden Globe Award nominations.… read more

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    Barbara Billingsley

    1915 - 2010 Female
    

    Model; Later Film and Television Actress

    
    

    Barbara Billingsley was an American film, television, voice and stage actress. She gained prominence in the 1950s movie The Careless Years, acting opposite Natalie Trundy, followed by her best–known role, that of June Cleaver on the television series Leave It to Beaver (1957–1963) and its sequel Still the Beaver (1985–1988, retitled in season two as The New Leave It to Beaver).… read more

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    Barbara Jordan

    1936 - 1996 Female
    

    Politician

    
    

    Barbara Charline Jordan was an American politician and a leader of the Civil Rights movement. She was the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction and the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives. She received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other honors. On her death she became the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.… read more

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    Barbara McClintock

    1902 - 1992 Female
    

    Cytogenetics

    
    

    Barbara McClintock, the 1983 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, was an American scientist and one of the world's most distinguished cytogeneticists. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927, where she was a leader in the development of maize cytogenetics. The field remained the focus of her research for the rest of her career.… read more

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    Barbara

    1930 - 1997 Female
    

    Singer, Songwriter, Actress

    
    

    Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara (Barbara Brodi in her debut), was a popular French female singer. She took her stage name from her Russian grandmother, Varvara Brodsky. She called herself 'the black eagle'-her song L'Aigle noir sold a million copies in twelve hours- and she always wore black. Norman Lebrecht: "Barbara is all about the unsaid; she's a Freudian enigma at the heart of France."… read more

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    Barbara Gittings

    1932 - 2007 Female
    

    Gay Activist

    
    

    Barbara Gittings was a prominent American activist for gay equality. She organized the New York chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB) from 1958 to 1963, edited the national DOB magazine The Ladder from 1963 to 1966, and worked closely with Frank Kameny in the 1960s on the first picket lines that brought attention to the ban on employment of gay people by the largest employer in the US at that time: the United States government.… read more

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    Barbara Follett

    Age 69 Female
    

    Member of Parliament, Politician, Minister

    
    

    Daphne Barbara Follett is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Stevenage from 1997 until 2010. She is married to the author Ken Follett. Follett was a junior minister at the Department for Communities and Local Government and Minister for the East of England, and was a highly notable case in the United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal having overclaimed the highest amount of expenses of any MP in the country.… read more

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    Barbara Dickson

    Age 64 Female
    

    Scottish Singer and Actress

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    Barbara Ruth Dickson, OBE is a Scottish singer whose hits include "I Know Him So Well" and "January February". Dickson has placed fifteen albums in the UK Albums Chart from 1977 to date, and had a number of hit singles, including two which reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart. She is also a two-time Olivier Award-winning actress, with roles including Anita Braithwaite in TV's Band of Gold and she was the original Mrs. Johnstone in Willy Russell's long-running musical Blood Brothers.… read more

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    Barbara Payton

    1927 - 1967 Female
    

    Actress

    
    

    Barbara Payton was an American film actress best known for her stormy social life and eventual battles with alcohol and drug addiction. Her life has been the subject of several books including Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye: The Barbara Payton Story (2007), by John O'Dowd, and L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times (2005), by John Gilmore.… read more

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    Barbara Hall

    Age 66 Female
    

    Mayor, Lawyer, Politician

    
    

    Barbara Hall is a Canadian lawyer, public servant and former politician. She was the 61st mayor of Toronto, the last to run before amalgamation. She was elected mayor of the pre-amalgamation City of Toronto in 1994, and held office until December 31, 1997. On November 28, 2005, Hall was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission for a three-year term.… read more