List of Famous people named Barbara

Barbara Bosson is a retired American actress. Her most notable role came in the television series Hill Street Blues (1981–1987), for which she was consecutively nominated for five Primetime Emmy Awards.

Barbara Hendricks is an American operatic soprano and concert singer. Hendricks has lived in Europe since 1977, and in Switzerland in Basel since 1985. She is a citizen of Sweden following her marriage to a Swedish citizen.

Barbara Daly Baekeland was a wealthy American socialite who was murdered by her son, Antony "Tony" Baekeland. She was the ex-wife of Brooks Baekeland, who was the grandson of Leo Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite plastic.

Barbara Dittus was a German film actress. She appeared in more than ninety films from 1959 to 2001.

Barbara Hogan is a former Minister of Health and of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa.

Barbara Blomberg was the mother of Don John of Austria.

Barbara Boggs Sigmund was a daughter of the Democratic United States Representative Hale Boggs of Louisiana, and Lindy Boggs who became a Congresswoman from Louisiana after her husband Hale died in an air crash. Sigmund was a politician, writer, and civic leader.

Barbara Rose Johns Powell was a pioneering leader in the American civil rights movement. On April 23, 1951, at the age of 16, Powell led a student strike for equal education at R.R. Moton High School in Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia. After securing NAACP legal support, the Moton students filed Davis v. Prince Edward County, the only student-initiated case consolidated into Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision declaring "separate but equal" public schools unconstitutional.

Barbara Anne Hendricks is a German politician and member of the SPD party.

Barbara Lee Payton was an American film actress best known for her stormy social life and battles with alcoholism 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, L.A. Despair: A Landscape of Crimes and Bad Times (2005) by John Gilmore and B Movie: A Play in Two Acts (2014) by Michael B. Druxman. In her brief life, she habitually married.