Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

39103 persons found

Barbara Parkins

b. 1942

Canadian actress

Barbara Perry (actress)

b. 1921

American actress (1921-2019)

Barbara Prammer

Austrian politician (1954–2014)

Barbara Pym

b. 1913

English novelist (1913–1980)

Barbara Radziwiłł

Queen of Poland and Grand Duchess of Lithuania from 1548 to 1551

Barbara Rittner

b. 1973

German tennis player (born 1973)

Barbara Robinson (author)

American writer

Barbara Saß-Viehweger

b. 1943

German politician (born 1943)

Barbara Stanwyck

b. 1907

American actress (1907–1990)

Barbara Strozzi

b. 1619

Venetian baroque singer and composer

Barbara Taylor Bradford

b. 1933

British novelist (1933–2024)

Barbara Thompson (musician)

b. 1944

English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer (1944–2022)

Barbara Vucanovich

American politician (1921–2013)

Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

b. 1914

British economist; life peer

Barbara Windsor

b. 1937

English actress (1937–2020)

Barbet Schroeder

b. 1941

Iranian-born Swiss film director

Barbora Špotáková

b. 1981

Czech javelin thrower

Barbra Streisand

b. 1942

American singer and actress (born 1942)

Bardaisan

b. 154

Syrian theologian and writer (154–222)

Bardas

9th-century Byzantine noble

Barhebraeus

Scholar, polymath, and primate of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch (1226–1286)

Barnabe Googe

b. 1540

16th-century English poet and politician

Barnaby Joyce

b. 1967

Australian politician (born 1967)

Barnard Hughes

American actor (1915–2006)