Famous People with Name Barbara

Barbara Rossi            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Rossi: a Chicago artist, one of the original Chicago Imagists, a group in the 1960s and 1970s who turned to representational art. She first exhibited with them at the Hyde Park Art Center in 1969. She is known for meticulously rendered drawings and cartoonish paintings.

Barbara Kruger            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Kruger: an American conceptual artist. She was born in Newark, New Jersey and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. After a year at Syracuse, she moved to New York, where she began attending Parsons School of Design. She studied with Diane Arbus and Marvin Israel, who, as a graphic designer and art director for Harper's Bazaar in the 1960s, introduced Kruger to photographers and fashion/magazine sub-cultures. After a year at Parsons, Kruger left school and started to work at Mademoiselle magazine as an entry-level designer.Much of Kruger's graphic work consists of black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red Futurama Bold Oblique. The phrases included in her work are usually declarative, and make common use of such pronouns as "you," "I," "we," and "they." The juxtaposition of Kruger's imagery with text containing criticism of sexism and the circulation of power within cultures is a recurring motif in the work.

Barbara Howard            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Howard: was a Canadian artist and wood engraver.Helen Barbara Howard was a professional artist who produced work consistently throughout her life, from her graduation in 1951 as an honours silver medallist from the Ontario College of Art, where she was a pupil of Will Ogilvie and Jock Macdonald, until her unexpected death in 2002. In the early 1950s she lived in London, England, studying at the St Martins School of Art and immersing herself in the English landscape. She also travelled to Europe, visiting galleries in Rome,

Barbara Hall Partee            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Hall Partee: a Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Linguistics and Philosophy at UMass-Amherst. Partee is still publishing contributions in the field of semantic research.

Barbara Gluck            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Gluck: is an American photojournalist, speaker, writer, and naturopathic healing practitioner. After an early career in advertising she produced award-winning photojournalism during the Vietnam War. During the 1970s she developed her career as an art photographe

Paola Barbara            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Paola Barbara: was a Italian film actress. She appeared in 62 films between 1935 and 1978.She was born and died in Rome, Italy.

Ana Bárbara            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Ana Bárbara: a Mexican singer.Her sister, Viviana Ugalde, was a teenaged singer of some notoriety across San Luis Potosi when Ana Barbara was a little girl. Ana Bárbara usually attended her sister's concerts, which made her want to become a singer herself.Ana Barbara would become a beauty queen before she reached stardom as a singer: in 1988, she became "Miss San Luis Potosí", going on to represent her state in the Miss Universe-sponsored Miss Mexico beauty contest. She lost in her bid to become Miss Mexico, however.

Joan La Barbara            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Joan La Barbara: is an American vocalist and composer associated with contemporary music. She is a former student of Helen Boatwright. She has worked with her husband Morton Subotnick since 1979, as well with many other contemporary composers such as John Cage, Morton Fel

April Barbaran            Origin/Culture/Country: American

April Barbaran: was a member of Hello! Project group Coconuts Musume from June 1999 until January 2000. Due to her short time in the group, she only appeared on the singles "Halation Summer" and "Dance & Chance".