Famous People with Name Barbara

Barbara Barrie            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Barrie: an American Academy Award-nominated actress and author of children's books.Barrie has had a lengthy career on stage and in film and television. She received the award for Prix d'interprétation féminine (best actress - tied with Anne Bancroft) at the 1964 Cannes Film Festival for her role in "One Potato, Two Potato," a breakthrough film about an interracial marriage and institutionalized American anti-miscegenation. Her other high-profile roles have been as Susan's (Brooke Shields) grandmother on the sitcom Suddenly Susan, and as the title character's Hal Linden wife on the comedy-drama Barney Miller. In the mid-2000s, Barrie played a recurring role on the Showtime cable-TV drama series Dead Like Me.

Barbara Schwartz            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Schwartz: is an Austrian former professional tennis player.Schwartz turned professional in 1995 at the age of 16, and reached a career-high WTA world ranking of World No. 40 on November 8, 1999, after reaching the quarter-finals of the French Open at Roland Garros that year, her best performance in a Grand Slam.

Barbara Potter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barbara Potter: is a former tennis player from the United States, who competed professionally on the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, winning six singles titles and eight doubles titles.A left-hander, she reached the semifinals at the U.S. Open in 1981, and the quarterfinals at the Australian Open in 1984, and Wimbledon in 1985, 1983 & 1982. At the WTA Tour Championships, she reached the semifinals in singles in 1984 and in doubles in 1985 and 1982. She reached a career high ranking of #7 in 1982. She retired from the sport in 1989, with her last singles title coming at Cincinnati.

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.

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".