Barbara Explained

Barbara may refer to:

People

• Barbara (given name)
• Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter
• Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer
• Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer
• Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer

Film and television

• Barbara (1961 film), a West German film
• Bárbara (film), a 1980 Argentine film
• Barbara (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel
• Barbara (2012 film), a German film
• Barbara (2017 film), a French film
• Barbara (TV series), a British sitcom

Places

• Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France
• Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa
• Barbara, Arkansas, U.S.
• Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza
• Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy
• Berbara, or al-Barbara, Lebanon
• Berbara, Akkar District, a village in Lebanon
• Berbera (Somali: Barbara|link=no), Somaliland

Print

• Bárbara (comics), an Argentine comic book series
• Barbara, a 1939 novel by Danish-writing Faroese author Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen
• Major Barbara (play), a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw

Music

• Barbara
• Barbara (We Are Scientists album), 2010
• Barbara (Trixie Mattel album), 2020
• Barbara, a 1996 album by Barbara
• "Barbara" (The Beach Boys song), a song by Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys
• "Barbarasong" ("Barbara Song"), from Weill's The Threepenny Opera
• "Barbara", a 1927 song written by Abner Silver
• "Barbara", a 1977 song by Chris Roberts
• "Barbara", a 1968 song by George Morgan
• "Barbara", a 1960 song by The Temptations
• "Barbara", a song by Martin Mann
• "Barbara", a 1979 song by Enzo Carella
• "Barbara's Rhubarb Bar", a German tongue-twister, made popular on TikTok in 2024

Ships

• , one of several merchant ships by that name
• , more than one ship of the British Royal Navy
• , a United States Navy patrol boat

Other

• Barbara (moth), a genus of moths
• 234 Barbara, an asteroid
• Barbara, a mnemonic devised by mediaeval scholasticism for a particular syllogism

See also

• Santa Barbara (disambiguation)
• Barbarella (disambiguation)
• Barbary Coast (disambiguation)
• Barbera (disambiguation)
• Barabara, a traditional dwelling of the Aleutian Islands