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The following is a List of authors by name whose last names begin with B: ... England, nf), also known as Bacconius; George Bacovia (1881 ... (fl. first half of 9th c ...
Barbara Kolb (February 10, 1938 – October 21, 2024) was an American composer and educator, the first woman to win the Rome Prize in musical composition. Her music features sound masses of colorful textures, impressionistic sounds and atonal vocabulary, with influences from literary and visual arts.
Dame Mary Barbara Hamilton Cartland, DBE, DStJ (9 July 1901 – 21 May 2000), known as the Queen of Romance, was an English writer who published both contemporary and historical romance novels, the latter set primarily during the Victorian or Edwardian period. Cartland is one of the best-selling authors worldwide of the 20th century.
Barbara was among the most popular names for girls in English-speaking countries in the first half of the 20th century but has since decreased in usage in countries such as the United States.There were 271 American girls named Barbara and 27 American girls named Barbie in 2022.
Barbara Strozzi (also called Barbara Valle; baptised 6 August 1619 – 11 November 1677) was an Italian composer and singer of the Baroque Period. During her lifetime, Strozzi published eight volumes of her own music, and had more secular music in print than any other composer of the era. [ 1 ]
In The Hunger Games prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, characters from the Covey are given first names based on traditional ballads. The character Barb Azure Baird's first name is based on Barbara Allen. The song has also been sampled, quoted, and featured as a dramatic device in numerous films: Tom Brown's School Days (1940)
Sherry Carr (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sara Chance, and Sydney Ann Clary) [19] Tori Carrington [6] Susan Carroll [14] Rosemary Carter; Barbara Cartland; Zoe Cass (pseudonym of Lois Dorothea Low) Carla Cassidy [20] Jayne Castle [7] Clare Cavendish; Diane Chamberlain; Sara Chance (also known as Lacey Dancer, Sherry Carr, and Sydney Ann Clary ...
Robert Valentine, also known as Roberto Valentino (c. 1671–1747) Carlo Agostino Badia (1672–1738) Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672–1749) André Cardinal Destouches (1672–1749) Nicolas de Grigny (1672–1703) François Duval (1672–1728) Francesco Mancini (1672–1737) Antoine Forqueray (1672–1745) Georg Caspar Schürmann (1672/1673 ...