This is a list of barbers and barber surgeons.
- Ambroise Paré — a pioneering surgeon of 16th century France when barbers also performed surgery.
- Hugo E. Vogel — Wisconsin assemblyman and barber for more than fifty years
- Johanna Hedén — a midwife who became the first female barber surgeon in Sweden
- Johnny Niggeling — a baseball player who barbered when not playing ball
- Joseph Rainey — barber who became the first black US congressman
- Magdalena Bendzisławska — a barber-surgeon in 17th century Poland and the first woman surgeon there.
- Manuel Lopes — the first black resident of Seattle who set up in business with the first barber's chair to be brought round Cape Horn.
- Peter Proby — the barber of Sir Francis Walsingham who became Master of the Worshipful Company of Barbers and Lord Mayor of London
- Richard Milburn — known as Whistling Dick, he composed the famous tune "Listen to the Mocking Bird".
- William Johnson — the barber of Natchez who kept an extensive diary
- William L. Smith — Milwaukee barber who served as a Wisconsin assemblyman
Fictional barbers
References
- Maura Scali-Sheahan (2010), "The History of Barbering", Milady's Standard Professional Barbering, Cengage Learning, p. 21, ISBN 9781435497153
- Vogel, Hugo E. 1888, Wisconsin Historical Society, 1962
- Pia Höjeberg (2018), Johanna Mariana Hedén
- Joan M. Thomas, Johnny Niggeling, Society for American Baseball Research
- Chris Simkins (2021), How Formerly Enslaved Man Became 1st Black US Congressman in 1870, Voice of America
- "Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum". cm-uj.krakow.pl. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
- Mary T. Henry (1998), Lopes, Manuel (1812-?)
- P.W. Hasler, ed. (1981), "PROBY, Peter (d.1625), of Brampton, Hunts. and Swithin's Lane, London", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, Boydell and Brewer
- Lindsay Patterson (1967), The Negro in Music and Art, p. 41
- Timoty Van Cleave, The Barber of Natchez, National Park Service
- Michael E. Stevens (2016), The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 1894-1929, p. 374