List of barbers
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This is a list of barbers and barber surgeons.
- Ambroise Paré — a pioneering surgeon of 16th century France when barbers also performed surgery.[1]
- Hugo E. Vogel — Wisconsin assemblyman and barber for more than fifty years[2]
- Johanna Hedén — a midwife who became the first female barber surgeon in Sweden[3]
- Johnny Niggeling — a baseball player who barbered when not playing ball[4]
- Joseph Rainey — barber who became the first black US congressman[5]
- Magdalena Bendzisławska — a barber-surgeon in 17th century Poland and the first woman surgeon there.[6]
- 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.[7]
- Peter Proby — the barber of Sir Francis Walsingham who became Master of the Worshipful Company of Barbers and Lord Mayor of London[8]
- Richard Milburn — known as Whistling Dick, he composed the famous tune "Listen to the Mocking Bird".[9]
- William Johnson — the barber of Natchez who kept an extensive diary[10]
- William L. Smith — Milwaukee barber who served as a Wisconsin assemblyman[11]