List of barbers

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

 * Sweeney Todd
 * The Barber of Seville
 * Theodoric of York — a recurring character on Saturday Night Live, played by Steve Martin