List of barbers

Barbers traditionally advertised their profession with a pole. This one belonged to Carl Schultz, father of the famous cartoonist.

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]

Fictional barbers

• Sweeney Todd
• The Barber of Seville

References

1. Maura Scali-Sheahan (2010), "The History of Barbering", Milady's Standard Professional Barbering, Cengage Learning, p. 21, ISBN 9781435497153
2. Vogel, Hugo E. 1888, Wisconsin Historical Society, 1962
3. Pia Höjeberg (2018), Johanna Mariana Hedén
4. Joan M. Thomas, Johnny Niggeling, Society for American Baseball Research
5. Chris Simkins (2021), How Formerly Enslaved Man Became 1st Black US Congressman in 1870, Voice of America
6. "Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum". cm-uj.krakow.pl. Retrieved 2023-10-16.
7. Mary T. Henry (1998), Lopes, Manuel (1812-?)
8. 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
9. Lindsay Patterson (1967), The Negro in Music and Art, p. 41
10. Timoty Van Cleave, The Barber of Natchez, National Park Service
11. Michael E. Stevens (2016), The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 1894-1929, p. 374