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.[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]

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