Barbara Thompson (South African Politician)
Barbara Thompson may refer to: * Barbara J. Thompson (born 1969), American heliophysicist and expert on the causes of space weather * Barbara Thompson (figure skater), British figure skater who competed in ice dance *Barbara Thompson (musician) (1944–2022), English jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer *Barbara Thompson (castaway) (1831–1916), only survivor of the shipwrecked cutter ''America'' *Barbara Thompson (politician) (1924–2010), Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction * Barbara Thompson (baseball) (1932–2020), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player for Rockford Peaches The Rockford Peaches were a women's professional baseball team who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A founding member, the team represented Rockford, Illinois. The Peaches were one of two teams to pla ...

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Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as Barbara, Macedonian singer * Bárbara (footballer) (born 1988), Brazilian footballer Film and television * ''Barbara'' (1961 film), a West German film * ''Bárbara'' (film), a 1980 Argentine film * ''Barbara'' (1997 film), a Danish film directed by Nils Malmros, based on Jacobsen's novel * ''Barbara'' (2012 film), a German film * ''Barbara'' (2017 film), a French film * ''Barbara'' (TV series), a British sitcom Places * Barbara (Paris Métro), a metro station in Montrouge and Bagneux, France * Barbaria (region), or al-Barbara, an ancient region in Northeast Africa * Barbara, Arkansas, U.S. * Barbara, Gaza, a former Palestinian village near Gaza * Barbara, Marche, a town in Italy * Berbara, or al-Barbara, Lebanon * Berbara, Ak ...
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Barbara Thompson (figure Skater)
Barbara Thompson is a British figure skater who competed in ice dance. With partner Gerard Rigby, she won the bronze medal at the 1956 World Figure Skating Championships The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion. The 1956 competitions for men, ladies, pair skating, .... Competitive highlights With Gerard Rigby References {{DEFAULTSORT:Thompson, Barbara British female ice dancers Living people Year of birth missing (living people) ...
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Barbara Thompson (musician)
Barbara Gracey Thompson MBE (27 July 1944 – 9 July 2022) was an English jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer. She studied clarinet, flute, piano and classical composition at the Royal College of Music, but the music of Duke Ellington and John Coltrane made her shift her interests to jazz and saxophone. She was married to drummer Jon Hiseman of Colosseum from 1967 until his death in 2018. Career Around 1970, Thompson was part of Neil Ardley's New Jazz Orchestra and appeared on albums by Colosseum. Beginning in 1975, she was involved in the foundation of three bands: * United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, a "band of bandleaders" with Wolfgang Dauner (p), Volker Kriegel (g), Albert Mangelsdorff (tb), Eberhard Weber (b), Ian Carr (tp), Charlie Mariano (sax), Ack van Rooyen (tp) and Jon Hiseman (dr). *Barbara Thompson's Jubiaba (9-piece Latin/rock band) including Peter Lemer, Roy Babbington, Henry Lowther, Ian Hamer, Derek Wadsworth, Trevor Tomkins, Bill Le Sage, Glyn Thoma ...
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Barbara Thompson (castaway)
Barbara Crawford Thompson (1831–1912) was a Scottish woman who, as a teenaged girl, survived a shipwreck in the Torres Strait Islands of Australia and spent five years living with the local Kaurareg people. She was possibly the sole survivor of the November 1844 wreck of the cutter ''America'', which ran onto Madjii Reef at Horn Island in Endeavour Strait near Cape York, Queensland. Early life She was born Barbara Crawford in Dundee, Scotland. She emigrated with her family to New South Wales on the immigrant ship '' John Barry'' which reached Sydney on 13 July 1837. The occupation of her father Charles Crawford was given as tinsmith. Shipwreck At the time of the shipwreck, Barbara Crawford Thompson had lived for twenty months in Brisbane with her lover Captain William Thompson as his ''de facto'' wife. The cutter ''America'' left Moreton Bay to salvage whale oil from the wreck of a whaler lost on the Bampton Shoal. Thompson is presumed to have died while trying to swim ...
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Barbara Thompson (politician)
Barbara Thompson (October 15, 1924 – September 23, 2010) was an educator and the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Wisconsin from 1973 to 1981. Born in McFarland, Wisconsin and raised on a dairy and tobacco farm, the former Barbara Ruth Storck graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Platteville in 1956 and received her master's degree and doctorate from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Initially, Thompson started to teach in a one-room schoolhouse and was a school administrator. She campaigned for the State Superintendent office, while recovering from a broken arm in 1973, and was the first woman to be elected to the office. During her administration, the teachers in Hortonville, Wisconsin Hortonville is a village in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,711 at the 2010 census. Hortonville is located in the Fox Cities region and the Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI CSA, the third largest metropolitan area ... went on stri ...
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Barbara Thompson (baseball)
Barbara Thompson may refer to: * Barbara J. Thompson (born 1969), American heliophysicist and expert on the causes of space weather *Barbara Thompson (figure skater), British figure skater who competed in ice dance *Barbara Thompson (musician) (1944–2022), English jazz saxophonist, flutist and composer *Barbara Thompson (castaway) (1831–1916), only survivor of the shipwrecked cutter ''America'' *Barbara Thompson (politician) (1924–2010), Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction * Barbara Thompson (baseball) (1932–2020), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player for Rockford Peaches The Rockford Peaches were a women's professional baseball team who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. A founding member, the team represented Rockford, Illinois. The Peaches were one of two teams to pla ...