Barba (which means "beard" in
Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
,
Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
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*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
and
Italian
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) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
People
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Antonella Barba
Antonella Maria Barba (born November 26, 1986) is an American singer. Born in Santa Monica, California and raised in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Barba rose to prominence while competing on the sixth season of ''American Idol''. She attracted me ...
(born 1986), U.S. singer and contestant on ''American Idol''
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Ben Barba
Ben Barba (born 13 June 1989) is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played for St Helens in the Super League. He primarily played as a or .
He was banned by both the NRL and Rugby Football League in February ...
(born 1989), Australian rugby footballer
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Eric Barba
Eric Barba is a visual effects supervisor for television, film, and commercial advertising.
After studying at the Art Center College of Design, Barba began his career at Steven Spielberg's Amblin Imaging as a digital artist on '' SeaQuest 2032'' ...
, special effects artist
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Eugenio Barba
Eugenio Barba (born 29 October 1936) is an Italian author and theatre director based in Denmark. He is the founder of the Odin Theatre and the International School of Theatre Anthropology, both located in Holstebro, Denmark.
Biography
Barba was ...
(born 1936), Italian author and director
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Federico Barba (born 1993), Italian footballer
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Fidel LaBarba
Fidel LaBarba (September 29, 1905 – October 2, 1981) was an American boxer and sportswriter. He was born in New York City and grew up in Los Angeles, California. LaBarba began his amateur career at fourteen, eventually winning the flyweight ...
(1905–1981), U.S. boxer and sportswriter
* Javier Barba, lead guitar of Mexican rock band
Los Depas
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Juan Barbas
Juan Alberto Barbas (born 23 August 1959 in San Martín, Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine footballer who played as an attacking or defensive midfielder. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina, Spain, Italy, and Switzerland before tu ...
(born 1959), Argentine footballer
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María Ignacia Rodríguez de Velasco y Osorio Barba (1778–1851), figure in the society of Mexico City
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Paul Barbă Neagră (born 1929), Romanian film director
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Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez (July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer.
Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora B ...
, pseudonym of Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, Colombian poet
*
Victoria Barbă (1926–2020), Moldovan animated film director
Fictional characters
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Rafael Barba, (
Raúl Esparza
Raúl Eduardo Esparza (born October 24, 1970) is an American stage, screen, and voice actor. Considered one of Broadway's leading men since the 2000s, he is best known for his Tony Award-nominated performance as Bobby in the 2006 Broadway reviva ...
) appearing on ''
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit''
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Barbapapa
''Barbapapa'' is a 1970 children's picture book by the French-American couple Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who lived in Paris, France. Barbapapa is both the title character and the name of his "species". The book was the first of a series of ...
, the title character, and name of the "species" of said character, of a series of children's books
See also
* The Barba river, a tributary of the Vologne in the French Vosges
*''
Barba'' as the latin root of the word "
beard
A beard is the hair that grows on the jaw, chin, upper lip, lower lip, cheeks, and neck of humans and some non-human animals. In humans, usually pubescent or adult males are able to grow beards.
Throughout the course of history, societal at ...
"
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Barbas, in demonology
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Barbas (''Charmed''), a fictional character
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Barbas (surname)
* Barba is the last palace dungeon of the sixth dungeon in
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link. He is a serpent. When
Nintendo released Zelda II in Europe and America, they called the palace boss Barba, but this has since been
retconned
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established diegetic facts in the plot of a fictional work (those established through the narrative itself) are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subse ...
as Volvagia, which is his original name in the Japanese version of Zelda II.
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