Bärbel is a
German-language
German (, ) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the majority and official (or co-official) language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. It is a ...
feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
, often a diminutive or variant of the name
Barbara.
Individuals bearing the name Bärbel include:
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Bärbel Bas (born 1968), German politician
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Bärbel Bendiks, East German rower
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Bärbel Beuermann (born 1955), German politician
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Bärbel Bohley (1945–2010), East German dissident and artist
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Bärbel Broschat (born 1957), East German hurdler
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Bärbel Dieckmann (born 1949), German politician
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Bärbel Fuhrmann (born 1940), German swimmer
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Bärbel Graf, East German high jumper
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Bärbel Grimmer (born 1945), East German swimmer
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Bärbel Höhn (born 1952), German politician
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Bärbel Hönisch (born 1974), German paleoceanographer, paleoclimatologist, author, and professor
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Bärbel Inhelder (1913–1997), Swiss psychologist
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Bärbel Jungmeier (born 1975), Austrian road cyclist and mountain bike rider
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Bärbel Kampmann (1946–1999), German psychologist, writer, and civil servant
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Bärbel Kofler (born 1967), German politician
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Bärbel Koribalski (born 1964), German astronomer
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Bärbel Körner, West German slalom canoeist
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Bärbel Köster (born 1957), East German sprint canoer
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Bärbel-Maria Kurth (born 1954), German statistician and epidemiologist
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Bärbel Löhnert (born 1942), East German long jumper
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Bärbel Martin (born 1940), West German figure skater
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Bärbel Mayer (born 1935), East German sprinter
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Bärbel Mohr (1964–2010), German author
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Bärbel Podeswa (born 1946), East German hurdler
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Bärbel Richter, East German slalom canoeist
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Bärbel Schäfer (born 1963), German television presenter and talk show host
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Bärbel Struppert (born 1950), East German sprinter
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Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter (born 1943), German theologian
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Bärbel Wöckel
Bärbel Wöckel ( Eckert; born 21 March 1955) is a former East German sprinter. She never ran a world record in the individual disciplines. However, she ran several world records as part of relay teams with Doris Maletzki, Renate Ste ...
(born 1955), East German sprinter
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Feminine given names
German feminine given names