Barbara is from the Greek barbaros ("non-Greek-speaking, foreign") — the same root as "barbarian." **Ranked #2 in the US in 1937; held a top-10 spot from 1927 to 1958**. **Barbara Walters (1929-2022)** — broke the gender barrier as **the first female evening news anchor on a major US network** (1976) and creator of *The View*. **Barbara Jordan (1936-1996)** — first Black woman elected to the Texas Senate and the US Congress from the Deep South; delivered the keynote at the 1976 Democratic National Convention. **Saint Barbara of Heliopolis** — early Christian martyr, patron saint of artillerymen.
Subject of Susan Page's *The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters* (2024).
Barbara reduces to one — the number of pioneering anchor.