Medicine:List of barbers

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

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]

Fictional barbers

  • Sweeney Todd
  • The Barber of Seville
  • Theodoric of York — a recurring character on Saturday Night Live, played by Steve Martin[12]


References

  1. Maura Scali-Sheahan (2010), "The History of Barbering", Milady's Standard Professional Barbering, Cengage Learning, p. 21, ISBN 9781435497153 
  2. Vogel, Hugo E. 1888, Wisconsin Historical Society, 1962, https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/Records/Article/CS14010 
  3. Pia Höjeberg (2018), Johanna Mariana Hedén, https://www.skbl.se/en/article/JohannaHeden 
  4. Joan M. Thomas, Johnny Niggeling, Society for American Baseball Research, https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/johnny-niggeling/ 
  5. Chris Simkins (2021), How Formerly Enslaved Man Became 1st Black US Congressman in 1870, Voice of America, https://www.voanews.com/a/usa_how-formerly-enslaved-man-became-1st-black-us-congressman-187/6202497.html 
  6. "Uniwersytet Jagielloński - Collegium Medicum". https://cm-uj.krakow.pl/index.php/collegium/kiosk_wydarzenie/2284. 
  7. Mary T. Henry (1998), Lopes, Manuel (1812-?), https://www.historylink.org/File/394 
  8. P.W. Hasler, ed. (1981), "PROBY, Peter (d.1625), of Brampton, Hunts. and Swithin's Lane, London", The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (Boydell and Brewer), https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/proby-peter-1625 
  9. Lindsay Patterson (1967), The Negro in Music and Art, p. 41 
  10. Timoty Van Cleave, The Barber of Natchez, National Park Service, http://www.nps.gov/natc/learn/historyculture/williamjohnson.htm 
  11. Michael E. Stevens (2016), The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger, 1894-1929, p. 374 
  12. Jerry Menikoff (2002), Law and Bioethics, p. 151