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]