# Barba

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**Barba** (which means "beard" in [Spanish](/source/Spanish_language), [Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language) and [Italian](/source/Italian_language)) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

## People

- [Antonella Barba](/source/Antonella_Barba) (born 1986), U.S. singer and contestant on *American Idol*
- [Angelo Barba](/source/Angelo_Barba) (born 1958), Filipino politician
- [Ben Barba](/source/Ben_Barba) (born 1989), Australian rugby footballer
- [Eric Barba](/source/Eric_Barba), special effects artist
- [Eugenio Barba](/source/Eugenio_Barba) (born 1936), Italian author and director
- [Federico Barba](/source/Federico_Barba) (born 1993), Italian footballer
- [Fidel LaBarba](/source/Fidel_LaBarba) (1905–1981), U.S. boxer and sportswriter
- Javier Barba, lead guitar of Mexican rock band [Los Depas](/source/Los_Depas)
- [Juan Barbas](/source/Juan_Barbas) (born 1959), Argentine footballer
- [Paul Barbă Neagră](/source/Paul_Barb%C4%83_Neagr%C4%83) (1929–2009), Romanian film director
- [Porfirio Barba-Jacob](/source/Porfirio_Barba-Jacob), pseudonym of Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, Colombian poet
- [Victoria Barbă](/source/Victoria_Barb%C4%83) (1926–2020), Moldovan animated film director
- [Barba (footballer)](/source/Barba_(footballer)) (born 1999), full name *João Pedro de Giuli*, Brazilian footballer

### Fictional characters

- [Rafael Barba](/source/Rafael_Barba), ([Raúl Esparza](/source/Ra%C3%BAl_Esparza)) appearing on *[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit](/source/Law_%26_Order:_Special_Victims_Unit)*
- [Barbapapa](/source/Barbapapa), the title character, and name of the "species" of said character, of a series of children's books

## See also

- The [Barba River](/source/Barba_River), a tributary of the [Vologne](/source/Vologne) in the French Vosges
- *[Barba](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barba)* as the Latin root of the word "[beard](/source/Beard)"
- [Barbas](/source/Barbas), in demonology
- [Barbas (*Charmed*)](/source/Barbas_(Charmed)), a fictional character
- [Barbas (surname)](/source/Barbas_(surname))
- Barba is the last palace dungeon of the sixth dungeon in *[Zelda II: The Adventure of Link](/source/Zelda_II:_The_Adventure_of_Link)*. He is a serpent. When [Nintendo](/source/Nintendo) released *Zelda II* in Europe and America, they called the palace boss Barba, but this has since been [retconned](/source/Retconned) as Volvagia, which is his original name in the Japanese version of *Zelda II*.
- The sixth Colossus in the 2005 action-adventure video game *[Shadow of the Colossus](/source/Shadow_of_the_Colossus)*

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