Thomas Barbour was born on August 19, 1884, on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts but grew up in Monmouth, New Jersey.

He was an American herpetologist. At the age of fifteen, he visited Harvard University and fell in love with its Museum of Comparative Zoology. He studied at Harvard University under Prof. Alexander Agassiz (B.A., 1906; M.A., 1908 and Ph.D., 1910). Barbour joined the faculty in 1911 as a Curator of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, and in 1927, he became Director of the Museum. His scientific travels took him through Africa, Asia, North America, South America, and Central America. He particularly enjoyed Panama, Costa Rica, and Cuba, which he visited on at least thirty occasions, generally staying in Soledad at the Harvard Botanical Gardens, now known as the Jardin Botanico de Cienfuegos. Barbour served as custodian of these gardens from 1927 until he died in 1946. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1916. In 1923 and 1924, he was one of the scientists and financial benefactors who founded the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory in Panama, the location of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. In 1931, Barbour organized The Harvard Australian Expedition (1931–1932). In 1934 and 1935, accompanied by his wife and his two youngest daughters, he made two journeys to Africa. He was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1933 and the American Philosophical Society in 1937. Along with more than 400 scholarly articles, Barbour wrote several books, including the autobiographical “Naturalist at Large” (1943), “Naturalist in Cuba” (1945), “A Naturalist's Scrapbook” (1946), and “That Vanishing Eden” (1944), which explores the natural world of a remote, undeveloped Florida. He is commemorated in the scientific names of many species and subspecies of reptiles, including Amphisbaena barbouri, an amphisbaenian, Anolis barbouri, a lizard, Aristelliger barbouri, a gecko, and Atheris barbouri, a venomous snake.

In 1906, he married Rosamond Pierce (1886–1953). He died on January 8, 1946, Boston, Massachusetts.

Rev. William McLeod Barbour was born on May 31, 1827, in Fochabers, Scotland.

He was a minister who emigrated from Scotland to the United States in 1851. He graduated from Oberlin College and Andover Theological Seminary and was ordained as a pastor in 1861. He served as a minister of the Congregational church in Peabody, Massachusetts, from 1861 to 1868. From 1868 to 1877, he was a professor at Bangor Theological Seminary. He then became a Professor of Divinity and College pastor at Yale University from 1877 to 1887. During the period from 1879 to 1885, he held the position of Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Charge at Yale Divinity School. Subsequently, from 1887 to 1897, he served as Principal of the Congregational College of Canada at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Barbour received honorary degrees of D.D. from Bowdoin College in 1870 and M.A. from Yale in 1877. Many of his discourses were published.

In 1857, he married Eliza Ann Ransom (1831-1908). He died on December 5, 1899, in Malden, Massachusetts.

Michel Barcelo was born on October 14, 1938.

He was a Canadian architect, urbanist, painter, and honorary professor in the Faculty of Environmental Design and Institut d’urbanisme at Université de Montréal. He was also a Member Emeritus of the Ordre des Urbanistes du Québec (2012). He studied computer graphics at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. Throughout his career, he served as a city planner for Montreal, conducted research, and was a guest lecturer at universities all over the world including Germany, China, the United States, France, and Vietnam. In 2013, he showcased his talents as a painter by publishing his book "Rues de Montréal," featuring watercolour illustrations and accompanying text that captures the richness and diversity of Montreal's streets, inviting readers to explore them.

He died on October 26, 2013, in Montreal, Quebec.

French music producer Eddie Barclay, whose clients included Jacques Brel, Dalida and Charles Aznavour, was born Édouard Ruault in Paris. His father and mother, a waiter and a postal worker, bought the Café de la Poste opposite the Gare de Lyon in the late 1920s. His grandmother in the suburb of Tavernay helped look after him and his brother as youngsters, but when he was 15 he quit school to help at the café. Especially enamored of jazz, he taught himself music and piano, and became skilled enough to be hired as a pianist at L’Étape club, where another performer then was Louis de Funès, later a movie star. During the war in occupied Paris, he and his young “zazou” friends would gather at his home to listen to jazz (forbidden by the Nazis) and other illegal radio programs. His next piano job was for Pierre-Louis Guerin (later owner of the famous Lido cabaret). In the wake of the American liberation of Paris, he changed his name to American-sounding “Eddie Barclay” and opened “Eddie’s Club.” In 1947, he launched a band with his second wife Nicole doing the vocals (under the stage name “Eve Williams”). The two founded “Blue Star Records,” using their home to store the 78s and Eddie’s scooter, which was used for delivering them. Among their musicians were Don Byas and Eddie Constantine. Barclay also co-wrote some songs with Charles Aznavour and Boris Vian, including “Quand tu m’embrasse,” later recorded by Josephine Baker. In addition, he wrote several film soundtracks. During this time, he also co-edited Jazz Magazine with Vian. In 1952 he traveled to the US where he was inspired by the new technology for 45s and LPs. Back in France, he started manufacturing and distributing for Mercury Records; he promoted the microgroove format to the French market, bringing 60 masters to Pathé-Marconi for reproduction. He released records by Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie, Sammy Davis, Junior, and Duke Ellington. Barclay Records was soon the top music-producing company in France with quality sound from the German sound engineer he hired, Gerhard Lehner. Another hire was 24-year-old Quincy Jones as musical director. The company’s release of the Platters’ “Only You,” sold 1.5 million copies. He “discovered” the Egyptian sensation “Dalida” in 1956, as well as Mireille Mathieu and Johnny Halliday. Many famous singers joined Barclay’s clientele, some, like Jacques Brel and Juliette Greco, abandoning his competitor, Philips. It was Barclay who gave Brel and Aznavour their real start. Brel’s last album, before he died in 1978, sold 650,000 copies the day it was released. In the early 1980s Barclay sold his company to Polygram and retired to Saint-Tropez where he had been building a house, Maison de Cap Ramauelle, for 25 years. Always dressed in his trademark white suit, he spent the next decades partying and marrying; he had a total of nine wives, earning the nickname “Bluebeard” from some paparazzi.