Barbara Allen

Barbara Allen may refer to:

  • Barbara Allen (writer), pseudonym used by the writer Vivian Stuart (1914–1986)
  • Barbara Allen Rainey (1948–1982), first female to be designated a naval aviator in the U.S. armed forces
  • Barbara Allen (politician), American politician, Kansas State Senator
  • Barbara Jo Allen (1906–1974), American actress
  • Barbara Allen (song), a popular English broadside ballad turned American folk song

Famous quotes containing the words barbara and/or allen:

    It was in and about the Martinmas time,
    When the green leaves were afalling,
    That Sir John Graeme, in the West Country,
    Fell in love with Barbara Allan.
    —Unknown. Bonny Barbara Allan (l. 1–4)

    I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,
    I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children,
    And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
    It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
    Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)