Barbara Anne Hogan (born 28 February 1952[1]) is a former Minister of Health and of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa.

[2] Hogan attended St Dominic's Catholic School for Girls, Boksburg, and gained a degree at the University of the Witwatersrand.

[5] Hogan joined the African National Congress in 1976 after the Soweto Uprising,[3] many years after the organisation had been declared illegal and had moved its activities underground.

When Kgalema Motlanthe took office as president on 25 September 2008, he appointed Hogan as Minister of Health to replace Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.

[12] On 13 April 2011, Hogan received an honorary doctoral degree from the University of Kentucky, alongside her life-partner Ahmed Kathrada.