Barbara, Lady Mallowan, OBE (née Hastings Parker; 14 July 1908 – 21 November 1993) was an English archaeologist, Assyriologist, and epigraphist who specialised in cylinder seals.

She worked in Baghdad and succeeded Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) as the secretary and librarian of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq from 1950 to 1961.

[1] Her first assignment from director Max Mallowan was to build a "dig house" at Nimrud, which she did and maintained for many years.

She was typically the only staff member to reside in Baghdad throughout the school year, from October to June.

She was not only involved in the excavations of Nimrud under Max Mallowan, but also at Tell al-Rimah and Tell Brak.