Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced /ˈstraɪsænd/ STRY-sand; born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, film and theatre actress. She has also achieved note as a composer, liberal political activist, film producer, and film director. She had won two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, and a Peabody all by the age of 28. She is one of the only entertainers to have won all four of these honors. In 2008 she was inducted as a Kennedy Center Honoree. Streisand received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2001.

She is one of the most commercially and critically successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and one of the best-selling solo recording artists with more than 71 million albums sold in the US and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the highest ranking female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list and the only female recording artist in the Top Ten.

According to the RIAA, Streisand has a total of 31 Top Ten albums to her credit since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album Love Is The Answer, she became the only artist to achieve #1 albums in five consecutive decades. Streisand also holds the record for most Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. Her RIAA tally shows she has released 50 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums. Currently, Streisand appears at #7 on the RIAA list of Top Selling Artists, with over 70 million albums sold, right behind Billy Joel and Pink Floyd. She is currently #1 in all-time sales among female artists.