Barnabas (name)
Barnabas is both a masculine given name and a surname. As a given name, it is a New Testament name which means "son of the prophet". Variants of the name include Barnaba, Barnaby, and Barnabás, a Hungarian masculine given name.
People
- Barnabas, born Joseph, first-century AD Christian disciple
- Andrew Barnabas, video game music composer
- John Barnabas, Indian evolutionary biologist
- Levi Barnabas, Canadian politician
- Mathews Barnabas, Malankara Metropolitan
- Yetunde Barnabas, Nigerian model and actress
- Vicent Barnabas, Tanzanian footballer
- Yusuf Barnabas Bala, Nigerian politician and architect
- Barnabas Bidwell, American author, teacher, and politician
- Barnabas Brough, British merchant and accountant
- Robert Barnabas Brough, English writer
- Barnabas Burns, American lawyer, businessman, and politician
- Barnabas Daru, Nigerian-American plant ecologist and biogeographer
- Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, Prime Minister of Eswatini
- Sibusiso Dlamini, Swazi footballer
- Barnabas Eldridge, American industrialist
- Barnabas Fung, Hong Kong judge
- Barnabas Andyar Gemade, Nigerian politician
- Barnabas Geevarghese, Metropolitan
- Barnabas Gooch, English lawyer and academic
- Barnabas Gunn, English organist and composer
- Barnabas R. Halem 'Imana, Ugandan priest
- Barney Hopkinson, Anglican priest
- Barnabas Imenger, Nigerian footballer
- Barnabas Imenger, Nigerian footballer, son of the footballer born 1975
- Barnabas Kelet Henagan, physician and governor of South Carolina
- Barnabas Kinyor, Kenyan athlete
- Bart Latuheru, Dutch footballer
- Barnabas Long, Archdeacon of Cleveland
- Barnabas Lindars, English scholar
- Barnabas McDonald, Brother of the Christian Schools
- Barnabas Muturi Mwangi, Kenyan politician
- Barnabas Nawangwe, Ugandan architect and academic
- Barnabas O'Brien, 6th Earl of Thomond
- Barnabas Oley, English churchman and academic
- Barnabas Root,, Sierra Leonean reverend
- Barnabas A. Samatta, Tanzanian lawyer
- Barnabas Scudamore, English soldier
- Barnabas Suebu, Indonesian governor of province Papua
- Barney White-Spunner, British Army officer
- Barnabas Wood, American dentist and inventor
- Barnabas Zhang, Chinese churchman
Fictional characters
- Barnabas Collins, vampire in the soap opera Dark Shadows
- Barnabas Tharmr, a major antagonist from the 2023 video game Final Fantasy XVI.
- Barnabas, a rabbit from the movie Peter Rabbit 2, who tricks the protagonist into stealing food for him.