Barnaby
Barnaby is an Old English surname composed of the Saxon element beorn meaning young warrior, and the Danish suffix by meaning 'settlement'. As a given name, it means "son of consolation" and is etymologically linked with the New Testament name Barnabas.
People
Given name
- Barnaby Conrad, American writer and artist
- Barnaby Conrad III, American writer, editor, and artist
- Barns Courtney, English singer
- Barnaby Diddleum, pseudonym used by P.T. Barnum
- Barnaby Dorfman, founder and CEO of Foodista.com
- Barnaby Edwards, British actor, writer, director and artist
- Barnaby Evans, American artist
- Barnaby Fitzpatrick, 1st Baron Upper Ossory
- Barnaby French, Australian rules footballer
- Barnaby Furnas, American painter
- Barnaby Harwood, English actor
- Barnaby Jack, New Zealand computer security professional
- Barnaby Joyce, Australian politician
- Barnaby Keeney, president of Brown University
- Barnaby Bernard Lintot,, English publisher
- Barnaby Metschurat, German actor
- Barnaby Miln, gay magistrate and social activist
- Barnaby Potter, Church of England priest
- Barnaby Raine, English historian
- Barnaby Ralph, professional virtuoso recorder player
- Barnaby Weir, singer, songwriter and guitarist
Surname
- Frank Barnaby, anti-nuclear weapons activist
- George Barnaby, Canadian politician
- Hannah Barnaby, author of Wonder Show
- Matthew Barnaby, retired National Hockey League right winger
- Nathaniel Barnaby, English engineer
- Thomas Barnaby, Micmac chief
Fictional characters
- Barnaby, a character created and portrayed by children's television personality Linn Sheldon, in Barnaby & Me
- Barnaby, vampire in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series of erotic fantasy-horror novels by Laurell K. Hamilton
- Barnaby, merman character played by Scott Michaelson in Sabrina, Down Under
- "Barnaby Bear", the English name given to Colargol, the 1970s Franco-Polish children's character when the show was broadcast by the BBC
- "Barnaby Bear", the English name for Rasmus Klump, a Danish comic strip
- a title character of Becky and Barnaby Bear, a BBC CBeebies television series
- Barnaby Brooks Jr., one of the main protagonist in the Japanese anime Tiger & Bunny
- Dr. Barnaby Fulton, a main character in the film Monkey Business, played by Cary Grant
- Barnaby Elf, a side character and one of Ben Elf and Princess Holly's Elf friends in the British cartoon ""Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom"".
- Barnaby Gaitlin, narrator of A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
- the title character of Barnaby Grimes, series of children's books by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
- the title character of Barnaby Jones, television detective series, played by Buddy Ebsen
- Barnaby Littlemouse, character created by English children's writer and illustrator Racey Helps
- Barnaby Pierce, in the television movie Coast to Coast, played by Richard Dreyfuss
- Barnaby Ross, pseudonym used by creators of Ellery Queen
- the title character of Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge
- Barnaby Tucker, character in Hello, Dolly!
- Barnaby Tucker, character in the play The Matchmaker by Thornton Wilder
- Barnaby West, character on Wagon Train, played by Michael Burns
- the title character of Sir Barnaby Whig, a Restoration comedy play by Sir Thomas d'Urfey
- Cousin Barnaby, in the Meadowsweet, by Baroness Emma Orczy
- the protagonist of the Widow Barnaby trilogy of novels by Frances Trollope
- the title character of Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys to the North of England, poems by Richard Braithwaite
- the protagonist of the Alexandra Barnaby series of novels by Janet Evanovich
- Dr. Russell Barnaby, evil geneticist in Dead Rising, a 2006 video game
- Silas Barnaby, in the 1934 film version of Babes in Toyland
- Tom Barnaby, a detective in the novels and British television series Midsomer Murders
- Uncle Barnaby, character in the 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland
- Barnaby, a strongman who appears occasionally on the Family Guy animated television series
- Barnaby, a comic strip by Crockett Johnson starring Barnaby Baxter
- Barnaby, in The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé
- Barnaby, a physician in the video game ''Hollow Knight: Silksong''