Barney (given name)
Barney is a masculine given name. It is often short for Barnard, Barnett, and other names. It is also derived from the Slavic name Barni, the pet form of Barnim, which means "defender", and it was formerly a popular name throughout Pomerania. Notable people with the name include:
People
Given name
- Barney Aaron, English-born American bare-knuckle boxer
- Young Barney Aaron, English-born American bare-knuckle boxer; son of Barney Aaron
- Barney Barnato, British mining entrepreneur active in South Africa
- Barney Clark, first human recipient of an artificial heart
- Barney Corse, American abolitionist
- Barney M. Giles, US Army Air Force lieutenant general
- Barney Hill, an American who, with his wife, claimed to have been kidnapped by aliens
- Barney F. Hajiro, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor
- Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist
- Barney Lebrowitz, better known as "Battling Levinsky", American boxer
- Barney Martin, American actor
- Barney McCosky, Major League Baseball outfielder
- Barney Pelty, American Major League Baseball player
- Barney Poole, National Football League player
- Barney Ross, American boxer born Dov-Ber Rasofsky
- Barney Sedran, American basketball player
- Barney Visser, NASCAR team owner
- Barney E. Warren, American Christian hymnwriter and minister
Hypocorism
- Bernard Barney Berlinger, American decathlete
- Bernard Barney Carr (Gaelic footballer), Irish Gaelic football player and manager
- Barnett Barney Danson, Canadian politician and cabinet minister
- Bernhard Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team
- Barnett Barney Frank, American former politician
- Barnaby Barney Harwood, British actor and television presenter
- Bernard Barney Herbert, Australian rules footballer
- Bernard Barney Hudson, English rugby union and rugby league footballer
- Bernard Barney McKenna, Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners
- Berna Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer
- Barnet Barney Rosset, owner of Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review
- Bernard Barney Wilen, French saxophonist
Nickname
- Barney Bigard, American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
- Barney Carr, Australian rules footballer
- Barney Greenway, British metal singer
- Barney Roos, American automotive engineer, co-designer of the Willys MB Jeep
- Raymond van Barneveld, Dutch professional darts player
Fictional characters
- Barney the Dinosaur, title character of Barney & Friends, a children's TV show about a singing purple dinosaur host, formerly a sometimes singing blue dinosaur host in the early pilot video series of Barney & the Backyard Gang consisting three-part episodes from 1980s.
- Barney Barton, older brother and arch-enemy of the superhero Hawkeye in the Marvel Comics universe
- Barney Bear, the title character of the 1939–1954 animated shorts Barney Bear
- Barney Calhoun, a playable character in Half-Life: Blue Shift and a major character in the Half-Life 2 series
- Barney Collier, from the original Mission: Impossible TV series, and the 1988 revival, portrayed by Greg Morris
- Barney Cousins, kidnapper from the 1993 movie The Vanishing
- Barney Fife, from The Andy Griffith Show
- Barney Google, a comic strip character in Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
- Barney Gumble, from The Simpsons
- Barney Martin, a wandering circus boy The Barney Mystery Series of children's books by Enid Blyton
- Barney Miller, a police captain in the TV show Barney Miller
- Barney Ross, the leader of The Expendables
- Barney Rubble, from The Flintstones
- Barney Stinson, from the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris
- Barney Stockman, from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series
- Barney, a sheepdog in the short-lived British animated children's TV series ''Barney''