Barney (given name)

People

• Barney Aaron, English-born American Hall of Fame lightweight bare-knuckle boxer
• Young Barney Aaron, English-born American bare-knuckle boxer; son of Barney Aaron
• Barney Barnato, British mining entrepreneur, one of those who gained control of diamond, and later gold, mining in South Africa
• Barney Berlinger, American decathlete
• Barney Bigard, American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
• Barney Carr, Australian rules footballer
• Barney Danson, Canadian politician and cabinet minister
• Barney Dreyfuss, owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team
• Barney Frank, US Representative
• Barney M. Giles, US Army Air Forces lieutenant general
• Barney F. Hajiro, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor
• Barney Harwood, Blue Peter presenter
• Barney Herbert, Australian rules footballer
• Barney Hudson, rugby league footballer
• Barney Kessel, American jazz guitarist
• Barney Lebrowitz, better known as "Battling Levinsky", American Hall-of-Fame world champion light heavyweight boxer
• Barney Martin, American actor
• Barney McCosky, Major League Baseball outfielder
• Barney McKenna, Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners
• Barney Oldfield, American automobile racer and pioneer
• Barney Pelty, American Major League Baseball player
• Barney Poole, National Football League player
• Barney Roos, American automotive engineer, co-designer of the Willys MB Jeep
• Barney Ross, American Hall-of-Fame world champion boxer born Dov-Ber Rasofsky
• Barney Rosset, owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review
• Barney Sedran, Hall of Fame basketball player
• Barney E. Warren, American Christian hymnwriter and minister
• Barney Wilen, French saxophonist

  Fictional characters

• Barney the Dinosaur, title character of Barney & Friends, a children's TV show about a purple dinosaur
• Barney Fife, from The Andy Griffith Show
• Barney Gumble, from the Simpsons
• Barney Miller, a police captain in the TV show Barney Miller
• Barney Rubble, from The Flintstones
• Barney Stinson, from the CBS television series How I Met Your Mother, portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris
• Barney Barton, in the Marvel Comics universe
• Barney Bear, from the cartoon series 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 Mission: Impossible television series, portrayed by Greg Morris
• Barney Martin, a wandering circus boy The Barney Mystery Series of children's books by Enid Blyton
• Barney Stockman, from the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated TV series
• Barney, a sheepdog in the short-lived British animated children's series Barney
• Barney, a security guard from the Nickelodeon TV series The Amanda Show
• Bad Barney, a character in an episode of It's Punky Brewster cartoon
• Barney Google, a comic strip character in Barney Google and Snuffy Smith