Barney (given name)

Barney is a masculine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Barney Aaron (1800–1850), English-born American Hall of Fame lightweight bare-knuckle boxer
• Young Barney Aaron (1836–1907), English-born American bare-knuckle boxer; son of Barney Aaron
• Barney Barnato (1851–1897), British mining entrepreneur, one of those who gained control of diamond, and later gold, mining in South Africa
• Barney Berlinger (1908–2002), American decathlete
• Barney Bigard (1906–1980), American jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist
• Barney Danson (1921–2011), Canadian politician and cabinet minister
• Barney Dreyfuss (1865–1932), owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team
• Barney Frank (born 1940), US Representative
• Barney Harwood (born 1979), Blue Peter presenter
• Barney Kessel (1923–2004), American jazz guitarist
• Barney Lebrowitz (1891–1949), better known as "Battling Levinsky", American Hall of Fame world champion light heavyweight boxer
• Barney Martin (1923–2005), American actor
• Barney McCosky (1917–1996), Major League Baseball outfielder
• Barney Oldfield (1878–1946), American automobile racer and pioneer
• Barney Pelty (1880–1939), American Major League Baseball player
• Barney Poole (1923–2005), National Football League player
• Barney Ross (1909–1967),American Hall of Fame world champion lightweight and junior welterweight boxer born Dov-Ber Rasofsky
• Barney Rosset (1922–2012), owner of the publishing house Grove Press, and publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the magazine Evergreen Review
• Barney Sedran (1891–1964), Hall of Fame basketball player
• Barney E. Warren (1867–1951), American Christian hymnwriter and minister
• Barney Wilen (1937–1996), 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, a sheepdog in the short-lived British animated children's series Barney (TV series)
• Barney, a security guard from the Nickelodeon TV series The Amanda Show
• 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, the wandering circus boy from Enid Blyton's Barney Mystery series (also sometimes known as the "R" Mystery series, because each title begins with a word beginning with "R")