Barney (given name)
Barney is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of Barnard, Barnett and other names, and occasionally a nickname. It is derived from the Slavic name Barni, the pet form of Barnim, which means "defender", and it was formerly a popular name throughout Poland. Notable people with the name include:
People
- 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 Carr (1897-1971), Australian rules footballer
- 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 M. Giles (1892-1984), US Army Air Forces lieutenant general
- Barney F. Hajiro (1916-2011), US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor
- Barney Harwood (born 1979), Blue Peter presenter
- Barney Herbert (1889-1949), Australian rules footballer
- Barney Hudson (1906-1971), rugby league footballer
- 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 McKenna (1939-2012), Irish musician and a founding member of The Dubliners
- 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 Roos (1888-1960), American automotive engineer, co-designer of the Willys MB Jeep
- Barney Ross (1909–1967), American Hall-of-Fame world champion 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 Bear, a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer character from the 1939-1954 animated shorts Barney Bear,.
- Barney Cousins, fictional kidnapper from the 1993 movie The Vanishing
- Barney the Dinosaur, title character of Barney & Friends, a children's TV show about a purple dinosaur, formerly a blue dinosaur in the early videos of Barney and the Backyard Gang
- 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 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 hound dog in the 1989 film Wee Sing in Sillyville
- 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
- 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
- Barney Ross, the leader of The Expendables
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