Barney (first name)

Barney (pronunciation: English /ˈbɑr.nɛɪ/ or ˈ / bɑr.ni / , German : /ˈbaɐ.ni/ ) is an English nickname of the male given names Bernhard (Bernard, Barnard), Barnabas and Barnaby .

Name bearer

First name

• Robert Barney Baker (1930–1995), American trade unionist and hit man
• Barney Barnato (1852–1897), South African diamond magnate
• Barney Bigard (1906–1980), American jazz clarinetist
• Barney Clark (born 1993), British actor
• Barney Djordjevic (1942–2000), Serbian-American football player, born Slobodan Đorđević
• Barney Dreyfuss (1865–1932), American entrepreneur and baseball pioneer
• Barney Ewell (1918–1996), American athlete
• Barney Frank (* 1940), American Democratic Party politician
• Barney Kessel (1923-2004), American jazz guitarist
• Barney Martin (1923-2005), American actor
• Barney McAll (* 1966), Australian jazz musician
• Barney McGill (1890-1942), American cameraman
• Barney McKenna (1939–2012), Irish musician
• Barney Norris (* 1987), British novelist and playwright
• Barney Poole (1923-2005), American football player
• Barney Richmond († ≈2005), American jazz musician
• Barney Ronay (* 20th century), English journalist
• Barney Ross (1909-1967), American boxer
• Barney Wilen (1937–1996), French composer and saxophonist

Fictional characters

• Barney, a plush dinosaur on American children's television, see Barney (children's television)
• Barney Rubble, a character from the Flintstones series
• Barney Google , title character of the comic book of the same name
• Barney Gumble, a character from The Simpsons series
• Barney Stinson, a character on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother