Barry (first name)
Barry is a male name .
Origin and meaning
The name is a French-Celtic-Welsh given name. There are different etymologies of the name; so on the one hand it can mean "son of Harry" or on the other hand "javelin thrower" or "shooter".
Well-known namesake
A.
- Barry Adamson (born 1958), English guitarist
- Barry Altschul (born 1943), American jazz drummer
B.
- Barry Blue (born 1950), British singer, songwriter and producer
- Barry Bostwick (born 1946), American actor
C.
- Barry Cooper (* 1949), English musicologist
- Barry Crimmins (1953–2018), American stand-up comedian, political satirist and author
- Barry Crump (1935–1996), New Zealand writer
D.
- Barry Dransfield (* 20th century), British folk singer and fiddler
E.
- Barry Eichengreen (* 1952), American economist
F.
- Barry Ferguson (* 1978), Scottish midfielder and captain of the Glasgow Rangers
- Barry Flanagan (1941-2009), British sculptor
G
- Barry Gibb (* 1946) British-Australian composer and music producer, lead singer and guitarist for the Bee Gees
- Barry Goldberg (* 1942), keyboard player on the US blues scene
- Barry Greenstein (born 1954), American poker player
H
- Barry Hughart (1934-2019), American fantasy author
K
- Barry Kiener (≈ 1956–1986), American jazz pianist
L.
- Barry Levinson (born 1942), American film director
M.
- Barry Manilow (born 1943), American singer
- Barry Marshall (* 1951), Australian physician and Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology and Medicine in 2005
- Barry McCrea (* 1974), Irish literary scholar and writer
- Barry McGuire (born 1935), folk rock singer and guitarist
- Barry McKinnon (born 1944), Canadian poet
- Barry Melton (born 1947), American musician
- Barry Miller (politician) (1864–1933), American politician
- Barry Miller (actor) (born 1958), American actor
- Barry Morse (1918-2008), British actor
N
- Barry Newman (born 1938), American actor
P
- Barry Pinches (* 1970), English snooker player
R.
- Barry Ryan (born 1948), English musician
S.
- Barry Sanders (sociolinguist) (born 1938), American sociolinguist
- Barry Sanders ( American football player ) (born 1968), American football player
- Barry Sanders (physicist) , Canadian physicist
- K. Barry Sharpless (* 1941), American chemist
- Barry Sheene (1950-2003), English motorcycle racer
- Barry Shulman (born 1946), American poker player
- Barry Sonnenfeld (* 1953), American cameraman and film director
- Barry Sullivan (1912–1994), American actor
T
- Barry Tuckwell (1931-2020), Australian horn player and conductor
W.
- Barry White (1944-2003), American singer
Z
- Barry Zweig (1942-2020), American jazz guitarist
Others
- Barry (rescue dog) (1800–1814), famous avalanche dog