Barlow may refer to:

Places

Canada

* Barlow River (Chibougamau River), Quebec *

Barlow, Yukon This is a list of communities in Yukon. Municipalities Unincorporated communities These areas lie within the Unorganized Yukon, which covers 99.8% of the territory's land mass. Hamlets Statistics Canada recognizes two census subdivisi ...

, a local community of Yukon

New Zealand

Barlow River (New Zealand) The Barlow River is a river in the Westland district of the South Island of New Zealand. It is a tributary of the Perth River. The Barlow River is fed by the Barlow and Farrar Glacier. Its tributary North Barlow River is fed by the Escape Es ...

, a river in New Zealand * North Barlow River, a river in New Zealand

United Kingdom

* Barlow Common, a village in Derbyshire, England *

Barlow, Derbyshire Barlow is a village and civil parish in the North East Derbyshire district of Derbyshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 884, increasing to 920 at the 2011 Census. The village is about 4 miles north-west o ...

, England *

Barlow, North Yorkshire Barlow is a small village and civil parish located in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England, about 16 miles south of York. In the 2011 census, it had around 290 houses and a population of 753. The village has very few amenities, but th ...

, England * Barlow Woodseats Hall, Derbyshire, England

United States

* Barlow, Alabama, an unincorporated community in Washington County, Alabama *

Barlow, Kentucky Barlow is a home rule-class city in Ballard County, Kentucky, in the United States. The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1872 as Barlow City and later reincorporated in 1903. The population was 675 as of the 2010 census. ...

Barlow, Missouri Barlow is an extinct town in Wayne County, in the U.S. state of Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in ...

Barlow, North Dakota Barlow is an unincorporated community, unincorporated small rural village in Foster County, North Dakota, Foster County, in the U.S. state of North Dakota. U.S. Route 281 runs through it. History A post office at Barlow was established in 1884, a ...

Barlow, Ohio Barlow is an unincorporated community in western Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio, United States. Although it is unincorporated, it has a ZIP code 45712. It lies at the intersection of State Routes 339 and 550 near the South Fork of ...

* Barlow, Oregon *

Barlow Township, Washington County, Ohio Barlow Township is one of the twenty-two townships of Washington County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 2,417 people in the township. Geography Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships: * Waterto ...

Barlow Pass (disambiguation) Barlow Pass may refer to one of these mountain passes in the United States: * Barlow Pass (Oregon) *Barlow Pass (Washington) Barlow Pass (elevation ) is a mountain pass on the west side of the Cascades in Washington on the Mountain Loop Highwa ...

, one of several mountain passes in the United States

Buildings

* Barlow Hall, an historic building in Manchester, England *

Barlow Planetarium The Barlow Planetarium is a planetarium located at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Fox Cities Campus in Menasha, Wisconsin. Established in 1998, it was the first major planetarium in Wisconsin. It is named after late businessman and mineral ...

, a part of the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley * Barlow Respiratory Hospital, a specialized hospital in Los Angeles, California (US) * Barlow Woodseats Hall, an historic building in Barlow, England *

William Barlow House William Barlow House (or Barlow House) is a historic building in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. Barlow House was home to William Barlow, namesake of the city of Barlow and son of Samuel K. Barlow, who built the Barlow Road. The h ...

, a historic house in Oregon (US)

Business

Barlow Lyde & Gilbert Barlow Lyde & Gilbert LLP (informally BLG) was an international law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom which specialised in commercial litigation, dispute resolution, insurance and reinsurance. It had around 290 lawyers and 80 partne ...

, an international law firm * Hill and Barlow, a Massachusetts (US) law firm (now dissolved) *

Barloworld Limited Barloworld Limited is an industrial brand management company, founded in South Africa. Once a large conglomerate with many unrelated businesses, ranging at various times from mining, information technology and building materials to motor vehicl ...

, a South African industrial brand management company

Education

* The Barlow RC High School, a comprehensive secondary school in south Manchester, England *

Joel Barlow High School Joel Barlow High School is a public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades in Redding, Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The school serves Easton and Redding students. The school is the sole institution in the ...

, a secondary school in Connecticut (US) *

Sam Barlow High School Sam Barlow High School is a public high school in Gresham, Oregon, United States, in the Gresham-Barlow School District. It was named after the Oregon pioneer Sam Barlow. Teacher Stephen Corkett received the University of Oregon's high school ...

, a secondary school in Oregon (US)

People

* Barlow (musician), a Canadian singer-songwriter * Barlow (surname)

Science and technology

* Barlow's disease (disambiguation), a term for scurvy or for mitral valve prolapse * Barlow's formula, for calculation of the internal pressure that a pipe can withstand *

Barlow knife A pocketknife is a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle. They are also known as jackknives (jack-knife), folding knives, or may be referred to as a penknife, though a penknife may also be a specific kind of pocketknife. A typ ...

, a certain pattern of traditional slipjoint pocket knife *

Barlow's law Barlow's law was an incorrect physical law proposed by Peter Barlow in 1825 to describe the ability of wires to conduct electricity. It said that the strength of the effect of electricity passing through a wire varies inversely with the square root ...

, an incorrect theory of a wire's electric current-carrying ability *

Barlow lens The Barlow lens, named after Peter Barlow, is a diverging lens which, used in series with other optics in an optical system, increases the effective focal length of an optical system as perceived by all components that are after it in the system. ...

, a diverging lens used in telescope eyepieces *

Barlow maneuver The Barlow maneuver is a physical examination performed on infants to screen for developmental dysplasia of the hip. It is named for Dr. Thomas Geoffrey Barlow (September 25, 1915 – May 25, 1975), an English orthopedic surgeon, who devis ...

, a test performed on infants to identify possible hip problems *

Barlow Memorial Medal The Barlow Memorial Medal was created in 1916 by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum to recognize the best paper on economic geology published by the Institute each year. Initially a cash prize, the award then became a silve ...

, a recognition by Canadian mining society *

Barlow rail Barlow rail was a rolled rail section used on early railways. It has wide flaring feet and was designed to be laid direct on the ballast, without requiring sleepers. It was widely adopted on lightly trafficked railways, but was ultimately unsuccess ...

, an early kind of railway rail *

Barlow surface In mathematics, a Barlow surface is one of the complex surfaces introduced by . They are simply connected surfaces of general type with ''pg'' = 0. They are homeomorphic but not diffeomorphic to a projective plane blown up in 8 points. T ...

, a mathematical construct *

Barlow's wheel An 1842 diagram of Barlow's wheel Barlow's wheel was an early demonstration of a homopolar motor, designed and built by English mathematician and physicist, Peter Barlow in 1822. It consists of a star-shaped wheel free to turn suspended over a ...

, an early demonstration of an electric motor *

Wigan-Barlow The Wigan-Barlow was an English automobile manufactured from 1922 until 1923. With a factory at Lowther Street and David Road Coventry, it was an unsuccessful assembled light car with 1368 cc Coventry Simplex or 1496 cc Meadows engines. ...

, a 1922-1923 English automobile

Other uses

Barlow and Chambers execution The Barlow and Chambers executions were the hangings on 7 July 1986 by Malaysia of two Westerners, Kevin John Barlow (Australian and British) and Brian Geoffrey Shergold Chambers (Australian) of Perth, Western Australia, for transporting 14 ...

, 1986 hanging in Malaysia *

Barlow Endowment The Barlow Endowment for Music Composition is a scholarship established in September 1983 through the generosity of Milton A. and Gloria Barlow. Motivated by their love of music, the Barlows presented a substantial gift to Brigham Young University ...

, a scholarship for musical study (US) *

Barlow's lark Barlow's lark (''Calendulauda barlowi'') is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae. It is found in Namibia and South Africa where its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland. It is threatened by habitat loss. Taxonomy and sys ...

, a bird native to Namibia and South Africa * Barlow Moor, a wilderness area in England * Barlow Road, a segment of the US Oregon Trail * 15466 Barlow, an asteroid