Barney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Albert B. Barney (1835-1910), American politician
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Albert W. Barney Jr. (1920–2010), American lawyer and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
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Alice Pike Barney
Alice Pike Barney (born Alice Pike; 1857–1931) was an American painter. She was active in Washington, D.C. and worked to make Washington into a center of the arts. Her two daughters were the writer and salon hostess Natalie Clifford Barney and ...
(1857–1931), American painter
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Charles D. Barney (1844–1945), American stockbroker, founder of Charles D. Barney & Co
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Darwin Barney
Darwin James Kunane Barney (born November 8, 1985) is an American former professional baseball infielder and current coach. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Toronto Blue Jays. As a member of ...
(born 1985), American baseball player
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George Barney
Lieutenant Colonel George Barney (19 May 1792 – 16 April 1862) was a military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers and became Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of North Australia.
Early life
George Barney was born in Wolverhampton, Staf ...
(1792–1862), Royal Engineers officer and Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of North Australia
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Gerald O. Barney
Gerald O. Barney (December 15, 1937 – September 9, 2020) was an American physicist, and expert in the field of sustainable development, known as principal author of ''The Global 2000 Report to the President.''
Biography
Barney was born in 1 ...
(born 1937), American physicist
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Gerry Barney
Gerald Lawrence Barney (born ) is a British designer, best known for his 1965 British Rail Double Arrow, which is still in use in the UK.
In 1960, aged 21, Barney started his career at the Design Research Unit (DRU) as a lettering artist, a ...
(born 1939), British designer
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John Barney (1785–1857), U.S. Congressman from Maryland
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Joseph Barney
Joseph Barney (1753 in Wolverhampton – 13 April 1832 in London), was a British painter and engraver. He is usually described as a pupil of Antonio Zucchi and Angelica Kauffman and as a fruit and flower painter to the George IV of the Uni ...
(1753–1832), English painter
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Joseph Nicholson Barney
Joseph Nicholson Barney (1818 – June 16, 1899) was a career United States Navy officer (1835–1861) who served in the Confederate States Navy in the American Civil War (1861–1865).
Personal life and family
Barney was born in Baltimore in 18 ...
(1818–1899), Confederate Navy officer during the American Civil War, grandson of Joshua
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Joshua Barney
Joshua Barney (6 July 1759 – 1 December 1818) was an American Navy officer who served in the Continental Navy during the Revolutionary War and as a captain in the French Navy during the French Revolutionary Wars. He later achieved the rank o ...
(1759–1818), US Navy commodore during the Revolutionary War
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Eighteen Visions
Eighteen Visions is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California, formed in October 1995. The band broke up in April 2007, less than a year after their major label debut was released through Epic and Trustkill Records. After ove ...
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Lem Barney
Lemuel Joseph Barney (September 8, 1945) is a former American football player. A native of Gulfport, Mississippi, he played college football at Jackson State from 1964 to 1966. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions of the National Football Leag ...
(born 1945), American football player
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Maginel Wright Enright
Maginel Wright Enright Barney (June 19, 1877 – April 18, 1966) was an American children's book illustrator and graphic artist. She was the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright, architect, and the mother of Elizabeth Enright, children's book wri ...
Barney (1881–1966), American children's book illustrator
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Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...
(born 1967), American sculptor and film artist
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Matthew Barney (boxer)
Matthew Barney (born 25 June 1974) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1998 to 2012. He held the British super middleweight title in 2003.
In 2002, Barney held the Southern Area super middleweight title.; that same year, B ...
(born 1974), British boxer
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Natalie Clifford Barney
Natalie Clifford Barney (October 31, 1876 – February 2, 1972) was an American writer who hosted a salon (gathering), literary salon at her home in Paris that brought together French and international writers. She influenced other authors throu ...
(1876–1972), American playwright, poet and novelist
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Rex Barney
Rex Edward Barney (December 19, 1924 – August 12, 1997) was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1943 and from 1946 through 1950.
As a teenage phenom, Barney was signed by the Dodgers at the age of 18, in 1943. He pitche ...
(1924–1997), American baseball player
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Scott Barney
Scott Barney (born March 27, 1979) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward, who played in the National Hockey League with the Los Angeles Kings and Atlanta Thrashers. Barney currently serves as the head coach and general manager for ...
(born 1979), Canadian ice hockey player
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Susan Hammond Barney
Susan Hammond Barney (, Hammond; November 24, 1834 – April 29, 1922) was an American social activist and evangelist. She was the founder of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island, and due to her efforts, police matrons were secured for the s ...
(1834–1922), American evangelist, writer
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(born 1945), American photographer
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