Barrow is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Adama Barrow
Adama Barrow ( ff, ๐ค๐ฅ๐คฃ๐คข๐คฅ๐คข ๐ค๐คข๐ฅ๐คช๐คฎ, Aadama Baaro, born 15 February 1965) is a Gambian politician and real estate developer who has served as President of the Gambia since 2017.
Born in Mankamang Kunda, a village ...
(born 1965), Gambian President
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Al Barrow
Al Barrow (born 1968, in Wolverhampton, England) is an English bassist best known as the former member of the hard rock band Magnum.
Barrow joined Magnum in 2001 after he was a member of Hard Rain, a group formed by Magnum members, Bob Catl ...
(born 1968), English musician
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Anibal Barrow (1948โ2013), Honduran journalist
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Bernard Barrow (1927โ1993), American actor
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Claire Barrow, English artist
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Clyde Barrow
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut (Champion) Barrow (March 24, 1909May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. The co ...
(1909โ1934), American gangster, part of the Bonnie and Clyde crime duo
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Dean Barrow
Dean Oliver Barrow, SC PC (born March 2, 1951) is a politician from Belize who served as prime minister of Belize from 2008 until 2020 and as leader of Belize's United Democratic Party.
An attorney by profession, Barrow served as Belize's ...
(born 1951), Belizean politician
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Ed Barrow
Edward Grant Barrow (May 10, 1868 โ December 15, 1953) was an American manager and front office executive in Major League Baseball. He served as the field manager of the Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox. He served as business manager (de facto ...
(1868โ1953), baseball executive
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Errol Barrow
Errol Walton Barrow (21 January 1920 – 1 June 1987) was a Barbadian statesman and the first prime minister of Barbados. Born into a family of political and civic activists in the parish of Saint Lucy, he became a WWII aviator, combat ve ...
(1920โ1987), Barbados politician
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Frances Elizabeth Barrow
Frances Elizabeth Barrow (, Mease; pen name, Aunt Fanny; February 22, 1822May 7, 1894) was a 19th-century American children's writer.
Biography
Frances (nickname, "Frankie Blue") Elizabeth Mease was born in Charleston, South Carolina, Februar ...
(1822โ1894), American children's writer
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Geoff Barrow
Geoffrey Paul Barrow (born 9 December 1971) is an English music producer, composer, and DJ. He is a member of the bands Portishead, Beak and supergroup Quakers, and has scored several films.
Portisheadโformed in 1991โwas named after the s ...
(born 1971), English musician
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Geoffrey Wallis Steuart Barrow (1924โ2013), Scottish historian
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George Barrow (geologist)
George Barrow (11 December 1853 โ 23 July 1932) was a British geologist.
Barrow was born in St George Hanover Square, London, the fifth of eight children born to John George Barrow, a general practitioner at the Royal College of Surgeons, and ...
(1853โ1932), British geologist
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George Barrow (musician) George Barrow (25 September 1921 โ 20 March 2013) was an American jazz saxophonist who played both tenor and baritone saxes.
Self-taught on the saxophone, flute and clarinet, by the mid-1950s, he was playing in different line-ups led by Charles ...
(1921โ2013), American jazz saxophonist
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George L. Barrow (1851โ1925), Australian journalist, son of John H. Barrow
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Henry Barrowe
Henry Barrow (or Barrowe) ( โ 6 April 1593) was an English Separatist Puritan, or Brownist, executed for his views. He led the London Underground Church from 1587 to 1593, spending most of that time in prison, and wrote numerous works of Br ...
(c. 1550โ1593), 16th-century English Puritan and separatist
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Irvine Barrow (1913โ2005), Canadian politician
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Isaac Barrow
Isaac Barrow (October 1630 โ 4 May 1677) was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the development of infinitesimal calculus; in particular, for proof of the fundamental theorem ...
(1630โ1677), English divine, scholar and mathematician
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Isaac Barrow (bishop)
Isaac Barrow (1613 โ 24 June 1680) was an English clergyman and Bishop, consecutively, of Sodor and Man and St Asaph, and also served as Governor of the Isle of Man. He was the founder of the Bishop Barrow Trust. During his time as Bishop o ...
(1613โ1680), Bishop of Sodor and Man and of St Asaph; Governor of the Isle of Man
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Jill Barrow (born 1951), British businesswoman
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Jocelyn Barrow (1929โ2020), British educator, community activist and politician
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Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet, (19 June 1764 โ 23 November 1848) was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant best known for term as the Second Secretary to the Admiralty from 1804 until 1845.
Early life
Barrow was born ...
(1764โ1848), English statesman
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John Barrow (U.S. politician) (born 1955), Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district
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John D. Barrow
John David Barrow (29 November 1952 โ 26 September 2020) was an English cosmologist, theoretical physicist, and mathematician. He served as Gresham Professor of Geometry at Gresham College from 2008 to 2011. Barrow was also a writer of pop ...
(1952โ2020), English theoretical physicist
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John Henry Barrow
John Henry Barrow (1817 โ 22 August 1874) was a Congregational minister, journalist and South Australian politician.
Early life
Barrow was born in England, son of John Barrow. After he studied for the Congregational ministry at Hackney Coll ...
(1817โ1874), Congregational minister, journalist and South Australian politician
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Joseph Louis Barrow (1914โ1981), American boxer and heavyweight champion better known as "Joe Louis"
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Middleton P. Barrow (1839โ1903), Senator from Georgia
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Modou Barrow
Modou Barrow (born 13 October 1992), commonly known as Mo Barrow, is a Gambian professional footballer who plays for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ahli and the Gambia national team. He is a winger but can also play as a forward.
He grew up in Swed ...
(born 1992), Gambian professional footballer
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Moses Michael Levi Barrow (born Jamal Michael Barrow; 1978), better known by his stage name Shyne, Belizean rapper and politician
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Musa Barrow
Musa Barrow (born 14 November 1998) is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a forward for club Bologna and the Gambia national team.
Club career Early career
Barrow joined Atalanta in 2016 from The Gambia where he played football loc ...
(born 1998), Gambian professional footballer
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Nita Barrow
Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, GCMG DA (15 November 1916 โ 19 December 1995) was the first female governor-general of Barbados. Barrow was a nurse and a public health servant from Barbados. She served as the fifth governor-general of Barbados from 6 ...
(1916โ1995), Governor-General of Barbados
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Robert H. Barrow
Robert Hilliard Barrow (February 5, 1922 โ October 30, 2008) was a United States Marine Corps four-star general. Barrow was the 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps from 1979 to 1983. He served for 41 years, including overseas command duty in Wo ...
(1922โ2008), American general, 27th Commandant of the US Marine Corps
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Robert Ruffin Barrow
Robert Ruffin Barrow (1798 โ 1875) was one of the largest landowners and slave owner in the south before the American Civil War. He owned sixteen plantations, mostly in Louisiana, and had large landholdings in Texas. He also invested money in pr ...
(1798-1875), American sugar planter and slave owner
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Rosemary Barrow
Rosemary Julia Barrow (9 April 1968 โ 21 September 2016) was an art historian who specialised in classical themes in Victorian art and the painting of Lawrence Alma-Tadema in particular, whose reputation she attempted to restore.
Early lif ...
(1968โ2016), British art historian
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Steve Barrow (born 1945), reggae historian
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Timothy A. Barrow (1934–2019), American politician
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Tim Barrow
Sir Timothy Earle Barrow (born 15 February 1964) is a British diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the European Union from 2017 to 2020 and as the British Ambassador to the European Union from 2020 to 202 ...
(born 1964), British diplomat
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Thomas Barrow (Jesuit) (1747โ1813), British Jesuit
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Thomas Barrow (politician) (1916โ1982), politician in Manitoba, Canada
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Tony Barrow
Anthony F. J. Barrow (11 May 1936 โ 14 May 2016) was an English press officer who worked with the Beatles between 1962 and 1968. He coined the phrase "the Fab Four", first using it in an early press release.
Life Early life
In the late 1 ...
(1936โ2016), English public relations man for The Beatles
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The Bravado Brothers
The Bravado Brothers were an American professional wrestling tag team consisting of real-life brothers Harlem Bravado (born Chance Barrow on April 22, 1989) and Lancelot Bravado (born Houston Barrow on September 16, 1985). The duo have worked for ...
, American professional wrestling tag team consisting of Clint Barrow (born 1989) and Houston Barrow (born 1985)
As an artist name:
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Typh Barrow
Typh Barrow is a Belgian singer, songwriter, jurist, composer and pianist who was born in Brussels, Belgium. Her style is a mixture of pop and soul music with jazz and blues accents.
She is considered by the press to be the Belgian Adele or Amy W ...
(born 1987), Belgian singer-songwriter
See also
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Barrows (surname)
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English-language surnames