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Barney Ewell
Barney Ewell (Henry Norwood Ewell, 1918–1996), American sprinter and long jumper from Pennsylvania; nine-time All-American at Penn State who tied the 100 m world record of 10.2 at the 1948 Trials and won gold, silver, and silver at the 1948 London Olympics at age 30.
Barney Fife
Barney Fife (Bernard Fife) is the fictional, bumbling deputy sheriff of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show, played by Don Knotts, who won five Emmys; the character carried one bullet in his shirt pocket and left for Raleigh in 1965.
Barney Frank
Barney Frank (1940-2026), Massachusetts Democratic congressman 1981-2013, first sitting member of Congress to come out voluntarily as gay (1987), chaired House Financial Services and co-authored the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith: American comic strip created by Billy DeBeck, debuted June 17, 1919 as Take Barney Google, F'rinstance; a King Features Appalachian comedy starring Snuffy Smith since 1934, drawn by Lasswell 1942–2001 and John Rose since.
Barney Graham
Barney Graham, born 1953, is an American physician-scientist and immunologist known for structure-based design of the RSV F protein immunogen and the 2P-stabilized coronavirus spike used in COVID-19 vaccines.
Barney Hartman
Barney Hartman, born Bernard Hartman in 1894, was an American beverage bottler in Knoxville, Tennessee who co-created Mountain Dew with his brother Ally and died in May 1949, months after its introduction.
Barney Hussey-Yeo
Barnaby Hussey-Yeo is a British entrepreneur who founded the AI financial assistant Cleo in 2016 after working as a data scientist at Wonga; it became a unicorn in 2025.
Barney Martin
Barney Martin (1923–2005), American character actor, NYPD detective turned performer; played Morty Seinfeld on Seinfeld, Amos Hart in Chicago's original Broadway cast, and appeared in The Producers and Arthur. Not the 1953 Cincinnati Redlegs pitcher.
Barney Miller
Barney Miller: American ABC sitcom (1975–1982, 8 seasons, 168 episodes) created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker, set in a Greenwich Village NYPD precinct, starring Hal Linden; won 3 Emmys including 1982 Outstanding Comedy Series.
Barney Rubble
Barney Rubble (Bernard Matthew Rubble) is the deuteragonist of The Flintstones (ABC, 1960-1966), Fred Flintstone's best friend, Betty's husband, Bamm-Bamm's adoptive father; modeled on Ed Norton, voiced by Mel Blanc, and also Cockney slang for trouble.
Barney Stewart
Barney Stewart (born 2004, London) is a Scottish forward who rose from Heriot-Watt University football to Falkirk, scored 17 goals in 2025-26, and joined West Bromwich Albion in June 2026.
Barney Stinson
Barney Stinson is the womanizing, suit-obsessed character played by Neil Patrick Harris on CBS's How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014), a mocked embodiment of pre-feminist masculinity later criticized as misogynistic and reprised in How I Met Your Father.
Barney the Dinosaur
Barney the Dinosaur is the purple T. rex created by Dallas teacher Sheryl Leach in 1987 home videos, adapted by Connecticut Public Television into PBS's Barney & Friends (1992), a preschool phenomenon that also drew intense adult backlash before Mattel's 2024 revival.
Barney's World
Barney's World is a 2024 CGI-animated preschool series rebooting Barney & Friends, co-produced by Mattel Television and Nelvana. It premiered October 14, 2024 on Max and Treehouse TV, set in a playground with Barney, Billy, Baby Bop, and kids David, Mel, and Vivie.
Barneys New York
Barneys New York was a Manhattan luxury department store founded in 1923 by Barney Pressman as a discount menswear shop, famous for launching designers like Armani, closing after a 2019 bankruptcy and sale to Authentic Brands Group, now licensed for revival.
Barns Courtney
Barns Courtney (Barnaby George Courtney, born 1990, Aylesbury, England) is an English singer-songwriter raised partly in Seattle whose singles "Fire" and "Glitter & Gold" broke through via the 2015 film Burnt; albums include The Attractions of Youth (2017), 404 (2019), and Supernatural (2024).
Barnsley
Barnsley, South Yorkshire market town between Leeds and Sheffield, grew on the Barnsley coal seam with glass, linen and wire industries; now known for Glass Works regeneration, 9.3 million town centre visits, and Health on the High Street.
Barnsley F.C.
Barnsley F.C., the Tykes, is an English football club founded in 1887, playing in EFL League One at Oakwell Stadium (capacity 23,009); FA Cup winner 1912, promoted with a record 91 points in 2019.
Barnsley Park (United Kingdom)
Barnsley Park, Gloucestershire: Grade I Georgian house and Grade II registered park near Cirencester, built by Brereton Bourchier from c 1700, altered by John Nash, containing a scheduled Roman villa and 49 ha field system.
Barnstable County
Barnstable County, Massachusetts: the county covering Cape Cod's 15 towns, established June 2, 1685 by Plymouth Colony, seat at Barnstable. One of four intact Massachusetts county governments, run since 1988 under a Home Rule Charter with an Assembly of Delegates and Board of Regional Commissioners; 2020 population 228,996.
Barnstable Town, MA Metro Area
Barnstable Town, MA Metro Area (CBSA 12700) is the metropolitan statistical area covering Barnstable County and all of Cape Cod; about 232,600 residents in 2024, median age 56.1, 206th-largest US metro.
Barnstorming
Barnstorming was itinerant aviation entertainment in which pilots, many World War I veterans, flew from town to town in the United States staging air shows and selling rides.
Barnum (musical)
Barnum is a 1980 Cy Coleman-Michael Stewart-Mark Bramble circus musical about P.T. Barnum; it ran 854 Broadway performances, won three Tonys, and starred Jim Dale and Glenn Close.
Barnum effect
Barnum effect, also called Forer effect or fallacy of personal validation: cognitive bias in which people accept vague, general personality statements as uniquely accurate; first demonstrated by Bertram Forer in 1948, named by Paul Meehl.
Barnum's American Museum
Barnum's American Museum, also called P.T. Barnum's American Museum, was P.T. Barnum's New York exhibition hall at Broadway and Ann Street, 1841-1868, famous for the Feejee Mermaid hoax, live beluga whales, and two destructive fires.
Barnwell (nuclear waste site)
Barnwell, formally the Chem-Nuclear Site, is a commercial low-level radioactive waste disposal facility in Barnwell County, South Carolina, operating by shallow land burial since 1971.
Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant
The Barnwell Nuclear Fuel Plant was a commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing plant built at Barnwell, South Carolina, halted by President Carter's 1977 reprocessing deferral and closed in 1983 without ever operating.
Barnwood Roman cemetery
Barnwood Roman cemetery: Romano-British burial grounds along Ermin Street east of Gloucester, from a 1st-century burial plot with lead ossuarium to the 1998-9 Well's Bridge enclosed cemetery and 2020-21 Centre Severn farmstead finds.
Barnyard (film)
Barnyard: The Original Party Animals is a 2006 American computer-animated comedy directed by Steve Oedekerk about farm animals that act human whenever people are away.
Baro Bhuyan
The Baro Bhuyan (বারো ভূঁইয়ে), meaning the twelve landholders, was a confederacy of chiefs of eastern Bengal who resisted Mughal expansion under Isa Khan from 1576 to 1612.