Barnabas (name)

Barnabas is both a masculine given name and a surname. As a given name, it is a New Testament name which means "son of the prophet". Variants of the name include Barnaba, Barnaby, and Barnabás, a Hungarian masculine given name.

People

• Barnabas, born Joseph, first-century AD Christian disciple
• Andrew Barnabas, video game music composer
• John Barnabas (1929–1994), Indian evolutionary biologist
• Levi Barnabas (born 1964), Canadian politician
• Mathews Barnabas (1924–2012), Malankara Metropolitan
• Yetunde Barnabas (born 1990), Nigerian model and actress
• Vicent Barnabas (born 1985), Tanzanian footballer
• Yusuf Barnabas Bala (1956–2021), Nigerian politician and architect
• Barnabas Bidwell (1763–1833), American author, teacher, and politician
• Barnabas Brough (c. 1795–1854), British merchant and accountant
• Robert Barnabas Brough (1828–1860), English writer
• Barnabas Burns (1817–1883), American lawyer, businessman, and politician
• Barnabas Daru (fl. 2000s–2020s), Nigerian-American plant ecologist and biogeographer
• Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini (1942–2018), Prime Minister of Eswatini
• Sibusiso Dlamini (born 1980), Swazi footballer
• Barnabas Eldridge (1843–1911), American industrialist
• Barnabas Fung (born 1960), Hong Kong judge
• Barnabas Andyar Gemade (born 1948), Nigerian politician
• Barnabas Geevarghese, Metropolitan
• Barnabas Gooch (died c. 1926), English lawyer and academic
• Barnabas Gunn (c. 1680–1753), English organist and composer
• Barnabas R. Halem 'Imana (1929–2016), Ugandan priest
• Barney Hopkinson (born 1939), Anglican priest
• Barnabas Imenger (1975–2021), Nigerian footballer
• Barnabas Imenger (born 1991), Nigerian footballer, son of the footballer born 1975
• Barnabas Kelet Henagan (1798–1855), physician and governor of South Carolina
• Barnabas Kinyor (born 1961), Kenyan athlete
• Bart Latuheru (born 1965), Dutch footballer
• Barnabas Long (), Archdeacon of Cleveland
• Barnabas Lindars (1923–1991), English scholar
• Barnabas McDonald (1865–1929), Brother of the Christian Schools
• Barnabas Muturi Mwangi, Kenyan politician
• Barnabas Nawangwe (born 1956), Ugandan architect and academic
• Barnabas O'Brien (died 1657), 6th Earl of Thomond
• Barnabas Oley (1602–1686), English churchman and academic
• Barnabas Root, (died 1877), Sierra Leonean reverend
• Barnabas A. Samatta (born 1940), Tanzanian lawyer
• Barnabas Scudamore (1609–1651), English soldier
• Barnabas Suebu (born 1946), Indonesian governor of province Papua
• Barney White-Spunner (born 1957), British Army officer
• Barnabas Wood (1819–1875), American dentist and inventor
• Barnabas Zhang (1882–1961), Chinese churchman

Fictional characters

• Barnabas Collins, vampire in the soap opera Dark Shadows
• Barnabas Tharmr, a major antagonist from the 2023 video game Final Fantasy XVI.
• Barnabas, a rabbit from the movie Peter Rabbit 2, who tricks the protagonist into stealing food for him.

See also

• Barnabus (disambiguation)
• Barry (name)

References