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 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 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.