Barnabas (disambiguation)

From Barnabapedia, the not-quite encyclopedia

Not to be confused with .

Barnabas is a masculine given name. The Acts of the Apostles explains it as meaning “son of encouragement”. Other forms include Barnabé, Barnaba, Barnabás and Barnaby.

Barnabas may refer to:

Religion

Barnabas (died c. 61), early Christian disciple and companion of Paul the Apostle, venerated as Saint Barnabas and the patron saint of Cyprus
Epistle of Barnabas, an early Christian letter in Greek, traditionally attributed to him
Gospel of Barnabas, a much later gospel that carries his name
Barnabites, a Catholic religious order founded in Milan in 1530 and named after its church of Saint Barnabas there
Saint Barnabas’ Day, 11 June, which under the Julian calendar fell so close to midsummer that it earned the rhyme “Barnaby bright, the longest day and the shortest night”

People

Politics and law

Barnabas Bidwell (1763–1833), American politician who served as a U.S. Representative and as Attorney General of Massachusetts, and later moved to Upper Canada
Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini (1942–2018), Prime Minister of Eswatini from 1996 to 2003 and from 2008 to 2018

Scholarship and the arts

Barnabas Calder, British architectural historian and author of Raw Concrete: The Beauty of Brutalism (2016)
Barnabas Lindars (1923–1991), English Franciscan friar and biblical scholar
Barnabás Tóth, Hungarian film director of Those Who Remained (2019)

Sport

Barnabás Varga (born 1994), Hungarian footballer who played for Hungary at UEFA Euro 2024

Spelled Barnabe

Barnabe Barnes (c. 1571–1609), English poet, author of the sonnet sequence Parthenophil and Parthenophe (1593)
Barnabe Googe (1540–1594), English poet, author of Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (1563)

Fictional characters

Barnabas Collins, the vampire of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows, first played by Jonathan Frid and later by Ben Cross and Johnny Depp
Barnabas, the messenger who brings letters to K. in Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle (1926)
Barnabas Cuffe, editor of the Daily Prophet in the Harry Potter series
Barnabas the Barmy, who appears on a Hogwarts tapestry trying to teach trolls ballet, also from Harry Potter