Barlow

Barlow is a place name and a family name. The name is English in origin, meaning "[lives on] the bare hill". The ancestry of most Barlows traces back to the North West of England. At the time of the British census of 1881 [1], the frequency of the surname Barlow was highest in Cheshire (4.4 times the British average), followed by Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Buckinghamshire, Derbyshire, Berkshire, Rutland and Warwickshire.

People

• Ambrose Barlow, English Roman Catholic martyr
• Bill Barlow (born 1931), Canadian politician
• Billy Barlow (1871–1963), Canadian ice hockey player
• Clarence Barlow, composer of classical and electroacoustic works
• David Barlow (basketball), Australian professional basketball player
• Dick Barlow (1851-1919), Lancashire and England cricketer
• Eeben Barlow, founder of Executive Outcomes
• Elmer E. Barlow (1887-1948), American jurist
• Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian jazz singer, voice actress
• Erasmus Darwin Barlow (1915–2005), British psychiatrist
• Francis Barlow (artist) (1626?–1704), British painter, etcher, and illustrator
• Francis C. Barlow (1834–1896), US lawyer, politician, and general
• Frank Barlow (disambiguation), several people
• Gary Barlow (born 1971), English singer/songwriter, best known for being a member of the boy band Take That
• George Barlow (poet), English poet, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym James Hinton
• Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet, Acting Governor-General of India from 1805 to 1807
• George Hilaro Barlow (physician), Royal College of Physicians, first editor of Guy's Hospital Reports
• Horace Barlow, Cambridge physiologist, neuroscientist, vision scientist
• Joel Barlow (1754–1812), American poet and diplomat
• John Barlow (disambiguation), several people
• Ken Barlow (basketball), former basketball player
• Kevan Barlow, NFL running back
• Kim Barlow, musician
• Leonard Monteagle Barlow (1898-1918), British World War I flying ace
• Lou Barlow, musician, member of the bands Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh
• Martin T. Barlow (born 1953), British mathematician
• Matt Barlow, vocalist of the heavy metal band Iced Earth
• Maude Barlow, Canadian author and activist
• Michael Barlow, British-born theoretical and corpus linguist
• Milt G. Barlow (1843-1904), American vaudeville and minstrel player
• Patrick Barlow, British actor and dramatist
• Peter Barlow (mathematician) (1776-1862), English engineer, inventor of Barlow's wheel and the Barlow lens
• Phyllida Barlow (born 1944), British sculptor and art academic
• Richard Barlow, CIA whistleblower
• Robert Barlow (disambiguation), several people
• Sam Barlow (1792–1867), Oregon pioneer and entrepreneur who helped build the Barlow Road at the end of the Oregon Trail
• Stephen Barlow (disambiguation), several people
• Thomas Barlow (disambiguation), several people
• William Barlow (disambiguation), several people

Fictional characters

• Charles Barlow, a police inspector in the British crime dramas Z-Cars, Softly, Softly, Barlow at Large and Second Verdict
• Deirdre Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Ken Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Kurt Barlow, character in Stephen King's novel Salem's Lot
• Tracy Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street

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