Barlow (surname)

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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:

[edit] People

• Bill Barlow, Unemployed Microphone Crooner of the Dr Keith Lipinski Show
• Clarence Barlow, composer of classical and electroacoustic works
• Emilie-Claire Barlow, Canadian jazz singer, voice actress
• Francis Barlow (artist) (1626?–1704), the British painter, etcher, and illustrator
• Francis C. Barlow (1834–1896), the US lawyer, politician, and general
• Frank Barlow (disambiguation)
  • Frank Barlow, football manager
  • Frank Barlow (Coronation Street), fictional character
  • Frank Barlow (historian)
• Gary Barlow, English singer/songwriter, best known for being a member of the boy band Take That
• George Hilario Barlow, Acting Governor-General of India from 1805 to 1807
• Horace Barlow Cambridge physiologist, neuroscientist, vision scientist
• John Barlow, English diplomat
• John Barlow (novelist), English 21st century writer
• John Noble Barlow, 19th century English painter
• John Perry Barlow, US poet and essayist, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

• John Barlow (disambiguation), other people named John Barlow

• Ken Barlow, former basketball player
• Kevan Barlow (1979- ), NFL running back
• Leonard Monteagle Barlow (1898-1918), British World War I flying ace.
• Lou Barlow, musician, member of the bands Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh
• Matt Barlow, vocalist of the heavy metal band Iced Earth
• Maude Barlow, Canadian author and activist
• Patrick Barlow, British actor and dramatist
• Peter Barlow (1776-1862), the English engineer, inventor of Barlow's Wheel and the Barlow lens
• Richard Barlow, CIA Whistleblower
• Robert Hayward Barlow (1918-1951), US weird fiction author, poet, and anthropologist.
• Sam Barlow (1792–1867), Oregon pioneer and entrepreneur who helped build the Barlow Road at the end of the Oregon Trail
• Samuel Barlow, the canal carrier or his son and business partner John Barlow (canal carrier)
• Stephen Barlow, British conductor
• Thomas Barlow (bishop) (1607-1691), English bishop
• Sir Thomas Barlow (medicine) (1845-1945), British physician
• Thomas Barlow (basketball) (1896-1983), U.S. basketball player
• Thomas Barlow (1940- ), Kentucky politician

[edit] Fictional characters

• Charles Barlow, a police inspector in the British crime dramas Z Cars, Softly, Softly, Barlow at Large and Second Verdict
• Ken Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Deirdre Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Tracy Barlow, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
• Kurt Barlow, character in Stephen King's novel ’Salem's Lot
• Kate Barlow, a character in Louis Sachar's novel Holes
• Troy Barlow, a character in the movie Three Kings played by Mark Wahlberg
• Citizen Barlow, character in August Wilson's play Gem of the Ocean