Barbour

Barbour is a surname of Scottish origin. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alexander Barbour (1862, 1930), Scottish international footballer
• Amy Louise Barbour (1869-1950), American classics scholar
• Andrea Barbour, Canadian politician
• Anna Maynard Barbour (d.1941), an American author
• Clitus Barbour (1837-1906), American attorney and politician
• Conway Barbour (1818-1876), American former slave and Arkansas state legislator
• Dave Barbour (1912, 1965), an American jazz guitarist
• Edward A. Barbour Jr., an American politician
• Eilidh Barbour (b.1982), Scottish television presenter and reporter
• Erwin Hinckley Barbour (1856, 1947), an American geologist and paleontologist
• George Brown Barbour (1890-1977), Scottish geologist and educator
• Haley Reeves Barbour (b.1947), an American attorney, politician, and lobbyist who served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi
• Henry Gray Barbour (1886, 1943), American physiologist and pharmacologist
• Ian Barbour (1923, 2013), an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion
• James Barbour (1775, 1842), the 18th Governor of Virginia, U.S. Senator, and United States Secretary of War
• James Barbour (1828, 1895), Virginia lawyer, planter, politician, and Confederate officer
• James Stacy Barbour (born 1966), an American singer and theatre actor
• John Barbour (c. 1320, 1395), a Scottish poet and the first major named literary figure to write in Scots
• John Barbour (actor) (b.1933), a Canadian actor, comedian, and television host who has worked extensively in the United States
• John S. Barbour Jr. (1820, 1892), a U.S. Representative and a Senator from Virginia
• Josephus Pius Barbour (1894, 1974), American Baptist pastor
• Julian Barbour (b.1937), a British physicist with research interests in quantum gravity and the history of science
• Liz Barbour, American politician
• Lyndall Barbour (1916, 1986), Australian actress
• Lucius A. Barbour (1846, 1922), American general
• Mary Barbour (1875, 1958), a Scottish political activist
• Nelson H. Barbour (1824, 1905), a Millerite Adventist writer and publisher
• Philip Lemont Barbour (1898, 1980), an American linguist, historian, and radio broadcaster
• Philip P. Barbour (1783, 1841), 10th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, brother of James Barbour
• Ralph Henry Barbour (1870, 1944), an American author of sports fiction for boys
• Robert Barbour (New South Wales politician) (1827, 1895), Australian politician, merchant, and squatter
• Robert Barbour (Victorian politician) (c. 1845, 1914), Australian politician
• Robert Barbour (RAF officer) (1895, 1980), Scottish World War I flying ace
• Robert Barbour (cricketer) (1899, 1994), Australian cricketer
• Robin Barbour (1921, 2014), Church of Scotland minister and author
• Samuel Barbour (1860, 1938), an Australian chemist, photographer, and X-ray pioneer
• Thomas Barbour (1884, 1946), an American herpetologist
• Thomas Barbour Lathrop (1847, 1927), an American philanthropist and world traveler, grandson of James Barbour
• Tommy Barbour (1887, 1967), Scottish footballer
• Walworth Barbour (1908, 1982), a United States Ambassador to Israel
• William Warren Barbour (1888, 1943), a US Senator from New Jersey

Notable people with the given name Barbour include:

• Arthur Bruce Barbour Moore (1906, 2004), Canadian Moderator of the United Church of Canada, President and Vice-Chancellor of Victoria University in the University of Toronto
• Barbour Lewis (1818, 1893), an American politician and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Tennessee