Famous People with Name Barney

Barney Liddell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barney Liddell: was an American born big band musician from television's The Lawrence Welk Show, his instrument was the trombone.From 1948 until 1982, Barney was an integral part of the Lawrence Welk Orchestra not only as first trombonist, but was also in charge of the band's luggage when the Music Makers went out on concert tours. He first joined the band back when they played regularly at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, and made the move to Southern California in 1951 when Welk moved his organization out there on a permanent basis. That same year the Music Makers made their television debut on KTLA in Los Angeles and later made the transition to a nationwide audience on the ABC network in 1955 followed by syndication in 1971.

Barney G. Glaser            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barney G. Glaser: American sociologist and one of the founders of the grounded theory methodology.At Columbia he was a student of Paul Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton and received a Ph.D. in 1961. The dissertation was published in the book Organizational Scientists: Their Professional Careers. Post-doc Glaser started a research collaboration with Anselm Strauss at the University of California, San Francisco. Together they wrote Awareness of Dying (1965) based on a study of dying in Californian hospitals. The book was a success. As a response to the many methodological questions on the dying study the first grounded theory (GT) methodology appeared in 1967 co-authored with Strauss: The Discovery of Grounded Theory.

Barney Williams            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barney Williams: was light heavyweight boxing champion of the world. He was light-heavyweight champion from 1916 to 1920, Battling Levinsky began his boxing career under the name Barney Williams. However, he received little attention until he took on a manager named “Dum

Barney Ross            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barney Ross: was a world champion boxer in three weight divisions and decorated veteran of World War II. Dov-Ber (or Beryl) Rasofsky was born in New York City to Isidore "Itchik" Rasofsky and Sarah Epstein Rasofsky. His father was a Talmudic scholar who had emigrated

Barney William Irwin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barney William Irwin: is a professional wrestler best known as Bill Irwin. Bill Irwin started wrestling in 1979 in the National Wrestling Alliance's Central States territory and in World Class Championship Wrestling. He was soon teaming with his brother Scott Irwin as the mask

Lemuel Joseph Barney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Lemuel Joseph Barney: is a former American Football cornerback who played for the Detroit Lions. He was selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1992.

Matthew Barney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Matthew Barney: an American contemporary artist and the partner of Björk.The film series The Cremaster Cycle is Barney's best-known work. The films had very high budgets by experimental art film standards, and featured such varied celebrities as Norman Mailer, Ursula Andress, and Richard Serra. Stylistically, his work is comparable to the large-scale, mythical films of Alexandro Jodorowsky.In 2006, he released Drawing Restraint 9, a collaboration with his partner Björk, who plays the female of the two central roles in the film, and contributed the music for the soundtrack.

Tina Barney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Tina Barney: is an American artist photographer best known for her large-scale portraits of her family and close friends, many of whom are well-to-do denizens of New York and New England. Her work is in the collections of the George Eastman House International Museum

John Barney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Barney: was a U.S. Congressman from the fifth district of Maryland, serving from 1825 to 1829.Barney was appointed a captain and assistant district quartermaster general in the United States Army on August 15, 1814, and served until June 15, 1815, when he was hon

Hiram Barney            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hiram Barney: was Collector of the Port of New York from 1861 - 1864. In 1840, he was nominated for the United States Congress by the Anti-Slavery Party. He was a presidential elector when the Free Soil Party was formed in 1848. Barney was a delegate to the Republican