Famous People with Name Barnet

Barnet Burns            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Barnet Burns: was an English sailor, trader, and showman who became one of the first Europeans to live as a Pakeha Maori and to receive the full Maori facial tattoo. He travelled to Australia and found employment as a trader of flax in New Zealand in the 1830s. Burns r

Barnett Koch            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barnett Koch: (March 23, 1923 - June 6, 1987) was an American second baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1944 baseball season.

Barnett Newman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barnett Newman: was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.Barnett Newman wrote catalogue forewords and reviews before having his first solo show at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1948. Soon after his first exhibition, Newman remarked in one of the Artists' Session at Studio 35: "We are in the process of making the world, to a certain extent, in our own image." Utilizing his writing skills, Newman fought every step of the way to reinforce his newly established image as an artist and to promote his work. An example is his letter in April 9, 1955, "Letter to Sidney Janis: ---It is true that Rothko talks the fighter. He fights, however, to submit to the philistine world. My struggle against bourgeois society has involved the total rejection of it."

Barnett Francis Samuel "Frank" Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Barnett Francis Samuel "Frank" Allen: was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Bulloo in the Queensland Legislative Assembly from 1909 to 1912.

Barnett Jerome (Barney) Danson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barnett Jerome (Barney) Danson: was a Canadian politician and Cabinet minister. He joined The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada in 1939 as the Second World War broke out, rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and served until he was severely wounded in the Battle of Normandy, and lost an eye. He maintained an interest in the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) and its library for the blind and visually impaired until his death. Danson was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1968 general election as the Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for the Toronto-area riding of York North. In 1970, he became Parliamentary Secretary to Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, and was appointed to the Cabinet in 1974 as Minister of State for urban affairs. In 1976, he was promoted to Minister of National Defence. He served in that position until the defeat of the Liberal government in the 1979 general election, in which he lost his seat. Mr. Danson received an honorary degree (1993) from the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, of which he was a former chancellor.

Will Barnet            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Will Barnet: an American artist known for his paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints depicting the human figure and animals, both in casual scenes of daily life and in transcendent dreamlike worlds.Barnet's works, while remaining universal, reference his own personal history complete with images of his wife, his daughter and their family pets. As James Thomas Flexner wrote, Barnet’s work “makes us experience the interplay between the personal and the universal.” While remaining representational, the simple elegance of the figures and their flat surfaces reflect his exploration with abstraction. He was a key figure in the New York movement called Indian Space Painting, artists who based their abstract and semi-abstract work on Native American

Barry Barnet            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Barry Barnet: is a Canadian politician, who was a Progressive Conservative MLA in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1999 to 2009. He represented the electoral district of Sackville-Beaver Bank from 1999 to 2003, and Hammonds Plains-Upper Sackville from 2003 to 2009.Prior to June 2009, he was Minister of Energy, Minister responsible for Conserve Nova Scotia and Minister of African Nova Scotian Affairs in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia.