Famous People with Name Barry

Barry John Maister            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Barry John Maister: is a former field hockey player from New Zealand, who was a member of the national team that won the golden medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.A contemporary of team-mgh School until 1994, when he took up an appointment as Rector of St Andrews

Barry Beauchamp Patten            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Barry Beauchamp Patten: was an Australian architect and Olympic alpine skier.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School, he studied architecture first at Melbourne Technical College before completing his degree at the University of Melbourne in 1951. In 1952 he competed for Australia at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo as a skier.Patten joined the architecture firm of Yuncken Freeman Brothers Griffiths & Simpson, and in 1957 submitted a design for the Sidney Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne. His design was chosen for the Bowl, and he worked as the project architect. Patten designed three buildings in Victoria that are now on the Victorian Heritage Register: the Myer Music Bowl, BHP House, and the Victoria State Offices.

Barry Beath            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Barry Beath: was an Australian rugby league player, a second-row forward for the St. George Dragons in the New South Wales Rugby League premiership competition. He represented for New South Wales and in the Australia national rugby league team.

Barry Berrigan            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Barry Berrigan: was an Australian rugby league player for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League competition. His position of choice was at hooker. Barry is the older brother of his former Broncos teammate, Shaun Berrigan. He is of German descent

Barry Michael            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Barry Michael: is a former Australian boxer. He was in his prime during the 1980s and is best remembered for his 1985 fight against Lester Ellis, which received nationwide television coverage in Australia.

John Arthur Barry            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

John Arthur Barry: was a journalist and author.Leaving with a first mate's certificate, Barry came to Australia in the 1870s, and after working in Queensland at the gold diggings, spent some years as a drover, boundary rider and station manager. He returned to shipboard life around 1877 along the east coast of Australia for about two years. Then he returned to the landas an overseer and station manager. He began writing for the press and contributed stories to the Australasian, Sydney Mail, The Queenslander, the Town and Country Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and others. In 1893 he spent a holiday in England and published a collection of his stories, Steve Brown's Bunyip and other Stories. He had become acquainted with Rudyard Kipling who wrote an introductory poem for the volume.

Max Barry            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Max Barry: a contemporary Australian author. He says about himself that he "put an extra X in his name for Syrup because he thought it was a funny joke about marketing and failed to realize everyone would assume he was a pretentious asshole." [1] He commands a cult following for his blog and his "funny and clever" [2] books.Barry is also the creator of NationStates (a game created to help advertise Jennifer Government) and is the owner of the website Tales of Corporate Oppression. He lives in Melbourne with his wife and daughter and worked as a marketer for Hewlett-Packard before he became a novelist.

John Barry            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

John Barry: was a tennis player. He played for New Zealand in the Davis Cup of 1947 and 1954.

Ellen Barry            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ellen Barry: was a New Zealand professional tennis player. Her career high WTA singles ranking was 253, which she reached on May 26, 2008. Barry retired from all forms of tennis in November, 2010, citing injury problems and a lack of interest in the game as her bigges

Michael Joseph "Mick" Barry            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Michael Joseph "Mick" Barry: was a rugby union player who represented Australia.Barry, a scrum-half, claimed 1 international rugby cap for Australia.