Barker may refer to:

Occupations

  • Barker (occupation), a person who attempts to attract patrons to entertainment events
  • Barker (coachbuilder), a builder of horse-drawn coaches and later of bodywork for prestige cars
  • a person who strips tanbark from trees to supply bark mills

People

  • Barker (surname), a list of people
  • Barker Burnell (1798–1843), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
  • Barker Fairley (1887–1986), British-Canadian painter and scholar of German literature

Places

Antarctica

  • Barker Range, Victoria Land, a mountain range
  • Barker Peak, off the coast of Victoria Land
  • Barker Bank, Graham Land, a marine bank
  • Barker Nunatak, Palmer Land

Australia

  • Division of Barker, an Electoral Division in South Australia for the Australian House of Representatives
  • Mount Barker (South Australia)
  • Barker Inlet, South Australia
  • Barker River, Western Australia
  • Barker Passage, Western Australia, a water channel

United States

  • Barker, Broome County, New York, a town
  • Barker, Niagara County, New York, a village
  • Barker, Texas, an unincorporated community
  • Barker, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
  • Barker Reservoir, near Houston, Texas

Elsewhere

  • Barker, Uruguay, a town
  • 7868 Barker, an asteroid

Man-made structures

  • Barker Field, several former airfields in Toronto, Canada
  • Barker Building, Omaha, Nebraska, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
  • Barker General Store, Beecher Hollow, New York, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
  • Barker Mill, Auburn, Maine, on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
  • Barker Dam (California), on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places
  • Barker Dam at Barker Meadow Reservoir, Colorado, United States
  • Barker Ranch, last hideout of Charles Manson and his "family"
  • Barker railway station, Melbourne, Australia

Other uses

  • Barker baronets, five baronetcies, all extinct
  • Barker channel, a television channel with programming comprising mainly advertising
  • Barker College, a private college in Sydney, Australia
  • Barker's Discount Department Stores, a retail chain in the United States and the Caribbean
  • Barkers of Kensington, a London department store
  • Dog, a domesticated animal whose vocalizations include barking
  • , a destroyer which served in World War II
  • The Barker, a 1928 film
  • The Barkers, Australian musical group

See also

  • Barkers, New Zealand menswear retail chain
  • Barkers Creek, West Virginia, United States
  • Mount Barker (disambiguation)