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A representative selection

Notable Barretts

A short list, by field, of well-documented bearers of the surname. None of the entries below have, on the available record, ever worn a Nazi SS uniform on the steps of any country's parliament. The list is not exhaustive; the Wikipedia disambiguation page for the surname carries several hundred further entries.

I. Letters

Portrait of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861), English Victorian poet. Sonnets from the Portuguese has remained continuously in print since the 1850s. The most prominent literary bearer of the surname. Image: Wikimedia Commons, public domain.

II. Music and stage

III. Sport

IV. Public life

V. Notes

Entries above are a short representative selection, not an exhaustive list. The full Wikipedia disambiguation page for the surname carries hundreds of further entries and is the best onward reference. Corrections of fact may be sent to info@justinbarrett.ie.

The companion list of well-documented people who carry both the forename Justin and the surname Barrett is at People named Justin Barrett.

Better Barretts, better Justins · and one electorate

“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, XLIII (1850) · a better Barrett

We counted, too: 10,997 votes in 2004; 183 in 2021.

“Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless.”
Justin Martyr, First Apology, ch. II (c. AD 155), trans. Ante-Nicene Fathers · a better Justin

The name comes from the Latin iustus: just, upright. Some bearers took it seriously.

“183.”
The electorate of Dublin Bay South, by-election, July 2021 (0.68% of first preferences) · the record

Eleventh of fifteen candidates. The electorate has not been asked to elaborate.

“10,997.”
The electorate of the East constituency, European Parliament election, 2004 (2.4%) · the record

Seventeen years later, in Dublin Bay South: 183.

“1.”
In-person attendance at the September 2024 National Party meeting called to remove him · The Irish Times

The Electoral Commission ruled that meeting invalid. A later one was not.

“We have been stood on since 1745. We mention it only for context.”
The steps of Leinster House, in a statement they did not make

That one is fiction, and labelled as such. The November 2023 incident it refers to is not.

Every quotation here is verbatim and in the public domain, or is a figure from the published record. No words have been put in Mr Barrett’s mouth. The one fictional speaker is a flight of steps, and says so.

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