• James Barr (composer)
  James Barr (composer)
  James Barr was a Scottish composer who composed the tune which inspired the tune now used for the unofficial Australian anthem "Waltzing Matilda." Born in Tarbolton in South Ayrshire, Barr taught music and worked for a publisher in Glasgow...
  
   (1779–1860), Scottish composer; composed the tune which inspired that which is now used for "Waltzing Matilda"
• James Barr (politician)
  James Barr (politician)
  Rev James Barr was a British Liberal then Labour politician and a noted pacifist and socialist. He was also a strong supporter of home rule for Scotland, a minimum wage and the Temperance movement....
  
   (1862–1949), British Labour Party politician; MP for Motherwell, 1924–1931; Coatbridge, 1935–1945
• James Barr (biblical scholar)
  James Barr (biblical scholar)
  James Barr FBA was a Scottish Old Testament scholar.Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Barr was ordained to the ministry of the Church of Scotland in 1951. He held professorships in New College, Edinburgh in the University of Edinburgh, Manchester, and at Vanderbilt University in the United States of...
  
   (1924–2006), British Old Testament scholar and philologist
• James R. Barr
  James R. Barr
  James Robertson Barr A.M.I.E.E. was a Scottish engineer and lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh.He was an apprentice to Bruce Peebles & Co. Ltd. and spent a year at the Leith Power Station...
  
   (1885–1910), Scottish engineer and lecturer in Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt College, Edinburgh
• James Clayton Barr
  James Clayton Barr
  James Clayton Barr, CB was a Commodore of the Cunard line.-Biography:He was the Captain of the RMS Carmania from 1905 to at least 1913. In October of 1913, while eastward bound, Barr responded to a distress call from the SS Volturno to pick up survivors. By 1916 he was Captain of the RMS...
  
   (1856–1937), Commodore of the Cunard line
• Jim Barr
  Jim Barr
  James Leland Barr is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants and California Angels...
  
   (born 1948), baseball player
• Anthony James Barr
  Anthony James Barr
  Anthony James Barr, aka Tony Barr or Jim Barr is an American "programming language" designer, software engineer, and inventor...
  
   (born 1940), also known as Jim Barr, software engineer

See also

• James Barr Ames
  James Barr Ames
  James Barr Ames was a American law educator, who popularized the "case-study" method of teaching law developed by Christopher Columbus Langdell. Ames insisted that legal education should require the study of actual cases instead of abstract principles of law...
  
  (1846–1910), American law educator