Proper noun
A surname
An English toponymic surname transferred from the common noun for someone who owned, lived in, or worked in a barn.
A habitational surname from Middle English for someone from the place of the same name in Surrey.
A placename
A suburb of London, in the borough of Richmond upon Thames, Greater London, England, originally a town in Surrey (OS grid ref TQ2276).
A minor city in Washington County, Kansas, United States.
A small town in the far south of the Riverina, New South Wales, Australia.
An inner suburb and ward in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England (approx OS grid ref NZ3856).
Source: en.wiktionary.orgBut... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form. Larry Niven
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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today. Mark Crispin Miller
John Barnes is incredibly variable. Pete's Rule (Never buy a Barnes with sodomy in it) is a good one but unfortunately the publisher does not put that kind of stuff on the cover. James Nicoll
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