Barr may refer to:
Places
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Barr (placename element)
Barr- is a pre-Indo-European linguistic root meaning 'wooded hill', 'natural barrier'.Éric Vial, ''Les noms de villes et de village'', Belin, 1983,
In addition to the common noun bar, it explains many place names as:
* Barr, commune of Alsace, ...
, element of place names meaning 'wooded hill', 'natural barrier'
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Barr, Ayrshire
Barr is a village in the South West of Ayrshire, Scotland, approximately from the town of Girvan. There are various opinions as to the origins of the name. The most likely is the Gaelic ''bàrr'' meaning 'a hill-top, a height'. It is believe ...
, a village in Scotland
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Barr Building (Washington, DC)
The Barr Building is an historic structure located in the Golden Triangle section of Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 2012 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013. ...
, listed on the US National Register of Historic Places
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Barr Castle
Barr Castle is a late medieval tower house. It can be seen today as a ruin on a low ridge to the south of the village of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland.
History
Barr Castle was constructed in the 15th or early 16th century. It passed ...
, ruin in Renfrewshire, Scotland
* Barr Castle, in
Galston, East Ayrshire, Scotland
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Barr, Bas-Rhin, a commune of the Bas-Rhin ''département'' in France
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Barr Township, Daviess County, Indiana
Barr Township is one of ten townships in Daviess County, Indiana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 4,811 and it contained 1,481 housing units.
History
Barr Township was organized on 4 August 1819 from part of Washington Township; its na ...
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Barr Township, Cambria County, Pennsylvania
Barr Township is a township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. As of the 2020 census, the township population was 2,057. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
The Colver Historic District ...
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Companies
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A.G. Barr, a Scottish soft drinks manufacturer
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Barr Construction Ltd, a Scottish construction company
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Barr Pharmaceuticals
Barr Pharmaceuticals was a global specialty and generic drug manufacturer with operations in 30 countries.
Approximately 75% of the company's revenues were from the sale of generic drugs, including 18% of sales which were from the sale of oral co ...
, a generic drug manufacturer that was acquired by Teva Pharmaceutical in 2008
People
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Barr (surname)
Barr is an English, Scottish, and Irish surname, and may refer to:
People
* Adam Barr, American television screenwriter and producer
* Al Barr (born 1968), lead singer of the Celtic punk band the Dropkick Murphys
* Alfred Barr (1902–1981), art ...
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Brendan Fowler, a.k.a. BARR, American musician
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Barr (tribe), a people in southwest Asia
Other uses
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Barr body, the inactive chromosome in a somatic cell
* Al-Barr, one of the
names of God in Islam
Names of God in Islam ( ar, أَسْمَاءُ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلْحُسْنَىٰ , "''Allah's Beautiful Names''") are names attributed to God in Islam by Muslims. While some names are only in the Quran, and others are only in the hadith, th ...
See also
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Barre (disambiguation)
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Bar (disambiguation)
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