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Michael Barrett

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ6828454 ↗
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Michael or Mike Barrett may refer to:

Politicians

Michael J. Barrett (born 1948), American politician in Massachusetts

Michael Barrett (Irish politician) (1927–2006), Irish Fianna Fáil politician

Michael Barrett (Canadian politician) (born 1984), Canadian member of parliament from Ontario

Sportsmen

Mike Barrett (footballer) (1959–1984), English footballer

Mike Barrett (sportscaster) (born 1968), American sportscaster

Mike Barrett (basketball) (1943–2011), American basketball player

Michael Barrett (baseball) (born 1976), American baseball player

Michael Barrett (American football) (born 1999), American football player

Others

Michael Barrett (cinematographer) (born 1970), American cinematographer

Michael Barrett (Fenian) (1841–1868), hanged for his alleged role in the Clerkenwell bombing

Michael Barrett (physician) (1816–1887), British-Canadian physician and teacher

Michael Barrett (author) (1924–1999), Australian fiction author of The Invincible Six

Michael B. Barrett (born c.

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The public source identifies “Michael Barrett” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Michael, Barrett and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1948, 1927, 2006, 1984—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Michael, Barrett and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Michael Barrett” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.