Barry Edward Brill OBE JP (born 22 October 1940) is a New Zealand lawyer and ex-politician.
He was educated at St Patrick's primary school in Te Awamutu and Sacred Heart College, Auckland.
It was anticipated that Brill would win the National nomination to replace the retiring Dan Riddiford in the Wellington Central electorate, but he was surprisingly beaten by Ken Comber.
Brill stood for ACT New Zealand in Northland in the 2011 general election,[4] where he received 0.83% of the candidate vote.
After Wattie merged with Goodman Group Ltd in 1987, he chaired the Diversified Activities Group of Goodman Fielder Wattie Ltd. During the 1980s, he was a director of NZSE-listed companies Waitaki International Ltd, Allflex Holdings Ltd, and Hawkes Bay Farmers Meat Co Ltd.
In 1999, Brill sold his controlling interest to USA-based Hussmann Corporation, now a subsidiary of Panasonic.
The commercial refrigeration and air conditioning business continues to operate out of Auckland as McAlpine Hussmann Ltd. Brill is a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Directors.
He was Group B chair of the New Zealand-Japan Business Association and an executive member of the Pacific Basin Economic Council.
More recently, Brill has been active in challenging establishment climate scientists' views on global warming.
He acted for the New Zealand Climate Science Education Trust, a charitable organisation that took a judicial review against the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), alleging that New Zealand's century-long temperature record (the 7SS) was skewed by non-random adjustments.