Barry Murphy (born 5 October 1985) is an Irish swimmer from Dublin, Ireland.

Despite setting 50 m and 100 m freestyle national records in 2008, Murphy just missed qualifying for Ireland's team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

He broke the Irish senior record for the 50 m breaststroke in a time of 28.37 qualifying him for the semi-finals, where he finished 16th.

The record was set in 2008 at the Beijing Games by Murphy's good friend and Tennessee Teammate Andrew Bree.

After the year in which Murphy completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee, he moved to Ann Arbor, to train under world-renowned sprint coach Mike Bottom and swim for the prestigious Club Wolverine.

This is a group of international swimmers dedicated to bettering themselves, the community and the sport by training, promoting and evolving swimming.

After just 7 weeks under Coach Bottom, Murphy travelled to the European Swimming Championships in Budapest.

Murphy won the gold medal in the 100 m breaststroke final at the Indianapolis Grand Prix on 3 March 2011.

This made Barry the first Irish male to qualify for London, and possibly the first swimmer in the World too.

A documentary was made about this process, which included reference to his Indianapolis 2011 result but which did not discuss how far he went with his dream.