Barry Russell is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s.
He played in the halves for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks club of the NSWRL Premiership[3] with whom he won the Rothmans Medal in 1988.
A member of the same Jersey Flegg Cup team as Andrew Ettingshausen and Jonathan Docking,[4] Russell made his first-grade debut in 1985.
Towards the end of the season, Russell was the team's regular five-eighth.
[6] Despite missing six games of the 1988 NSWRL season due to injury, 23-year-old Russell was awarded the Rothmans Medal.