Eric Albert Barnard FRS (2 July 1927 – 23 May 2018) was a British neuroscientist, and Professor at University of Cambridge.

[1] He was educated at King's College London (BSc; PhD, 1956).

He was an Association Professor of Biochemical Pharmacology at the State University of New York (1964–1965), Professor of Biochemistry (1965–1976) and then Head of the Biochemistry Department (1969–1976).

He was appointed Rank Professor of Physiological Biochemistry at Imperial College of Science and Technology in London from 1976 to 1985, acting as Chairman of the Division of Life Sciences (1977–1985) and Head of the Department of Biochemistry (1979–1985).

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on 19 March 1981.