John Barr (born 1982) is a Scottish international shinty player from Abriachan, Scotland.

He has mainly played as a defender, for Glenurquhart Shinty Club where he has also been assistant manager.

[citation needed] He attended Robert Gordon University and graduated in 2009.

[5] The crowd at the 2009 Scotland-Ireland international enjoyed the good humoured chant "John Barr ate my car".

[6] His first senior cap was in 2005 and in October 2015 he gained his fourteenth cap as captain of Scotland against Ireland in the first leg of the cross-code Shinty-Hurling at Bight Park in Inverness.