Barret (died 12 July 1563), was an English Carmelite friar and after the Reformation an Anglican clergyman.
Barret was descended from a good family seated at King's Lynn in Norfolk, where he was born.
After having assumed the habit of a Carmelite, or white friar, in his native town, he studied in the University of Cambridge, where he proceeded in 1533 to the degree of D.D., which Archbishop Cranmer had previously refused to confer upon him.
He obtained the living of Bishop's Thorpe in 1558, and in the same year was installed a prebendary of Norwich.
Bale asserts that in Queen Mary's reign Barret conformed to the restored Catholic religion, and became a zealous papist; but, however this may be, he found no difficulty in professing the Oath of Supremacy under Queen Elizabeth.