Joseph Barnes (14 November 1914 – 4 May 2017) was an Irish physician and medical missionary who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940s.
[1][2][3][4] There he worked with sisters from the Medical Missionaries of Mary including Sr Mary de Lourdes Gogan.
[5] Most notably, he co-founded International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation (ICROSS) with Michael Elmore-Meegan.
Born in Belfast, Barnes was educated at Synge Street CBS and University College, Dublin.
[6] He lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.