Karen Barber (born 21 June 1961 in Manchester) is a British ice dancer.

She is the 1983 European bronze medalist and competed at two Olympics with partner Nicky Slater.

[1] Barber won the silver medal at the 1977 World Junior Championships with partner Kim Spreyer.

From 2006 Barber served as a judge on Dancing On Ice, until 2011 where she was moved into the role of head coach where remained for the 2011 and 2012 series (it was in her 1st year as coach that she got into a big fight with her former co-judge Jason Gardiner) before she returned to the judging panel in 2013 where she remained until the end of series 9 in 2014.

Barber has two daughters, Laura and Emma, with her former husband, Stephen Pickavance.