Nigel Barker (born 27 April 1972) is an English reality TV show personality, fashion photographer, author, spokesperson, filmmaker, and former model.

[5] Barker planned to continue his studies in medicine, but his mother entered him into a televised model search on The Clothes Show.

He has shot editorials for GQ, Interview, Seventeen, Town & Country, Lucky, Tatler, and Cover, and advertising campaigns for Land's End, Leviev, Nicole Miller, Nine West, Ted Baker, Jordache, Pamella Rolland, Beefeater, Ford, and Sony.

Barker was a judge for 17 cycles on Tyra Banks's reality show America's Next Top Model.

Barker is a spokesperson for prominent brands, including Microsoft, Sony, Crest White Strips and Nine West.

Barker appeared as a celebrity judge for the 2008 Miss America Pageant and had cameo roles on several TV series, including The Young and the Restless, Privileged, Stylista, Style Her Famous and Ugly Betty, as well as a cameo role in the feature film Arthur (2011), with Jennifer Garner, Russell Brand, Nick Nolte and Helen Mirren.

[9][10] In 2009 Barker opened a photography exhibit, Haiti: Hunger and Hope, at the Milk Gallery in New York City.

[11] Barker teamed up with Taylor Swift to shoot a photobook of her titled 8 hours which made its debut in November 2012.

[13] In 2016 he was one of the guest judges in the final of Miss USA 2016 in T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.