Paul Barringer (1778–1844) was a North Carolina politician, businessman and military veteran of the War of 1812.

General Barringer served in the North Carolina House of Commons (1793, 1794, 1806–1815) and in the North Carolina Senate (1822, 1824), representing Cabarrus County.

Barringer was born on September 26, 1778, at Poplar Grove, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, the son of John Paul Barringer and his wife, Ann Eliza Eisman.

William Hawkins, and served as brigadier general of a company of volunteers in the War of 1812.

He was a member of the North Carolina House of Commons in the years 1806–1815, and of the Senate in 1822.