{{short description|Australian rules footballer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=September 2015}} {{Infobox AFL biography | name = Barney Lazarus | image = Berney Lazarus.jpg | fullname = Barney Lazarus | birth_date = {{birth date|1879|12|18|df=y}} | birth_place = London | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|05|06|1879|12|18|df=y}} | death_place = Sydney | originalteam = Carlton Juniors | height = | weight = | position = | statsend = 1902 | years1 = 1902 | club1 = {{AFL Car}} | games_goals1 = 7 (0) | careerhighlights = }}
'''Barney Lazarus''' (18 December 1879 – 6 May 1962) was an Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Victorian Football League (VFL).<ref name=encyc>{{cite book |title=The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers: every AFL/VFL player since 1897 |last=Holmesby|first=Russell|last2=Main|first2=Jim |year=2009 |edition=8th |isbn=978-1-921496-00-4 |publisher=BAS Publishing |location=Seaford, Victoria |page=477}}</ref>
Lazarus made his senior VFL debut in 1902, playing seven games for Carlton. Following his retirement from football, Lazarus moved to Sydney and married there in 1912.<ref name=jew>{{cite web|last1=Browne|first1=Ashley|title=Historians discover identity of two more Jewish League footballers|url=http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-05/historians-discover-identity-of-two-more-jewish-league-footballers|publisher=AFL Media|accessdate=9 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906033752/http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-08-05/historians-discover-identity-of-two-more-jewish-league-footballers|archive-date=6 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2015 it was discovered that Lazarus was Jewish, making him one of the few Jews to have played senior VFL/AFL football.<ref name=jew/>
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== External links == *{{AFL Tables|ref=B/Barney_Lazarus.html}} *[http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=Barney+Lazarus Barney Lazarus's profile] at Blueseum
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lazarus, Barney}} Category:1879 births Category:1962 deaths Category:VFL/AFL players born in England Category:Carlton Football Club players Category:Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Category:Jewish Australian sportspeople
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