Peter Barnes, (January 10 1931-July 1 2004), was an English Olivier Award-winning playwright and screenwriter. His most famous work is the play The Ruling Class, which was made into a 1972 film for which Peter O'Toole received an Oscar nomination.

Peter Simon Barnes (born 10 June 1957 in Manchester), is an English former footballer, son of footballer Ken Barnes. He made his debut for Manchester City in 1974-75, and scored in the 1976 League Cup final at the age of 19. In the same year he was voted Young Player of the Year by the Professional Footballers Association. Barnes was sold by Malcolm Allison 1979, and joined West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £752,000 - a club transfer record which was not broken for nearly 20 years.

Barnes was Albion's leading scorer in 1979-80, but he struggled to emulate this form after signing for Leeds United in 1981. Leeds manager Allan Clarke played him as a striker, but Barnes failed to adapt to his new role, scoring only one goal. Barnes was a regular with England at the time but apparently unpopular with his team-mates, who took advantage of his club troubles in pressuring manager Ron Greenwood to drop him.

When Leeds were relegated in 1982 he was loaned to Spanish club Real Betis for a season, but didn't relish the climate and returned to Leeds the following year. After 27 games and 4 goals in the Second Division, he was sold to Coventry City for £50,000, where he scored 8 goals in 29 games. Ron Atkinson subsequently signed him for Manchester United, where he was effectively an understudy to Danish winger Jesper Olsen. Barnes managed only 35 appearances during his two years at Manchester United, and scored 10 goals.

Atkinson was replaced as Manchester United manager by Alex Ferguson, who quickly fell out with Barnes. He was transferred back to Manchester City in 1987, but soon fell out of favour and was loaned out to Bolton Wanderers and Port Vale. His league career petered out with brief spells at Hull City, Bolton again and Sunderland. He moved on to Tampa Bay Rowdies in the USA and, after failing to persuade Bury he was worth a contract, drifted into non-league football with Mossley.

After retiring from playing, Barnes had a spell managing Runcorn and has since worked behind the scenes at Manchester City and for local radio.

Clubs: Manchester City F.C. (1974-1979) 115 Apps 15 Goals West Bromwich Albion (1979-1981) 77 Apps 23 Goals Leeds United F.C. (1981-1984) 57 Apps 5 Goals Real Betis - loan (1982-1983) Coventry City F.C. (1984-1985) 18 apps 2 Goals Manchester United F.C. (1985-1987) 20 Apps 2 Goals Manchester City F.C. (1986-1987) 8 Apps 0 Goals Bolton Wanderers F.C. -loan (1987-1988) 2 Apps 0 Goals Port Vale F.C. - loan (1987-1988) 3 Apps 0 Goals Drogheda United (1988) Hull City F.C. (1988-1989) 11 Apps 0 Goals S.C. Farense (1988) 1 App 0 Goals Bolton Wanderers F.C. (1988-1989) 3 Apps 0 Goals Sunderland F.C. (1989) 1 app 0 Goals Tampa Bay Rowdies (1990) Northwich Victoria F.C. (1991) Wrexham F.C. (1991) Hamrun Spartans (1991) S.C. Farense (1991) 10 Apps 4 Goals Radcliffe Borough (1991) Mossley F.C. (1991) Cliftonville (1992)

Peter Barnes (c. 1907-February 7, 1940) was a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and, along with James McCormack (or James Richards), participated the Coventry Explosion of 1939 which killed five people on August 25, 1939. One of many suspected members detained by authorities thought to be involved in the bombing, although he and McCormack had admitted to constructing the bomb which was intended to be used to destroy a power station, they claimed not to be involved in planting the bomb.

Seán MacBride, a former Chief-of-Staff for the IRA and Irish barrister attempted to secure their release claiming they were being illegally held without a writ of habeas corpus. However, charged with murder along with McCormack, Brigid O'Hara, Joseph and Mary Hewitt on December 12, all five pleaded not guilty before the court at Birmingham Assizes (both Brigid O'Hara and Brigid O'Hara issued statements between August 28 and September 4 to Scotland Yard and Birmingham police denying any knowledge of the bombings and later provided evidence for the prosecution). Found guilty of murder of December 15, Barnes and McCormack were later hanged at Winson Green Prison in Birmingham on February 7, 1940. Their remains were evenually flown back to Dublin on July 4.

Their trial and execution resulted in a massive public outcry in Ireland against Neville Chamberlain and the British Government as Peadar O'Donnell and other prominent Irish writers signed a petition campaigning for lieniency towards the condemned men.

Peter Barnes is a morning anchor of Money for Breakfast on the Fox Business Network. A graduate of Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, Barnes also holds a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Before joining FBN, Barnes served as the Washington, DC bureau chief and correspondent for television group Hearst-Argyle. He has also worked at numerous business programming outlets, including TechTV from 2001 to 2003, where he was the Washington bureau chief for the satellite channel which specialized in technology coverage.

Barnes served as an anchor and Washington correspondent for CNBC from 1993 to 1998. In 1996, he anchored Capitol Gains. Barnes received a Cable ACE Award while at CNBC for a special series on retirement. Before joining CNBC, he was correspondent for WCAU-TV, the CBS owned and operated station in Philadelphia, and a news reporter for KTTV-TV's Fox 11 News in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he was a staff reporter for The Wall Street Journal and The Charlotte Observer.

Barnes was born in Rochester, New York and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is married with three children.