Baring (surname) explained

Baring is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Baring family, a German-British banking family
• Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), British banker
• Alexander Baring, 4th Baron Ashburton (1835–1889), British landowner and politician
• Arnulf Baring (1932–2019), German historian
• Bingham Baring, 2nd Baron Ashburton (1799–1864)
• Charles Baring (1807–1879), Bishop of Durham
• Charles Baring, 2nd Baron Howick of Glendale (born 1937), English horticulturalist
• Edward Baring, 1st Baron Revelstoke (1828–1897), British banker
• Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841–1917), British colonial administrator
• Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1903–1973), Governor of Kenya
• Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet (1740–1810), English merchant banker who established merchant house of Barings
• Francis Baring, 1st Baron Northbrook (1796–1866), British Whig politician, First Lord of the Admiralty
• Francis Baring, 6th Baron Northbrook (born 1954), British peer and Conservative politician
• Fred Baring (1890–1961), Australian rules footballer
• Georg Baring (Baron Georg von Baring) (1773–1848), Hanoverian officer in the King's German Legion
• Giles Baring (1910–1986), English cricketer
• Guy Baring (1873–1916), British MP and army officer
• Henry Bingham Baring (1804–1869), British Conservative MP
• John Baring (1730–1816), merchant, banker and MP
• James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke (1938–2012)
• John Baring, 7th Baron Ashburton (1928–2020), British merchant banker and former Chairman of BP
• Mark Baring, 8th Baron Ashburton (born 1958), British businessman
• Maurice Baring (1874–1945), English man of letters
• Norah Baring (1907–1985), British movie actress
• Rowland Baring, 2nd Earl of Cromer (1877–1953), English Lord Chamberlain
• Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer (1918–1991), British Ambassador to US and Governor of the Bank of England
• Sarah Baring (1920-2013), English socialite and Bletchley Park linguist
• Thomas Baring (1799–1873), English banker and Conservative MP
• Thomas Charles Baring (1831–1891), British banker and Conservative MP
• Thomas Baring, 1st Earl of Northbrook (1826–1904), British Viceroy of India and politician
• Walter S. Baring Jr. (1911–1975), United States Representative from Nevada