Harry Barker (mayor)
 Sir Harry Heaton Barker KBE (18 July 1898 – 18 May 1994) was a New Zealand newspaper journalist and editor local politician. He was born in Nelson New Zealand on 18 July 1898. His father John Heaton Barker was the founder of the Four Square supermarkets chain.Barker came to Gisborne in 1920 to work as a reporter for The Gisborne Times (which after a couple of mergers became The Gisborne Herald in 1939).