Joseph Barnes (Irish doctor)

Joseph Barnes (14 November 1914 – 4 May 2017) was an Irish physician who worked in leper colonies in West Africa in the 1940s. He co-founded International Community for the Relief of Suffering and Starvation (ICROSS) with Michael Elmore-Meegan. He was born in Belfast. He lectured in tropical medicine at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He became a centenarian in November 2014.