Barry Eaton is a rugby league football player of the 1990s and 2000s, and coach, playing at representative level for Wales, and at club level for Stanley Rangers, Doncaster, Wakefield Trinity, Dewsbury, Castleford, Widnes, Batley and Keighley, as a stand-off, scrum-half, or hooker, id est (that is) number 6, 7, or 9, and coaching at club level for Keighley, Crusaders and Hunslet.
Career
In 2000 he had a loan spell with Castleford in 2000"s Super League V. In 2001 he joined Widnes, and played in all but three of their 28 matches in 2002"s Super League VII.
Barry Eaton moved to Keighley as player-coach in 2005. He retired from playing and was given full control of the team when Peter Roe became Director of Rugby in 2007, although he continued to make sporadic on-field appearances during that season. In both 2008 and 2009 he was nominated for Championship 1 coach of the year.
After leading Keighley to promotion, he was unable to keep them in the Company-operative Championship, he then moved to Crusaders to become assistant to Iestyn Harris for 2011"s Super League XVI, he then moved to Hunslet in late 2011.