Eric Arthur Barber, FBA (8 October 1888; 24 May 1965) was an Oxford college head in the 20th-century. Barber was educated at Shrewsbury School and New College, Oxford. During World War I he served as an officer with the King's Shropshire Light Infantry. A classicist, he was a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford from 1910 to 1913. He was Fellow, Tutor and Lecturer in Classics at Exeter College, Oxford from 1913 to 1943; and Rector of Exeter College, Oxford from 1943 to 1956.