Barney Hughes is the manager of Howdy's Market and one of the main characters in Raising Hope. He is portrayed by Gregg Binkley.
His store employees are Jimmy, Sabrina, and Frank. He used to be very overweight but had a gastric bypass surgery ("Don't Vote for This Episode"). He has a large collection of dolls within his house, much to Jimmy and Sabrina's horror and Burt's amusement. He was raised by a lesbian couple, but they never appear in the series. He was previously married to a woman named Judy, but is now divorced from her. She has a son named Trevor with someone else, He also has been hinted to have a son named Barney Jr. He briefly dated a woman named Maxine, Sabrina's aunt.