Michael “Mickey” Barron (born 22 December 1974 in Chester le Street) is a football coach and a former professional footballer. He retired from playing in May 2008 and is currently the reserve team coach at Hartlepool United.

Barron started his career at Middlesbrough. Despite spending four years at the club, Barron only made three appearances and found his chances of breaking into the first team limited. This forced Barron to look elsewhere and he was allowed to go on loan to Hartlepool United. Barron made his debut for Hartlepool against Carlisle United. During his loan spell Barron made 14 appearances. Middlesbrough then released Barron and he signed permanently for Hartlepool.

From 1999 to 2005, Barron has spent the majority of that term as club captain and made over 326 appearances for the club and has the eighth most total number of appearances for the club.^{[dead link]} To celebrate 10 seasons with the club, a series of events were held such as testimonial dinner with Bobby Robson as guest speaker. Barron could only attend the later stages of the dinner as he was involved in a reserve team match while trying to make his comeback from injury. A testimonal game, against Leeds United which Hartlepool won 2-1, was also held. During his time on the sidelines, he became a regular special guest commentator on Pool’s World, the Hartlepool United audio commentary service. Barron Signed a new contract in June 2007. He retired at the end of the 2007-08 season, and became Hartlepool's reserve team coach. He took on first-team duties as caretaker manager on the 6 December 2011, following the sacking of previous manager Mick Wadsworth. He was in charge for three games, losing the first two and then beating Oldham 1-0, but reverted to his reserve team duties when Neale Cooper was appointed manager on 28 December 2011.