- He and Bonnie Parker were known as the infamous "Bonnie and Clyde".
- At a prison work camp, Clyde cut off two of his toes with an axe to be moved to the same prison his brother, Buck Barrow, was in.
- After his partner, W.D. Jones stole a coupe from a couple and drove away in it, Clyde forced the couple into his car and drove around for a while. When he let them out, he asked the man if they had any money, when the man (who was the undertaker who later embalmed them) said he only had 25 cents, Clyde gave him five dollars to get back home.
- Had to cook most of the meals for Bonnie Parker and the rest of the Barrow gang because Bonnie hated to cook.
- Subject of the songs "The Legend of Bonnie and Clyde" by Merle Haggard (1968) and "The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde" by Georgie Fame (1967).
- Barrow's gravestone in Dallas's Western Heights Cemetery reads: "Gone but not forgotten".
- Barrow's and Bonnie Parker's separate funeral services respectively drew crowds of 15,000 and 20,000 in May 1934. One of the attendees at each funeral was telephone company employee Ellery Douglass Benton, father of writer-director Robert Benton, who would go on to be Oscar-nominated for his screenplay for Bonnie and Clyde (1967) over thirty years later.
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