Scully

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Scully is a surname, and may refer to:

• Scully (TV series), British television programme, broadcast on Channel Four
• Carl Scully, Australian politician
• Cornelius D. Scully, American politician
• Dana Scully, fictional character on television's The X-Files
• David Scully, voice actor
• Felicity Scully, fictional character from Neighbours
• Frank Scully, UFO author
• Hugh Scully, British TV presenter
• Jack Scully, fictional character from Neighbours
• Jake Scully, fictional character from Body Double
• Joe Scully, fictional character from Neighbours
• Lyn Scully, fictional character from Neighbours
• Marlan Scully, physicist
• Matthew Scully, American journalist and speechwriter
• Maurice Scully, Irish poet
• Michelle Scully, fictional character from Neighbours
• Mike Scully, television producer
• Oscar Scully, fictional character from Neighbours
• Rock Scully, manager of the Grateful Dead
• Sean Scully, Irish-american painter
• Sean Scully (actor), Australian actor
• Terry Scully, British actor
• Vin Scully, Major League Baseball announcer
• Vincent J. Scully - architectural history professor and writer
• Noel "Scully" Sims - a Jamaican percussionist and singer

• The Irish name, "Scully" is almost the exact word in classical and modern Greek. It means "Scholar," with the accent on the second syllable. The pre-Christian Celts/Irish adopted Greek as their second language; the Irish origins of the Arthurian tales with their textual and thematic connections with Macedonia point out the connection.

In classical Greek, the word (σχολή) actually means "leisure," which was perceived as a basis or precondition for scholarship. In modern European languages the word has transmuted into such names as "Schyler," Shulman," "Scooler," and so forth: "School-man" or "A man of the schools," or "Scholar."

[edit] See also

• John Sculley
• Skully, a children's street game