Gleeson (surname)
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Gleeson is an Irish surname. Gleeson was a translation of the Gaelic name O Glasain or O Gliasain. The name is first found in county Tipperary where they held a family seat from very ancient times.
- It may refer to:
- Persons
- Brendan Gleeson (born 1955), Irish actor
- Brian Gleeson (born 1934), Australian rules football player
- Dan Gleeson (born 1985), English football player
- Dave Gleeson (born 1968), Australian rock singer
- Dermot Gleeson (born 1949), Irish barrister, government adviser, and businessman
- Dermot Gleeson (born 1949), British governor of BBC
- James Gleeson (born 1915), Australian surrealist artist, poet, and writer
- John Gleeson (born 1938), Australian cricketer
- Keith Gleeson (born 1976), Irish Australian rugby union football player
- Martin Gleeson (born 1980), English rugby league player
- Michael Hewitt-Gleeson (born 1947), Australian cofounder and principal of the School of Thinking
- Murray Gleeson (born 1938), Australian jurist, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Robert Gleeson (1873–1919), South African cricketer
- Sean Gleeson (born 1987), English rugby league player
- Seán Gleeson (contemporary), British soap opera actor
- Simon Gleeson (born 1977), Australian soap opera actor in the UK
- Stephen Gleeson (born 1988), Irish professional football player
- Father William Gleeson (1827-1903), Irish-American historian, linguist, and missionary priest.
- Fictional person
- Summer Gleeson, character in Batman: The Animated Series
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