Healy (surname)
The English-language surname, Healy, is currently in use by three separate ancestral lines of people from Ireland.
When Irish people began to anglicise their names, two separate clans adopted the English surname of "Healy". There was the Ó hÉilidhe clan from Connaught and the Ó hÉalaighthe clan from Munster.
Many different spellings of the surname exist including Haly, Haley, Haily, Healey, Hely, O'Healey, O'Haly and many more. Famous people bearing the name Healy are as follows:
- Bernadine Healy (b. 1944), American physician
- Cahir Healy (1877-1970), Irish politician
- Cecil Healy (1881-1918), Australian swimmer
- Colin Healy (b. 1980), Irish footballer
- Daniel Healy (b. 1974), former Australian rules footballer
- David Healy (astronomer) (b. 1936), American astronomer
- David Healy (footballer) (b. 1979, Northern Irish footballer
- David Healy (psychiatrist), Irish psychiatrist
- Dermot Healy (b. 1947), Irish novelist and playwright
- Don Healy (b. 1936), American footballer
- Eamonn Healy, American chemistry professor
- Eloise Klein Healy, American poet
- Felix Healy (b. 1955), former Northern Irish footballer
- Fran Healy (baseball) (b. 1946), former American baseball player
- Francis Healy (b. 1973), Scottish musician
- Frank Healy (b. 1962), English guitarist
- George Peter Alexander Healy (1813-1894), American painter
- Gerry Healy (1913-1984), Irish Trotskyist activist
- Glenn Healy (b. 1962), former Canadian ice hockey player
- Henry Healy, who famously appeared on Tubridy Tonight after the election of Barack Obama as U.S. President, claiming to be his Eighth cousin
- Howard R. Healy (1899-1942), US Navy officer
- Ian Healy (b. 1964), former Australian cricketer
- Jackie Healy-Rae (b. 1931), Irish politician
- James Augustine Healy (1830-1900), African-American Roman Catholic priest
- Jeremy Healy (b. 1962), English DJ
- Jerramiah Healy (b. 1950), Mayor of Jersey City
- John Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Julie Healy, Australian model
- Katherine Healy (b. 1969), American former principal ballerina
- Kieran Healy, Irish sociologist
- Margaret Healy, Irish singer/songwriter
- Matt Healy (b. 1970), Scottish actor
- Michael A. Healy (1839-1904), American seaman
- Michael Healy (statistician) (b. 1923), British statistician
- Pamela Healy (b. 1963), retired American sailor
- Patrick Francis Healy (1830-1910), African-American Jesuit priest
- Randolph Healy (b. 1956), Irish poet and publisher
- Robert W. Healy, city manager of Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Robert Healy (commissioner) (1833-1871), Irish-born Chicago official
- Robert Healy (journalist), American political correspondent
- Roy Healy (1915-1968), American rocket scientist
- Scott Healy, American musician
- Séamus Healy (b. 1950), Irish politician
- Ted Healy (1896-1937), American vaudeville performer
- Timothy Michael Healy (1855-1931), Irish politician
- Timothy S. Healy (1923-1992), former president of Georgetown University
- Tim Healy (b. 1952), British actor
- Una Healy (b. 1981), Irish singer (The Saturdays)
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