Healy (surname)
The English-language surname Healy is in used by three separate ancestral lines of people from Ireland.
When Irish people began to anglicise their names, two separate clans adopted the English-language 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.
Notable people with the surname Healy
- Bernadine Healy (1944–2011), 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 (1947–2014), 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
- Fran Healy (musician) (b. 1973), Scottish musician
- Frank Healy (b. 1962), English guitarist
- George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), American painter
- Gerry Healy (1913–84), Irish Trotskyist activist
- Glenn Healy (b. 1962), former Canadian ice hockey player
- 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
- Matthew Healy (b. 1989), English musician, son of actor Tim Healy
- 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) (1833–71), Irish-born Chicago official
- Robert Healy (journalist), American political correspondent
- Roy Healy (1915–68), American rocket scientist
- Scott Healy, American musician
- Séamus Healy (b. 1950), Irish politician
- Sean Healy, American artist
- Ted Healy (1896–1937), American vaudeville performer
- Timothy Michael Healy (1855–1931), Irish politician
- Timothy S. Healy (1923–92), former president of Georgetown University
- Tim Healy (b. 1952), English actor
- Tucker Healy, baseball player
- Una Healy (b. 1981), Irish singer with The Saturdays
Fictional characters
- Benjamin Healy in the film Problem Child, Junior's Dad
- Wendy Healy in the novel and TV series Lipstick Jungle