Conn (name)

Conn is a masculine English- and Irish-language given name,^[1] as well as an English-language surname.^[2] The origin of the given name is uncertain. It may be related to the Old Irish cond ("intellect" or "mind"), or perhaps to the Old Irish cenn ("head", "chief"). The latter word-origin may have resulted from a popular, but incorrect etymology, applied to the Old Irish terms Leth Cuinn and Dál Cuinn; these terms originally meant "half of the chief" and "tribe of the chief" but were mistakenly regarded to mean "half of Conn" and "tribe of Conn".^[3] In some cases the given name is as a short form of non Irish-language names that begin with the first syllable Con- (such as the names Conor and Connor).^[4]

People

American

• Billy Conn (1917 – 1993), American boxer
• Bobby Conn, American musician
• Canary Conn (born 1949), American musician and non-fiction author
• Charles Paul Conn, American non-fiction author and university president
• Charles Gerard Conn, American founder of C.G. Conn Ltd.
• Charles W. Conn (1920 - 2008), American author, former General Overseer of the Church of God
• Conn Findlay *born 1930), American Olympic rower and sailor
• Conn Jackson, American television personality
• Didi Conn (born 1951), American film, stage and television actress.
• Herb and Jan Conn, American climbing and caving pioneers
• Herbert William Conn (1859-1917), American bacteriologist and educator
• Jerome W. Conn (1907-1994), American endocrinologist, first described Conn's syndrome
• Nicole Conn, American film director, producer, and screenwriter
• Phoebe Conn, American author
• Roe Conn, American radio talk show host, The Roe Conn Show

Australian

• Daniel Conn is an Australian rugby league player.
• Neil Raymond Conn is a former Administrator of the Northern Territory in Australia from 17 February 1997 to 30 October 2000.

English

• Conn Iggulden is a British writer of historical novels.
• David Conn is a sports journalist focusing on football (soccer) for The Guardian a British newspaper.
• Gideon Conn is a singer-songwriter from Manchester.
• John Conn (1764 - 1810) was a senior captain in the Royal Navy during the American Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
• Shelley Conn is an English actress of Anglo-Indian descent.

Canadian

• Conn Smythe (1895 – 1980), was a Canadian builder in the National Hockey League best known as the principal owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1927 to 1961 and as the builder of Maple Leaf Gardens.
• Craig Conn, is a lacrosse player for the Arizona Sting in the National Lacrosse League and the New Westminster Salmonbellies of the Western Lacrosse Association.
• Jan Conn, is a Canadian poet and mosquito genetic researcher.
• Michelle Conn, is a Canadian field hockey player.
• Ty Conn (1967 – 1999), born Tyrone Williams Conn, was a Canadian bank robber and is best known for his escape over the wall from the Kingston Penitentiary, one of Canada's most secure and notorious prisons.

Irish

• Conn of the Hundred Battles, former High King of Ireland and the ancestor of the Connachta
• Conn, the leading character in Dion Boucicault's melodrama The Shaughraun (1874).
• Conn O'Neill (1480 - 1559), was the 1st Earl of Tyrone in Ireland during the 16th century.
• Conn Ward (1890 – 1966), born Francis Constantine Ward, was an Irish Fianna Fáil party politician.
• Hugh Conn McCall (1940 - 2002), was an Irish cricketer.

Scottish

• Alfie Conn, Sr., was a Scottish professional footballer (soccer), most commonly remembered as part of the Terrible Trio of the Heart of Midlothian side of the 1950s, along with Willie Bauld and Jimmy Wardhaugh.
• Alfie Conn, Jr., is a former professional footballer, who was the first post-war player to play for both Celtic and Rangers.
• Iain Conn, an executive director of the BP Group.
• Stewart Conn, is a Scottish poet and playwright.

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