Keating (surname)

Keating (Irish spelling: Céitinn) is an old Irish family name which originated with the Cambro Norman invaders in the 12th century, mostly settling in Wexford in the province of Leinster, where the most prominent family was based at Baldwinstown castle. Variant spellings include Keatinge.

Famous Keatings

• Caron Keating (1962–2004), British TV personality
• Charles Keating (1923–2014), American lawyer, banker, best known for his involvement in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s known as The Keating Five Scandal
• Dan Keating (1902–2007), longest surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence
• Dennis Keating (born 1940), former Irish footballer
• Dominic Keating (born 1962), British actor
• Frank Keating (born 1944), American politician; former governor of Oklahoma
• Geoffrey Keating (c. 1569 – c. 1644), Irish theologian and historian
• H. R. F. Keating (1926–2011), British novelist
• John Keating (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jonathan Keating, British mathematician
• Justin Keating (1930–2009), Irish Labour Party politician
• Karl Keating (born 1950), American Catholic apologist
• Kenneth Keating (1900–1975), American politician
• Michael Keating (actor) (born 1947), British actor
• Michael Keating (Irish politician) (born 1946), former Irish politician
• Michael Keating (political scientist) (born 1950), political scientist
• Michael Keating (public servant) (born 1940), Australian senior public servant
• Mike Keating (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian hockey player
• Paul Keating (born 1944), 24th Prime Minister of Australia
• Patrick N. Keating, theoretical physicist, of the Keating model
• Richard Harte Keatinge (1825–1904), soldier
• Robert Keating, Irish politician, MP for County Waterford 1847–52, Waterford City 1852–57
• Ronan Keating (born 1977), Irish singer
• Seán Keating, (1889–1977), Irish painter, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy
• Sean P. Keating (1903–1976), Irish Republican Army veteran and Irish-American activist and political figure
• Timothy J. Keating (born 1948), American Admiral
• Timothy J. Keating (born 1961), Lt. Gen, Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
• Thomas Keating (born 1923), monk, founder of Centering Prayer movement
• Tom Keating (1917–1984), art restorer and forger
• Trenna Keating, Canadian actress
• William H. Keating (1799–1840), American geologist
• William J. Keating (born 1927), American politician
• Will Keating (born 1976), British Folk Singer (The Oggymen and solo)
• Zoë Keating (born 1972), Canadian cellist and composer
• Maurice Keatinge (c.1761–1835), Irish landowner, soldier and politician
• Paffard Keatinge-Clay (born 1926), architect and sculptor

Fictitious entities

• John Keating, played Robin Williams in 1989 film, Dead Poets Society

Multiple characters in How to Get Away With Murder:

• Analise Keating, played by Viola Davis, fictional defense lawyer and law professor
• Dr. Hannah Keating, Analise's sister-in-law, played by Marcia Gay Harden
• Sam Keating, Analise's husband, played by Tom Verica
• Keating 5, Analise Keating's interns, in How to Get Away With Murder (season 1)

References

Published Keating genealogies

• Keating, John Percy, 1855-1920 (1918). John Keating and his forebears. Internet Archive. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
• Keating of Wexford.
• Lodge, John, 1692-1774 & Archdall, Mervyn, 1723-1791 (1789). "John (b. circa 1150, 6th son of Odo of Carmarthenshire, Wales) from whom those of the name Keating in this Kingdom derive". The peerage of Ireland: or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom. II. p. 183. CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)