Look up
Healy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The English-language surname Healy is 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-language surname of "Healy". There was the Ó hÉilidhe clan from Connaught and the Ó hÉalaighthe clan from Munster.[ citation needed]
Many different spellings of the surname exist including Haly, Haley, Haily, Healey, Hely, O'Healey and O'Haly.
Notable people with the surname Healy
- A. J. Healy (Alan James Healy; born 1969), Irish children's writer
- Aidan Healy, Irish hurler who played for Kerry and Abbeydorney
- Albert Frederick Healy (1873–1942), Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada for Essex North (1923–1925)
- Alex Healy (racing driver) (born 1989), Canadian Touring Car racing driver
- Alice F. Healy (born 1946), American psychologist
- Alyssa Healy (born 1990), Australian women's cricketer
- Anna Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill (born 1955), British Labour politician, member of the House of Lords
- Anne Healy (born 1939), American artist, founding member of A.I.R. Gallery
- Ben Healy (disambiguation) (born 1999), Irish rugby union player
- Bernadine Healy (1944–2011), American physician
- Bernard Healy, member of the Los Angeles City Council (1904–1909)
- Bill Healy (William Raymond Healy; 1924–2010), American college football player
- Brendan Healy (born 1983), American lacrosse player
- Brendan Healy (comedian) (1956–2016), British entertainer
- Brian Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Cahir Healy (1877–1970), Irish politician
- Cahir Healy (dual player) (born 1986), Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler
- Catherine Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Cecil Healy (1881–1918), Australian swimmer
- Charles Healy (1883–?, date of death unknown), American water polo player
- Charlie Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Charles Healy (1903-1970), Canadian Politician, conservationist
- Chip Healy (1947–2019), American football player
- Christine Healy (born 1950), American actress
- Cian Healy (born 1987), Irish rugby player
- Colin Healy (born 1980), Irish footballer
- Craig Healy (born 1957), American Olympic sailor
- Damien Healy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Dan Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Daniel Healy (born 1974), Australian rules footballer
- Danny Healy-Rae (born 1954), Irish Independent politician, Teachta Dála for the Kerry constituency (from 2016)
- David Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Denis Healy (Irish politician), Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad Éireann (1934–1936, 1938–1948)
- Dermot Healy (1947–2014), Irish novelist and playwright
- Dermot Healy (hurling manager) (born 1948), Irish hurling manager
- Dick Healy (1921–2013), Australian rugby league footballer
- Don Healy (1936–2020), American footballer
- Dorian Healy (born 1962), British actor
- Dorothy Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Dorothy M. Healy (1914–1990), American educator, historian, and curator
- Eamonn Healy (born 1958), American chemistry professor
- Ed Healy (born 1973), American role-playing game designer
- Edward Healy (1869–1954), Member of Parliament in New Zealand (1928–1935)
- Edwin Healy (1909–1995), Australian cricketer
- Egyptian Healy (1866–1899), pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Eliza Healy (1846–1919), American educator
- Eloise Klein Healy (born 1943), American poet
- Eric Healy (1888–1954), Australian cricketer
- Erin Healy, American politician
- Felix Healy (born 1955), Northern Irish footballer
- Fergal Healy (born 1977), Irish hurler who played for Craughwell and Galway
- Frances Healy (born 1970), Irish actress, comedian, radio personality, and TV presenter
- Francis Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Frank Healy (born 1962), British guitarist
- Gene Healy (born 1970), American political pundit, journalist and editor
- George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), American painter
- Gerald Healy (1885–1946), Australian cricketer
- Gerard Healy (born 1961), Australian rules footballer
- Gerry Healy (1913–1989), Irish Trotskyist activist
- Gertrude Healy (1894-1984), Australian violinist, conductor, music educator
- Glenn Healy (born 1962), Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Healy (born 1956), Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1992–2001)
- Greg Healy (born 1965), Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL
- Gus Healy (Augustine A. Healy; 1904–1987), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (1964–1965, 1975–1976)
- Harold H. Healy Jr. (1921–2007), American lawyer, President of the Union Internationale des Avocats (1979–1981)
- Howard R. Healy (1899–1942), US Navy officer
- Ian Healy (born 1964), Australian cricketer
- Jack Healy (died 1972), American actor and the manager of boxer Rocky Graziano
- Jack H. Healy (1929–2012), American geophysicist
- Jackie Healy-Rae (1931–2014), Irish politician
- Jaime Aleman Healy (born 1953), Panamanian lawyer, businessman and diplomat, Ambassador of Panama to the United States (2009–2011)
- James Andrew Healy (1895–1983), American World War I flying ace
- James Augustine Healy (1830–1900), American Roman Catholic priest and the second bishop of Portland, Maine
- James Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Janet Healy, American film producer
- Jeremy Healy (born 1962), British DJ
- Jerramiah Healy (born 1950), Mayor of Jersey City
- Joe Healy (born 1986), English football midfielder
- John Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jonathan Healy (politician) (born 1945), American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1971–1993)
- Joseph D. Healy (1912–1971), American explorer
- Joseph Healy (1776–1861), American politician
- Juan Ruiz Healy, Mexican-American journalist
- Julie Healy, Australian model
- Katherine Healy (born 1969), American principal ballerina
- Kevin Healy (1909–2001), Australian communist activist and trade unionist
- Kevin Healy (footballer) (born 1937), Australian footballer
- Kieran Healy, Irish sociologist
- Leo H. Healy (1894–1962), American lawyer
- Leo Healy (footballer) (1890–1939), Australian footballer
- Marcia Healy (1904–1972), American film actress
- Margaret Healy, Irish singer/songwriter
- Mark Healy (Gaelic footballer) (born 1960), Irish Gaelic footballer
- Martin J. Healy (1883–1942), American politician
- Mary Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Matt Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Matty Healy (born 1989), English musician
- Maurice Healy (1859–1923), Irish nationalist politician
- Maurice Healy (campaigner) (1933–2020), British consumer campaigner
- Maurice Healy (writer) (1887–1943), Irish lawyer and author
- Michael Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Healy (basketball) (born 1990), American basketball player
- Ned R. Healy (1905–1977), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947)
- Niall Healy (born 1985), Irish hurler
- Noëlle Healy (born 1991), Irish Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Healy (1922–1983), Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Healy (St Mary's hurler), Irish hurler
- Pamela Healy (born 1963), American sailor
- Patricia Healy (born 1959), American actress
- Patrick Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paul M. Healy, American Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (since 1998)
- Peadar Healy (born 1963), Irish Gaelic football player and manager
- Phil Healy (born 1994), Irish sprinter
- Randolph Healy (born 1956), Irish poet and publisher
- Raymond J. Healy (1907–1997), American science fiction anthologist
- Robert Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Roy Healy (1915–1968), American rocket scientist
- Ryan Healy (born 1983), American mixed martial artist
- Ryon Healy (born 1992), American baseball player
- Sam Healy (born 1976), Australian actress
- Sarah Healy (born 2001), Irish middle-distance runner
- Scott Healy, American musician
- Séamus Healy (born 1950), Irish politician
- Sean Healy, American artist
- Shane Healy (born 1968), Irish Olympic middle-distance runner
- Shay Healy (1942–2021), Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist
- Siobhan Healy (born 1976), Scottish artist
- Steve Healy, Australian sporting administrator and lawyer, President of Tennis Australia 2010–2017
- Susan D. Healy, British biology professor at St. Andrews University, specialist in bird and animal cognitive behaviour
- Ted Healy (1896–1937), American vaudeville performer
- Terry Healy (1921–2009), Australian footballer
- Terry Healy (politician) (born 1981), Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2017
- Thomas Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Timothy Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tom Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tucka Healy, American soccer player and Google employee
- Una Healy (born 1981), Irish singer with The Saturdays
- William Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Yvonne Healy, Irish storyteller
Fictional characters
- Alex Healy, in the BBC soap opera Eastenders
- Benjamin Healy, in the film Problem Child, Junior's dad
- Mike Healy, in the TV series Oz
- Sam Healy, in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black
- Wendy Healy, in the novel and TV series Lipstick Jungle
See also
- Healey (surname)
- Heal (surname)
- Earl of Donoughmore, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Healy Baumgardner (born 1979), American political advisor
- Healy family
This page lists people with the
surname Healy.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
Look up
Healy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The English-language surname Healy is 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-language surname of "Healy". There was the Ó hÉilidhe clan from Connaught and the Ó hÉalaighthe clan from Munster.[ citation needed]
Many different spellings of the surname exist including Haly, Haley, Haily, Healey, Hely, O'Healey and O'Haly.
Notable people with the surname Healy
- A. J. Healy (Alan James Healy; born 1969), Irish children's writer
- Aidan Healy, Irish hurler who played for Kerry and Abbeydorney
- Albert Frederick Healy (1873–1942), Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada for Essex North (1923–1925)
- Alex Healy (racing driver) (born 1989), Canadian Touring Car racing driver
- Alice F. Healy (born 1946), American psychologist
- Alyssa Healy (born 1990), Australian women's cricketer
- Anna Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill (born 1955), British Labour politician, member of the House of Lords
- Anne Healy (born 1939), American artist, founding member of A.I.R. Gallery
- Ben Healy (disambiguation) (born 1999), Irish rugby union player
- Bernadine Healy (1944–2011), American physician
- Bernard Healy, member of the Los Angeles City Council (1904–1909)
- Bill Healy (William Raymond Healy; 1924–2010), American college football player
- Brendan Healy (born 1983), American lacrosse player
- Brendan Healy (comedian) (1956–2016), British entertainer
- Brian Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Cahir Healy (1877–1970), Irish politician
- Cahir Healy (dual player) (born 1986), Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler
- Catherine Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Cecil Healy (1881–1918), Australian swimmer
- Charles Healy (1883–?, date of death unknown), American water polo player
- Charlie Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Charles Healy (1903-1970), Canadian Politician, conservationist
- Chip Healy (1947–2019), American football player
- Christine Healy (born 1950), American actress
- Cian Healy (born 1987), Irish rugby player
- Colin Healy (born 1980), Irish footballer
- Craig Healy (born 1957), American Olympic sailor
- Damien Healy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Dan Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Daniel Healy (born 1974), Australian rules footballer
- Danny Healy-Rae (born 1954), Irish Independent politician, Teachta Dála for the Kerry constituency (from 2016)
- David Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Denis Healy (Irish politician), Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad Éireann (1934–1936, 1938–1948)
- Dermot Healy (1947–2014), Irish novelist and playwright
- Dermot Healy (hurling manager) (born 1948), Irish hurling manager
- Dick Healy (1921–2013), Australian rugby league footballer
- Don Healy (1936–2020), American footballer
- Dorian Healy (born 1962), British actor
- Dorothy Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Dorothy M. Healy (1914–1990), American educator, historian, and curator
- Eamonn Healy (born 1958), American chemistry professor
- Ed Healy (born 1973), American role-playing game designer
- Edward Healy (1869–1954), Member of Parliament in New Zealand (1928–1935)
- Edwin Healy (1909–1995), Australian cricketer
- Egyptian Healy (1866–1899), pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Eliza Healy (1846–1919), American educator
- Eloise Klein Healy (born 1943), American poet
- Eric Healy (1888–1954), Australian cricketer
- Erin Healy, American politician
- Felix Healy (born 1955), Northern Irish footballer
- Fergal Healy (born 1977), Irish hurler who played for Craughwell and Galway
- Frances Healy (born 1970), Irish actress, comedian, radio personality, and TV presenter
- Francis Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Frank Healy (born 1962), British guitarist
- Gene Healy (born 1970), American political pundit, journalist and editor
- George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), American painter
- Gerald Healy (1885–1946), Australian cricketer
- Gerard Healy (born 1961), Australian rules footballer
- Gerry Healy (1913–1989), Irish Trotskyist activist
- Gertrude Healy (1894-1984), Australian violinist, conductor, music educator
- Glenn Healy (born 1962), Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Healy (born 1956), Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1992–2001)
- Greg Healy (born 1965), Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL
- Gus Healy (Augustine A. Healy; 1904–1987), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (1964–1965, 1975–1976)
- Harold H. Healy Jr. (1921–2007), American lawyer, President of the Union Internationale des Avocats (1979–1981)
- Howard R. Healy (1899–1942), US Navy officer
- Ian Healy (born 1964), Australian cricketer
- Jack Healy (died 1972), American actor and the manager of boxer Rocky Graziano
- Jack H. Healy (1929–2012), American geophysicist
- Jackie Healy-Rae (1931–2014), Irish politician
- Jaime Aleman Healy (born 1953), Panamanian lawyer, businessman and diplomat, Ambassador of Panama to the United States (2009–2011)
- James Andrew Healy (1895–1983), American World War I flying ace
- James Augustine Healy (1830–1900), American Roman Catholic priest and the second bishop of Portland, Maine
- James Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Janet Healy, American film producer
- Jeremy Healy (born 1962), British DJ
- Jerramiah Healy (born 1950), Mayor of Jersey City
- Joe Healy (born 1986), English football midfielder
- John Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Jonathan Healy (politician) (born 1945), American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1971–1993)
- Joseph D. Healy (1912–1971), American explorer
- Joseph Healy (1776–1861), American politician
- Juan Ruiz Healy, Mexican-American journalist
- Julie Healy, Australian model
- Katherine Healy (born 1969), American principal ballerina
- Kevin Healy (1909–2001), Australian communist activist and trade unionist
- Kevin Healy (footballer) (born 1937), Australian footballer
- Kieran Healy, Irish sociologist
- Leo H. Healy (1894–1962), American lawyer
- Leo Healy (footballer) (1890–1939), Australian footballer
- Marcia Healy (1904–1972), American film actress
- Margaret Healy, Irish singer/songwriter
- Mark Healy (Gaelic footballer) (born 1960), Irish Gaelic footballer
- Martin J. Healy (1883–1942), American politician
- Mary Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Matt Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Matty Healy (born 1989), English musician
- Maurice Healy (1859–1923), Irish nationalist politician
- Maurice Healy (campaigner) (1933–2020), British consumer campaigner
- Maurice Healy (writer) (1887–1943), Irish lawyer and author
- Michael Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Nathan Healy (basketball) (born 1990), American basketball player
- Ned R. Healy (1905–1977), American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1945–1947)
- Niall Healy (born 1985), Irish hurler
- Noëlle Healy (born 1991), Irish Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Healy (1922–1983), Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Healy (St Mary's hurler), Irish hurler
- Pamela Healy (born 1963), American sailor
- Patricia Healy (born 1959), American actress
- Patrick Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paul M. Healy, American Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (since 1998)
- Peadar Healy (born 1963), Irish Gaelic football player and manager
- Phil Healy (born 1994), Irish sprinter
- Randolph Healy (born 1956), Irish poet and publisher
- Raymond J. Healy (1907–1997), American science fiction anthologist
- Robert Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Roy Healy (1915–1968), American rocket scientist
- Ryan Healy (born 1983), American mixed martial artist
- Ryon Healy (born 1992), American baseball player
- Sam Healy (born 1976), Australian actress
- Sarah Healy (born 2001), Irish middle-distance runner
- Scott Healy, American musician
- Séamus Healy (born 1950), Irish politician
- Sean Healy, American artist
- Shane Healy (born 1968), Irish Olympic middle-distance runner
- Shay Healy (1942–2021), Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist
- Siobhan Healy (born 1976), Scottish artist
- Steve Healy, Australian sporting administrator and lawyer, President of Tennis Australia 2010–2017
- Susan D. Healy, British biology professor at St. Andrews University, specialist in bird and animal cognitive behaviour
- Ted Healy (1896–1937), American vaudeville performer
- Terry Healy (1921–2009), Australian footballer
- Terry Healy (politician) (born 1981), Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 2017
- Thomas Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Timothy Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tom Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Tucka Healy, American soccer player and Google employee
- Una Healy (born 1981), Irish singer with The Saturdays
- William Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
- Yvonne Healy, Irish storyteller
Fictional characters
- Alex Healy, in the BBC soap opera Eastenders
- Benjamin Healy, in the film Problem Child, Junior's dad
- Mike Healy, in the TV series Oz
- Sam Healy, in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black
- Wendy Healy, in the novel and TV series Lipstick Jungle
See also
- Healey (surname)
- Heal (surname)
- Earl of Donoughmore, a title in the Peerage of Ireland
- Healy Baumgardner (born 1979), American political advisor
- Healy family
This page lists people with the
surname Healy.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.
If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name(s) to the link.