Healey (surname)
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Healey is a surname originally from the Sligo
area of Ireland
and the Gaelic
word Ó hEalaighthe, which derives from 'ealadhach' meaning ingenious. The surname has a number of spelling variations, the most common being 'Healy
'.
People bearing the surname Healey include:
Sligo
Sligo is the county town of County Sligo in Ireland. The town is a borough and has a charter and a town mayor. It is sometimes referred to as a city, and sometimes as a town, and is the second largest urban area in Connacht...
area of Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
and the Gaelic
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
word Ó hEalaighthe, which derives from 'ealadhach' meaning ingenious. The surname has a number of spelling variations, the most common being 'Healy
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"...
'.
People bearing the surname Healey include:
- Adam HealeyAdam HealeyAdam Raymond Healey is an Internet entrepreneur.Healey's current venture is hotelicopter, formerly VibeAgent.com, a hotel search engine that has been featured by The Washington Post, Forbes, MSNBC.com, and USA Today....
, Italian internet entrepreneur - Adrian HealeyAdrian HealeyAdrian Healey is an English football commentator, currently working with ESPN with their broadcasts of the MLS, Barclays Premier League, Primera Liga and Serie A. He was part of the ESPN commentary team in South Africa for the 2010 World Cup...
, English football commentator - Alfred HealeyAlfred HealeyAlfred Hearn Healey was a British athlete in the 1906 and 1908 Summer Olympics.He competed for Great Britain in the 1906 Summer Olympics held in Athens, Greece in the 110 metre hurdles where he won the silver medal...
(1875-1960), British olympic athlete - Anne HealeyAnne HealeyAnne Marie Healey is an American politician who represents District 22 in the Maryland House of Delegates.-Background:Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, January 2, 1951. Attended Cathedral High School, Scranton; Marywood College, B.A., 1972; Catholic University, M.A., 1974-In the Legislature:Healey...
(b. 1951), American politician - Arthur Daniel HealeyArthur Daniel HealeyArthur Daniel Healey was a Democratic U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1933 to 1942 and then served as a United States federal judge until his death....
(1889-1948), former U.S. Representative of Massachusetts - Austin HealeyAustin HealeyAustin Sean Healey is a former English rugby union player, who played as a utility back for Leicester Tigers, and has represented the England national rugby union team and the British Lions....
(b. 1973), English rugby union player - Chelsee HealeyChelsee HealeyChelsee Healey on 6 August 1988 in Eccles, Greater Manchester is an English actress best known for playing Janeece Bryant in the BBC One drama series Waterloo Road.-Career:...
(b. 1988), English actress - Cherry HealeyCherry HealeyCherry Healey is a British television presenter, frequently featuring in self-titled documentaries on BBC Three....
(b. 1980), British television presenter - Clive HealeyClive HealeyClive Healey was an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 1970 to 1988....
(1918-1997), Australian politician - Denis HealeyDenis HealeyDenis Winston Healey, Baron Healey CH, MBE, PC is a British Labour politician, who served as Secretary of State for Defence from 1964 to 1970 and Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1974 to 1979.-Early life:...
(b. 1917), British politician - Des HealeyDes HealeyDes Healey was an Australian rules footballer, who played in the VFL/AFL with the Collingwood Football Club.After spending 3 years in the reserves team, Healey finally broke into the senior side in 1948...
(1927-2009), Australian rules footballer - Dick HealeyDick HealeyRichard Owen Healey was a New South Wales politician, ABC Sports Broadcaster and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Sir Robert Askin, Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. From 1973 to 1975 he was Minister for Youth and Community Services, when he was made Minister for Health, which he held until...
(1923-2000), Australian politician - Donald HealeyDonald HealeyDonald Mitchell Healey CBE was a noted English rally driver, automobile engineer, and speed record holder.- Early life :...
(1898-1988), British rally driver & automotive engineer - Dorothy Ray HealeyDorothy Ray HealeyDorothy Ray Healey was a long-time activist in the Communist Party USA, from the late 1920s to the 1970s. During the decades of the 1950s and 1960s, Healey was one of the leading public figures of the Communist Party in the state of California...
(1914-2006), American Communist Party activist - Ed HealeyEd HealeyEdward Francis Healey, Jr. was a professional football player for the Rock Island Independents, and best known with the Chicago Bears.-College years:...
(1894-1978), American Football player - Edna HealeyEdna HealeyEdna May Healey, Baroness Healey , née Edmunds, was a British writer, lecturer and filmmaker.-Life and career:...
(1918-2010), British author and film maker - Eric HealeyEric HealeyEric Healey is a professional American ice hockey player who is currently a Free Agent. He most recently played with EHC Black Wings Linz of the Austrian EBEL and has formerly played in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins.-Playing career:Undrafted, Healey was a product of the ECAC's...
(b. 1975), American ice-hockey player - Geoffrey HealeyGeoffrey HealeyGeoffrey Carroll Healey , British car designer, was born in Perranporth, Cornwall, the son of Donald Healey and his wife Ivy Maud, on 14 December 1922.-Early life:...
(1922-1994), British car designer, son of Donald - Giles HealeyGiles HealeyGiles Greville Healey was born in 1901 in New York City. He was educated in France and Germany and later attended Choate Preparatory School; graduating from Yale University in 1924 with a degree in chemistry...
(1901-1980), American cartographer - Jack HealeyJack HealeyJack Healey is an American human rights activist and pioneer. A leader in the human rights movement for over 47 years, Jack has helped move the topic of human rights from closed-door diplomatic negotiations to widespread awareness, public debate, and direct citizen action...
(b. 1938), American human rights activist - James HealeyJames HealeyJames Healey is an Irish born actor. His family moved to Manchester, England before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in 1970. He studied acting at both NIDA and RADA , and worked in American television on the...
, Australian actor - James C. HealeyJames C. HealeyJames Christopher Healey was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York....
(1909-1981), member of the US House of Representatives - Jeff HealeyJeff HealeyNorman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey was a blind Canadian jazz and blues-rock vocalist and guitarist who attained musical and personal popularity, particularly in the 1980s and 1990s.-Early life:...
(1966-2008), Canadian jazz and blues-rock guitarist - John HealeyJohn HealeyJohn Healey is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Wentworth and Dearne since 1997, and former Minister of State for Housing and Planning. In 2010 he was elected to the shadow cabinet and appointed shadow health secretary...
(b. 1960), British politician - John P. HealeyJohn P. HealeyJohn P. Healey is an executive manager best known for his role in the redesign and manufacture of the command modules for the Apollo program after the catastrophic launch pad fire that took the lives of Command Pilot Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B...
(b. 1922), American aviation & space engineer - John Healey (translator)John Healey (translator)John Healey was an English translator. Among scanty biographical facts, he was ill, according to a statement of his friend the printer Thomas Thorpe, in 1609, and was dead in the following year.-Works:...
(d. 1610), English translator - Joseph G. HealeyJoseph G. HealeyJoseph Graham Healey is considered one of the leading researchers, compilers and writers on African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories. He is a consultor to the African Proverbs Project and various journals...
(b. 1938), American language researcher - Kenneth HealeyKenneth HealeyKenneth Healey was the 3rd Bishop of Grimsby. Educated at Moulton Grammar School, he was ordained in 1932. His first post was as a Curate in Grantham after which became Rector of Bloxholm. Subsequently Rural Dean of Lafford and then Archdeacon of Lincoln, from 1966 he was one of the Diocese’s’s...
(1899-1985), 3rd Bishop of Grimsby, England - Keri HealeyKeri HealeyKeri Healey is an American voice actress, who has appeared on five Nancy Drew games developed by Her Interactive.- Game appearances :-External links:...
, American voice actress - Kerry HealeyKerry HealeyKerry Murphy Healey was the 70th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. She served from 2003 to 2007 with Governor Mitt Romney. She was the 2006 Republican nominee for Governor of Massachusetts, losing to Democrat Deval Patrick in November 2006...
(b. 1960), 70th Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts - Lori HealeyLori HealeyLori T. Healey is the former Chief of Staff for the Office of the Mayor of Chicago. Healey replaced former Chief of Staff Ron Huberman, who was named President of the Chicago Transit Authority by the CTA Board. Healey left the Mayor's office in December 2008 to become president of the Chicago 2016...
, American real estate principal - Mark HealeyMark HealeyMark Healey is a British computer games developer. Healey started his career making games for the Commodore 64 home computer - his first published game was KGB Super Spy for Codemasters which led to developing the Educational Fun School series of games for Europress Software...
, British computer games developer - Michael HealeyMichael HealeyMichael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman and George F...
, Canadian actor and playwright - Mitch HealeyMitch HealeyMitch Healey is a former member of the Cronulla Sharks rugby team and current coach.-Debut:His first start was on Saturday, March 17, 1990 against the Gold Coast Seagulls at Seagulls Stadium . He started his debut with a try to put the visitors in front for the first time in that match...
(b. 1969), Australian rugby player and coach - Myron HealeyMyron HealeyMyron Daniel Healey was an American actor. He began his Hollywood, California, career during the early 1940s in bit parts and minor supporting roles at various studios.-Early years:...
(1923-2005), American actor - Nathan HealeyNathan HealeyNathan Healey is an Australian tennis player.Turning professional in 1998, Healey has won 3 doubles titles....
(b. 198), Australian tennis player - Nigel HealeyNigel HealeyNigel Healey is professor, pro-vice-chancellor and head of the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences at . He has previously served as pro-vice-chancellor and dean at the at the in New Zealand and dean of in the UK . His research interests are economic policy, regional economic and...
, Canterbury (New Zealand) University professor - Pat HealeyPat HealeyPat Healey is an American soccer player currently playing for Crystal Palace Baltimore in the USSF Division 2 Professional League.-College:...
(b. 1985), American soccer player - Patrick Healey Jr. (b. 1968), American ten-pin bowler
- Patsy HealeyPatsy HealeyPatsy Healey is a British urban planner. She is professor emeritus at Global Urban Research Unit in the School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape], at Newcastle University. She is a specialist in planning theory and practice, with a particular focus on strategic spatial planning for city...
(b. 1940), professor at Newcastle University, England - Paul HealeyPaul HealeyPaul Healey is a professional ice hockey winger who is currently a free agent. He last played for the Florida Everblades in the ECHL. He has played 77 games in the National Hockey League with the Philadelphia Flyers, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers, and Colorado Avalanche.-Career...
(b. 1975), Canadian ice hockey player - Rich HealeyRich HealeyRichard Thomas Healey is a former professional ice hockey defenceman who played one game in the National Hockey League with the Detroit Red Wings.-External links:...
(b. 1938), Canadian ice hockey player - Robert HealeyRobert HealeyRobert Dennis Healey is a former English cricketer. Healey was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium. He was born in Plymouth, Devon....
(b. 1934), English cricketer - Ron HealeyRon HealeyRonald "Ron" Healey is an English-born Irish former professional footballer.-Club career:Healey was a goalkeeper who began his career with Manchester City. Following an apprenticeship with City, he signed professional forms for the club in October 1969 and he made his debut at 17...
(b. 1952), English born Irish footballer - Sheila HealeySheila HealeySheila Healey, was born in 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Anglo Scots parents. After attending school in West Sussex and Kent, she taught English in Argentina after the death of her father in 1930. In 1935 she moved to England to stay with her sisters...
(b. 1915), Argentine painter - Stephen HealeyStephen HealeyCaptain Stephen James "Steve" Healey is a British Army officer with the 1st Battalion, The Royal Welsh , and former professional footballer for Swansea City.-Early life:...
(b. 1982), British Army officer and ex-footballer - Thomas "T. J." HealeyT. J. HealeyThomas J. Healey was an American Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame trainer.Regularly referred to as "T. J." by both his associates and the media, Healey was born near the site of Fordham University in Fordham, New York. Growing up he worked on his father's dairy farm but rather than cows, his...
(1866-1944), American racehorse trainer - Theresa HealeyTheresa HealeyTheresa Healey is a New Zealand actress, known mostly for her role as nurse Carmen Roberts in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street.-Early life:...
, New Zealand actress - Thomas J. HealeyThomas J. HealeyThomas J. Healey is a Senior Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government where he teaches the course in Financial Institutions and Markets. He is also involved in various alternative investment activities through Healey Development LLC.Mr. Healey joined...
, Harvard University lecturer - Tom HealeyTom HealeyThomas F. Healey was an American Major League Baseball player who pitched for one season. In he played with the Providence Grays and Indianapolis Blues. For his career, he compiled a 6-7 record in 14 appearances, with a 2.39 earned run average and 20 strikeouts. He was born in Cranston, Rhode...
(1853-1891), American MLB baseball player - Trebor HealeyTrebor HealeyTrebor Healey is an American poet and novelist. He was born in San Francisco, raised in Seattle, and studied English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley...
, American poet and novelist - William HealeyWilliam HealeyWilliam Healey was the president of Newton Heath Football Club in the 1890s and one of the club's principal creditors.In 1897, a friendly tournament was inaugurated for clubs in the Manchester and Salford area...
, English football club owner