Irving
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Irving is originally a Scottish surname, a variant of the name Irvine, which is derived from the eponymous River Irvine in
Dumfriesshire. It may also refer to:pinguino bailarin

Family name

  • Amy Irving
    Amy Irving
    Amy Davis Irving is an American actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie, and Yentl as well as acclaimed roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and has won an Obie award...

     (born 1953), American film and stage actress
  • Arthur Irving
    Arthur Irving
    Arthur L. Irving, OC is the second son of industrialist K.C. Irving. Arthur, along with his brother J.K., share the ownership of what is known informally as the Irving Group of Companies...

     (born 1931), son of K.C. Irving
  • Christopher L. Irving
    Christopher L. Irving
    Christopher L. Irving is the Assistant Vice President of Consumer, Government, Legal Communications & Affairs for Publishers Clearing House in Port Washington, New York...

    , Consumer Advocate for the City of New York
  • Clifford Irving
    Clifford Irving
    Clifford Michael Irving is an American author of novels and works of nonfiction, but best known for using forged handwritten letters to convince his publisher into accepting a fake "autobiography" of reclusive businessman Howard Hughes in the early 1970s...

     (born 1930), U.S. author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes
  • Dan Irving
    Dan Irving
    David Daniel Irving, known as Dan Irving was a British socialist activist and Labour Party Member of Parliament....

     (1854-1924)
  • David Irving
    David Irving
    David John Cawdell Irving is an English writer,best known for his denial of the Holocaust, who specialises in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany...

     (born 1938), British writer
  • David Irving (footballer)
    David Irving (footballer)
    David Irving is a former professional football striker. His childhood ambition was to play for then Football League side Workington...

     (born 1951), British Member of Parliament
  • Edmund George Irving
    Edmund George Irving
    Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund George Irving, KBE, CB was a naval hydrographer.-Early life:Irving was born in Sandakan, British North Borneo to the resident magistrate George Clerk Irving and his wife Ethel Mary Frances Poole....

     (1910-1990), British naval hydrographer
  • Edward Irving
    Edward Irving
    *For Edward Irving, the Canadian geologist, see Edward A. Irving.Edward Irving was a Scottish clergyman, generally regarded as the main figure behind the foundation of the Catholic Apostolic Church.-Youth:...

     (1792-1834), Scottish clergyman
  • Edward A. Irving
    Edward A. Irving
    Edward A. "Ted" Irving, CM, FRSC, FRS is a geologist and emeritus scientist with the Geological Survey of Canada. His studies of paleomagnetism provided the first physical evidence of the theory of continental drift...

     (born 1927), Canadian geologist
  • Francis Irving
    Francis Irving
    Francis Irving is a 36 year old British computer programmer and activist for freedom of information.Francis Irving developed TortoiseCVS.He co-founded Public Whip with Julian Todd and became a developer of the affiliated TheyWorkForYou website, a project which parses raw Hansard data to track how...

    , British programmer and activist for freedom of information.
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving
    Sir Henry Irving , born John Henry Brodribb, was an English stage actor in the Victorian era, known as an actor-manager because he took complete responsibility for season after season at the Lyceum Theatre, establishing himself and his company as...

     (1838-1905), British actor
  • James Irving
    James Irving
    James K. Irving, OC, ONB is the eldest son of industrialist K.C. Irving. J.K., as he is normally referred to, along with his brother, Arthur, share the ownership of what is known informally as the Irving Group of Companies...

     (born 1928), son of K.C. Irving
  • Jayne Irving
    Jayne Irving
    Jayne Irving is a British TV presenter best known for appearing on the Breakfast Television show Good Morning Britain.-Career:...

     (born 1956), British TV presenter
  • John Irving
    John Irving
    John Winslow Irving is an American novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.Irving achieved critical and popular acclaim after the international success of The World According to Garp in 1978...

     (born 1942), U.S. novelist and screenwriter
  • John E. Irving
    John E. Irving
    John E. Irving, CM was the youngest son of the industrialist K. C. Irving. Jack, as he was called, along with his brothers J.K...

     (1932-2010), son of K.C. Irving
  • John Irving (steamship captain)
    John Irving (steamship captain)
    John Irving was a steamship captain in British Columbia, Canada. He began on the Fraser River at the age of 18 and would become one of the most famous and prosperous riverboat captains of the era...

     (1854-1936), a steamship captain and politician from British Columbia
  • K. C. Irving
    K. C. Irving
    Kenneth Colin Irving, OC also known as K. C. Irving was one of Canada's foremost entrepreneurs of the 20th century and ranked as one of the world's leading industrialists...

     (1899-1992), billionaire, founder of Irving Oil
    Irving Oil
    Irving Oil is a gasoline, oil, and natural gas producing and exporting company. It is also one of the few energy companies in Canada to publicly support the Kyoto Accord. Irving Oil operates one large oil refinery...

  • Michael David Irving Gass
    Michael David Irving Gass
    Sir Michael David Irving Gass, KCMG , was the penultimate High Commissioner of the Western Pacific and also in his junior days Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1965 - 1969.He married Elizabeth Periam Fuller Acland Hood in 1975....

     (1916-1983), Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong from 1965 to 1969
  • Robert Irving (conductor)
    Robert Irving (conductor)
    Robert Augustine Irving, DFC*, was a British conductor whose reputation was mainly as a ballet conductor.Born in Winchester, England, the son of mountaineer and author R. L. G. Irving, he was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in music...

     (1913-1991), English ballet conductor, son of R. L. G. Irving
  • Robert Lock Graham Irving
    Robert Lock Graham Irving
    Robert Lock Graham Irving , was an English schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer. As an author, he used the name R. L. G. Irving, while to his friends he was Graham Irving.-Life and family:...

     (1877-1969), English schoolmaster, writer and mountaineer
  • T. B. Irving
    T. B. Irving
    Thomas Ballantyne Irving , also known as Al-Hajj Ta'lim Ali Abu Nasr, was an American Muslim author, professor, and scholar, who produced the first American English translation of the Qur'an.-Early life and education:...

     (1914-2002), publisher of the first American English translation of the Qur'an
  • Washington Irving
    Washington Irving
    Washington Irving was an American author, essayist, biographer and historian of the early 19th century. He was best known for his short stories "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle", both of which appear in his book The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. His historical works...

     (1783-1859), U.S. author of the early 19th century
  • William Irving (steamship captain)
    William Irving (steamship captain)
    William Irving was a steamship captain and entrepreneur in Oregon, U.S. and British Columbia, Canada.The Irvington neighborhood in Portland, Oregon is named in his honor and in New Westminster, British Columbia his home, "Irving House", is now a heritage site.He was one of the earliest pioneers of...

     (1816-1872), a steamship captain from Oregon and British Columbia

First name

  • Irving Amen
    Irving Amen
    Irving Amen is a painter, printmaker and sculptor. Born in New York, New York, he taught at the Pratt Institute and at the University of Notre Dame in the early 1960s. In 1974 he illustrated Gilgamesh through a series of linocuts and woodcuts in 1974. His work often depicts themes of Judaism,...

    , printmaker
  • Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin
    Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist of Jewish heritage, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.His first hit song, "Alexander's Ragtime Band", became world famous...

    , songwriter
  • Irving Fisher
    Irving Fisher
    Irving Fisher was an American economist, inventor, and health campaigner, and one of the earliest American neoclassical economists, though his later work on debt deflation often regarded as belonging instead to the Post-Keynesian school.Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and...

    , economist
  • Irving Kaplan
    Irving Kaplan
    Irving Kaplan was an official of the United States government accused of involvement in Soviet espionage. He worked with David Weintraub in the Works Progress Administration's National Research Project, later moving to the Department of the Treasury, the War Production Board , and the Foreign...

  • Irving Kaplan
    Irving Kaplan (chemist)
    Irving Kaplan was a chemist and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, who was among the founders of the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the institution. Before coming to MIT, he was a researcher in chemistry at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago from 1937 to 1941. He...

    , an MIT professor
  • Irving Langmuir
    Irving Langmuir
    Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist. His most noted publication was the famous 1919 article "The Arrangement of Electrons in Atoms and Molecules" in which, building on Gilbert N. Lewis's cubical atom theory and Walther Kossel's chemical bonding theory, he outlined his...

    , chemist and physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
  • Irving Mondschein
    Irving Mondschein
    Irving "Irv or Moon" Mondschein is an American former track and field athlete and football player.-Early life:Mondschein, who is Jewish, was born in Brooklyn, New York. He attended Boys High School, where he ran track. He also ran for the New York Pioneer Club. He entered the US Army in 1943...

    , track and field champion
  • Irv Rubin
    Irv Rubin
    Irving D. Rubin was chairman of the Jewish Defense League from 1985 to 2002. He allegedly committed suicide in jail when awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy to bomb private and government property....

     (Irving David Rubin), former Jewish Defense League leader
  • Irving Stone
    Irving Stone
    Irving Stone was an American writer known for his biographical novels of famous historical personalities, including Lust for Life, a biographical novel about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy, a biographical novel about Michelangelo.-Biography:In...

    , American writer
  • Irving Wallace
    Irving Wallace
    Irving Wallace was an American best-selling author and screenwriter. Wallace was known for his heavily researched novels, many with a sexual theme. One critic described him "as the most successful of all the many exponents of junk fiction perhaps because he took it all so seriously, not so say...

    , American novelist and non-fiction writer

Places in the United States

  • Irving, California (disambiguation)
    • Irving, Marin County, California
      Irving, Marin County, California
      Irving is a former settlement in Marin County, California. It was located on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad southwest of downtown Novato, at an elevation of 138 feet . Irving still appeared on maps as of 1914....

    • Irving, California, former name of Irvington, California
  • Irving, Texas
    Irving, Texas
    Irving is a city located in the U.S. state of Texas within Dallas County. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the city population was 216,290. Irving is within the Dallas–Plano–Irving metropolitan division of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area, designated...

  • Irving, Illinois
    Irving, Illinois
    Irving is a village in Montgomery County, Illinois, United States. The population was 2,484 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Irving is located at ....

  • Irving (Duluth)
    Irving (Duluth)
    The Irving neighborhood is located within the West Duluth district of Duluth, Minnesota, United States.Raleigh Street, Central Avenue, and 59th Avenue West are three of the main arterial routes in the community....

    , Minnesota
  • Irving, Wisconsin
    Irving, Wisconsin
    Irving is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 602 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 44.4 square miles , of which, 43.9 square miles of it is land and 0.5 square miles of it is...

  • Irving Park, Chicago
    Irving Park, Chicago
    Irving Park is one of 77 officially designated Chicago community area located on the Northwest Side. It is bounded by the Chicago River on the east, the Milwaukee Road railroad tracks on the west, Addison Street on the south and Montrose Avenue on the north, west of Pulaski Road stretching to...

    , Illinois
  • Irving Township, Montgomery County, Illinois
    Irving Township, Montgomery County, Illinois
    Irving Township is located in Montgomery County, Illinois, USA. The population was 2,983 at the 2000 census.- External links :****...

  • Irving Township, Michigan
    Irving Township, Michigan
    Irving Township is a civil township of Barry County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,682 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water...

  • Irving Township, Minnesota
    Irving Township, Minnesota
    Irving Township is a township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 787 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...


Other uses

  • Irving Oil
    Irving Oil
    Irving Oil is a gasoline, oil, and natural gas producing and exporting company. It is also one of the few energy companies in Canada to publicly support the Kyoto Accord. Irving Oil operates one large oil refinery...

    , petroleum producer and retailer
  • Irving Trust Company, formerly a large New York bank
  • Irving Nature Park
    Irving Nature Park
    The Irving Nature Park is a free park developed with the intention of protecting the environment. It encompasses a total of 243 hectares and is sandwiched between a salt marsh and the Bay of Fundy. This environmental retreat is close to the nearby urban centre of Saint John, New Brunswick, only...

    , a park in Saint John, N.B.
  • "Irving", World War II Allied code-name for the Japanese Nakajima J1N
    Nakajima J1N
    -See also:-Bibliography:* Francillon, Réne J. Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1970 . ISBN 0-370-30251-6....

     aircraft
  • Operation Irving, a military operation that took place in Vietnam in October 1966
  • Irving (band)
    Irving (band)
    Irving is an American indie rock band. It was founded by Alex Church, later of Sea Wolf, Brian Canning and Steven Scott in 1998, after playing together for the first time at an arts festival. Soon after, they added keyboardist Shana Levy and Brent Turner; Levy remained with the group until 2003,...

    , an American indie rock band
  • Irving (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Irving, the main character's love interest in Cathy (comic strip)
    Cathy (comic strip)
    Cathy was a comic strip drawn by Cathy Guisewite. It featured a woman who struggled through the "four basic guilt groups" of life — food, love, mom, and work — the strip gently poked fun at the lives and foibles of modern women. Cathy's characteristics and issues both made fun of and...

  • "Irving", designation for the Metal Gear Gekko in the video game Metal Gear Solid 4
  • Irving, a magic sword belonging to Joe the Barbarian in Jack Chalker's Dancing Gods series of fantasy novels
  • Lloyd Irving, the main protagonist in the Tales of Symphonia video game
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