Healy (surname)
The English-language surname Healy is in used 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.
Many different spellings of the surname exist including Haly, Haley, Haily, Healey, Hely, O'Healey, O'Haly and many more.
Notable people with the surname Healy
- A. J. Healy, Irish children's writer
- Aidan Healy, Irish hurler who played for Kerry and Abbeydorney
- Albert Frederick Healy, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada for Essex North
- Alex Healy , Canadian Touring Car racing driver
- Alice F. Healy, American psychologist
- Alyssa Healy, Australian women's cricketer
- Anna Healy, Baroness Healy of Primrose Hill, British Labour politician, member of the House of Lords
- Anne Healy, American artist, founding member of A.I.R. Gallery
- Ben Healy, Irish rugby union player
- Bernadine Healy, American physician
- Bernard Healy, member of the Los Angeles City Council
- Bill Healy, American college football player
- Brendan Healy, American lacrosse player
- Brendan Healy , British entertainer
- Brian Healy, multiple people
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- Cahir Healy, Irish politician
- Cahir Healy , Irish Gaelic footballer, and hurler
- Catherine Healy, multiple people
- Cecil Healy, Australian swimmer
- Charles Healy, American Olympic water polo player
- Charlie Healy, multiple people
- Chip Healy, American football player
- Christine Healy, American television and film actress
- Cian Healy, Irish rugby union rugby player for Leinster and for the Ireland national team
- Colin Healy, Irish footballer
- Craig Healy, sailor
- Damien Healy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Dan Healy, multiple people
- Daniel Healy
- Danny Healy-Rae, Irish Independent politician, Teachta Dála for the Kerry constituency
- David Healy, multiple people
- Denis Healy, Fianna Fáil member of the Seanad Éireann
- Dermot Healy, Irish novelist and playwright
- Dermot Healy , Irish hurling manager
- Dick Healy, Australian rugby league footballer
- Don Healy, American footballer
- Dorian Healy, British actor
- Dorothy Healy, multiple people
- Dorothy M. Healy, American educator, historian, and curator
- Eamonn Healy, American chemistry professor
- Ed Healy, American role-playing game designer
- Edward Healy, Member of Parliament in New Zealand
- Edwin Healy, Australian cricketer
- Egyptian Healy, pitcher in Major League Baseball
- Eliza Healy, American educator
- Eloise Klein Healy, American poet
- Eric Healy, Australian cricketer
- Erin Healy, American politician
- Felix Healy, former Northern Irish footballer
- Fergal Healy, Irish hurler who played for Craughwell and Galway
- Frances Healy, Irish actress, comedian, radio personality, and TV presenter
- Francis Healy, multiple people
- Frank Healy, guitarist
- Gene Healy, American political pundit, journalist and editor
- George Peter Alexander Healy, American painter
- Gerald Healy, Australian cricketer
- Gerard Healy, Australian rules footballer
- Gerry Healy, Irish Trotskyist activist
- Glenn Healy, former Canadian ice hockey player
- Graham Healy, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland
- Greg Healy, Australian rules footballer who played for Melbourne in the VFL/AFL
- Gus Healy, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Lord Mayor of Cork
- Harold H. Healy Jr., American lawyer, President of the Union Internationale des Avocats
- Howard R. Healy, US Navy officer
- Ian Healy, former Australian cricketer
- Jack H. Healy, American geophysicist
- Jack Healy, American actor and the manager of boxer Rocky Graziano
- Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician
- Jaime Aleman Healy, Panamanian lawyer, businessman and diplomat, Ambassador of Panama to the United States
- James Andrew Healy, World War I flying ace
- James Augustine Healy, American Roman Catholic priest and the second bishop of Portland, Maine
- James Healy, multiple people
- Janet Healy, film producer
- Jeffrey Healy, Irish Air Corps - present
- Jeremy Healy, British DJ
- Jerramiah Healy, Mayor of Jersey City
- Joe Healy, English football midfielder
- John Healy, multiple people
- Jonathan Healy, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
- Joseph D. Healy, American explorer
- Joseph Healy, American politician
- Juan Ruiz Healy, Mexican-American journalist
- Julie Healy, Australian model
- Katherine Healy, American former principal ballerina
- Kevin Healy, Australian communist activist and trade unionist
- Kevin Healy , Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood
- Kieran Healy, Irish sociologist
- Leo H. Healy, American lawyer
- Leo Healy, Australian rules footballer who played for Geelong
- Marcia Healy, American film actress
- Margaret Healy, Irish singer/songwriter
- Mark Healy , Irish Gaelic footballer
- Mary Healy, multiple people
- Matt Healy, multiple people
- Matthew Healy, English musician
- Maurice Healy, Irish nationalist politician
- Maurice Healy , Irish lawyer and author
- Michael Healy, multiple people
- Nathan Healy , American basketball player
- Ned R. Healy, American politician, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Niall Healy, Irish hurler
- Noëlle Healy, ladies' Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Healy, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer
- Paddy Healy, Irish hurler
- Pamela Healy, retired American sailor
- Patricia Healy, American actress
- Patrick Healy, multiple people
- Paul M. Healy, Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School
- Peadar Healy, Irish Gaelic football player and manager
- Phil Healy, Irish sprinter
- Randolph Healy, Irish poet and publisher
- Raymond J. Healy, American science fiction anthologist
- Robert Healy, multiple people
- Roy Healy, American rocket scientist
- Ryan Healy, American mixed martial artist
- Ryon Healy, American baseball first baseman
- Sam Healy, Australian actress
- Sarah Healy, Irish middle-distance runner
- Scott Healy, American musician
- Séamus Healy, Irish politician
- Sean Healy, American artist
- Shane Healy, Irish Olympic middle-distance runner
- Shay Healy, Irish songwriter, broadcaster and journalist
- Steve Healy, Australian sporting administrator and lawyer, President of Tennis Australia
- Ted Healy, American vaudeville performer
- Terry Healy, Australian rules footballer
- Terry Healy , Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly
- Thomas Healy, multiple people
- Timothy Healy, multiple people
- Tom Healy, multiple people
- Tucka Healy, American soccer player and Google employee
- Una Healy, Irish singer with The Saturdays
- William Healy, multiple people
- Yvonne Healy, Irish storyteller
Characters
- Alex Healy
- Benjamin Healy in the film Problem Child, Junior's Dad
- Wendy Healy in the novel and TV series Lipstick Jungle
Fictional prison officers
- Mike Healy
- List of Orange Is the New Black characters#Sam Healy