Killian

Killian
Family name
Meaning	Possibly "Church of John" or "strife"
Region of origin	Ireland
Language(s) of origin	Irish
Related names	Cillian, Kilian, Killion, Ceallach

Killian is an Anglicized version of the Irish name Cillian. One possible meaning for the name is "Church of John", cill meaning "church" and Ian being the Anglicized version of "John". The Rev. Patrick Woulfe wrote that Cillian is the 'pet' diminutive of Ceallach which means "war" or "strife".

Spelling variations include Kilian, Killion, and others.

Notable people named Killian

• Killian Brennan, an Irish footballer player currently with the League of Ireland club Bohemian F.C.
• Edwin Henry Killian (1876–1928), a Major League Baseball pitcher primarily of the Detroit Tigers
• George E. Killian, a sports administrator and currently the president of the International University Sports Federation
• Gustav Killian (1860–1921), a German laryngologist for whom Killian's dehiscence is named
• James Rhyne Killian (1904–1988), the 11th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Jerry B. Killian, an officer in the Texas Air National Guard in the early 1970s, to whom Lieutenant George W. Bush was a subordinate
• Robert K. Killian (1919–2005), an American politician from the state of Connecticut.
• Killian K. Van Rensselaer (1763–1845), member of the United States House of Representatives from New York

Notable people named Kilian

• Saint Kilian, an Irish missionary bishop and the apostle of Franconia
• André Kilian, a German-born footballer currently playing for North Queensland Fury
• Crawford Kilian, a Canadian novelist and a college professor
• Hanns Kilian (1905–1981), a German bobsledder who competed from the late 1920s to the late 1930
• John Kilian (1811–1884), a Lutheran pastor and leader of the colony known as the Wends of Texas
• Michael Kilian (1939–2005), author and journalist primarily for the Chicago Tribune in Washington, D.C
• Victor Kilian (1891–1979), an American actor blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio in the 1950s
• Wiesław Kilian, a Polish politician

Notable people named Killion

• John Joseph Killion (1859–1937), known as Jake Kilrain, a famous bare knuckle fighter and glove boxer of the 1880s.
• Kyle Killion, an American football linebacker
• Redley A. Killion, a Micronesian politician
• Sean Killion, an American swimmer
• Tom Killion, an American politician from Pennsylvania

Notable people named Cillian

• Cillian Murphy, an Irish actor

Places

In the United States:

• Killian, Louisiana, a village in Livingston Parish
• Miami Killian High School, a public high school located in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida
  • The Killian Nine, a group of students at Miami Killian High School who in February 1999 distributed a controversial satirical pamphlet named "First Amendment" and were arrested for it
• Kilian Island, (also known as: Elvira Island) an uninhbaited island in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada
• St. Kilian's Deutsche Schule, (also known as 'St. Kilian's German School') a school situated in Clonskeagh, Dublin, Ireland

Other uses

• Killian's Irish Red Beer, a lager brewed by Coors
• The Killian documents controversy, referring to allegedly forged documents that were publicized during the 2004 US presidential campaign, re-opening the George W. Bush military service controversy, and raising charges of political bias or poor oversight at CBS News
• Charles Killian, fictional character from the New Zealand kidult horror-fantasy series The Killian Curse