Daly (surname)
Daly is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic Ó Dálaigh. Notable people with the surname include:
Entertainment
- Andrew Daly (born 1971), American actor, writer, and comedian
- Augustin Daly (1838–1899), American theatrical manager and playwright
- Candice Daly (1963–2004), American actress
- Carson Daly, television personality
- Eileen Daly, English actress and singer
- Gary Daly, English songwriter and vocalist
- James Daly (actor) (1918–1978), American actor
- John Charles Daly (1914–1991), American journalist game show host and radio personality
- Mark Daly, British actor
- Mike Daly, American alt-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
- Peter-Hugo Daly, actor and drummer
- Richard Daly (1758–1813), Irish actor and theatre manager
- Tess Daly (born 1969), English television presenter
- Timothy Daly, American theatre, screen and voice actor, director and producer
- Tyne Daly, American actress
- William Merrigan Daly (1887–1936), known as "Bill Daly", Broadway songwriter and conductor
Sports
- Aidan Daly, New Zealand basketball player
- Aisling Daly (born 1987), Irish mixed martial arts fighter
- Anthony Daly (hurler), Irish
- Bill Daly, Canadian deputy commissioner of hockey
- Charles Dudley Daly, West Point coach, founder of AFCA
- Chuck Daly (1930–2009), American basketball head coach
- Derek Daly, Irish racing driver
- Fred Daly (golfer) (1911–1990), Northern Irish golfer
- Gerry Daly, Irish football player
- John Daly (athlete), Irish steeplechase athlete
- John Daly (golfer), professional golfer
- Jon Daly (footballer), Irish football (soccer) player
- Robert Daly, Irish sprinter
- Tom Daly (1891–1946), Canadian baseball player
- Wes Daly, English football player
Politics and government
- Anthony Daly, Irish agrarian agitator
- Brendan Daly (politician) (born 1940), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician
- Chris Daly, American politician, San Francisco, California
- Clare Daly, Irish socialist politician and trade union activist
- Denis Daly (1747–1792), Irish landowner and politician
- Dominick Daly (1798–1868), British Governor of Prince Edward Island, Tobago and South Australia
- Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) (1891–1916), Irish nationalist
- Fred Daly (Australian politician) (1913–1995), Australian Labor Party politician
- James Daly (Irish Land League) (1838-1910) Irish nationalist activist
- James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal (1782–1847), Irish baron and politician
- J. Burrwood Daly (1872–1939), US congressman
- John Corry Wilson Daly (1796–1878), Canadian politician, businessperson and militia officer
- John Lawrence Daly (1943–2004), self-declared "greenhouse skeptic"
- Lawrence Joseph Sarsfield Daly (1912–1979), fringe American politician
- Malachy Bowes Daly (1836–1920), Canadian politician
- Margaret Daly, served in the European Parliament
- Mark Daly (born 1973), Irish politician
- Teresa Daly, American politician
- Thomas Mayne Daly, Sr. (1827–1885), Canadian businessman and political figure
- Thomas Mayne Daly (1852–1911), Canadian politician
- William Davis Daly (1851–1900), American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey
- Will H. Daly (1869–1924), American labor leader, progressive politician and businessman
Journalism and literature
- Brian Daly, Irish news journalist
- James Daly (journalist), American journalist in San Francisco
- John Daly (journalist), American newspaper and television journalist
- Maureen Daly (1921–2006), American novelist
- Wally K. Daly, English writer for television and radio
Academics and science
- Herman Daly, ecological economist and professor
- Marie Maynard Daly, first black female in the US to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry
- Martin Daly, Canadian psychology professor
- Mary Daly (sociologist), Irish sociologist and academic
- Mary E. Daly, Irish historian
- Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957), Canadian geologist
- Richard Daly, known for the Daly detector, a type of mass spectrometry detector
Religion
- Cahal Daly (1917-2009), Irish Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh
- Edward Daly (bishop) (1933–2016), Irish religious leader
- James Joseph Daly (1921–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop
- Mary Daly, radical feminist and theologian
Other
- Bernard Daly (1858-1920), Pioneer doctor and Oregon politician
- Daniel Daly (1873–1937), US Marine, Double Medal of Honor recipient
- John Daly (outlaw) (1839–1864), American western outlaw
- John Donald Daly (1840–1923), California businessman and landowner
- Marcus Daly (1841–1900), Irish-born American copper-mining businessman
- Paddy Daly, soldier in the Irish Republican Army
- Seamus Daly, Irish Republican
- Thomas Aquinas Daly, American contemporary landscape and still-life painter
See also
- Ó Dálaigh, history of the name
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