Finley (name)
Appearance
Finley is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Asa Finley (1788–1853), first elected judge of Arrow Rock, Missouri, 1824
- Bob Finley (1915–1986), American baseball catcher
- Brian Finley (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
- Charles O. Finley (1918–1996), American businessman and former owner of the Oakland A's
- Chuck Finley (born 1962), American baseball pitcher
- Clement Finley (1797–1879), 10th Surgeon General of the United States Army
- Danny Finley (born 1945), American musician and songwriter aka 'Panama Red'
- Diane Finley (born 1957), Canadian politician
- Doug Finley (1946–2013), Canadian politician
- Gerald Finley (born 1960), Canadian bass-baritone opera singer
- James Finley (engineer) (1756–1828), American judge and bridge designer
- James Finley (minister) (1725–1795), American Presbyterian minister
- James Bradley Finley (1781-1856), United States Methodist elder and minister
- Jeffrey Finley (born 1991), Canadian football player
- Jermichael Finley, American football tight end
- Joe B. Finley (1924–2011), American rancher and educator
- John Huston Finley (1863–1940), American educator
- John Park Finley (1854–1943), American meteorologist and Army officer; tornado researcher
- Karen Finley (born 1956), American performance artist
- Lucinda Finley (born 1950), American professor and attorney appellant
- Michael Finley (born 1973), American basketball player
- Mitch Finley (born 1945), American religious writer
- Moses I. Finley (1912–1986), American and English historian
- Reginald Vaughn Finley, Sr. (born 1974), American internet radio host and atheist
- Robert Finley (1772–1817), American academic, minister and co-organizer of the colonization movement to Liberia
- Ron Finley, American fashion designer
- Samuel Finley (1715–1766), American Presbyterian minister and prominent academic
- Steve Finley (born 1965), American baseball center fielder
- William Asa Finley (1839–1912), first president of Oregon State University in the United States
- William L. Finley (1876–1953), ornithologist and conservationist in the U.S. state of Oregon
- William Finley (actor), American film actor
Given name:
- Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936), American writer and humorist
- Finley Quaye (born 1974), Scottish musician