Lenihan

Lenihan is an Irish surname. Variants include "Lenighan," "Lenegan" and "Lennihan." People with the name include:

Athletes

• Donal Lenihan (born 1959), a retired Irish rugby union player
• Karl Lenihan, former Gaelic football player

People in the arts

• Deirdre Lenihan (born 1946), an American actress
• Edmund Lenihan (born 1950), an Irish author
• Winifred Lenihan (1898–1964), an American actress, writer and director
• Graham Linehan (born 1968), Irish writer and director (Father Ted)

Politicians

• Brian Lenihan Snr (1930–1995), an Irish Fianna Fáil politician
• Brian Lenihan Jnr (1959–2011), an Irish Fianna Fáil politician
• Conor Lenihan (born 1963), an Irish Fianna Fáil politician
• J. Michael Lenihan (1943-2015), Rhode Island state senator
• Leonard Lenihan, Chairman, Erie County Democratic Committee in Erie County, New York
• Mary O'Rourke (née Lenihan; born 1937), an Irish Fianna Fáil politician
• Patrick Lenihan (1902–1970), a Fianna Fáil politician

Officers

• Michael Joseph Lenihan (1865-1958), a US-army general in World War I

Scientists

• J. M. A. Lenihan FRSE (1918-1993) British clinical physicist

Religious leaders

• George Michael Lenihan OSB (1858–1910, fifth Catholic Bishop of Auckland (1896–1910)
• Thomas Mathias Lenihan (1843–1901), a late-19th- and early-20th-century American Catholic bishop

See also

• James J. Lenihan Dam, an earthen dam across the Los Gatos Creek creating the Lexington Reservoir in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Santa Clara County, California

• Maurice Lenihan (1811-1895), Mayor of Limerick in 1884 and best known as the author of the monumental History of Limerick which he published in 1866.