Lenihan
Appearance
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.