Mangan (surname)
Appearance
Mangan is an Irish surname anglicised from the Gaelic Ó Mongáin ‘descendant of Mongán’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mong ‘hair’, ‘mane’), borne by families from Connacht, County Limerick, and Tyrone.
Other spellings and variants include Mongan, Mangham, Mangam, Mangin, Mangum, Mangon, Mingame, Mongain, Mongin, Mungan, Mungane, Mungin and others, see Mongan (surname).
Notable people include:
- Andrew Mangan, English footballer
- Colm Mangan, Irish General
- Cyrille Mangan, Cameroonian footballer
- Dan Mangan, Canadian musician
- Jim Mangan (1929 – 2007), American baseball player
- James Clarence Mangan, Irish poet
- James T. Mangan, author and eccentric
- Joseph Mangan, American aerospace engineer
- Lucy Mangan, British journalist
- Luke Mangan, Australian chef
- Stephen Mangan, English actor