Finley Name Meaning ： Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), composed of the elements fionn ‘white’, ‘fair’ (see FiFinley Name Meaning ： Scottish: from the Gaelic personal name Fionnlagh (Old Irish Findlaech), composed of the elements fionn ‘white’, ‘fair’ (see Finn) + laoch ‘warrior’, ‘hero’, which seems to have been reinforced by an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’, ‘battle’, ‘hero’.
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, 1824Bob Finley (1915–1986), American baseball catcherBrian Finley (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey playerCharles O. Finley (1918–1996), American businessman and former owner of the Oakland A'sChuck Finley (born 1962), American baseball pitcherClement Finley (1797–1879), 10th Surgeon General of the United States ArmyDanny Finley (born 1945), American musician and songwriter aka 'Panama Red'Diane Finley (born 1957), Canadian politicianDoug Finley (1946–2013), Canadian politicianGerald Finley (born 1960), Canadian bass-baritone opera singerJames Finley (engineer) (1756–1828), American judge and bridge designerJames Finley (minister) (1725–1795), American Presbyterian ministerJames Bradley Finley (1781-1856), United States Methodist elder and ministerJeffrey Finley (born 1991), Canadian football playerJermichael Finley, American football tight endJoe B. Finley (1924–2011), American rancher and educatorJohn Huston Finley (1863–1940), American educatorJohn Park Finley (1854–1943), American meteorologist and Army officer; tornado researcherKaren Finley (born 1956), American performance artistLucinda Finley (born 1950), American professor and attorney appellantMichael Finley (born 1973), American basketball playerMitch Finley (born 1945), American religious writerMoses I. Finley (1912–1986), American and English historianReginald Vaughn Finley, Sr. (born 1974), American internet radio host and atheistRobert Finley (1772–1817), American academic, minister and co-organizer of the colonization movement to LiberiaRon Finley, American fashion designerSamuel Finley (1715–1766), American Presbyterian minister and prominent academicSteve Finley (born 1965), American baseball center fielderWilliam Asa Finley (1839–1912), first president of Oregon State University in the United StatesWilliam L. Finley (1876–1953), ornithologist and conservationist in the U.S. state of OregonWilliam Finley (actor), American film actor
Given name:
Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936), American writer and humoristFinley Quaye (born 1974), Scottish musiciannn) + laoch ‘warrior’, ‘hero’, which seems to have been reinforced by an Old Norse personal name composed of the elements finn ‘Finn’ + leikr ‘fight’, ‘battle’, ‘hero’.
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, 1824Bob Finley (1915–1986), American baseball catcherBrian Finley (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey playerCharles O. Finley (1918–1996), American businessman and former owner of the Oakland A'sChuck Finley (born 1962), American baseball pitcherClement Finley (1797–1879), 10th Surgeon General of the United States ArmyDanny Finley (born 1945), American musician and songwriter aka 'Panama Red'Diane Finley (born 1957), Canadian politicianDoug Finley (1946–2013), Canadian politicianGerald Finley (born 1960), Canadian bass-baritone opera singerJames Finley (engineer) (1756–1828), American judge and bridge designerJames Finley (minister) (1725–1795), American Presbyterian ministerJames Bradley Finley (1781-1856), United States Methodist elder and ministerJeffrey Finley (born 1991), Canadian football playerJermichael Finley, American football tight endJoe B. Finley (1924–2011), American rancher and educatorJohn Huston Finley (1863–1940), American educatorJohn Park Finley (1854–1943), American meteorologist and Army officer; tornado researcherKaren Finley (born 1956), American performance artistLucinda Finley (born 1950), American professor and attorney appellantMichael Finley (born 1973), American basketball playerMitch Finley (born 1945), American religious writerMoses I. Finley (1912–1986), American and English historianReginald Vaughn Finley, Sr. (born 1974), American internet radio host and atheistRobert Finley (1772–1817), American academic, minister and co-organizer of the colonization movement to LiberiaRon Finley, American fashion designerSamuel Finley (1715–1766), American Presbyterian minister and prominent academicSteve Finley (born 1965), American baseball center fielderWilliam Asa Finley (1839–1912), first president of Oregon State University in the United StatesWilliam L. Finley (1876–1953), ornithologist and conservationist in the U.S. state of OregonWilliam Finley (actor), American film actor
Given name:
Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936), American writer and humoristFinley Quaye (born 1974), Scottish musician