Fogarty is a surname of Irish origin. The name Fogarty in Ireland is derived from the native Gaelic O'Fogaratigh Sept who were located in County Tipperary where the name is still very prevalent to this very day.
The barony of Eliogarty that still exists was named after them. This name, with variant spellings (o) Fogerty, Foggarty, Fogaty, Gogarty and Go(g)erty, is an Anglicized form of the old Gaelic "O Fogartaigh". The Gaelic prefix "o" indicates "male descendant of", plus the personal byname "Fogartach" meaning "banished" or "exiled". The Fogartys are of the ancient population group, Dal gCais, otherwise known as the Dalcassians, who inhabited county Clare with adjacent parts of counties Limerick and Tipperary. Eliogarty, the name of a barony in Co. Tipperary, locates the sept, and indicates their importance. The majority of present-day namebearers are found in county Tipperary and Malachy O' Fogarty, of the University of Paris, who flourished in 1700, was born at Castle Fogarty in that county. Another notable namebearer was Archbishop Fogarty (1858 - 1955), who for fifty-one years was Bishop of Killaloe. A Coat of Arms granted to the family depicts two gold lions rampant on a blue shield supporting a gold sheaf of corn, the latter denoting plenty and the Harvest of One's Hopes. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of O' Fogarty, King of Ely, County Tipperary, which was dated 1072, "The Annals of Ulster", during the reign of High King of Ireland, "with opposition", 1022 - 1166.
Notable people with the surname include:
Aidan Fogarty (hurler) (born 1958), Irish former hurlerAlan Fogarty, Irish water polo playerAmby Fogarty (1933–2016), Irish former football playerBryan Fogarty (1969–2002), Canadian ice hockey playerCarl Fogarty (born 1965), British World Superbike racerChris Fogarty (1884–1915), former Australian-rules footballerDenis Fogarty (born 1983), Irish rugby union playerJim Fogarty (1864–1891), US baseball playerJoe Fogarty, former Australian-rules footballerJohn Fogarty (Australian rugby player) (1927–2007), Australian rugby union and rugby league playerJohn Fogarty (Irish rugby player)John Fogarty (disambiguation), several sportspeopleJon Fogarty (born 1975), American auto racing driverKen Fogarty (born 1955), English soccer coachLyndsie Fogarty (born 1984), Australian sprint canoeistTom Fogarty (born 1952), retired Irish hurling managerTom Fogarty, former Australian-rules footballerAndrew Fogarty (1879–1953), Irish politicianCharles J. Fogarty (born 1955), former Lieutenant Governor of Rhode IslandGerry Fogarty, Canadian politicianJohn E. Fogarty (1913–67) US CongressmanPatrick Fogarty (died 1947), Irish politicianWilliam "Bill" Fogarty (1922-2001), Australian politicianAnne Fogarty (1919–1980), American fashion designerBrian Fogarty, English novelist, short story writer, poet, painter, and printmaker.Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen (1891–1940), Victoria Cross recipientFrancis Fogarty (1899–1973), Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air ForceFrank Fogarty, cartoonistJames Fogarty (born 1978), British music producerJuanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (born 1969), Assiniboine-Sioux textile artistKenneth Hubert Fogarty (1923–1989), Mayor of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) 1970–1972Lionel Fogarty (born 1958), Indigenous Australian poet and political activistMignon Fogarty (born 1967), podcaster and former science writerNelson Wellesley Fogarty (1871–1933), first Anglican Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia)Pat Fogarty, bassist in US rock band PushmonkeyShelagh Fogarty (born 1966), radio and television presenter and journalistSusan Fogarty (born 1969), New Zealand writer and comedianThomas J. Fogarty (born 1934), American surgeonJim Fogarty (born 1960), British artistFogarty Wikipedia (Text) CC BY-SA