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The English-language surname Healy is in used by three separate ancestral lines of people from Ireland.

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When Irish people began to anglicise their names, two separate clans adopted the English-language surname of "Healy". There was the Ó hÉilidhe clan from Connaught and the Ó hÉalaighthe clan from Munster.

Many different spellings of the surname exist including Haly, Haley, Haily, Healey, Hely, O'Healey, O'Haly and many more.

Notable people with the surname Healy

  • Bernadine Healy (1944–2011), American physician
  • Cahir Healy (1877–1970), Irish politician
  • Cecil Healy (1881–1918), Australian swimmer
  • Colin Healy (b. 1980), Irish footballer
  • Dan Healy (soundman), American audio engineer
  • Daniel Healy (b. 1974), former Australian rules footballer
  • David Healy (astronomer) (b. 1936), American astronomer
  • David Healy (footballer) (b. 1979, Northern Irish footballer
  • David Healy (psychiatrist), Irish psychiatrist
  • Dermot Healy (1947–2014), Irish novelist and playwright
  • Don Healy (b. 1936), American footballer
  • Eamonn Healy, American chemistry professor
  • Eloise Klein Healy, American poet
  • Felix Healy (b. 1955), former Northern Irish footballer
  • Fran Healy (baseball) (b. 1946), former American baseball player
  • Fran Healy (musician) (b. 1973), Scottish musician
  • Frank Healy (b. 1962), English guitarist
  • George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), American painter
  • Gerry Healy (1913–84), Irish Trotskyist activist
  • Glenn Healy (b. 1962), former Canadian ice hockey player
  • Howard R. Healy (1899–1942), US Navy officer
  • Ian Healy (b. 1964), former Australian cricketer
  • Jackie Healy-Rae (b. 1931), Irish politician
  • James Augustine Healy (1830–1900), African-American Roman Catholic priest
  • Jeffrey Healy (1982-Present), Irish Air Corps
  • Jeremy Healy (b. 1962), English DJ
  • Jerramiah Healy (b. 1950), Mayor of Jersey City
  • John Healy (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Joseph Healy (1776-1861), American politician
  • Joseph D. Healy (1912-1971), American explorer
  • Julie Healy, Australian model
  • Katherine Healy (b. 1969), American former principal ballerina
  • Kieran Healy, Irish sociologist
  • Margaret Healy, Irish singer/songwriter
  • Matt Healy (b. 1970), Scottish actor
  • Matthew Healy (b. 1989), English musician, son of actor Tim Healy
  • Michael A. Healy (1839–1904), American seaman
  • Michael Healy (statistician) (b. 1923), British statistician
  • Pamela Healy (b. 1963), retired American sailor
  • Patrick Francis Healy (1830–1910), African-American Jesuit priest
  • Randolph Healy (b. 1956), Irish poet and publisher
  • Robert W. Healy, city manager of Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Robert Healy (commissioner) (1833–71), Irish-born Chicago official
  • Robert Healy (journalist), American political correspondent
  • Roy Healy (1915–68), American rocket scientist
  • Scott Healy, American musician
  • Séamus Healy (b. 1950), Irish politician
  • Sean Healy, American artist
  • Ted Healy (1896–1937), American vaudeville performer
  • Timothy Michael Healy (1855–1931), Irish politician
  • Timothy S. Healy (1923–92), former president of Georgetown University
  • Tim Healy (b. 1952), English actor
  • Tucker Healy, baseball player
  • Una Healy (b. 1981), Irish singer with The Saturdays
  • William Healy (disambiguation), multiple people

    • Fictional characters

  • Benjamin Healy in the film Problem Child, Junior's Dad
  • Wendy Healy in the novel and TV series Lipstick Jungle
  • Sam Healy in TV series 'Orange is the New Black'

    • References

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