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Farley (name)

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Farley
Origin
MeaningIrish patronymic or English toponymic surname
Other names
Variant form(s)Farleigh, Fairley, Fairlie

Farley is a family name and a given name of various Irish and English origins. As an Irish patronymic surname, Farley is an anglicised form of the Old Irish patronyms Ó Faircheallaigh ("descendant of Faircheallaigh", a personal name meaning "super war")[1] or Ó Fearghail ("descendant of Fearghail", meaning "man of valor").[2] As an English toponymic surname, Farley comes from places with the toponyms Farleigh, Fairley or Farley, deriving from the Old English fearn ("fern") and leah (“woodland”).

People with the family name

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In public service

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Miscellaneous

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  • Alec Farley (1925–2010), English footballer, English Football League
  • Caleb Farley (born 1998), American footballer, National Football League
  • Carole Farley (born c. 1955), American soprano, New York Metropolitan Opera
  • Charles Farley (1771–1859), English actor, Covent Garden Theatre
  • Chris Farley (1964–1997), American comedian, Saturday Night Live
  • Christopher John Farley (born 1966), American journalist, The Wall Street Journal
  • David Farley (born c. 1971), American journalist, The Wall Street Journal
  • Dick Farley (born 1946), American footballer, College Football Hall of Fame
  • Donald T. Farley (1933–2018), American professor, Cornell University
  • Francis Farley (1920–2018), English physicist, Fellow of the Royal Society
  • Harriet Farley (1812–1907), American abolitionist, Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society
  • Homa Vafaie Farley, Iranian-born potter and ceramist
  • James Farley (actor) (1882–1947), American actor, Desert Law, The King of Kings
  • Jim Farley (businessman) (born 1962), American businessman, CEO of the Ford Motor Company
  • Jennifer Farley (born 1986), American actress known as JWoww, Jersey Shore
  • Jerry Farley (born 1946), American professor, President of Washburn University
  • John Murphy Farley (1842–1918), American cardinal, Archbishop of New York
  • John P. Farley (born 1968), American actor, Second City Theatre
  • John W. Farley (1948-2022), American professor, University of Nevada
  • Katherine Farley (born c. 1950), American architect, Managing Director of Tishman Speyer
  • Kenneth Farley (born 1964), American professor, California Institute of Technology
  • Kevin Farley (born 1965), American actor, Second City Theatre
  • Lawrence Farley (1856–1910), American baseballer, Major League Baseball
  • Lilias Farley (1907–1989), Canadian painter, Canadian Centennial Medal
  • Margaret A. Farley (born 1935), American professor, Yale University
  • Marianne Farley (born c. 1979), Canadian actress, This Life, Imaginaerum
  • Miriam S. Farley (1907–1975), American political scientist and editor
  • Morgan Farley (1898–1988), American actor, Mercury Theatre on the Air
  • Matthias Farley (born 1992), American footballer, National Football League
  • Paul Farley (born 1965), English professor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
  • Patrick Farley (born c. 1978), American designer, pioneer of webcomics
  • Roland Bo Farley (1907–1999), American footballer, East Carolina Pirates
  • Silas Farley (born c. 1995), American dancer, New York City Ballet
  • Terri Farley (born c. 1966), American author, The Phantom Stallion
  • Thomas W. Farley (born 1975), American financier, CEO of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tim Farley (born 1962), American programmer, James Randi Educational Foundation
  • Walter Farley (1915–1989), American author, The Black Stallion, The Black Stallion Returns
  • William F. Farley (born 1942), American financier, Owner of Chicago White Sox

People with the given name

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Farley family of Somerset

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  • Farley family (18th century), English family of news media pioneers

Senators Farley

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Places with the name

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References

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  1. ^ Patrick Woulfe (1923). Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall: Irish Names and Surnames. Dublin: M H Gill & Sons. p. 520.
  2. ^ Patrick Hanks, ed. (2003). Dictionary of American Family Names. Vol. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 552–553.
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