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Farley (name)

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”).

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

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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