Clancy
Clancy is an Irish name coming from the Gaelic Mac Fhlannchaidh, meaning "red warrior",[1] or as a hypocorism for Clarence.
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| Origin | |
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| Language(s) | Irish |
| Meaning | "red warrior" |
| Region of origin | Ireland |
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| Variant form(s) | Mac Fhlannchaidh |
Notable people with the name include:
As a first name
- Clancy Barone, American football coach
- Clancy Brown, U.S. actor
- Clancy Chassay, English journalist
- Clancy Cooper, U.S. actor
- Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer
- Clancy Edwards, American track and field sprinter
- Clancy Fernando, Sri Lankan admiral
- Clancy Hayes, U.S. singer
- Clancy O'Connor, U.S. actor
- Clancy Pendergast, American football coach
- Clancy Rudeforth, Australian rules footballer
- Clancy Sigal, U.S. writer
- Clancy Smyres, U.S. baseball player
- Clancy Williams, American footballer
As a last name
- Abigail Clancy, English model
- Al Clancy, U.S. baseball player
- Bobby Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- Boetius Clancy, Irish MP
- Claire Clancy, Chief Executive and Clerk to the National Assembly for Wales, and first woman to be Registrar of Companies for England and Wales
- Conor Clancy (Clare hurler) (born 1971)
- Conor Clancy (Offaly hurler) (born 1993)
- Cummin Clancy (1922–2013), Irish discus thrower
- Daniel J. Clancy, U.S. computer scientist
- Dave Clancy, British ice hockey player
- Donald D. Clancy, U.S. politician
- Edward Clancy (disambiguation)
- Edward Bede Clancy, Australian ecclesiastic
- Edward J. Clancy, Jr., U.S. politician
- Frank Willey Clancy, U.S. lawyer and politician
- George Clancy (politician)
- George Clancy (rugby union)
- Gil Clancy, boxing commentator
- Gordon Drummond Clancy, Canadian politician
- Jack Clancy, American football player
- James Clancy (disambiguation), one of a number of people
- Jim Clancy (baseball player)
- Jim Clancy (journalist)
- Joe Clancy, American football player
- John Clancy (disambiguation), one of a number of people
- Joseph Clancy (Wisconsin), American politician
- J. J. Clancy (MP), Irish member of the British Parliament
- Kendrick Clancy, American football player
- King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey defenceman
- Laurence Clancy, British aerodynamicist, academic and author
- Liam Clancy (1935-2009), Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- Matthew Clancy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Michael Clancy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St. Helena and Dependencies, husband of Claire Clancy
- Natalie Clancy, Canadian journalist
- Patrick Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- Patrick Clancy (Irish politician)
- Patty Clancy, U.S. politician
- Pauric Clancy, Irish Gaelic football player
- Peadar Clancy, member of the Irish Republican Army
- Robert H. Clancy, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1923–25, 1927–33)
- Professor Robert Clancy, Australian scientist
- Sam Clancy, basketball player
- Sam Clancy, Jr., basketball player
- Seán Clancy, member of the Irish Volunteers
- Sean Clancy (disambiguation)
- Susan Clancy, U.S. psychologist and ufologist
- T. Frank Clancy, U.S. politician
- Taliqua Clancy (born 1992), Australian beach volleyball player
- Thomas Gerald Clancy, believed to be the subject of Banjo Paterson's poem Clancy of the Overflow
- Thomas Owen Clancy, U.S. historian
- Tim Clancy, Irish footballer
- Tom Clancy (1947–2013), U.S. author
- Tom Clancy (singer), Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- William Clancy, Irish missionary
- Willie Clancy (hurler), Irish hurler
Fictional characters
- Kanuka Clancy, one of the main characters from the anime series "Mobile Police Patlabor"
- Chief Wiggum, Clancy Wiggum, character on The Simpsons
- Clancy Freeman, a recurring character in Blue Heelers
- Clancy, the protagonist in US-band Twenty One Pilots's fifth studio album Trench
- Clancy, the Ranger, one of the characters in the computer games Heroes of Might and Magic 3
- Clancy of the Overflow, the titular character in a Banjo Paterson poem, possibly based on real-life drover Thomas Gerald Clancy
- Clancy, the protagonist and main character in the fictional letters posted on the Dema website.
See also
References
- Grenham, John (1994). The Little Book of Irish Clans. Dublin, Ireland: John Hinde. p. 15. ISBN 0-7858-0083-2.
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