Keating (surname)

Keating (Irish spelling: Céitinn) is an old Irish family name which originated with the Cambro Norman invaders in the 12th century, mostly settling in Wexford in the province of Leinster, where the most prominent family was based at castle.^{[citation needed]}

Surname variations[]

Common variations on the Keating surname include Caton, Kaitting, Kating, Keatinge, Keaton, Keting, Keatting, McKeating, and O'Keating. A Spanish variation, Cienfuegos,^[1][2] also exists.

Notable people[]

• AnaLouise Keating (born 1961), academic, professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies
• Caron Keating (1962−2004), British TV personality
• Charles Keating (1923−2014), American lawyer, banker, best known for his involvement in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, The Keating Five Scandal
• Charles Keating (actor) (1941−2014), English actor and narrator of audiobooks
• Chris Keating (musician) (born 1982), lead singer of American band Yeasayer
• Dan Keating (1902−2007), longest surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence
• Dennis Keating (born 1940), Irish footballer
• Derek Keating (born 1955), Irish Fine Gael politician
• Dominic Keating (born 1962), British actor
• Edward Keating (1875-1965), American newspaper editor and politician, U.S. representative for Colorado, who sponsored the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
• Edwin Joseph (Ted) Keating (1910−1987), academic and director of the Bank of New Zealand
• Frank Keating (born 1944), American politician; governor of Oklahoma
• Frank Keating (journalist) (1937−2013), English sports journalist and author
• Frank A. Keating (1895−1973), Major General of the United States Army
• Fred Keating (disambiguation), several people
• Geoffrey Keating (c.1569−c.1644), Irish theologian and historian
• Gladys Keating (1923-2014), Virginia businesswoman, civic activist and politician
• H. R. F. Keating (1926−2011), British novelist
• Henry Sheehy Keating (1775-1847), officer of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, father of Henry Singer Keating
• Henry Singer Keating (1804−1888), British lawyer and barrister
• Isabel Keating, American actress and singer
• John Keating (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jonathan Keating, British mathematician
• Joseph C. Keating Jr. (1950−2007), US psychologist
• Josephine E. Keating (1838−1908), American literary critic, musician music teacher
• Judith Keating (1957−2021), Canadian senator
• Justin Keating (1930−2009), Irish Labour Party politician
• Karl Keating (born 1950), American Catholic apologist
• Kenneth Keating (1900−1975), American politician, congressional representative and senator for New York, U.S. ambassador to India and Israel
• Larry Keating (1899−1963), American actor
• Michael Keating (actor) (born 1947), British actor
• Michael Keating (Irish politician) (born 1946), Irish politician
• Michael Keating (political scientist) (born 1950), political scientist
• Michael Keating (public servant) (born 1940), Australian public servant
• Mike Keating (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian hockey player
• Paul Keating (born 1944), 24th Prime Minister of Australia
• Patrick N. Keating, theoretical physicist, of the Keating model
• Richard E. Keating (1941−2006), American astronomer, known for the Hafele–Keating experiment
• Richard Harte Keatinge (1825−1904), soldier
• Robert Brendon Keating (1924−2012), American diplomat
• Roly Keating (born 1961), chief executive of the British Library
• Ronan Keating (born 1977), Irish singer
• Seán Keating, (1889−1977), Irish painter, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy
• Sean P. Keating (1903−1976), Irish Republican Army veteran and Irish-American activist and political figure
• Timothy J. Keating (born 1948), American admiral
• Tim Keating (born 1961), Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
• Thomas Keating (1923−2018), monk, founder of Centering Prayer movement
• Tom Keating (1917−1984), art restorer and forger
• Trenna Keating, Canadian actress
• William H. Keating (1799−1840), American geologist
• William J. Keating (born 1927), American politician, representative for Ohio's 1st district
• William R. Keating (born 1952), American politician, representative for Massachusetts' 9th congressional district
• Zoë Keating (born 1972), Canadian cellist and composer
• Maurice Keatinge (c.1761−1835), Irish landowner, soldier and politician
• Paffard Keatinge-Clay (born 1926), architect and sculptor

Fictional entities[]

• Lieutenant Colonel Harry Keating, in The Mauritius Command, a 1977 novel by Patrick O'Brian, based on the real life Henry Sheehy Keating
• John Keating, played by Robin Williams in 1989 film, Dead Poets Society
• Peter Keating, in The Fountainhead, a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand

Multiple characters in How to Get Away With Murder:

• Analise Keating, played by Viola Davis, fictional defense lawyer and law professor
• Dr. Hannah Keating, Analise's sister-in-law, played by Marcia Gay Harden
• Sam Keating, Analise's husband, played by Tom Verica
• Keating 5, Analise Keating's interns, in How to Get Away With Murder (season 1)

Keating genealogy[]

DNA projects and one name studies[]

• Keating DNA Project (hosted by FamilyTreeDNA.com, run by volunteers)

Published Keating genealogies[]

• Keating, John Percy, 1855-1920 (1918). John Keating and His Forebears. Internet Archive.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Keating of Wexford.^{[citation needed]}
• Lodge, John, 1692-1774 & Archdall, Mervyn, 1723-1791 (1789). "John (b. circa 1150, 6th son of Odo of Carmarthenshire, Wales) from whom those of the name Keating in this Kingdom derive". The peerage of Ireland: or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom. II. p. 183.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

References[]

Surname list

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