Geoghegan - Notable Geoghegans

Notable Geoghegans

There have been several notable Geoghegans including:

• Michael Geoghegan (b. 1953), former HSBC Group chief executive
• Thomas Geoghegan (b. 1949 ), Chicago labor lawyer and politician
• John Geoghegan (b. 1956), Midfielder, Accrington Stanley FC
• Helen Gahagan Douglas (1900-1980), American actress and Congresswoman from California whose electoral defeat to Richard M. Nixon propelled him into national politics.
• In the late 1800s William Geoghegan was head brewer, and his brother Samuel was chief engineer, at the Guinness brewery in Dublin.
• Roche MacGeoghegan (1580–1644), the Dominican, "saintly and enterprising" Bishop of Kildare;
• Richard Henry Geoghegan, linguist who designed the Esperanto flag.
• Richard MacGeoghegan who commanded the defenders at the siege of Dunboy at Berehaven Co Cork in 1601
• Conal MacGeoghegan, Chief of the Sept, translator of the "Annals of Clonmacnoise" into English in 1627
• Priest and historian James MacGeoghegan (1702–1764)
• Anthony Geoghegan (1810–1889), poet
• St. Hugh of Rahue between Tullamore and Tyrrellspass in Co. Westmeath) was of the family which became MacGeoghegan when surnames were adopted. The saint's crozier was in the possession of the MacGeoghegan family for many centuries. Through intermarriage, it passed to the Nagles of Jamestown House, Co, Westmeath.
• A branch of the MacGeoghegan sept settled in Bunowen, Co. Galway, and the name is found in that county as well as in their original territory. In the West it has been often shortened to Geoghan and even Gegan. In 1807, John Geoghegan of Bunowen Castle, Co. Galway assumed by royal licence the surname of O'Neill in lieu of Geoghegan and so his descendants.
• The brothers Lawrence and Sebastian Gahagan, who were sculptors of note in London between 1760 and 1820 were Irishmen called Geoghegan at home.
• John Geoghegan. Mayor of City of Woodstock, Ontario, Canada 1994–2003