Sean Murphy may refer to:
- Sean Murphy (artist), American animator and comic book creator
- Sean Murphy (baseball), Oakland Athletics minor league pitcher for the Advanced A affiliate, Stockton Ports
- Sean Murphy (boxer), English Commonwealth Games Gold-winning boxer
- Sean Murphy (cryptographer), professor at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Seán Murphy (Gaelic footballer) (born 1932), retired Irish football player
- Sean Murphy (golfer) (born 1965), American professional golfer
- Sean Murphy (journalist) (born 1958), Australian journalist
- Sean Murphy (Oz), a fictional character on the television series Oz
- Sean Murphy (racing driver) (born 1984)
- Sean Murphy (swimmer) (born 1964), former backstroke swimmer from Canada
- Seán Murphy (hurler) (born 1947), Irish retired hurler
- Seán Óg Murphy (1897–1956), Irish hurler
Famous quotes containing the word murphy:
“If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the “Naught is more real ...” and the “Ubi nihil vales ...” both already in Murphy and neither very rational.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)