Finlay
Finlay is a Irish- Scottish name.
Origin and Meaning
The name " Finlay " is Irish - Scottish origin. Originally it was only as a first name, used as a family name since the 16th century. It represents an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name Fionnlagh ( " blond warrior " ) dar.
Variants
Common variants are Findlay, Findley and Finley.
Well-known bearers of the name
First name
- Finlay Calder ( born 1957 ), Scottish rugby player
- Finlay Currie (1878-1968), Scottish theater and film actor
- Finlay Mickel ( born 1977 ), British skiers
Family name
- Carlos Juan Finlay (1833-1915), Cuban physician
- Dave Finlay (born 1958 ), Irish wrestler
- Don Finlay (1909-1970), British hurdler
- Frank Finlay ( born 1926 ), British actor
- George Finlay (1799-1875), British historian and Philhellene
- Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006), Scottish poet, writer, artist and landscape artist
- Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff ( b. 1949 ), Welsh doctor and Life Peer
- Morgan Finlay (19? ), Canadian musician
- Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay ( 1842-1929 ), British lawyer
- Stewart Finlay - McLennan ( born 1957 ), Australian actor
- Thomas Finlay (* 1922), Irish politician (Fine Gael ) and Chief Justice
- Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), American book illustrator
- William Henry Finlay (1849-1924), South African astronomer
- Family name
- Male first name