Daly (surname)

Daly is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic Ó Dálaigh. Notable people with the surname include:

Entertainment and arts

 * Andy Daly (born 1971), American actor, writer, and comedian
 * Augustin Daly (1838–1899), American theatrical manager and playwright
 * Candice Daly (1963–2004), American actress
 * Carson Daly, television personality
 * Dan Daly (1864–1904), American comic actor
 * Eileen Daly, English actress and singer
 * Gary Daly, English songwriter and vocalist
 * James Daly (actor) (1918–1978), American actor
 * Joel Daly (1934–2020), American news anchor and journalist
 * John Charles Daly (1914–1991), American journalist game show host and radio personality
 * Mark Daly, British actor
 * Mike Daly, American alt-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
 * Norman Daly (1911-2008), American artist
 * Peter-Hugo Daly, actor and drummer
 * Richard Daly (1758–1813), Irish actor and theatre manager
 * Scott Daly (born 1994), American football player
 * Tess Daly (born 1969), English television presenter
 * Tim Daly, American theatre, screen and voice actor, director and producer
 * Tyne Daly, American actress
 * William Merrigan Daly (1887–1936), known as "Bill Daly", Broadway songwriter and conductor

Sports

 * Aidan Daly, New Zealand basketball player
 * Aisling Daly (born 1987), Irish mixed martial arts fighter
 * Anthony Daly (hurler), Irish
 * Bill Daly, Canadian deputy commissioner of hockey
 * Charles Dudley Daly, West Point coach, founder of AFCA
 * Chuck Daly (1930–2009), American basketball head coach
 * Derek Daly, Irish racing driver
 * Elliot Daly, (born 1992), English rugby player
 * Fred Daly (golfer) (1911–1990), Northern Irish golfer
 * Gerry Daly, Irish football player
 * Jason Daly, Westmeath Gaelic footballer
 * Joe Daly (footballer), English footballer
 * John Daly (athlete), Irish steeplechase athlete
 * John Daly (golfer), professional golfer
 * Jon Daly (footballer), Irish association football player
 * Keevil Daly, (1923–2011), Guyanese-Canadian weightlifter
 * Matt Daly,(born 1989) Scottish Professional Wrestler
 * Matt Daley (born 1983), English field hockey player
 * Matty Daly (born 2001), English footballer player
 * Rachel Daly (born 1991), English association football player
 * Robert Daly, Irish sprinter
 * Tom Daly (1891–1946), Canadian baseball player
 * Wes Daly, English football player

Politics and government

 * Anthony Daly, Irish agrarian agitator
 * Brendan Daly (politician) (1940–2023), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician
 * Chris Daly, American politician, San Francisco, California
 * Clare Daly, Irish socialist politician and trade union activist
 * Denis Daly (1747–1792), Irish landowner and politician
 * Dominick Daly (1798–1868), British Governor of Prince Edward Island, Tobago and South Australia
 * Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) (1891–1916), Irish nationalist
 * Edward Daly (mayor) (1926–1993), councillor and mayor of Newham, London
 * Fred Daly (politician) (1913–1995), Australian Labor Party politician
 * James Daly (activist) (1838-1910) Irish nationalist activist
 * James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal (1782–1847), Irish baron and politician
 * J. Burrwood Daly (1872–1939), US congressman
 * John Daly (Fenian) (1845-1916), Irish nationalist
 * John Corry Wilson Daly (1796–1878), Canadian politician, businessperson and militia officer
 * John Lawrence Daly (1943–2004), self-declared "greenhouse skeptic"
 * Lawrence Joseph Sarsfield Daly (1912–1979), fringe American politician
 * Malachy Bowes Daly (1836–1920), Canadian politician
 * Margaret Daly, served in the European Parliament
 * Mark Daly (born 1973), Irish politician
 * Teresa Daly, American politician
 * Thomas Mayne Daly Sr. (1827–1885), Canadian businessman and political figure
 * Thomas Mayne Daly (1852–1911), Canadian politician
 * William Davis Daly (1851–1900), American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey
 * Will H. Daly (1869–1924), American labor leader, progressive politician and businessman

Journalism and literature

 * Brian Daly, Irish news journalist
 * James Daly (journalist), American journalist in San Francisco
 * John Daly (journalist), American newspaper and television journalist
 * Maureen Daly (1921–2006), American novelist
 * Wally K. Daly, English writer for television and radio

Academics and science

 * Herman Daly, ecological economist and professor
 * Marie Maynard Daly, American biochemist
 * Martin Daly, Canadian psychology professor
 * Mary Daly (sociologist), Irish sociologist and academic
 * Mary E. Daly, Irish historian
 * Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957), Canadian geologist
 * Richard Daly, known for the Daly detector, a type of mass spectrometry detector
 * Samantha Daly, American mechanical engineer

Religion

 * Cahal Daly (1917–2009), Irish Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh
 * Edward Daly (bishop) (1933–2016), Irish religious leader
 * Edward Celestin Daly (1894–1964), Roman Catholic Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, 1948–1964
 * James Joseph Daly (1921–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop
 * Mary Daly, radical feminist and theologian

Other

 * Bernard Daly (1858–1920), Pioneer doctor and Oregon politician
 * Charlie Daly (1896-1923) executed Irish Republican
 * Daniel Daly (1873–1937), US Marine, Double Medal of Honor recipient
 * Ed Daly, US entrepreneur behind World Airways
 * Edward C. Daly (1914–1941), United States Navy sailor
 * Edward M. Daly, U.S. Army General
 * Henry Daly (1823–1895), British Army officer
 * Ida Daly (1901–1985), American disability community leader
 * James Daly (mutineer), British Army mutineer
 * John Daly (outlaw) (1839–1864), American western outlaw
 * John Donald Daly (1840–1923), California businessman and landowner
 * Marcus Daly (1841–1900), Irish-born American copper-mining businessman
 * Paddy Daly, soldier in the Irish Republican Army
 * Seamus Daly, Irish Republican
 * Thomas Aquinas Daly, American contemporary landscape and still-life painter

Fictional Characters
Bill Daly, character in the television show Manifest