Irving (name)

Irving is an originally Scottish surname, a variant of the name Irvine, which is derived from the eponymous River Irvine in Dumfriesshire. Irving is also used as a male given name.

Notable people with the name include:

Surname

 * Amy Irving (born 1953), American film and stage actress
 * Arthur Irving (1930-2024), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
 * Bob Irving (sportscaster), Canadian sportscaster
 * Bud Irving (born 1926), Canadian football player
 * Charles Irving (surgeon) (?-1794?), Scottish naval surgeon, inventor and colonial entrepreneur
 * Clifford Irving (1930–2017), American author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes
 * Dan Irving (1854–1924), British politician, Labour MP
 * David Irving (born 1938), British writer, best known for his denial of the Holocaust
 * David Irving (footballer) (born 1951), British footballer
 * Edmund George Irving (1910–1990), British naval hydrographer
 * Edward Irving (1792–1834), Scottish clergyman
 * Edward Irving (plant collector) (1816–1855), Scottish surgeon
 * Edward A. Irving (1927–2014), Canadian geologist
 * Francis Irving, British programmer and activist for freedom of information
 * George S. Irving, (1922–2016), American actor
 * Godfrey Irving (1867–1937), senior Australian Army officer
 * Gordon Budd Irving (1898–1918), Canadian World War I flying ace
 * Henry Irving (1838–1905), British actor
 * Isabel Irving (1871–1944), American actress
 * James K. Irving (1928-2024), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
 * Jayne Irving (born 1956), British TV presenter
 * John Irving (disambiguation), several people
 * Jules Irving (1925–1979), American actor, director, educator, and producer,
 * K. C. Irving (Kenneth Colin Irving, 1899–1992), Canadian industrialist, founder of the Irving Group of Companies
 * Kyrie Irving (born 1992), American professional basketball player
 * Levin Thomas Handy Irving (1828–1892), justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
 * Martin Howy Irving (1831–1912), English rower and educationist in Australia; father of Godfrey Irving
 * Mary Jane Irving (1913–1983), American actress
 * Robert Irving (disambiguation), several people
 * Thomas Ballantyne Irving (1914–2002), publisher of the first American English translation of the Qur'an
 * Thomas Irving (Medal of Honor) (born 1842, date of death unknown)
 * Washington Irving (1783–1859), American author, historian and diplomat
 * William Irving (disambiguation), several people

Given name

 * Irving Abella (1940-2022), Canadian writer
 * Irving Amen (1918–2011), printmaker
 * Irving Azoff (born 1947), American music executive and manager
 * Irving Berlin (1888–1989), Russian-born American songwriter
 * Irving Block, American matte painter and screenwriter, wrote the story on which Forbidden Planet was based.
 * Irving Caesar (1895–1996), American lyricist
 * Irving D. Chais (1925–2009), American businessman
 * Irving Chernev (1900–1981), Russian-American chess player and author
 * Irving Copi (1917–2002), American philosopher
 * Irving Cottler (1918–1989), American drummer
 * Irving Crane (1913–2001), American pool player
 * Irving Dardik, American surgeon
 * Irving Davidson (1929–2022), Australian rules footballer
 * Irving Davis (1896–1958), American footballer
 * Irving Fein (1911–2012), American television and film producer
 * Irving Feinstein (1910–1939), American mobster
 * Irving Feldman (born 1928), American poet
 * Irving Fields (1915–2016), American pianist
 * Irving Fine (1914–1962), American composer
 * Irving Finkel, British philologist and Assyriologist, curator in the Middle East department of the British Museum
 * Irving Fisher (1867–1947), American economist
 * Irving Folwartshny (1914–1994), American athlete
 * Irving Freese (1903–1964), Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
 * Irving Garcia (soccer, born 1988) (born 1988), American footballer
 * Irving Garcia (boxer) (born 1979), Puerto Rican boxer
 * Irving Gill (1870–1936), American architect
 * Irving Goff (1900–1989),
 * Irving Goldman (1911–2012), American anthropologist
 * Irving B. Goldman (1898–1975), American otolaryngologist
 * Irving Gottesman (1930–2016), American psychologist
 * Irving Gould (1919–2004), Canadian businessman
 * Irving Harper,
 * Irving Howe (1920–1993), Jewish-American literary critic
 * Irving Janis (1918–1990), American psychologist
 * Irving Johnson (1905–1991), American adventurer and author
 * Irving Kane Pond (1857–1939), American architect
 * Irving Kaplan (government official)
 * Irving Kaplan (chemist) (1913–1997), American chemist
 * Irving Kaplan (radiation oncologist), American radiation oncologist
 * Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician
 * Irving Kaplan (chemist), an MIT professor
 * Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist and physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
 * Irving Lavin (1927–2019), American art historian
 * Irving R. Levine (1922–2009), broadcast journalist
 * Irving Layton (1912–2006), Canadian poet
 * Irving Lehman (1876–1945), American lawyer and Jewish politician
 * Irving Lerner (1909–1976), American filmmaker
 * Irving Lowens (1916–1983), American musicologist and critic
 * Irving Malin (1934–2014), American literary critic
 * Irving Martin
 * Irving Mansfield (1908–1988), American producer and writer
 * Irving Mills (1894–1985), American music publisher
 * Irving Millman (1923–2012), American virologist and microbiologist
 * Irving Mondschein (1924–2015), track and field champion
 * Irving Morrow (1884–1952), American architect
 * Irving Moskowitz (1928–2016), American physician, businessman, and philanthropist
 * Irving Mosberg (1908–1973), New York politician and judge
 * Irving Nattrass (born 1952), English footballer
 * Irving Penn (1917–2009), American photographer
 * Irving Peress (1917–2014), American dentist and military officer who beacme of the target of Army–McCarthy hearings
 * Irving S. Reed (1923–2012), American mathematician and engineer
 * Irving Reiner (1924–1986), American mathematician
 * Irving "Ving" Rhames, African-American actor
 * Irv Rubin (Irving David Rubin) (1945–2002), former Jewish Defense League leader
 * Irving Sablosky (1924–2016), American diplomat
 * Irving Saladino (born 1983), Panamanian long jumper
 * Irving Sandler (1925–2018), American art critic and art historian
 * Irving Saraf (1932–2012), Polis-born American film producer
 * Irving Sayles (1872–1914), African-American vaudeville entertainer
 * Irving H. Saypol (1905–1977), American attorney
 * Irving Schwartz (1929–2010), Canadian businessman
 * Irving Selikoff (1915–1992), American physician
 * Irving Slosberg (born 1947), American politician
 * Irving Stern (1928-2023), American politician
 * Irving Stone (1903–1989), American writer
 * Irving Stowe (1915–1974), American lawyer
 * Irving Taylor (songwriter) (b. 1983), American songwriter
 * Irving Taylor (ice hockey) (1919–1991), Canadian ice hockey player
 * Irving Thalberg (1899–1936), American film producer
 * Irving Thalberg, Jr. (1930–1987), American philosopher
 * Irving C. Tomlinson (1860–1944), American Universalist minister
 * Irving Townsend (1920–1981), American record producer and author
 * Irving Vendig, (1902–1995), American soap opera writer
 * Irving Wallace, American novelist and non-fiction writer
 * Irving B. Weiner, American psychologist
 * Irving Zola (1935–1994), American activist and writer
 * Irving Zurita (born 1991), Mexican footballer