Keating (surname)

Keating (Irish spelling: Céitinn) is an Irish and English family name.

Surname variations
Common variations on the Keating surname include Caton, Kaitting, Kating, Keatinge, Keaton, Keith, Keting, Keatting, McKeating, Keatings and O'Keating. A Spanish variation, Cienfuegos, also exists.

Notable people

 * Ailsa Keating, French-British mathematician
 * AnaLouise Keating (born 1961), academic, professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies
 * Caron Keating (1962−2004), British TV personality
 * Charles Keating (1923−2014), American lawyer, banker, best known for his involvement in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, The Keating Five Scandal
 * Charles Keating (actor) (1941−2014), English actor and narrator of audiobooks
 * Chris Keating (musician) (born 1982), lead singer of American band Yeasayer
 * Dan Keating (1902−2007), longest surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence
 * Dennis Keating (born 1940), Irish footballer
 * Derek Keating (1955–2023), Irish Fine Gael politician
 * Dominic Keating (born 1962), British actor
 * Edward Keating (1875–1965), American newspaper editor and politician, U.S. representative for Colorado, who sponsored the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
 * Edward Michael Keating (1925–2003), American publisher, journalist, lawyer; founder of Ramparts magazine, member of the New Left movement.
 * Edwin Joseph (Ted) Keating (1910−1987), academic and director of the Bank of New Zealand
 * Frank Keating (born 1944), American politician; governor of Oklahoma
 * Frank Keating (journalist) (1937−2013), English sports journalist and author
 * Frank A. Keating (1895−1973), Major General of the United States Army
 * Fred Keating (disambiguation), several people
 * Geoffrey Keating (c.1569−c.1644), Irish theologian and historian
 * Gladys Keating (1923-2014), Virginia businesswoman, civic activist and politician
 * H. R. F. Keating (1926−2011), British novelist
 * Henry Sheehy Keating (1775-1847), officer of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, father of Henry Singer Keating
 * Henry Singer Keating (1804−1888), British lawyer and barrister
 * Isabel Keating, American actress and singer
 * John Keating (disambiguation), multiple people
 * Jonathan Keating, British mathematician
 * Joseph C. Keating Jr. (1950−2007), US psychologist
 * Josephine E. Keating (1838−1908), American literary critic, musician music teacher
 * Judith Keating (1957−2021), Canadian senator
 * Justin Keating (1930−2009), Irish Labour Party politician
 * Karl Keating (born 1950), American Catholic apologist
 * Kenneth Keating (1900−1975), American politician, congressional representative and senator for New York, U.S. ambassador to India and Israel
 * Larry Keating (1899−1963), American actor
 * Michael Keating (actor) (born 1947), British actor
 * Michael Keating (Irish politician) (born 1946), Irish politician
 * Michael Keating (political scientist) (born 1950), political scientist
 * Michael Keating (priest) (1793–1877), Irish Anglican priest; he expressed views on economics in Ireland.
 * Michael Keating (public servant) (born 1940), Australian public servant
 * Mike Keating (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian hockey player
 * Paul Keating (born 1944), 24th Prime Minister of Australia
 * Patrick N. Keating, theoretical physicist, of the Keating model
 * Richard E. Keating (1941−2006), American astronomer, known for the Hafele–Keating experiment
 * Richard Harte Keatinge (1825−1904), soldier
 * Robert Brendon Keating (1924−2012), American diplomat
 * Roly Keating (born 1961), chief executive of the British Library
 * Ronan Keating (born 1977), Irish singer
 * Seán Keating, (1889−1977), Irish painter, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy
 * Sean P. Keating (1903−1976), Irish Republican Army veteran and Irish-American activist and political figure
 * Timothy J. Keating (born 1948), American admiral
 * Tim Keating (born 1961), Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
 * Thomas Keating (1923−2018), monk, founder of Centering Prayer movement
 * Tom Keating (1917−1984), art restorer and forger
 * Trenna Keating, Canadian actress
 * William H. Keating (1799−1840), American geologist
 * William J. Keating (1927–2020), American politician, representative for Ohio's 1st district
 * William R. Keating (born 1952), American politician, representative for Massachusetts' 9th congressional district
 * Zoë Keating (born 1972), Canadian cellist and composer
 * Maurice Keatinge (c.1761−1835), Irish landowner, soldier and politician
 * Paffard Keatinge-Clay (1926–2023), British-born architect and sculptor

Fictional people
Multiple characters in How to Get Away With Murder:
 * Lieutenant Colonel Harry Keating, in The Mauritius Command, a 1977 novel by Patrick O'Brian, based on the real life Henry Sheehy Keating
 * John Keating, played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society
 * John Paul Keating, played by Shaun Evans in the television series Teachers
 * Layla Keating, played by Greta Onieogou in the television series All American
 * Peter Keating, in The Fountainhead, a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand
 * Annalise Keating, played by Viola Davis, fictional defense lawyer and law professor
 * Dr. Hannah Keating, Annalise's sister-in-law, played by Marcia Gay Harden
 * Sam Keating, Annalise's husband, played by Tom Verica
 * Keating 5, Annalise Keating's interns in How to Get Away With Murder

DNA projects and one name studies

 * Keating DNA Project (hosted by FamilyTreeDNA.com, run by volunteers)

Published Keating genealogies

 * Keating of Wexford.
 * Keating of Wexford.