Kirby (surname)
Kirby is a surname of Norse or Irish origin. The English surname of Norse origin is from the Old Norse "kirkja" + "býr", meaning "church" + "settlement". The Irish surname is an anglicisation of Ó Ciarmhaic, which also takes the form Kerwick, Notable people with the surname include:
- Abner Kirby, mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Adam Kirby, jockey
- Alan Kirby, Irish footballer
- Alex Kirby (disambiguation)
- Alister Kirby, British rower at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Andy Kirby, stock car driver and motorcycle racer
- Bill Kirby, Australian swimmer
- Bruce Kirby (disambiguation)
- Bruno Kirby, American film and television actor
- Cam Kirby, Canadian politician
- Cecil Kirby, Canadian outlaw biker and criminal.
- Charles Kirk Kirby, American architect
- Chauncey Kirby, Canadian ice hockey player
- Claire Kirby, New Zealand beauty queen
- Clay Kirby, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Connor Kirby, English football player
- Dale Kirby, Canadian politician
- David Kirby (disambiguation)
- David Kirby (journalist), journalist
- David Kirby (judge), judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- David Kirby (poet), American poet
- Dean Kirby, American politician
- Dorothy Kirby, American golfer and sportscaster
- Doug Kirby, American author
- Douglas Kirby, research scientist
- Durward Kirby, television personality
- Edmund Kirby, English architect
- Edward Kirby, American athlete
- Edward M. Kirby, American public relations manager and US Army colonel
- Eric Kirby (footballer), English footballer
- Fran Kirby, English footballer
- Frank E. Kirby, Detroit designer of steamships in the early 20th century
- Frank Howard Kirby, British soldier
- Frank Kirby (disambiguation)
- Fred Kirby, American country-and-western recording and performance artist and songwriter
- Gary Kirby, Irish hurling manager and player
- Gene Kirby, American Major League Baseball announcer and front office executive
- George Kirbye, English composer
- George Kirby (curator), British academic and curator of the York Art Gallery
- George Hughes Kirby, American physician and psychiatrist
- George Kirby (comedian), comedian
- George Kirby (footballer), English football player and manager
- George Kirby (baseball), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Gerald Kirby (disambiguation)
- Gustavus Town Kirby, American lawyer
- Halder Kirby, Canadian ice hockey player
- Harold Kirby (zoologist), Canadian-American zoologist and protistologist
- Harold James Kirby, lawyer, real estate agent, and political figure in Ontario
- Henry Kirby, English cricketer
- Jack Kirby, comic book artist
- Jake Kirby, English football midfielder
- James Kirby, American labor leader
- Jane Kirby, Canadian figure skater
- Jay Kirby, American actor
- Jim Kirby, inventor
- John Henry Kirby, American businessman
- John Joshua Kirby, British landscape painter, engraver, and writer
- John Kirby (artist), British painter
- John Kirby (attorney), US attorney involved in some famous trials and the namesake of Kirby, the video game character
- John Kirby (Canadian politician), Canadian businessman and politician
- John Kirby (disambiguation)
- Jon Luke Kirby, English rugby league player
- Joseph Coles Kirby, Australian Congregational minister
- Josh Kirby, British illustrator known for his Discworld covers
- Joshua Kirby, British artist
- Kathy Kirby, British singer
- Kayle Kirby, Australian rules footballer
- Ken Kirby, Canadian-born actor and screenwriter
- Kenneth Kirby, South African chess master
- Kier M. Kirby, singer of Deee-Lite
- Lee-Ann Kirby, Trinidad and Tobago cricketer
- Leyland Kirby, English electronic musician
- Louis Kirby, British newspaper editor
- Luke Kirby (actor), Canadian film actor
- Luke Kirby (priest), Catholic Priest and martyr
- Malachi Kirby, British actor and writer
- Matt Kirby, Australian XR Festival & Qld XR Festival & Australian AI Festival Founder
- Micajah W. Kirby, New York politician
- Michael J. L. Kirby, Canadian senator and Chair of the Mental Health Commission
- Michael Kirby (judge), Justice of the High Court of Australia
- Paul Kirby, Australian politician
- Pauline Kirby, American army nurse
- Rene Kirby, American male actor
- Richard Kirby (arbitrator), Australian arbitrator
- Robert Kirby (musician), British-born arranger of string sections for rock and folk music
- Robert Kirby (cartoonist), American cartoonist
- Robion Kirby, American mathematician
- Roger Kirby, British urologist and surgeon
- Rome Kirby, American sailor
- Ryan Kirby, English soccer player
- Sandra Kirby, Canadian academic and rower
- Simone Kirby, Irish actress
- Stephen Kirby, American author and critic of Islam
- Steve Kirby (cricketer), English cricketer
- Steve T. Kirby, Lieutenant Governor of South Dakota
- Stuart Kirby, race car driver
- Sylvia Kirby, American country singer
- Terry Kirby, American football player
- Vanessa Kirby, English actress
- Wallace W. Kirby, director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
- Wayne Kirby, American baseball player and coach
- Will Kirby, Big Brother contestant
- William C. Kirby, Historian at Harvard University
- William F. Kirby, Senator from Arkansas
- William Forsell Kirby, later English entomologist
- William Kirby (author), Canadian author of The Golden Dog
- William Kirby (entomologist), English entomologist