Daly (surname)
Daly is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic Ó Dálaigh. Notable people with the surname include:
Entertainment and arts
- Andy Daly, American actor, writer, and comedian
- Augustin Daly, American theatrical manager and playwright
- Candice Daly, American actress
- Carson Daly, television personality
- Dan Daly, American comic actor
- Eileen Daly, English actress and singer
- Gary Daly, English songwriter and vocalist
- James Daly (actor), American actor
- Joel Daly, American news anchor and journalist
- John Charles Daly, 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, American artist
- Peter-Hugo Daly, actor and drummer
- Richard Daly, Irish actor and theatre manager
- Scott Daly, American football player
- Tess Daly, English television presenter
- Tim Daly, American theatre, screen and voice actor, director and producer
- Tyne Daly, American actress
- William Merrigan Daly, known as "Bill Daly", Broadway songwriter and conductor
Sports
- Aidan Daly, New Zealand basketball player
- Aisling Daly, 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, American basketball head coach
- Derek Daly, Irish racing driver
- Elliot Daly,, English rugby player
- Fred Daly (golfer), 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, Guyanese-Canadian weightlifter
- Matt Daly, Scottish professional wrestler
- Matt Daley, English field hockey player
- Matty Daly, English football player
- Rachel Daly, English association football player
- Robert Daly, Irish sprinter
- Tom Daly, Canadian baseball player
- Wes Daly, English football player
Politics and government
- Anthony Daly, Irish agrarian agitator
- Brendan Daly (politician), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician
- Chris Daly, American politician, San Francisco, California
- Clare Daly, Irish socialist politician and trade union activist
- Denis Daly, Irish landowner and politician
- Dominick Daly, British Governor of Prince Edward Island, Tobago and South Australia
- Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary), Irish nationalist
- Edward Daly (mayor), councillor and mayor of Newham, London
- Fred Daly (politician), Australian Labor Party politician
- James Daly (activist) Irish nationalist activist
- James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal, Irish baron and politician
- J. Burrwood Daly, US congressman
- John Daly (Fenian), Irish nationalist
- John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician, businessperson and militia officer
- John Lawrence Daly, self-declared "greenhouse skeptic"
- Lawrence Joseph Sarsfield Daly, fringe American politician
- Malachy Bowes Daly, Canadian politician
- Margaret Daly, served in the European Parliament
- Mark Daly, Irish politician
- Teresa Daly, American politician
- Thomas Mayne Daly Sr., Canadian businessman and political figure
- Thomas Mayne Daly, Canadian politician
- William Davis Daly, American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey
- Will H. Daly, 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, American novelist
- Wally K. Daly, English writer for television and radio
Academics and science
- Herman Daly, ecological economist and professor
- John W. Daly, American biochemist
- 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, Canadian geologist
- Richard Daly, known for the Daly detector, a type of mass spectrometry detector
- Samantha Daly, American mechanical engineer
Religion
- Cahal Daly, Irish Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh
- Edward Daly (bishop), Irish religious leader
- Edward Celestin Daly, Roman Catholic Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, 1948–1964
- James Joseph Daly, American Roman Catholic bishop
- Mary Daly, radical feminist and theologian
Other
- Bernard Daly, Pioneer doctor and Oregon politician
- Charlie Daly executed Irish Republican
- Daniel Daly, US Marine, Double Medal of Honor recipient
- Ed Daly, American entrepreneur behind World Airways
- Edward C. Daly, United States Navy sailor
- Edward M. Daly, U.S. Army General
- Henry Daly, British Army officer
- Ida Daly, American disability community leader
- James Daly (mutineer), British Army mutineer
- John Daly (outlaw), American western outlaw
- John Donald Daly, California businessman and landowner
- Marcus Daly, Irish-born American copper-mining businessman
- Paddy Daly, soldier in the Irish Republican Army
- Rowan Daly, British soldier
- Seamus Daly, Irish Republican
- Thomas Aquinas Daly, American contemporary landscape and still-life painter