Finlay
Finlay is a masculine given name, and also a surname. The given name is represented in Scottish Gaelic as Fionnlagh.
Given name
Finlay
- Finlay Calder, Scottish rugby player
- Finlay Christie, British comedian
- Finlay Christie, Scottish-born New Zealand rugby player
- Finlay Crerar, Royal Air Force Officer
- Finlay Crisp, Australian academic and political scientist
- Finlay Currie, Scottish actor
- Finlay Freundlich, astronomer
- Finlay Jackson, cricketer and rugby union player
- Finlay Macdonald, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
- Finlay MacDonald , Scottish bagpiper
- Finlay MacDonald , Canadian Member of Parliament for Cape Breton South, Nova Scotia
- Finlay MacDonald , Canadian senator
- Finlay J. MacDonald, Scottish journalist
- Finlay McCreath, Scottish cricketer
- Finlay McNaughton Young, Canadian Senator
- Finlay Menzies, Scottish para-athlete
- Finlay Mickel, Scottish skier
- Finlay Speedie, Scottish footballer
- Finlay Tarling, Welsh cyclist for
- Starsmith, British songwriter and music producer born as Finlay Dow-Smith
Other spellings
- Fionnla Dubh mac Gillechriosd, 15th-century Scotsman
- Fionnlagh MacCailein, Scottish bishop
- Findláech of Moray, Macbeth's father, and possible ancestor of the Finlay surname, and its variants
Surname
- Alan Gordon Finlay,, British engineer and inventor
- Alec Finlay, Scottish artist
- Alex Finlay, Australian unionist and Senator
- Alexander Struthers Finlay, Scottish Liberal Party politician
- Brogan Finlay, Northern Irish-American professional wrestler
- Carlos Finlay, Cuban doctor who first identified mosquitoes as a disease carrier
- Charles Coleman Finlay, American science fiction and fantasy writer
- Chase Finlay, New York City Ballet dancer
- David Finlay , Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- David Finlay , German-born Northern Irish-American professional wrestler
- David White Finlay, Scottish physician and yachtsman
- Donald Finlay, British athlete
- Dr. Finlay, fictional character created by author A. J. Cronin
- Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, German astronomer and businessman
- Ethan Finlay, American soccer player
- Fergus Finlay, Irish political figure
- Fit Finlay, Dave "Fit" Finlay, Northern Irish professional wrestler
- Frank Finlay, British stage, film and television actor
- Garfield Finlay, Australian WW1 flying ace
- George Finlay, British historian of classical and post-classical Greece
- Graham Finlay, New Zealand boxer
- Harold John Finlay, New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist
- Iain Finlay, Australian author and journalist
- Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet and writer
- Ilora Finlay, Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, Welsh physician and member of the House of Lords
- Jack Finlay, Irish hurler and politician
- Jack Finlay , Los Angeles Rams footballer
- Jaco Finlay, Canadian settler in what is now the US state of Oregon
- Katrina Finlay, character in Monarch of the Glen
- Kirkman Finlay, MP, Provost for Glasgow and leading merchant
- Martyn Finlay, New Zealand politician and lawyer
- Mary Lou Finlay, Canadian journalist
- Ninian Finlay, Scottish international rugby player
- Peter Warren Finlay, the birthname of Australian writer DBC Pierre
- Richard Finlay, Scottish footballer
- Robert Finlay, 1st Viscount Finlay
- Ross Finlay, Scottish motoring journalist, travel writer, broadcaster and rally co-driver
- Thomas Finlay , Irish Cumann na nGaedhael politician and lawyer
- Thomas Finlay , Irish Fine Gael politician and former Supreme Court Chief Justice
- Thomas A. Finlay, Irish Catholic priest, economist, philosopher and editor
- Tom Finlay, Irish hurler
- Virgil Finlay, science fiction illustrator
- William Henry Finlay, South African astronomer