Flynn
Flynn is an Irish surname or first name, an anglicised form of the Irish Ó Floinn or possibly Mac Floinn, meaning "descendant or son of Flann". The name is more commonly used as a surname than a first name.
According to John O'Donovan's 1849 works, the modern descendants of Lugaid mac Con include the O'Driscolls, O'Learys, Coffeys, Hennessys and Flynns of County Cork. According to historian C. Thomas Cairney, the O'Flynns, along with the O'Coffeys, O'Dinneens, O'Driscolls, O'Heas, O'Hennessys and O'Learys, were chiefly families of the Corca Laoghdne tribe, who in turn came from the Erainn tribe who were the second wave of Celts to settle in Ireland from 500 to 100 BC.
People
Acting
- Barbara Flynn, English actress
- Brandon Flynn, American actor
- Daniel Flynn (actor), English actor
- Errol Flynn, Australian-American movie actor
- Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer
- Jimmy Flynn, American actor
- Joe Flynn (American actor), American actor
- Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
- Miriam Flynn, American character and voice actress
- Neil Flynn, American actor
- Quinton Flynn, American voice actor
Law
- Dennis J. Flynn, American lawyer and judge
- Edmund James Flynn, Canadian lawyer and politician
- Edward A. Flynn, American law enforcement officer
- William J. Flynn, American investigator, director of the Bureau of Investigation from 1919 to 1921
Music
- Billy Flynn (musician), American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
- David Flynn (composer), Irish composer and musician
- Jim Flynn (songwriter), American country music songwriter
- Johnny Flynn, British actor and singer-songwriter
- Matt Flynn (musician), American musician and record producer
- Patrick Flynn (composer), composer and conductor
- Patti Flynn, jazz singer, author, radio actress, model and social activist
- Robb Flynn, American musician
Politics and government
- Dan Flynn (politician), Texas politician
- Dennis Flynn, Canadian politician
- Edward J. Flynn, American politician
- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, political activist
- Gerald T. Flynn, U.S. representative from Wisconsin
- John Flynn (Irish politician), Fianna Fáil politician from Kerry
- John Flynn (New Brunswick politician), Canadian bank manager and politician
- John Gerrard Flynn, former British Ambassador to Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and Angola
- Marty Flynn, American politician
- Noriko Sawada Bridges Flynn, civil rights activist
- Pádraig Flynn, Irish politician between 1977 and 1999
- Patrick Flynn (Canadian politician), Canadian Liberal Party politician of Irish extraction
- Paul Flynn (British politician), British Labour Party MP for Newport West
- Raymond Flynn, former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
Science, medicine and academe
- Colin P. Flynn, professor at the University of Illinois
- Ida M. Flynn, American computer scientist, textbook author, and professor
- James Flynn (academic), intelligence researcher in New Zealand known for discovering the Flynn effect
- John Flynn (minister), Minister; founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
- Michael J. Flynn, American computer scientist and inventor of Flynn's taxonomy
Sports
- Alex Flynn, American Paralympic rower
- Ann Marie Flynn, American high jumper
- Brian Flynn (baseball), American baseball player
- Brian Flynn (footballer), Welsh footballer
- Brian Flynn (ice hockey), hockey player
- Charlie Flynn, Scottish boxer
- Christopher Flynn, Welsh footballer
- Daniel Flynn (cricketer), New Zealand cricketer
- Don Flynn, football player
- Doug Flynn, American baseball player
- Edward Flynn (boxer), American boxer, gold medalist at the 1932 Olympic Games
- Eddie Flynn, Irish soccer player
- Furlong Flynn, American football player and aviation pioneer
- George Flynn (baseball), American baseball player
- John Flynn (baseball), American baseball player
- John Flynn (footballer, born 1948), English footballer
- John Flynn (rugby league), English rugby player
- Jonny Flynn, American basketball player
- JP Flynn, American football player
- Lefty Satan Flynn, British Honduran boxer, Jamaican dual-weight titleholder
- Malachi Flynn, American basketball player
- Matt Flynn (American football), American football player
- Michael Flynn (footballer), Welsh soccer player
- Mike Flynn (American football), American football player
- Mike Flynn (baseball), American baseball player
- Mike Flynn (basketball), American basketball player
- Mike Flynn (footballer), English footballer
- Patrick Flynn (athlete), American Olympic medalist
- Patrick J. Flynn, Irish race horse trainer
- Paul Flynn (Gaelic footballer), Dublin Gaelic footballer
- Paul Flynn (Waterford hurler), Irish hurler
- Ray Flynn (athlete), Irish middle-distance runner
- Ryan Flynn (footballer), Sheffield United and Scottish footballer
- Ted Flynn, Australian rules footballer
- Tom Flynn (American football), NFL athlete
- Flynn Cameron, New Zealand basketball player
Writing
- Bess Flynn, American actress and writer of radio soap operas
- Daniel J. Flynn, American conservative writer
- Gillian Flynn, American writer
- Greg Flynn, Australian novelist
- Ian Flynn, American comic book writer
- John T. Flynn, American journalist and writer
- Kitty Flynn, Irish historian and author
- Michael Flynn (writer), American science fiction writer
- Nick Flynn, poet and writer
- Tom Flynn (author), American writer and journalist
- Vince Flynn, American writer
Other
- Harry Joseph Flynn, American Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
- John Flynn (director), American film director
- Michael Flynn, retired United States Army officer, 24th National Security Advisor of the United States
- Mike Flynn (radio host), American radio host
Fictional characters
- Billy Flynn (Chicago), from the musical Chicago
- Father Brendan Flynn, from the play Doubt
- Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn, the main character in a series of detective novels by Gregory Mcdonald
- Harry Flynn (character), a villain in the video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- Helen Flynn, from the TV series Spooks
- Kevin Flynn (character), a main character in the 1982 Walt Disney Pictures film Tron
- Mickey Flynn, in the novel Homeward Bound
- Phineas, Linda, and Candace Flynn, from the Disney Channel animated series Phineas and Ferb
- Sam Flynn, in the 2010 film Tron: Legacy
- The Flynn family in the sitcom In with the FlynnsFlynn Rider, in Walt Disney Animation Studios' animated film Tangled, short 2012 film Tangled Ever After, and the 2017 television series ''Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure''