Irving (name)
Irving is an originally Scottish surname, a variant of the name Irvine, which is derived from the eponymous River Irvine in Dumfriesshire. Irving is also used as a male given name.
Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Amy Irving, American film and stage actress
- Arthur Irving, Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
- Bob Irving (sportscaster), Canadian sportscaster
- Bud Irving, Canadian football player
- Charles Irving (surgeon), Scottish naval surgeon, inventor and colonial entrepreneur
- Clifford Irving, American author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes
- Dan Irving, British politician, Labour MP
- David Irving, British writer, best known for his denial of the Holocaust
- David Irving (footballer), British footballer
- Edmund George Irving, British naval hydrographer
- Edward Irving, Scottish clergyman
- Edward Irving (plant collector), Scottish surgeon
- Edward A. Irving, Canadian geologist
- Francis Irving, British programmer and activist for freedom of information
- George S. Irving,, American actor
- Godfrey Irving, senior Australian Army officer
- Gordon Budd Irving, Canadian World War I flying ace
- Henry Irving, British actor
- Isabel Irving, American actress
- James K. Irving, Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
- Jayne Irving, British television presenter
- John Irving (disambiguation), several people
- Jules Irving, American actor, director, educator, and producer,
- K. C. Irving, Canadian industrialist, founder of the Irving Group of Companies
- Kyrie Irving, American professional basketball player
- Levin Thomas Handy Irving, justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
- Martin Howy Irving, English rower and educationist in Australia; father of Godfrey Irving
- Mary Jane Irving, American actress
- Nicholas Irving, American author and former soldier
- Robert Irving (disambiguation), several people
- Skylar Irving, American ice hockey player
- Thomas Ballantyne Irving, publisher of the first American English translation of the Qur'an
- Thomas Irving (Medal of Honor)
- Washington Irving, American author, historian and diplomat
- William Irving (disambiguation), several people
Given name
- Irving Abella, Canadian writer
- Irving Amen, printmaker
- Irving Azoff, American music executive and manager
- Irving Berlin, Russian-born American songwriter
- Irving Block, American matte painter and screenwriter, wrote the story on which Forbidden Planet was based.
- Irving Caesar, American lyricist
- Irving D. Chais, American businessman
- Irving Chernev, Russian-American chess player and author
- Irving Copi, American philosopher
- Irving Cottler, American drummer
- Irving Crane, American pool player
- Irving Dardik, American surgeon
- Irving Davidson, Australian rules footballer
- Irving Davis, American footballer
- Irving Fein, American television and film producer
- Irving Feinstein, American mobster
- Irving Feldman, American poet
- Irving Fields, American pianist
- Irving Fine, American composer
- Irving Finkel, British philologist and Assyriologist, curator in the Middle East department of the British Museum
- Irving Fisher, American economist
- Irving Folwartshny, American athlete
- Irving Freese, Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
- Irving Garcia (soccer, born 1988), American footballer
- Irving Garcia (boxer), Puerto Rican boxer
- Irving Gill, American architect
- Irving Goff,
- Irving Goldman, American anthropologist
- Irving B. Goldman, American otolaryngologist
- Irving Gottesman, American psychologist
- Irving Gould, Canadian businessman
- Irving Harper, American industrial designer
- Irving Hexham, English-Canadian academic and writer
- Irving Howe, Jewish-American literary critic
- Irving Janis, American psychologist
- Irving Johnson, American adventurer and author
- Irving Kane Pond, American architect
- Irving Kaplan (government official)
- Irving Kaplan (chemist), American chemist
- Irving Kaplan (radiation oncologist), American radiation oncologist
- Irving Kaplansky, mathematician
- Irving Kaplan (chemist), an MIT professor
- Irving Langmuir, chemist and physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
- Irving Lavin, American art historian
- Irving R. Levine, broadcast journalist
- Irving Layton, Canadian poet
- Irving Lehman, American lawyer and Jewish politician
- Irving Lerner, American filmmaker
- Irving Lowens, American musicologist and critic
- Irving Malin, American literary critic
- Irving Martin, American record producer
- Irving Mansfield, American producer and writer
- Irving Mills, American music publisher
- Irving Millman, American virologist and microbiologist
- Irving Mondschein, track and field champion
- Irving Morrow, American architect
- Irving Moskowitz, American physician, businessman, and philanthropist
- Irving Mosberg, New York politician and judge
- Irving Nattrass, English footballer
- Irving Penn, American photographer
- Irving Peress, American dentist and military officer who became of the target of Army–McCarthy hearings
- Irving Henry Webster Phillips Sr., American photojournalist
- Irving S. Reed, American mathematician and engineer
- Irving Reiner, American mathematician
- Irving "Ving" Rhames, American actor
- Irv Rubin, former Jewish Defense League leader
- Irving Sablosky, American diplomat
- Irving Saladino, Panamanian long jumper
- Irving Sandler, American art critic and art historian
- Irving Saraf, Polish-born American film producer
- Irving Sayles, African-American vaudeville entertainer
- Irving H. Saypol, American attorney
- Irving Schwartz, Canadian businessman
- Irving Selikoff, American physician
- Irving Slosberg, American politician
- Irving Stern, American politician
- Irving Stone, American writer
- Irving Stowe, American lawyer
- Irving Taylor (songwriter), American songwriter
- Irving Taylor (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Irving Thalberg, American film producer
- Irving Thalberg, Jr., American philosopher
- Irving C. Tomlinson, American Universalist minister
- Irving Townsend, American record producer and author
- Irving Vendig,, American soap opera writer
- Irving Wallace, American novelist and non-fiction writer
- Irving B. Weiner, American psychologist
- Irving Zola, American activist and writer
- Irving Zurita, Mexican footballer