Clancy
Clancy is an Irish name coming from the Gaelic Mac Fhlannchaidh/Mac Fhlannchadha, meaning "Son of the red/ruddy warrior", or as a hypocorism for Clarence. The surname originated from two different families, one in Thomond and one in the present day County Leitrim.
Notable people with the name include:
People
Given name
- Clancy Barone, American football coach
- Clancy Brown, American actor
- Clancy Carlile, American novelist and screenwriter
- Clancy Chassay, English journalist
- Clancy Cooper, American actor
- Clancy Eccles, Jamaican reggae singer
- Clancy Edwards, American track and field sprinter
- Clancy Fernando, Sri Lankan admiral
- Clancy Hayes, American jazz singer and banjo player
- Clancy Imislund an influential figure in the Alcoholics Anonymous community and managing director of the Midnight Mission in Los Angeles
- Clancy Martin, Canadian philosopher, novelist and essayist
- Clancy Newman, American cellist and composer
- Clancy O'Connor, American actor
- Clancy Pendergast, American football coach
- Clancy Rudeforth, Australian rules footballer
- Clancy Sigal, American writer
- Clancy Smyres, American baseball player
- Clancy Williams, American football player
Surname
- Abbey Clancy, English model and television personality
- Aislinn Clancy, Canadian politician
- Al Clancy, American baseball player
- Aoibheann Clancy, Irish footballer
- Bill Clancy, American baseball player
- Bobby Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- Boetius Clancy, Irish Member of Parliament and High Sheriff
- Bud Clancy, American baseball player
- Carl Stearns Clancy, American long-distance motorcycle rider, film director and producer, credited with the first motorcycle circumnavigation of the world
- Claire Clancy, former Chief Executive and Clerk to the National Assembly for Wales, and first woman to be Registrar of Companies for England and Wales
- Conor Clancy (Clare hurler), Irish hurler
- Conor Clancy (Offaly hurler), Irish hurler
- Cummin Clancy, Irish discus thrower
- Daniel J. Clancy, American computer scientist
- Dave Clancy, British ice hockey goaltender
- Dean Clancy, Irish boxer
- Donald D. Clancy, American politician
- Ed or Edward Clancy (disambiguation)
- Finbarr Clancy, Irish folk singer and musician, member of the High Kings
- Frank Willey Clancy, American lawyer and politician
- George Clancy (politician), Irish teacher and politician
- George Clancy (rugby union), Irish rugby union referee
- Gil Clancy, American boxing trainer and commentator
- Gordon Drummond Clancy, Canadian politician
- Jack Clancy, American football player
- Jack Clancy (Australian footballer), Australian rules footballer
- James Clancy (disambiguation)
- Jim Clancy (baseball player), American baseball pitcher
- Jim Clancy (journalist), American broadcast journalist
- Joe Clancy, American football player and college coach
- John Clancy (disambiguation)
- Jonathan Clancy, Irish hurler
- Joseph Clancy (disambiguation)
- J. J. Clancy (North Dublin MP), Irish member of the British Parliament
- J. J. Clancy (Sinn Féin politician)
- Kendrick Clancy, American football player
- Kevin Clancy, Scottish football referee
- Kevin Clancy (Royal Mint), British numismatist
- King Clancy, Canadian ice hockey defenceman, referee, coach and executive
- Laurence Clancy, British aerodynamicist, academic and author
- Liam Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- Martin Clancy Irish musician and songwriter and writer about artificial intelligence's impact on the arts
- Mary Clancy, Canadian politician
- Matthew Clancy, Irish retired Gaelic footballer
- Michael Clancy, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of St. Helena and Dependencies, husband of Claire Clancy
- Michael Martin Clancy, Irish Catholic priest in Australia
- Mike Clancy, American professional wrestler
- Mike Clancy (trade unionist), British trad unionist, General Secretary of Prospect
- Nadia Clancy, Australian politician
- Natalie Clancy, Canadian journalist
- Paddy Clancy, Irish folk musician, one of the Clancy Brothers
- Pádraig Clancy, Irish Gaelic footballer
- Pat Clancy (trade unionist), Australian trade unionist and communist
- Patrick Clancy (Irish politician)
- Patty Clancy, 21st century American politician
- Paulette Clancy, British physicist
- Pauric Clancy, Irish Gaelic football player
- Peadar Clancy, member of the Irish Republican Army
- Robert H. Clancy, American politician
- Robert Clancy (doctor), Australian clinical immunologist
- Ryan Clancy, American politician
- Sam Clancy, American football and basketball player
- Sam Clancy Jr., American basketball assistant coach and former player, son of the above
- Sean Clancy (disambiguation)
- Stephen Clancy, Irish racing cyclist
- Susan Clancy, American clinical psychologist
- T. Frank Clancy, American politician and businessman
- Taliqua Clancy, Australian beach volleyball player
- Terry Clancy, Canadian ice hockey player, son of King Clancy
- Tom or Thomas Clancy (disambiguation)
- Tim Clancy, Irish football manager and former player
- Tyler Clancy, American politician
- William Clancy, Irish missionary
- Willie Clancy (musician), Irish Uilleann pipes player
- Willie Clancy (hurler), Irish hurler
Fictional characters
- Kanuka Clancy, one of the main characters on the anime series Mobile Police Patlabor
- Chief Clancy Wiggum, on The Simpsons
- Clancy Freeman, a recurring character in Blue Heelers
- Clancy, the protagonist in the band Twenty One Pilots' 4th—8th concept albums
- Clancy of the Overflow, the titular character of a Banjo Paterson poem, possibly based on Australian drover Thomas Gerald Clancy