Fogarty is a surname of Irish origin. The name Fogarty in Ireland is derived from the native Irish Ó Fogartaigh Sept who were located in County Tipperary where the name is still very prevalent to this very day.
The barony of Eliogarty that still exists was named after them. This name, with variant spellings (O) Fogerty, Foggarty, Fogaty, Gogarty and Go(g)erty, is an Anglicized form of the old Irish "Ó Fogartaigh". The Irish prefix "Ó" indicates "male descendant of", plus the personal byname "Fogartach" meaning "banished" or "exiled". The Fogartys are of the ancient population group, Dál gCais, otherwise known as the Dalcassians, who inhabited county Clare with adjacent parts of counties Limerick and Tipperary. Eliogarty, the name of a barony in Co. Tipperary, locates the sept, and indicates their importance. The majority of present-day namebearers are found in county Tipperary and Malachy O' Fogarty, of the University of Paris, who flourished in 1700, was born at Castle Fogarty in that county. Another notable namebearer was Archbishop Fogarty (1858 - 1955), who for fifty-one years was Bishop of Killaloe. A Coat of Arms granted to the family depicts two gold lions rampant on a blue shield supporting a gold sheaf of corn, the latter denoting plenty and the Harvest of One's Hopes. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of O' Fogarty, King of Ely, County Tipperary, which was dated 1072, "The Annals of Ulster", during the reign of High King of Ireland, "with opposition", 1022 - 1166.
Notable people with the surname include:
Sportspeople
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Aidan Fogarty (hurler)
Aidan Fogarty (born 7 June 1958 in Banagher, County Offaly) is an Irish former sportsperson. He played hurling with his local club St Rynagh's and with the Offaly senior inter-county team from 1977 until 1991.
Playing career Club
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(born 1958), Irish former hurler
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Alan Fogarty
Alan Fogarty is an Irish water polo
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, Irish water polo player
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Amby Fogarty
Ambrose "Amby" Gerald Fogarty (11 September 1933 – 4 January 2016) was an Irish professional football player.
He played at club level for Bohemians, Glentoran, Sunderland, Hartlepool United, Cork Celtic and Cork Hibernian.
At Roker ...
(1933–2016), Irish former football player
* Bryan Fogarty (1969–2002), Canadian ice hockey player
* Carl Fogarty (born 1965), British World Superbike racer
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Chris Fogarty
Andrew Christopher Fogarty (28 January 1884 – 29 November 1915) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon and University in the Victorian Football League
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(1884–1915), former Australian-rules footballer
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Conor Fogarty
Conor Fogarty (born 12 May 1990) is an Irish hurler who plays for Kilkenny Senior Championship club Erin's Own and at inter-county level with the Kilkenny senior hurling team. He currently lines out as a right wing-back.
Playing career Cast ...
(born 1990), Irish hurler
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Damien Fogarty
Damien Fogarty (born 19 October 1985) is an Irish people, Irish hurling, hurler who currently plays as a substitute forward for the Kilkenny GAA, Kilkenny senior team.
Fogarty made his competitive debut for the team during the National Hurling ...
(born 1985), Irish hurler
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Denis Fogarty
Denis Fogarty (born 16 July 1983) is a former Irish rugby union player who played at hooker for Munster, Aurillac, Agen and Provence. He has also represented Ireland at schoolboy, U21 and 'A' level. He was educated at Rockwell College. In May ...
(born 1983), Irish rugby union player
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Jim Fogarty
James G. Fogarty (February 12, 1864 – May 20, 1891) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball from 1884 to 1890 for the Philadelphia Quakers and Philadelphia Athletics.
An alumnus of Saint Mary's Col ...
(1864–1891), US baseball player
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Joe Fogarty
Joseph Patrick Fogarty (24 December 1885 – 28 June 1954), MC, OBE, M.B.B.S. (Melbourne), is a former Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne, Essendon and University in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He is one of fou ...
Ken Fogarty
Ken Fogarty (born in Manchester, England) is a (naturalised) American soccer coach. Fogarty was Head Coach and Technical Director of the Cayman Islands national team from 1993 to 1994 and from 1996 to 1998.
Professional career
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(born 1955), English soccer coach
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Lyndsie Fogarty
Lyndsie Fogarty (born 17 April 1984 in Brisbane, Queensland) is an Australian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. She won a bronze medal in at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing
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(born 1984), Australian sprint canoeist
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Martin Fogarty
Martin Fogarty is an Irish hurling coach and former player, whom the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) named as its first National Hurling Development manager in June 2016, a role he filled from the end of that August. The role, according to Foga ...
, Irish hurler
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Tom Fogarty (hurler)
Fr. Thomas Fogarty (born 1951) is a Roman Catholic priest and former hurler who played as a left corner-back at senior level for the Tipperary county team.
Born in Templetuohy, County Tipperary, Fogarty first played competitive hurling in his ...
(born 1952), retired Irish hurling manager
* Tom Fogarty, former Australian-rules footballer
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Richard Fogarty
Richard Fogarty (12 December 1891 – 9 September 1980) was New Zealand rugby union player. He was a member of the All Blacks in 1914, playing in the loose forward and hooker positions.
Early life
Born in the Central Otago gold-mining sett ...
(Rugby Union player)
Politicians
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Andrew Fogarty
Andrew Fogarty (13 April 1879 – 24 April 1953) was an Irish politician. A farmer, he was first elected to Dáil Éireann
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(1879–1953), Irish politician
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Charles J. Fogarty
Charles Joseph Fogarty, Jr., also known as Charlie Fogarty (born September 15, 1955) is an American politician who served as the 67th lieutenant governor of Rhode Island. He is a Democrat. Fogarty served two full terms as lieutenant governor, fi ...
(born 1955), former Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
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Gerry Fogarty
Gerald "Gerry" Fogarty is a former sportscaster and politician. He was the last Speaker of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia to be appointed by the Premier rather than elected by his peers.
Before politics
Fogarty was a Halifax, Nova Scotia b ...
, Canadian politician
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John E. Fogarty
John Edward Fogarty (March 23, 1913 – January 10, 1967) was a United States Congress, Congressman from Rhode Island for 26 years. He was a member of the Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party. John Edward Fogarty was influential in ...
(1913–67) US Congressman
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Kathleen Fogarty
Kathleen A. Fogarty (born July 29, 1965) is an American politician currently serving as a Democratic member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, representing the 35th House District since 2015.
Personal life
Fogarty was born in Warwic ...
, (born 1965), American politician
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Patrick Fogarty
Patrick J. Fogarty (died 2 May 1947) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served for ten years as a member of Dáil Éireann.
An insurance broker and bookmaker, Fogarty first stood for election to the Dáil at the 1937 Irish general electio ...
(died 1947), Irish politician
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Ray Fogarty
Raymond W. Fogarty (June 26, 1957 – September 27, 2018) was an American politician.
Fogarty was born in Providence, Rhode Island and graduated from Bryant University in 1979. He began working for the university soon after graduation and later ...
(1957-2018), American politician
* William "Bill" Fogarty (1922-2001), Australian politician
Other people
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Anne Fogarty
Anne Fogarty (February 2, 1919 – January 15, 1980) was an American fashion designer, active 1940–1980, who was noted for her understated, ladylike designs that were accessible to American women on a limited income.Brian Fogarty, English novelist, short story writer, poet, painter, and printmaker.
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Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen
Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, (8 October 1891 – 5 November 1940) was a Royal Navy officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth fo ...
(1891–1940), Victoria Cross recipient
* Francis Fogarty (1899–1973), Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force
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Frank Fogarty
Frank Fogarty (1887-1978) ''Lambiek's Comiclopedia''. Accessed Dec. 23, 2017. was an American
James Fogarty
James Fogarty is an English multi-media artist. Concentrating mainly on music crossing over between metal and sampled based music, his projects past and present are In the Woods..., The Blacksmoke Organisation, The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom, ...
(born 1978), British music producer
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Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty
Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty (born 1969) is a Native American, Assiniboine Sioux bead worker and porcupine quill worker. She creates traditional Northern Plains regalia.
Background
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(born 1969), Assiniboine-Sioux textile artist
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Kenneth Hubert Fogarty
Kenneth Hubert "Ken" Fogarty, (1923 – 14 January 1989) was Mayor of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, from 1970 to 1972 and afterwards an Ontario district court judge until his death.
Fogarty was born in Ottawa, where he earned Bachelor of Arts ...
(1923–1989), Mayor of Ottawa (Ontario, Canada) 1970–1972
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Lionel Fogarty
Lionel Fogarty (born 1958), also published as Lionel Lacey, is an Indigenous Australian poet and political activist.
Early life
Fogarty was born in 1958 on an Aboriginal reserve at Barambah (now called Cherbourg) in Queensland, where he grew up. ...
(born 1958), Indigenous Australian poet and political activist
* Mignon Fogarty (born 1967), podcaster and former science writer
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Nelson Wellesley Fogarty
Nelson Wellesley Fogarty (1871–1933) was the first Anglican Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia) from 1924 to 1933.
Biography
Nelson Wellesley Fogarty was born on 13 September 1871 in Canterbury, Kent, England, the son of John Evans Fogarty and his w ...
(1871–1933), first Anglican Bishop of Damaraland (Namibia)
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Shelagh Fogarty
Shelagh Fogarty (born 13 January 1966) is a radio and television presenter and journalist. She currently presents the afternoon programme on LBC, having previously co-hosted the BBC Radio 5 Live breakfast show with Nicky Campbell.
Early life
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(born 1966), radio and television presenter and journalist
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Thomas J. Fogarty
Dr. Thomas J. "Tom" Fogarty (born February 25, 1934 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American surgeon and medical device inventor. He is best known for the invention of the embolectomy catheter (or balloon catheter), which revolutionized the treatment ...
(born 1934), American surgeon
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Thomas J. Fogarty
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(born 1962), American business executive
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John Fogerty
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Thomas Richard Fogerty (November 9, 1941 – September 6, 1990) was an American mu ...
(born 1945) American former lead singer/songwriter of the band
Creedence Clearwater Revival
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