Cahill (, or ) is a name of Irish origin. It is the
anglicised version of the
Gaelic
Gaelic is an adjective that means "pertaining to the Gaels". As a noun it refers to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the languages individually. Gaelic languages are spoken in Ireland, Scotland, the Isle of Man, and Ca ...
"Ó Cathail" meaning "descendant of
Cathal
Cathal or Cahal is a common given name in Ireland, spelled the same in both the Irish and English languages. The name is derived from two Celtic elements: the first, ''cath'', means "battle"; the second element, ''val'', means "rule". There is no ...
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"Cathal" consists of two parts: "cath" means battle; the second could be "val" (rule), so that the name as a whole meant "battle ruler" or "strong in battle", or it could be "all" (great), so that the name as a whole meant "great warrior".
People with the surname
Notable people with the surname include:
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Barry Cahill (actor) (1921–2012), Canadian-born actor
*Kymba Cahill (radio announcer) (born 1980) Australian radio announcer
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Barry Cahill (Gaelic footballer)
Barry Cahill (born 10 May 1981) is a former Gaelic footballer who played for the St Brigid's club in Castleknock, the Dublin county team and his province, Leinster, during his playing career. Cahill announced his retirement from Dublin footb ...
(born 1981), Irish Gaelic football player
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Bernard J.S. Cahill (1866–1944), American architect and cartographer
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Brendan J. Cahill (born 1963), American catholic bishop
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Charles Cahill (ice hockey) (1904–1954), Canadian ice hockey player
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Charles Cahill (rugby league) (1916–2007), Australian rugby league footballer and coach
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Christina Cahill (''née'' Boxer, born 1957), British middle-distance athlete
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Darren Cahill
Darren Cahill (born 2 October 1965) is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Australia. In addition, Cahill is a tennis analyst for the Grand Slam events on the US sports network ESPN and a coach with the Adidas Player Devel ...
(born 1965), Australian tennis player and coach
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Eddie Cahill
Edmund Patrick Cahill (born January 15, 1978) is an American actor known for portraying "Miracle on Ice" goalie Jim Craig in the 2004 film ''Miracle'', and for playing the roles of Tag Jones in ''Friends'' and Detective Don Flack in ''CSI: NY.' ...
(born 1978), American actor
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Edward Cahill (priest) (1868–1941), Irish Jesuit priest and academic
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Edward Cahill (pianist) (1885–1975), Australian concert pianist
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Edward Cahill (jurist) (1843–1922), justice of the Michigan Supreme Court in 1890
* Emmet Cahill (born 1990), Irish tenor, member of
Celtic Thunder
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Erin Cahill
Erin Jessica Cahill (born January 4, 1980) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Jen Scotts in ''Power Rangers Time Force'', Ted Mosby's sister Heather in ''How I Met Your Mother'', and Kendra Burke in '' Saving Grace''. S ...
(born 1980), American actress
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Frank S. Cahill (1876–1934), Canadian politician
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Gary Cahill
Gary James Cahill (born 19 December 1985) is an English former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Cahill began his career playing for the AFC Dronfield youth system in Derbyshire. In 2000, he joined the Aston Villa Academy an ...
(born 1985), English football player
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George F. Cahill
George F. Cahill (1869–1935) was an American inventor who made night baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of ...
(1869–1935), American inventor
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Holger Cahill
Edgar Holger Cahill (January 13, 1887 – July 8, 1960) was an Icelandic-American curator, writer, and arts administrator who served as the national director of the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration during the New Deal in th ...
(1887–1960), Icelandic-American Director of the US Federal Art Project
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Horace T. Cahill (1894–1976), American politician; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts 1939–1945
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Jackie Cahill
Jackie Cahill (born 5 August 1963) is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency since the 2016 general election.
Cahill is from Thurles. In a 2020 interview with the ''Irish Independent' ...
(born 1957), Irish politician
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James Cahill (art historian)
James Francis Cahill (; August 13, 1926 – February 14, 2014) was an art historian, curator, collector, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He was considered one of the world's top authorities on Chinese art.
Early life and ...
(1926–2014), American art historian
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James Cahill (snooker player)
James Cahill (born 27 December 1995) is an English professional snooker player from Blackpool. Cahill first turned professional in 2013, aged 17, after winning the European Under 21 Championships, but returned to amateur status in 2017.
As a ...
, (born 1995) English snooker player
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James F. Cahill (1926–2008), American scuba diving pioneer, one of the first Navy Seals
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Joe Cahill
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(1920–2004), Irish republican and IRA leader
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John Cahill (footballer)
John Cahill (born 27 April 1940) is a former Australian rules football player and coach. During his illustrious career he played football for Port Adelaide, and coached Port Adelaide, West Adelaide, South Adelaide in the South Australian Na ...
(born 1940), Australian rules football player and coach
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John Baptist Cahill
John Baptist Cahill (1841–1910) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the second Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth from 1900 to 1910.
Life
Born in London on 2 September 1841, he was a student at St. Edmund's Col ...
(1841–1910), English Roman Catholic Bishop of Portsmouth
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John T. Cahill (lawyer) (1903–66), American lawyer and prosecutor
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Joseph Cahill
John Joseph Cahill (21 January 189122 October 1959), also known as Joe Cahill or J. J. Cahill, was a long-serving New South Wales politician, railway worker, trade unionist and Labor Party Premier of New South Wales from 1952 to his death in 1 ...
(1891–1959), Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales 1952–1959
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Josh Cahill (born 1986), German-Czech aviation vlogger
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Julie McNally Cahill
Julie Annabelle McNally Cahill (née McNally; born March 5, 1966) is an American producer, writer and animator who co-created the Cartoon Network series ''My Gym Partner's a Monkey'' with her husband Tim Cahill. She, along with her husband, have ...
(born 1966), creator of ''Gym Partner'' and ''Littlest Pet Shop''
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Keenan Cahill
Keenan Cahill (1995 – December 29, 2022) was an American YouTuber and Internet celebrity who gained fame in the early 2010s for his viral videos in which he lip synced to popular songs.
Cahill launched his first lipsynced YouTube video on ...
(born 1995), teenager known for viral video
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Kevin A. Cahill (born 1955), American politician from New York; state representative
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Leo Cahill
Leo Cahill (July 30, 1928 – February 15, 2018) was an American head coach and general manager in the Canadian Football League, much of it spent with the Toronto Argonauts.
Early life
Cahill was born on July 30, 1928 in Utica, Illinois and lat ...
(born 1928), American professional football coach
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Lily Cahill
Lily Cahill (July 17, 1888 – July 20, 1955) was an American stage and screen actress.
Early life
Lily Cahill was born July 17, 1888 in San Antonio, Texas. She was the granddaughter of Confederate Army Colonel John Jacob Myers.
Career
She bega ...
(1888–1955), American actress
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Mabel Cahill
Mabel Esmonde Cahill (2 April 1863 – 2 February 1905) was an Irish female tennis player, active in the late 19th century, and was the first foreign woman to win a major tennis tournament when she won the 1891 US National Championships.
Early ...
(1863–1905), Irish championship tennis player
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Máiría Cahill (born 1981), Irish politician
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Marie Cahill
Marie Cahill (December 29, 1866 – August 23, 1933) was a Broadway stage actress and vocalist. Her parents were Irish immigrants Richard and Mary (née Groegen) Cahill.
Stage career
Cahill began her career in the late 1880s first in her na ...
(1866–1933), Broadway stage actress
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Martin Cahill
Martin "The General" Cahill (23 May 1949 – 18 August 1994) was an Irish crime boss from Dublin. He masterminded a series of burglaries and armed robberies, and was shot and killed while out on bail for kidnapping charges. The Provisional Iris ...
(1949–1994), Irish criminal
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Mary Beth Cahill
Mary Beth Cahill (born December 1954) is an American political advisor who served as the campaign manager of the John Kerry 2004 presidential campaign. She was Kerry's second campaign manager, replacing Jim Jordan in November 2003, after Jordan wa ...
(born 1954), American political figure, campaign manager for John Kerry
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Michael T. Cahill
Michael T. Cahill is a law professor, and the Dean and President of Brooklyn Law School. He is also the former co-Dean of Rutgers Law School.
Biography
Raised in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, Cahill graduated from Pequannock Township High School ...
, Dean of
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn Law School (BLS) is a private law school in New York City. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty.
Brookly ...
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Mike Cahill (tennis)
Michael Cahill (born June 17, 1952) is a former professional tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a ...
(born 1952), American tennis player
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Mike Cahill (director)
Mike Cahill (born July 5, 1979) is an American filmmaker.
Early life and education
Mike Cahill was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 5, 1979. His first forays into filmmaking were with Fisher-Price and VHS camcorders when he was young. H ...
(born 1979), American filmmaker
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Ollie Cahill (born 1975), Irish professional football player
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Pat Cahill (born 1949), Texas High School football coach
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Patricia Cahill (drug smuggler) (born 1973), British teen, imprisoned in Thailand
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Patricia Cahill (singer)
Patricia Cahill (3 March 1942 – 11 May 2022) was an Irish singer. Her first appearance in public was in Dublin's Theatre Royal at the age of seventeen.
Career
Cahill's first commercial recording, ''Ireland's Patricia Cahill sings for you'' ...
(born 1945), Irish singer
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Pearse Cahill (1917–2011), Irish aviation pioneer
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Richard Cahill (
fl. 1911–1912), English professional football player
* Richard T. Cahill Jr. (born 1971), American author of ''
Hauptmann's Ladder'' (on Lindbergh kidnapping)
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Robert Ellis Cahill (1934–2005), American author
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Ronnie Cahill (born 1915), American football player
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Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill (born 1945) is an Australian radical historian and journalist, with a background as a teacher and farmhand, who variously worked for the trade union movement as a rank and file activist, delegate and publicist.
Biography
Rowan Cahil ...
(born 1945), Australian historian and journalist
* Sally Cahill (contemporary), Canadian voice actor and screen actress
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Sarah Cahill (beauty queen) (born 1978), American beauty queen
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Sarah Cahill (pianist)
Sarah Cahill (born 1960) is an American pianist based in the Bay Area. She has also worked as a writer on music and as a radio show host.
Early life and education
Born in Washington, D.C., Sarah Cahill moved to Berkeley, California when her ...
(born 1960), American pianist, writer and radio host
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Ted Cahill (rugby league) (
fl. 1950s), English rugby player
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Thaddeus Cahill
Thaddeus Cahill (June 18, 1867 – April 12, 1934) was a prominent inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium.
He studied the ...
(1867–1934), inventor of the telharmonium
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Thomas Cahill
Thomas Quinn Cahill (March 29, 1940 – October 18, 2022) was an American scholar and writer. He was best known for ''The Hinges of History'' series, a prospective seven-volume series in which the author recounts formative moments in Western civ ...
(born 1940), American scholar and writer
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Thomas Cahill (bishop)
Thomas Vincent Cahill (22 February 1913 — 16 April 1978) was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop.
Early life
Thomas Vincent Cahill was born on 22 February 1913 in Bendigo, Victoria.
Ordained ministry
Cahill was ordained a priest on 21 Se ...
(1913–1978), Australian Roman Catholic bishop
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Thomas Cahill (soccer)
Thomas W. Cahill (December 25, 1864 — September 29, 1951) was one of the founding fathers of soccer in the United States, and is considered the most important administrator in U.S. Soccer before World War II.
Cahill formed the United States ...
(1864–1951), American soccer coach
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Tim Cahill
Timothy Filiga Cahill (; born 6 December 1979) is an Australian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder but also played as a striker on many occasions. A box-to-box midfielder, Cahill became recognised for "his a ...
(born 1979), Australian soccer player
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Tim Cahill (writer)
Tim Cahill (born 1944 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a travel writer who lives in Livingston, Montana, United States. He is a founding editing, editor of Outside (magazine), ''Outside'' magazine and currently serves as an editor at large for the m ...
(born 1943), American travel writer and magazine editor
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Tim Cahill (producer) (born 1966), creator of ''Gym Partner'' and ''Littlest Pet Shop''
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Timothy P. Cahill (born 1959), American politician from Massachusetts; state treasurer
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Tom Cahill (American football)
Thomas B. Cahill (October 11, 1919 – October 29, 1992) was an American football player and coach who served as the head coach at the United States Military Academy from 1966 to 1973 and at Union College in Schenectady, New York from 1976 to 1979 ...
(1919–1992), football player and coach
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Tom Cahill (Australian politician)
Thomas James Cahill (12 February 1924 – 23 June 1983) was an Australian politician, affiliated with the Labor Party and elected as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
Biography
The son of John Joseph Cahill, Premier of New ...
(1924–1983), Australian politician from New South Wales
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Trevor Cahill
Trevor John Cahill (born March 1, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, Sa ...
(born 1988), American baseball player
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William T. Cahill
William Thomas Cahill (June 25, 1912July 1, 1996) was an American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 46th governor of New Jersey from 1970 to 1974. A Republican, Cahill previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives, repr ...
(1912–1996), American politician from New Jersey; US Representative
Fictional characters
* Amy Cahill, Dan Cahill, Grace Cahill, Hope Cahill, Beatrice Cahill, Fiske Cahill, James Cahill, Henry Cahill, Olivia Cahill, Gideon Cahill, Luke Cahill, Katherine Cahill, Thomas Cahill, Jane Cahill, and Madeleine Cahill in ''
The 39 Clues
''The 39 Clues'' is a series of adventure novels written by a collaboration of authors, including Rick Riordan, Gordon Korman, Peter Lerangis, Jude Watson, Patrick Carman, Linda Sue Park, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Roland Smith, David Baldacci, J ...
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* Red Cahill, character in the ''
In The Heat of the Night'' second-season episode "Walkout"
* J.D. Cahill, title character in the 1973 movie ''
Cahill U.S. Marshal
''Cahill U.S. Marshal'' is a 1973 American Western film in Technicolor starring John Wayne as a driven lawman in a black hat. The film was directed by Andrew V. McLaglen and filmed on location in Durango, Mexico. The supporting cast features G ...
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Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
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* Alex Cahill, character in ''Walker, Texas Ranger
''Walker, Texas Ranger'' is an American action crime television series created by Leslie Greif and Paul Haggis. It was inspired by the film '' Lone Wolf McQuade'', with both this series and that film starring Chuck Norris as a member of the ...
''
* Dr. Cahill, character in
Futurama
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* Jordan Cahill, character from '' Stuck in the Suburbs'' played by Taran Killam
External links
Cahill
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Entertainment
* Cahill (band)
Cahill are a dance music group based in Liverpool, UK consisting of producers Anton Powers, Tim Condran and Scott Rosser. They are best known for their 2008 single, " Trippin' on You", which features vocals from Nikki Belle.
Background
Cah ...
, a dance-music group based in Liverpool, UK
See also
* McCahill
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References
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