Macca is a common nickname in some English speaking countries for somebody whose surname begins with the Gaelic prefix Mac or Mc (meaning "son"). "Macca" is also a variant spelling of the Islamic holy city in

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

officially known as

Mecca Mecca (; officially Makkah al-Mukarramah, commonly shortened to Makkah ()) is a city and administrative center of the Mecca Province of Saudi Arabia, and the holiest city in Islam. It is inland from Jeddah on the Red Sea, in a narrow ...

in English. People frequently referred to as Macca include: *

Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One ...

, English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer *

Chris McCormack (triathlete) Chris McCormack (born 4 April 1973), also known as Macca, is an Australian triathlete. McCormack is a two-time winner of the Ironman World Championship, winning the titles in 2007 and 2010. He is also the winner of the 1997 International Triat ...

, Australian professional triathlete, two time ironman world champion * Amy Macdonald, Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and recording artist *

Andrew McLeod Andrew Luke McLeod (born 4 August 1976) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is the games record holder for Adelaide, having played 340 games. ...

, Australian rules footballer and two-time Norm Smith Medallist * Steve McManaman, English footballer sometimes also called 'El Macca' * Stephen McPhail, Irish footballer *

Gary McAllister Gary McAllister MBE (born 25 December 1964) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player. McAllister played primarily as a midfielder in a career spanning over nineteen years. He started his career at local side Motherwell b ...

, Scottish footballer and manager *

Gary McSheffrey Gary McSheffrey (born 13 August 1982) is an English football manager and former player who was most recently manager of club Doncaster Rovers. As a player he was a striker and left winger who made more than 450 appearances in the Football L ...

, English footballer *

Steve McMahon Stephen Joseph McMahon (born 20 August 1961) is an English football manager, former professional footballer and current television pundit. As a player, he was a midfielder from 1979 to 1998, most notably playing for Liverpool in the late 1980s. ...

, former English footballer *

Bruce McAvaney Bruce William McAvaney OAM (born 22 June 1953) is an Australian sports broadcaster with the Seven Network. McAvaney has presented high-profile events including the AFL Grand Final, Melbourne Cup, Australian Open, Test cricket and both Winter a ...

, Australian Sports Media Broadcaster *

Neil McKenzie Neil Douglas McKenzie (born 24 November 1975) is a South African former cricketer, who played all three forms of the game. He was a right-handed opening batsman who played for South Africa, making his first appearance in 2000. He is currently t ...

, South African Cricketer *

Paul McNamee Paul McNamee (born 12 November 1954) is an Australian former doubles world No. 1 tennis player and prominent sports administrator. Tennis career Juniors In his hometown, McNamee won the boys' singles tournament at the 1973 Australian Open. ...

, Australian Tennis Player and Sports Administrator *

Steve McNamara Steve McNamara (born 18 September 1971) is an English professional rugby league football coach who is the head coach of the Catalans Dragons in the Betfred Super League and a former professional player. He is a former coach of England, and a Gr ...

, British rugby league coach and former player *

Ian McNamara Ian McNamara , commonly known as "Macca", is an Australian radio presenter, singer-songwriter and producer, best known for hosting the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's long running radio program '' Australia All Over'' on the ABC Local Rad ...

, Australian radio presenter

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* Macca Oromo, a clan-based subgroup of the Oromo people *

Macquarie Island Macquarie Island is an island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, about halfway between New Zealand and Antarctica. Regionally part of Oceania and politically a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1900, it became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 197 ...

, Australia *

McDonald's McDonald's Corporation is an American multinational fast food chain, founded in 1940 as a restaurant operated by Richard and Maurice McDonald, in San Bernardino, California, United States. They rechristened their business as a hambur ...

, nicknamed "Macca's" in Australia and New Zealand * McLaren, a Formula One Grand Prix team based in Woking, England * Michael "Macca" MacKenzie, fictional recurring character on the Australian soap opera '' Home and Away'' * Macca is the currency in the Megami Tensei series; see '' Shin Megami Tensei IV''

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