Keating (Irish spelling: ''Céitinn'') is an Irish and English family name.

Surname variations

Common variations on the Keating surname include Caton, Kaitting, Kating, Keatinge, Keaton, Keith, Keting, Keatting, McKeating, Keatings and O'Keating. A Spanish variation, Cienfuegos, also exists.

Notable people

Ailsa Keating Ailsa Macgregor Keating is a mathematician specialising in symplectic geometry and homological mirror symmetry. She is a professor in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Education and c ...

, Mathematician *

AnaLouise Keating AnaLouise Keating (born June 24, 1961) is an American academic who is professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. She is also the director of the department's PhD p ...

(born 1961), academic, professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies *

Caron Keating Caron Louisa Keating (5 October 1962 – 13 April 2004) was a British television presenter. Early life and education Keating was born on 5 October 1962 in Fulham, south-west London, to an English father with Irish roots and a Northern Irish moth ...

(1962−2004), British TV personality *

Charles Keating Charles Humphrey Keating Jr. (December 4, 1923 – March 31, 2014) was an American sportsman, lawyer, real estate developer, banker, financier, conservative activist, and convicted felon best known for his role in the savings and loan sc ...

(1923−2014), American lawyer, banker, best known for his involvement in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, The Keating Five Scandal *

Charles Keating (actor) Charles Keating (22 October 1941 – 8 August 2014) was an English people, English actor. Background Keating was born on 22 October 1941 in London to Roman Catholic parents who had emigrated from Ireland, Charles James Keating and Margaret (n ...

(1941−2014), English actor and narrator of audiobooks * Chris Keating (musician) (born 1982), lead singer of American band Yeasayer *

Dan Keating Daniel Keating (, 2 January 1902 – 2 October 2007) was a lifelong Irish republican and former president of the Republican Sinn Féin. At the time of his death, he was Ireland's oldest man and the last surviving veteran of the Irish War of Ind ...

(1902−2007), longest surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence * Dennis Keating (born 1940), Irish footballer * Derek Keating (1955–2023), Irish Fine Gael politician *

Dominic Keating Dominic Keating (né Power; born 1 July 1961) is a British television, film and theatre actor best known for his portrayals of Tony in the Channel 4 sitcom '' Desmond's'' and Lieutenant Malcolm Reed on '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. Early life ...

(born 1962), British actor * Donald Keating (1924–1995), British lawyer * Edward Keating (1875–1965), American newspaper editor and politician, U.S. representative for Colorado, who sponsored the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 * Edward Michael Keating (1925–2003), American publisher, journalist, lawyer; founder of ''Ramparts'' magazine, member of the New Left movement. * Edwin Joseph (Ted) Keating (1910−1987), academic and director of the Bank of New Zealand *

Frank Keating Francis Anthony Keating II (born February 10, 1944, as David Rowland Keating) is an American attorney, politician and a former FBI special agent who served as the 25th governor of Oklahoma from 1995 to 2003. , Keating is one of only five gover ...

(born 1944), American politician; governor of Oklahoma *

Frank Keating (journalist) Francis Vincent Keating (4 October 1937 – 25 January 2013) was an English sports journalist and author, who was best known for his regular columns in ''The Guardian'' newspaper. Keating was described as "a giant of sports journalism" by jou ...

(1937−2013), English sports journalist and author *

Frank A. Keating Major general (United States), Major General Frank Augustus Keating (February 4, 1895 – April 28, 1973) was a career officer of the United States Army who commanded the 102nd Infantry Division (United States), 102nd Infantry Division during Wor ...

(1895−1973), Major General of the United States Army *

Fred Keating (disambiguation) Fred Keating may refer to: *Frederick Keating Frederick William Keating (13 June 1859 – 7 February 1928) was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served first as Bishop of Northampton from 1908 to 1921, then Archbishop of Liver ...

, several people *

Geoffrey Keating Geoffrey Keating (; – ) was an Irish historian. He was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, and is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. He became a Catholic priest and a poet. Biography It was generally believed unt ...

(c.1569−c.1644), Irish theologian and historian * Gladys Keating (1923-2014), Virginia businesswoman, civic activist and politician *

H. R. F. Keating Henry Reymond Fitzwalter Keating (31 October 1926 – 27 March 2011) was an English crime fiction writer most notable for his series of novels featuring Inspector Ghote of the Bombay CID. Life Keating, known as "Harry" to friends and family, ...

(1926−2011), British novelist *

Henry Sheehy Keating Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, KCB (13 November 1775 – 12 September 1847) was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He served in the Mauritius campaign of 1809–1811, when Keating c ...

(1775-1847), officer of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, father of Henry Singer Keating *

Henry Singer Keating Sir Henry Singer Keating (13 January 1804 – 1 October 1888) was a British lawyer and politician. The son of Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, he attended Trinity College Dublin and became a barrister at the Inner Temple in 1832, ...

(1804−1888), British lawyer and barrister *

Isabel Keating Isabel Keating (born May 1, 1961) is an American actress and singer. She is known for her performance as Judy Garland in the original Broadway production of '' The Boy from Oz'', which earned her a Tony Award nomination and a Drama Desk Award. E ...

, American actress and singer * John Keating (disambiguation), multiple people * Jonathan Keating, British mathematician * Joseph C. Keating Jr. (1950−2007), US psychologist * Josephine E. Keating (1838−1908), American literary critic, musician music teacher * Judith Keating (1957−2021), Canadian senator *

Justin Keating Justin Pascal Keating (7 January 1930 – 31 December 2009) was an Irish Labour Party politician, broadcaster, journalist, lecturer and veterinary surgeon. In later life he was president of the Humanist Association of Ireland. Keating was tw ...

(1930−2009), Irish Labour Party politician *

Karl Keating Karl Keating (born 1950) is a Catholic apologist and author who founded and presided over Catholic Answers, a lay apostolate of Catholic apologetics and evangelization. Keating's book ''Catholicism and Fundamentalism'' was based on a 1988 series t ...

(born 1950), American Catholic apologist *

Kenneth Keating Kenneth Barnard Keating (May 18, 1900 – May 5, 1975) was an American politician, diplomat, and judge who served as a United States Senator representing New York from 1959 until 1965. A member of the Republican Party, he also served in th ...

(1900−1975), American politician, congressional representative and senator for New York, U.S. ambassador to India and Israel *

Larry Keating Lawrence Keating (June 13, 1899 – August 26, 1963) was an American actor best known for his roles as Harry Morton on ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', which he played from 1953 to 1958, and next-door neighbor Roger Addison on ''Mis ...

(1899−1963), American actor *

Michael Keating (actor) Michael Keating (born 10 February 1947) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as Vila Restal in the science fiction television series ''Blake's 7'' (1978-1981), and as Reverend George Stevens in ''EastEnders'' (2005-2017). Career K ...

(born 1947), British actor *

Michael Keating (Irish politician) Michael Keating (born 29 September 1946) is an Irish former politician. Early life Keating was born in Dublin in 1946. He was educated at the Christian Brothers O'Connell School, University College Dublin, and St. Patrick's College in Maynoot ...

(born 1946), Irish politician *

Michael Keating (political scientist) Michael Keating (born 2 February 1950) is a political scientist specialising in nationalism, European politics, regional politics, and devolution. He is Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen and Fellow of the Centre ...

(born 1950), political scientist *

Michael Keating (priest) Michael John Keatinge (1793–1877), also Keating, was a 19th-century Irish Anglican priest. He argued in 1827 that the economic problems of Ireland were largely caused by the system of letting land, with which government should not interfere. ...

(1793–1877), Irish Anglican priest; he expressed views on economics in Ireland. *

Michael Keating (public servant) Michael Stockton "Mike" Keating (born 25 January 1940) is a retired Australian senior public servant. Early life Michael Keating was born in 1940. Keating graduated from the University of Melbourne with a first class honours degree in economic ...

(born 1940), Australian public servant * Mike Keating (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian hockey player *

Paul Keating Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944) is an Australian former politician and trade unionist who served as the 24th prime minister of Australia from 1991 to 1996. He held office as the leader of the Labor Party (ALP), having previously ser ...

(born 1944), 24th Prime Minister of Australia *

Patrick N. Keating Dr. Patrick N. Keating was a theoretical physicist who contributed to several fields of solid-state physics, including semiconductors, semi-insulators and the basic properties of solid materials, and to other fields including optics, liquid cry ...

, theoretical physicist, of the Keating model *

Richard E. Keating Richard E. Keating (29 May 1941 – 5 Oct 2006) was an American astronomer best known for the Hafele–Keating experiment, a test of Einstein's theory of relativity performed while he was working at the United States Naval Observatory The Uni ...

(1941−2006), American astronomer, known for the Hafele–Keating experiment * Richard Harte Keatinge (1825−1904), soldier * Robert Brendon Keating (1924−2012), American diplomat *

Roly Keating Sir Roland Francis Kester Keating (born 5 August 1961) is a British executive who was chief executive of the British Library from September 2012 to December 2024. Early life and education Keating was born on 5 August 1961 to Donald Norman Keati ...

(born 1961), chief executive of the British Library *

Ronan Keating Ronan Patrick John Keating (born 3 March 1977) is an Irish singer, songwriter, actor and presenter. He debuted in 1993 alongside Keith Duffy, Michael Graham, Shane Lynch, and Stephen Gately, as the co-lead singer (with Gately) of Irish pop g ...

(born 1977), Irish singer *

Seán Keating Seán Keating (born John Keating, 28 September 1889 – 21 December 1977) was an Irish romantic-realist painter who painted some iconic images of the Irish War of Independence and of the early industrialization of Ireland. He spent two week ...

, (1889−1977), Irish painter, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy * Sean P. Keating (1903−1976), Irish Republican Army veteran and Irish-American activist and political figure *

Timothy J. Keating Timothy John Keating (born November 16, 1948) is a retired United States Navy Admiral (United States), admiral. During his career, he served as commander of Carrier Strike Group 5, Carrier Group Five, the United States 5th Fleet, the United States ...

(born 1948), American admiral * Tim Keating (born 1961), Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force *

Thomas Keating Thomas Keating, O.C.S.O. (March 7, 1923 – October 25, 2018) was an American Trappist priest known as one of the principal developers of centering prayer, a contemplative method that emerged from St. Joseph's Abbey in Spencer, Massachusetts ...

(1923−2018), monk, founder of Centering Prayer movement *

Tom Keating Thomas Patrick Keating (1 March 1917 – 12 February 1984) was an English artist, art restoration, art restorer and Art forgery, art forger. Considered the most prolific and versatile art forger of the 20th century, he claimed to have faked mo ...

(1917−1984), art restorer and forger *

Trenna Keating Trenna Keating (born January 23, 1987) is a Canadian actress known for her recurring role as Doc Yewll in '' Defiance'', between 2013 and 2015. Early life Trenna Keating was born and grew up in Weyburn, Saskatchewan. She likes spending her time ...

, Canadian actress * William H. Keating (1799−1840), American geologist *

William J. Keating William John Keating (March 30, 1927 – May 20, 2020) was an American lawyer, businessman and Republican Party politician. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1971 to 1974. Biography Keating was born in Cincinnati, ...

(1927–2020), American politician, representative for Ohio's 1st district * William R. Keating (born 1952), American politician, representative for Massachusetts' 9th congressional district *

Zoë Keating Zoë Clare Keating (born February 2, 1972) is a Canadian-American cellist and composer once based in San Francisco, California, now based in Vermont. Music career Keating performed from 2002 to 2006 as second chair cellist in the cello rock band ...

(born 1972), Canadian cellist and composer *

Maurice Keatinge Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keatinge or Keating ( 1761–1835) was an Irish landowner, soldier and politician. He was the son of Maurice Keatinge of Narraghmore, County Kildare, an MP for Kildare in the Parliament of Ireland. Maurice jr. succeed ...

(c.1761−1835), Irish landowner, soldier and politician * Paffard Keatinge-Clay (1926–2023), British-born architect and sculptor

Fictional people

* Lieutenant Colonel Harry Keating, in

The Mauritius Command ''The Mauritius Command'' is the fourth naval historical novel in the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian, first published in 1977. Aubrey is married and the father of twin girls, owner of a cottage with a fine observatory he built. He i ...

, a 1977 novel by Patrick O'Brian, based on the real life Henry Sheehy Keating * John Keating, played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film

Dead Poets Society ''Dead Poets Society'' is a 1989 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Tom Schulman. The film, starring Robin Williams, is set in 1959 at a fictional elite boarding school called Welton Academy, and tells ...

*John Paul Keating, played by Shaun Evans in the television series ''

Teachers A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching. ''Informally'' the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. w ...

'' * Layla Keating, played by Greta Onieogou in the television series '' All American'' * Peter Keating, in

The Fountainhead ''The Fountainhead'' is a 1943 novel by Russian-American author Ayn Rand, her first major literary success. The novel's protagonist, Howard Roark, is an intransigent young architect who battles against conventional standards and refuses to com ...

, a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand Multiple characters in ''

How to Get Away With Murder ''How to Get Away with Murder'' is an American legal drama thriller television series that premiered on the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) on September 25, 2014, and concluded on May 14, 2020. The series was created by Peter Nowalk and pro ...

'': *

Annalise Keating Annalise Keating, Esq. (née Anna-Mae Harkness), is a fictional character in the legal drama thriller series ''How to Get Away with Murder''. The character was created and developed by Peter Nowalk and portrayed by American actress Viola Davi ...

, played by Viola Davis, fictional defense lawyer and law professor *Dr. Hannah Keating, Annalise's sister-in-law, played by

Marcia Gay Harden Marcia Gay Harden (born August 14, 1959) is an American actress. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and nominations for four Primetime Emmy Awards. Harden's breakthrough came in 1990 with the Coen brothers' film '' Miller's ...

*Sam Keating, Annalise's husband, played by

Tom Verica Tom Verica (born May 13, 1964) is an American actor, director, and producer, best known for his role as Sam Keating in the ABC drama ''How to Get Away with Murder'' (2014–2020). He also played Jack Pryor in the NBC critically acclaimed drama ...

*Keating 5, Annalise Keating's interns in ''

Keating genealogy

DNA projects and one name studies

Keating DNA Project
(hosted by FamilyTreeDNA.com, run by volunteers)

Published Keating genealogies

* * Keating of Wexford. *

References

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