Curran is an Irish

Irish people

The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...

 and also a Scottish

Scottish people

The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...

 surname. The name derives from the 10th century Olde Gaelic name O'Corraidhin, meaning "the male descendant of Corraidhin" a personal name which comes from "corradh", a spear.
(Origin Celtic) 1. Hero, Champion, Knight[Irish Curadhan - curadh (dh mute), hero, + the diminutive suffix an]. 2. Of or for Corran.

The Irish is now found in County Waterford

County Waterford

*Abbeyside, Affane, Aglish, Annestown, An Rinn, Ardmore*Ballinacourty, Ballinameela, Ballinamult, Ballinroad, Ballybeg, Ballybricken, Ballyduff Lower, Ballyduff Upper, Ballydurn, Ballygunner, Ballylaneen, Ballymacarbry, Ballymacart, Ballynaneashagh, Ballysaggart, Ballytruckle, Bilberry, Bunmahon,...

 but originates in East County Cork

County Cork

County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

, where the Ó Corráins were a major branch of the ruling dynasty of the ancient Uí Liatháin

Uí Liatháin

The Uí Liatháin were an early kingdom of Munster in southern Ireland. They belonged the same kindred as the Uí Fidgenti, and the two are considered together in the earliest sources, for example The Expulsion of the Déisi...

 kingdom. A separate clan with the same name were the hereditary bards of the O'Rourke chiefs of Breifne.

It may refer to:

People

• Alvin Curran
  Alvin Curran
  Composer Alvin Curran , is the co-founder, with Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum, of Musica Elettronica Viva, and a former student of Elliott Carter. Curran's music often makes use of electronics and environmental found sounds....
  
   (born 1938), American composer
• Catherine Curran O'Malley
  Catherine Curran O'Malley
  Catherine "Katie" Curran O'Malley is a Maryland state judge and wife of Martin O'Malley, the current Governor of Maryland, and former Mayor of Baltimore.She is also the daughter of former state Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr....
  
   (born 1962), a Maryland state judge
• Charles Curran (politician)
  Charles Curran (politician)
  Charles Curran was a British Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament for Uxbridge from 1959 to 1966, when he lost to Labour. Curran regained the seat in 1970, holding it until his death in 1972. Michael Shersby was elected to succeed him in the subsequent by-election.-...
  
   (1903 - 1972), British Conservative MP
• Charles Curran (broadcaster)
  Charles Curran (broadcaster)
  Sir Charles John Curran , was a British television executive.Charles Curran was born in Dublin. He served in the Indian army from 1942-45, but left to work in the BBC Talks department. He resigned following a dispute to edit the "Canadian Fishing News", but he returned in 1951 to join BBC Monitoring...
  
  , Sir, (1921 – 1980), British television executive
• Charles Curran (theologian)
  Charles Curran (theologian)
  The Rev. Charles E. Curran is a moral theologian. He currently serves at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, as the Elizabeth Scurlock University Professor of Human Values.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1934), Catholic theologian
• Charles Courtney Curran
  Charles Courtney Curran
  Charles Courtney Curran was an American painter. He is best known for his canvases depicting beautiful women in pleasant settings.-Career:Curran was born in Hartford, Kentucky in 1861 and moved to Sandusky, Ohio in 1881...
  
   (1861 – 1942), American painter
• Charles Howard Curran
  Charles Howard Curran
  Charles Howard Curran was an Canadian entomologist who specialised in Diptera....
  
   Canadian entomologist
• Chuck Curran
  Chuck Curran
  Charles J. Curran is an American politician.He was born in 1939 in Galion, Ohio, the son of a railroad construction worker. He graduated from Bellefontaine High School in Bellefontaine, Ohio in 1958...
  
   (born 1939), an American politician
• Frances Curran (born 1961), a Scottish politician
• Francis Earl Curran
  Francis Earl Curran
  Francis Earl "Frank" Curran was an American Democratic politician from California.-Biography:Frank Curran was born in 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio. His father was a boxer under the name "Red Kenney" and operated a wallpaper-hanging business. The family moved to Oceanside, California in 1919...
  
   (1912 – 1992), an American politician
• Jack Curran
  Jack Curran
  Jack Curran is an American baseball and basketball coach. Curran is the head coach at Archbishop Molloy High School in Queens, New York. Curran has won more basketball and baseball games than any high school coach in the United States....
  
  , an American High School athletics coach
• Joan Curran
  Joan Curran
  Lady Joan Strothers Curran was a Welsh scientist. She and her husband, Sir Samuel Curran, played important roles in the defense of the allied forces of World War II.-Biography:...
  
  , Lady, (1916 – 1999) physicist, inventor of chaff radar countermeasures, wife of Samuel Curran
• John Curran (Irish politician)
  John Curran (Irish politician)
  John Curran is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Mid West constituency from 2002 to 2011, and served as Government Chief Whip from 2010–11....
  
   (born 1960), a Fianna Fáil TD
• John Curran (businessman)
  John Curran (businessman)
  John Curran is an early Internet executive, and the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers . He was a founder of ARIN and served as the Chairman from inception through 2009...
  
  , the Chairman of ARIN
• John Philpot Curran
  John Philpot Curran
  John Philpot Curran was an Irish orator, politician and wit, born in Newmarket, County Cork. He was the son of James and Sarah Curran.-Career:...
  
   (1750 - 1817), Irish wit
• Johnny Curran
  Johnny Curran
  Johnny Curran was a Scottish football goalkeeper. He played for Queen's Park, Aberdeen, East Fife, Shrewsbury Town and Watford.-External links:*, Neil Brown...
  
   (1924 – 1985), Scottish footballer
• Joseph Curran
  Joseph Curran
  This article is about Joseph Curran, an American labor leader. For information about the state attorney general in Maryland, see J. Joseph Curran, Jr.Joseph Curran was a merchant seaman and an American labor leader...
  
   (1906 - 1981), an American labor leader
• J. Joseph Curran, Jr.
  J. Joseph Curran, Jr.
  J. Joseph Curran, Jr. is an American politician and the longest serving elected Attorney General in Maryland history. His son-in-law, Martin J. O'Malley, is the Governor of Maryland.-Background:...
  
   (born 1931), an American politician
• Kevin Curran (disambiguation)
• Mairead Curran
  Mairead Curran
  Mairead Curran is an Australian born children's entertainer, actress and voice-over artist based in Melbourne. Having trained at TAFTA and the Geelong Performing Arts Academy she started her career at the Oxford Children’s Theatre and the Australian Puppet Theatre performing children’s theatre and...
  
   (born 1968), an Australian voiceover artist
• Margaret Curran (politician) (born 1958), Scottish former MSP
• Margaret E. Curran
  Margaret E. Curran
  Margaret E. "Meg" Curran served as United States Attorney for Rhode Island from 1998 to 2003.The most notable case during Curran's tenure was the prosecution of the Operation Plunder Dome, which led to the conviction of Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci on conspiracy charges. Curran, who was...
  
  , a United States Attorney
• Pearl Lenore Curran (1883 – 1937), American author who wrote as Patience Worth
• Nick Curran
  Nick Curran (musician)
  Nick Curran is an American rock n roll singer and guitarist. He has been likened to T-Bone Walker, Little Richard, The Sonics, Doug Sahm, Misfits, The Dinks and The Ramones.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1977), American rock/blues musician
• Robert Curran (disambiguation)
• Samuel Curran
  Samuel Curran
  Sir Samuel Crowe Curran , FRS, FRSE, was a physicist and the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde - the first of the new technical universities in Britain....
  
  , Sir, (1912 - 1998) British physicist and founder of the University of Strathclyde, husband of Joan Curran
• Sarah Curran
  Sarah Curran
  Sarah Curran was the youngest daughter of John Philpot Curran, an eminent Irish lawyer. She lived in the priory in Rathfarnham and was the great love of Irish nationalist Robert Emmet.-Biography:...
  
   (1782 - 1808), daughter of John Philpot Curran and wife of Robert Emmet
• Terry Curran
  Terry Curran
  Edward Terence Curran is a former English professional footballer whose career lasted from 1975 to 1988. Curran was an attacking midfielder, who could also play as a winger, he could also play as an out and out Striker...
  
   (born 1955), an English professional footballer
• Tony Curran
  Tony Curran
  Anthony "Tony" Curran is a Scottish actor.Curran was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an alumnus of Holyrood Secondary School and is a graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama....
  
   (born 1969), a Scottish actor
• William Curran
  William Curran
  William Gregory Curran was a cricket Test match umpire.He umpired two Test matches, making his debut in the match between Australia and South Africa, the first match between these nations in Australia, played at Sydney on 9 December to 14 December 1910...
  
   (died 1921), an Australian cricket Test match umpire
• William Curran (Maryland)
  William Curran (Maryland)
  William Curran was a Democratic politician from Baltimore, Maryland. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Maryland in 1924 and 1944, and as Attorney General of Maryland from 1945-1946.-References:...
  
  , an American politician
• Curran Oi
  Curran Oi
  Curran Oi is an American figure skater. He is the 2006 US National novice bronze medalist.Oi trains at the Skating Club of Boston under Mark Mitchell and Peter Johansson...
  
  , (born 1990), an American figure skater

In fiction:

• Curran (Eyes of the Dragon), a character in Stephen King's Eyes of the Dragon
• Jenny Curran, a character from Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump
  Forrest Gump is a 1994 American epic comedy-drama romance film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom. The film was directed by Robert Zemeckis, starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright and Gary Sinise...
  
  played by Robin Wright Penn
• Detective Nick Curran, a character in the movie Basic Instinct
  Basic Instinct
  Basic Instinct is a 1992 erotic thriller directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas, and starring Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone....
  
  played by Michael Douglas
  Michael Douglas
  Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the...
  
  

Places

Canada

• Curran, Ontario

Northern Ireland

• Curran, County Londonderry
  Curran, County Londonderry
  Curran is a small village and townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. In the 2001 Census it had a population of 132 people. It is within the Magherafelt District Council area, specifically within the Magherafelt Town District Electoral Area...
  
  

United States

• Curran, Illinois
  Curran, Illinois
  Curran is a village in Curran Township, Sangamon County, Illinois . It was incorporated in 2005 and had an estimated population of 212 in 2010.Curran is located a few miles west of Springfield and is part of the Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area....
  
  
• Curran, Michigan
• Curran, Wisconsin
  Curran, Wisconsin
  Curran is a town in Jackson County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 366 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.2 square miles , all of it land....
  
  , a town
• Curran, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
  Curran, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin
  Curran is an unincorporated community located in the town of Franklin, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin, United States. Curran is located at the junction of County Highways V and KB east of Denmark....
  
  , an unincorporated community
• Curran Township, Sangamon County, Illinois
  Curran Township, Sangamon County, Illinois
  Curran Township is located in Sangamon County, Illinois. The population was 1,285 at the 2000 census.- External links :***...
  
  

See also

• Curan
  Curan
  Curan is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.-Population:-References:*...
  
  , a commune in southern France
• Curren
• Corran (disambiguation), places in Scotland
• Coran (disambiguation)