Mangan (surname)
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Mangan is an Irish
surname
anglicised
from the Gaelic
Ó Mangáin ‘descendant of Mangán’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mong ‘hair’, ‘mane’), borne by families from Connacht, County Limerick, and Tyrone. It is also a Huguenot name, traced back to immigrants from Metz, and may refer to:
Irish name
A formal Irish-language name consists of a given name and a surname. Surnames in Irish are generally patronymic in etymology, although they are no longer literal patronyms, as Icelandic names are...
surname
Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
anglicised
Anglicisation
Anglicisation, or anglicization , is the process of converting verbal or written elements of any other language into a form that is more comprehensible to an English speaker, or, more generally, of altering something such that it becomes English in form or character.The term most often refers to...
from the Gaelic
Irish language
Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...
Ó Mangáin ‘descendant of Mangán’, originally a byname for someone with a luxuriant head of hair (from mong ‘hair’, ‘mane’), borne by families from Connacht, County Limerick, and Tyrone. It is also a Huguenot name, traced back to immigrants from Metz, and may refer to:
- Andrew ManganAndrew ManganAndrew Francis Mangan is an English footballer who plays for Fleetwood Town.-Blackpool:Born in Liverpool, Mangan began his education in football with Blackpool at the age of 15. He was there for three years scoring 49 goals all together in reserve and youth team football...
, English footballer - Colm ManganColm ManganLieutenant General Colm Mangan was the Chief of Staff of the Irish Defence Forces from September 2000 until February 2004.Mangan joined the Defence Forces as a cadet in 1960 and is cited as having "overseen major strategic initiatives in the key areas of state defence, provision of peace support...
, Irish General - Cyrille ManganCyrille ManganCyrille Mangan is a retired Cameroonian football player.Mangan played for Skoda Xanthi F.C. in the Greek Alpha Ethniki from 1996 to 1999. He suffered a serious knee injury at the age of 22 years, but recoved and later played for Trikala F.C. in the Greek Gamma Ethniki and Panegialios F.C...
, Cameroonian footballer - Dan ManganDan ManganDaniel Mangan is a Canadian indie folk-rock singer-songwriter.-Early life:Mangan was born in Smithers, British Columbia. His family moved a fair amount, residing in both the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia - and primarily in his current home town of Vancouver...
, Canadian musician - Gene Mangan, Irish cyclist
- James Mangan (1929 – 2007), American baseball player
- James Clarence ManganJames Clarence ManganJames Clarence Mangan, born James Mangan was an Irish poet.-Early life:Mangan was the son of a former hedge school teacher who took over a grocery business and eventually became bankrupt....
, Irish poet - James T. ManganJames T. ManganJames T. Mangan was a famous eccentric, public relations man and best-selling author on self-help topics who publicly claimed ownership of outer space in 1948....
, author and eccentric - Joseph ManganJoseph ManganJoseph Mangan is an American aerospace engineer who, in 2004, told European aviation authorities of his belief that the microprocessors controlling cabin pressurization valves in the new Airbus A380 might allow a sudden depressurization of the passenger cabin in flight—which, at normal...
, American aerospace engineer - Lucy Mangan, journalist
- Stephen ManganStephen ManganStephen Mangan is an English actor, best known for his roles as Guy Secretan in the television series Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge and as Holistic Detective Dirk Gently in the 2010 BBC adaptation of Douglas Adams' book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, as well as Sean Lincoln...
, English actor - Karen Mangan, extraordinary Australian
- Scott Mangan, professional Monopoly player