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Donnelly 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...

 surname, and may refer to:
  • Alan Donnelly
    Alan Donnelly
    Alan Donnelly is a British politician from Jarrow who served as a Labour Member of the European Parliament and leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party....

  • Brendan Donnelly
    Brendan Donnelly
    Brendan Kevin Donnelly is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He bats and throws right-handed.-Career:Donnelly was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 27th round of the 1992 amateur draft...

  • Brian Donnelly
    Brian Donnelly
    Brian Donnelly QSO was a New Zealand politician. He was a member of the New Zealand First party.-Early career:Donnelly was trained as a teacher, and worked in the education sector for twenty years...

  • Brian J. Donnelly
    Brian J. Donnelly
    Brian Joseph Donnelly of Dorchester, Boston was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1979 to 1993. He is a Democrat....

  • Charles Donnelly (disambiguation)
  • Charley Donnelly
    Charley Donnelly
    Charles F. "Charley" Donnelly was an American educator, golfer, and college football and golf coach. He served as the head football coach at the Maryland Agricultural College in 1911 and as the head golf coach at the College of the Holy Cross in the 1930s and 1940s.-Biography:A native of...

  • Ciaran Donnelly
    Ciaran Donnelly
    Ciaran Donnelly is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.He has played for England at Under-16, Under-18 and Under-19 levels.-Background:...

  • Dan Donnelly
    Dan Donnelly
    Daniel Thomas Donnelly is a singer-songwriter.Growing up in Belfast, Donnelly played in a number of local bands, finding success in Ireland with Watercress, a four piece acoustic folk-rock band for whom he played guitar, mandolin, percussion and "plumbing"...

    , Belfast-born singer/songwriter
  • Declan Donnelly
    Declan Donnelly
    Declan Joseph Oliver "Dec" Donnelly is one half of the English acting and TV presenting duo Ant & Dec, with the other being Anthony McPartlin. He came to prominence in the children's drama series Byker Grove and as one half of the pop music duo PJ & Duncan...

  • Desmond Donnelly
    Desmond Donnelly
    Desmond Louis Donnelly was a British politician, author and journalist who was a member of four different political parties during the course of his career, and moved between parties on five occasions.- Origins :...

  • Donal Donnelly
    Donal Donnelly
    Donal Donnelly was an English-born Irish theatre and film actor. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, but raised in Dublin, Ireland....

  • Dougie Donnelly
    Dougie Donnelly
    Douglas "Dougie" Donnelly is a Scottish television broadcaster best known for presenting sports coverage for BBC Scotland....

  • Elfie Donnelly
    Elfie Donnelly
    Elfie Donnelly is a British-Austrian author, who has written numerous books and radio dramas for children. Her major works are Benjamin Blümchen and Bibi Blocksberg.-Biography:...

    , children books writer
  • Fin Donnelly
  • Gary Donnelly
    Gary Donnelly
    Gary Donnelly is a former professional tennis player from the United States.Donnelly still lives in Phoenix with his five children and wife, where he is a club pro at the Scottsdale Arizona Inn....

  • Greg Donnelly (disambiguation)
  • Ian Donnelly
    Ian Donnelly
    Ian Donnelly was a rugby league player for the Cronulla Sharks and previously for the Gold Coast Titans, Melbourne Storm, Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the St George Illawarra Dragons.-External links:***...

  • Ignatius L. Donnelly, Minnesota politician
  • James S. Donnelly, Jr
    James S. Donnelly, Jr
    James S. Donnelly, Jr. is a modern British and Irish historian. Donnelly is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. One of the most prolific and wide-ranging historians of Ireland, he has also been a leading figure in the promotion of Irish studies in North America...

    , historian
  • James S. Donnelly, Jr
    James S. Donnelly, Jr
    James S. Donnelly, Jr. is a modern British and Irish historian. Donnelly is a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. One of the most prolific and wide-ranging historians of Ireland, he has also been a leading figure in the promotion of Irish studies in North America...

  • Jamie Donnelly
    Jamie Donnelly
    Jamie Donnelly is an American actress.Born in Teaneck, New Jersey, Donnelly is best known as Jan, one of the Pink Ladies from the film version of Grease, a role she got at the age of 30...

    , Jan from 1978's Grease
    Grease (film)
    Grease is a 1978 American musical film directed by Randal Kleiser and based on Warren Casey's and Jim Jacobs's 1971 musical of the same name about two lovers in a 1950s high school. The film stars John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, and Jeff Conaway...

  • Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly
    Jennifer Donnelly is a historical fiction author best-known for her novel A Northern Light . She has also written The Tea Rose, The Winter Rose, and Revolution, as well as Humble Pie, a picture book for children...

    , American novelist
  • Joe Donnelly
    Joe Donnelly
    Joseph Simon "Joe" Donnelly, Sr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Donnelly announced Monday May 9 that he would run for the United States Senate seat that is held by Republican Richard Lugar.-Early life, education and career:Joe Donnelly...

  • John Donnelly (disambiguation)
  • Malcolm Donnelly
    Malcolm Donnelly
    Malcolm Douglas Donnelly AM . is an Australian baritone opera singer.Donnelly studied with Marianne Mathy at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and with Vida Harford in London. His career started with the Elizabethan Trust Opera. From there he travelled to London for further study, joining the...

    , baritone singer
  • Marion Donnelly, former leader of the Workers' Party of Ireland
    Workers' Party of Ireland
    The Workers' Party is a left-wing republican political party in Ireland. Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970 after a split within the party, adopting its current name in 1982....

  • Martin Donnelly (disambiguation)
  • Michael Donnelly (priest)
    Michael Donnelly (priest)
    Michael Thomas Donnelly was a Roman Catholic missionary priest from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was born to Teresa Fitzpatrick Donnelly and Michael Thomas Donnelly...

     (died 1982), Roman Catholic priest from Ireland
  • Major Michael Donnelly
    Major Michael Donnelly
    Michael W. Donnelly was a United States Air Force major and veteran of the first Gulf War. Medically retired in 1996 following a diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's Disease, he became a leading activist for sufferers of Gulf War SyndromeDonnelly quickly gained national recognition as a veteran's advocate,...

    , Gulf War veteran, activist, and author
  • Peter Donnelly
    Peter Donnelly
    Peter Donnelly, FRS is an Australian mathematician and Professor of Statistical Science at the University of Oxford. He is a specialist in applied probability and has made contributions to coalescent theory...

  • Peter F. Donnelly
    Peter F. Donnelly
    Peter F. Donnelly was an American patron of the arts. He was a former Vice-Chairman of Americans for the Arts, a co-founder of the Seattle Arts Commission and a pivotal figure in the Seattle artistic community for more than 45 years..Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, Donnelly graduated from Boston...

  • Phil M. Donnelly
    Phil M. Donnelly
    Philip Matthew Donnelly was the 41st and 43rd Governor of Missouri. He was a Democrat. Donnelly and Christopher S. "Kit" Bond are unique in being the only Missouri governors to serve two non-consecutive terms....

    , Missouri governor 1945-49 and 1953-57
  • Rich Donnelly
    Rich Donnelly
    Richard Francis Donnelly has been a Major League Baseball coach for over 25 years, most recently as a coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He currently is a roving minor league instructor for the Pittsburgh Pirates.- Early life :Donnelly graduated from Steubenville Catholic High School in Ohio where...

  • Ruth Donnelly
    Ruth Donnelly
    Ruth Donnelly was an American stage and film actress. Her father was the mayor of Trenton, New Jersey....

    , star of The Bells of St. Mary's
  • Ryann Donnelly
    Ryann Donnelly
    Ryann Donnelly is a horror punk, shock rock and dance/pop songwriter and vocalist.Born in Olympia, Washington, although she moved to Seattle, Washington after attending Charles Wright Academy...

  • Scott Donnelly
    Scott Donnelly
    Scott Paul Donnelly is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Wycombe Wanderers on loan from Swansea City.-Career:...

    , British football player
  • Scott C. Donnelly
    Scott C. Donnelly
    Scott C. Donnelly is the CEO of Textron. Before joining Textron, Donnelly was the CEO for General Electric Aviation, a producer of jet engines for commercial and military aircraft...

    , Chief Operating Officer of Textron
  • Seamus Donnelly (disambiguation)
  • Shannon Donnelly
    Shannon Donnelly
    Shannon Donnelly is an award-winning author of children’s books, romance novels, video games, and non-fiction books.Donnelly’s writing has won numerous awards, including finalist for Best Regency Romance in Romance Writers of America's RITA and RWA's Golden Heart...

  • Sharon Donnelly
    Sharon Donnelly
    Sharon Donnelly is an athlete from Canada, who competed in triathlon ....

  • Simon Donnelly
    Simon Donnelly
    Simon Thomas Donnelly is a Scottish professional footballer currently with Partick Thistle.-Club career:Donnelly, a wide-sided forward, started his career at Queen's Park but left in 1993 to join Celtic. Donnelly made his league debut towards the end of the 1993–94 season, appearing as a...

  • Thomas Donnelly (disambiguation)
  • The Black Donnellys
    Black Donnellys
    The Black Donnellys is the common nickname of the Donnelly family who emigrated from County Tipperary, Ireland, to Canada in about 1845–1846, and who participated in a notorious feud in Biddulph Township in Middlesex County, Ontario, which culminated in a massacre in which five family members were...

    , a feuding Canadian family


First name
  • Donnelly Rhodes
    Donnelly Rhodes
    Donnelly Rhodes is a Canadian actor. He recently starred as Doctor Cottle on the Sci Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica. Before Battlestar Galactica he was probably best known to American audiences as the lovestruck, hapless escaped convict "Dutch Leitner" on the 1970s soap-opera...

    , Canadian actor


Fictional characters
  • Glen Donnelly
    Glen Donnelly
    Glen Donnelly is a fictional character from the Australian soap opera Neighbours, played by Richard Huggett. He made his first on-screen appearance on 7 December 1990. Glen was the secret son of Jim Robinson. He arrives in Ramsay Street to meet his father and to ask for money to pay for his...

  • Helen Elliott Donnelly
    Helen Elliott Donnelly
    Helen Elliott Donnelly was a fictional character on the now-cancelled American soap opera, Love is a Many Splendored Thing. She was first played by actress Grace Albertson, who was replaced by actress Gloria Hoye.-Meddling mother:...


Places

Australia
  • Donnelly River, Western Australia
    Donnelly River, Western Australia
    Donnelly River is a former town and present-day holiday village located in the South West region of Western Australia, at a point between Nannup, Bridgetown and Manjimup on the Donnelly River, a small river which flows into the Southern Ocean...

    , a village


Canada
  • Donnelly, Alberta
    Alberta
    Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...



United States
  • Donnelly, Alaska
    Donnelly, Alaska
    Donnelly is an unincorporated community in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. Its elevation is 1,785 feet . Located along the Richardson Highway 26 miles south of Delta Junction, it was founded around 1904 as a telegraph station between Chitina and Fairbanks. ...

  • Donnelly, Idaho
    Donnelly, Idaho
    Donnelly is a city in rural Valley County, Idaho, United States. The population was 138 at the 2000 census, and was estimated to be 148 in 2007....

  • Donnelly, Minnesota
    Donnelly, Minnesota
    Donnelly is a city in Stevens County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 241 at the 2010 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water....

  • Donnelly Township, Marshall County, Minnesota
    Donnelly Township, Marshall County, Minnesota
    Donnelly Township is a township in Marshall County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 28 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , all of it land.-Demographics:...

  • Donnelly Township, Stevens County, Minnesota
    Donnelly Township, Stevens County, Minnesota
    Donnelly Township is a township in Stevens County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 113 at the 2000 census.-Geography:According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of , of which, of it is land and of it is water.-Demographics:As of the census of 2000,...

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