Surname

• Albert Nolan
  Albert Nolan
  Albert Nolan, O.P. is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Dominican order in South Africa.- Life :Nolan was born in Cape Town, South Africa, as a fourth-generation South African of English descent. Reading the works of Thomas Merton, Nolan became attracted to the idea of religious life...
  
   (born 1934), South African Roman Catholic theologian
• Anna Nolan
  Anna Nolan
  Anna Nolan is an Irish television presenter, producer and former business manager, waitress and Irish international basketball player. She has presented numerous television programmes in Ireland and the UK...
  
   (born 1970), Irish television presenter
• Anthony Nolan
  Anthony Nolan
  Anthony Nolan is a UK charity that focuses on leukaemia and Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. It manages and recruits donors to one of the two bone marrow registers in the United Kingdom; the other register is the British Bone Marrow Registry run by the National Blood Service...
  
   (1972-1979), for whom the Anthony Nolan UK charity was formed
• Barry Nolan
  Barry Nolan
  Barry Nolan is an American former presenter on Comcast Cable's CN8 channel, once hosting the shows Nitebeat and Backstage, and Backstage with Barry Nolan...
  
  , American television presenter
• Bernadette Nolan
  Bernadette Nolan
  Bernadette Therese "Bernie" Nolan is an Irish actress, singer and television personality, formerly lead vocalist of The Nolans. Her siblings are Anne, Brian, Denise, Maureen, Tommy, Linda and Coleen Nolan. She is the second youngest...
  
   (born 1960), Irish entertainer and actress
• Bob Nolan
  Bob Nolan
  Bob Nolan was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and actor. He was a founding member of the Sons of the Pioneers, and composer of numerous Country music and Western music songs, including the standards "Cool Water" and "Tumbling Tumbleweeds." He is generally regarded as one of the...
  
   (1908-1980), Canadian singer-songwriter and actor
• Brandon Nolan
  Brandon Nolan
  Brandon Nolan is a retired ice hockey centre, who last played for the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. He is the son of former NHL player and NHL coach Ted Nolan.-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1983), retired NHL ice hockey player
• Brian Nolan
  Brian Nolan
  Brian Nolan is an American actor from Orlando, Florida. He is best known for starring as Frankie on all current seasons of Here! TV’s The LairHe has appeared on the Disney Channel's Hannah Montana...
  
   (1932-2006), Canadian journalist and author
• Bruce Nolan (columnist)
  Bruce Nolan (columnist)
  Bruce Nolan is a staff writer and religion columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. He also writes occasionally for other publications....
  
  , staff writer and religion columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune
• Catherine Nolan
  Catherine Nolan
  Catherine T. Nolan is a member of the New York State Assembly representing the 37th Assembly District, which includes the Queens neighborhoods of Sunnyside, Ridgewood, Astoria, Woodside, Long Island City, Maspeth, Queensbridge, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills and Blissville.Nolan has lived in her district...
  
  , American politician
• Chris Sean Nolan
  Chris Sean Nolan
  Chris Sean Nolan is an Emmy Award-winning director, screenwriter, songwriter, and author.He directed and co-wrote with Laurie Nolan, the rock musical web series I Kissed a Vampire, starring Lucas Grabeel, Drew Seeley and Adrian Slade. He recently completed directing the feature film version of I...
  
   American film director, writer, songwriter, author
• Christopher Nolan (author)
  Christopher Nolan (author)
  Christopher Nolan was an Irish poet and author, son of Joseph and Bernadette Nolan. He grew up in Mullingar, Ireland, but later moved to Dublin to attend college. He was educated at the Central Remedial Clinic School, Mount Temple Comprehensive School and at Trinity College, Dublin. His first...
  
   (born 1965), Irish poet
• Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Nolan
  Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is a British-American film director, screenwriter and producer.He received serious notice after his second feature Memento , which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him,...
  
   (born 1970), film director
• Clive Nolan
  Clive Nolan
  Clive Nolan is a British musician, composer and producer who has played a prominent role in the recent development of progressive rock...
  
  , British musician and producer
• Coleen Nolan
  Coleen Nolan
  Coleen Patricia Nolan is an English born television presenter, author and singer of Irish descent. She was the youngest member of the girl group, The Nolans, in which she sang alongside her sisters...
  
   (born 1965), English television presenter
• David Nolan (author)
  David Nolan (author)
  David Nolan was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1946, the son of journalist Joseph T. Nolan and his artist wife Virginia.He attended the public schools in Bayside, New York and Waterbury, Connecticut, studied at the University of Virginia, and was active in the American Civil Rights Movement of...
  
   (born 1946), American non-fiction writer
• David Nolan (Libertarian Party)
  David Nolan (Libertarian Party)
  David Fraser Nolan was an American activist and politician. He was one of the founders of the Libertarian Party of the United States, having hosted the meeting in 1971 at which the Party was founded.Douglas Martin, . New York Times, November 22, 2010...
  
  , American politician, founder of the Libertarian Party
• Deanna Nolan
  Deanna Nolan
  Deanna "Tweety" Nicole Nolan is an American professional basketball player for the WNBA. Her primary position is shooting guard, but occasionally plays the point guard position...
  
   (born 1979), American basketball player
• Dennis E. Nolan
  Dennis E. Nolan
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   (1872-1956), U.S. Army general
• Dick Nolan (football)
  Dick Nolan (football)
  Richard Charles Nolan was an American football player and head coach in the National Football League.He was the father of college and NFL coach Mike Nolan.-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1932), American football player & coach
• Dick Nolan (musician)
  Dick Nolan (musician)
  Richard Francis "Dick" Nolan was a Canadian musician, born in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Canada. Nolan was known for performing Newfoundland folk music in Toronto night clubs. During his 50 year career he released more than 40 albums and recorded over 300 tracks...
  
   (1939-2005), Canadian musician
• Eddie Nolan
  Eddie Nolan
  Edward William "Eddie" Nolan is an Irish footballer who plays for Scunthorpe United.-Career:Born in Waterford, Nolan began his career with English side Blackburn Rovers, having impressed in his first season at Blackburn Rovers's youth team, he became a regular member of the reserve squad in his...
  
   (born 1988), Irish footballer
• Faith Nolan
  Faith Nolan
  Faith Nolan is a Canadian social activist folk and jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist of mixed African, Mi'kmaq and Irish heritage...
  
   (born 1957), Canadian musician and social activist
• Francis Nolan
  Francis Nolan
  Francis Nolan is Professor of Phonetics at the University of Cambridge.Between 1993 and 1995 he was Secretary of the International Phonetic Association, and from 1999 to 2003 its Vice-President. He specialises in phonetics and phonology as well as in forensic linguistics. He is currently President...
  
  , British phonetician
• Frederick Nolan
  Frederick Nolan
  Frederick William Nolan is an English editor and writer, mostly known as Frederick Nolan, but also using the pen names Donald Severn, Daniel Rockfern, Christine McGuire and Frederick H. Christian....
  
   (born 1931), British editor and writer
• Gary Nolan (baseball player)
  Gary Nolan (baseball player)
  Gary Lynn Nolan is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played with the Cincinnati Reds and California Angels . He was inducted into the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame in 1983.Nolan's first Major League ballgame was at the early age of 18...
  
   (born 1948), American baseball player
• Gary Nolan (radio host)
  Gary Nolan (radio host)
  Gary Nolan is an American talk radio host and a former candidate for the Libertarian Party nomination for President of the United States....
  
   (born 1954), American politician and radio host
• Graham Nolan
  Graham Nolan
  Graham Nolan is a comic book artist, best known for work for DC Comics on Batman-related titles in the 1990s and his work on The Phantom Sunday strip. He is currently the artist on the syndicated comic Rex Morgan, M.D....
  
  , comic book artist
• Henry Grattan Nolan
  Henry Grattan Nolan
  Henry Grattan Nolan, was a Canadian lawyer and jurist.Born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of Patrick James "Paddy" Nolan, a criminal defence lawyer, and Mary Elizabeth Lee, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1914 and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship for Alberta...
  
   (1893-1957), Canadian lawyer
• Jeanette Nolan
  Jeanette Nolan
  Jeanette Nolan was an American radio, film and television actress. Nolan was nominated for four Emmy Awards.-Early life:...
  
   (1911-1998), American actress
• Jerry Nolan
  Jerry Nolan
  Jerry Nolan was an American rock drummer, best known for his work with The New York Dolls and Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers.-Career:...
  
   (1946-1992), American drummer
• Joe Nolan
  Joe Nolan
  Joseph D J Nolan. , spent eleven seasons in the Major Leagues as a catcher with the New York Mets , Atlanta Braves , Cincinnati Reds and Baltimore Orioles...
  
   (born 1951), American baseball player
• John Nolan (musician) (born 1978), American singer and musician
• John Philip Nolan
  John Philip Nolan
  Lieutenant-Colonel John Philip Nolan was an Irish nationalist landowner and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and as member of the Irish Parliamentary Party represented Galway County and Galway North , .He was the eldest son of John...
  
   (1838-1912), Irish landowner and politician
• Jonathan Nolan
  Jonathan Nolan
  Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan is a British-American author and screenwriter. His short story "Memento Mori" was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento. He has also co-written the screenplays for The Prestige and The Dark...
  
   (born 1976), British screenwriter
• Jordan Nolan (ice hockey) (born 1989), Canadian professional ice hockey player
• Joseph A. Nolan
  Joseph A. Nolan
  Joseph A. Nolan was an Artificer in the United States Army and a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in the Philippine-American War.-Medal of Honor citation:...
  
  , Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipient
• Joseph Nolan
  Joseph Nolan
  Joseph Nolan was an Irish nationalist politician and Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As a member of the Irish Parliamentary Party, he represented North Louth from 1885–92, and South Louth from 1900-18...
  
   Irish politician
• Kevin Nolan
  Kevin Nolan
  Kevin Anthony Jance Nolan is an English professional footballer who plays for and is the current club captain of West Ham United in the Football League Championship. An attacking midfielder, he has represented England at under-21 level....
  
   (born 1982), English footballer of Irish and Dutch descent
• Leo Nolan
  Leo Nolan
  Leo Nolan is a United States heavyweight boxer.-Biography:Nolan was born and raised in Detroit. As a junior he boxed for Kronk Gym for three years...
  
   (born 1972), American boxer
• Lloyd Nolan
  Lloyd Nolan
  Lloyd Benedict Nolan was an American film and television actor.-Biography:Nolan was born in San Francisco, California, the son of Margaret and James Nolan, who was a shoe manufacturer...
  
   (1902-1985), American actor
• Louis Edward Nolan
  Louis Edward Nolan
  Louis Edward Nolan , was a British Army officer of the Victorian era, an authority on cavalry tactics best known for his controversial role in launching the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava...
  
   (1818-1854), Canadian-British soldier
• M. J. Nolan
  M. J. Nolan
  M. J. Nolan is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He served as a Teachta Dála for the Carlow–Kilkenny constituency from 1982–97 and 2002–11....
  
   (born 1951), Irish politician
• Mae Nolan
  Mae Nolan
  Mae Ella Nolan was an American politician who became the fourth woman to serve in the United States Congress, the first woman elected to Congress from California, the first woman to chair a Congressional committee, the first women to win a special election for the United States Congress, and the...
  
   (1886-1973), American politician
• Martin Nolan
  Martin Nolan
  -Boston Globe:Nolan graduated from Boston College and became a reporter for The Boston Globe in 1961. While with the Globes Washington bureau, he was on the investigative team cited in the Globe's 1966 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious and disinterested public service. He covered Congress, the White...
  
  , American journalist
• Mary Nolan
  Mary Nolan
  Mary Nolan was an American actress and dancer.-Ziegfeld Follies dancer:Born Mary Imogene Robertson in Kentucky, Robertson's childhood was beset with hardship that included the death of her mother in 1908 and an absent father. As a child, she worked as a farm laborer, before moving to New York City...
  
   (1905-1948), American actress
• Michael N. Nolan
  Michael N. Nolan
  Michael Allen Nicholas was a U.S. Representative from New York State as well as mayor of Albany, New York's capital...
  
  , Irish-American politician
• Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan
  Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan
  Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron Nolan, was a judge in the United Kingdom, and the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life 1994 to 1997. In the words of his obituary in The Guardian, "Lord Nolan ....
  
  , British judge
• Mike Nolan
  Mike Nolan (singer)
  Mike Nolan is a singer and was one of the four original members of the British pop group, Bucks Fizz. He was born in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, but raised in the UK, where he still resides.- Early career :...
  
   (born 1954), Irish singer
• Mike Nolan
  Mike Nolan
  Mike Nolan is an American football coach and the current defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins...
  
   (born 1959), American football player & coach
• Mike Nolan
  Mike Nolan
  Mike Nolan is an American football coach and the current defensive coordinator of the Miami Dolphins...
  
  , principal of Middle Park State School
• Monica Nolan
  Monica Nolan
  Monica Nolan was an outstanding American tennis player in the 1930s and 1940s.Nolan made six finals appearances at the Cincinnati Masters...
  
   (1913-1995), American tennis player
• Nicholas M. Nolan
  Nicholas M. Nolan
  Nicholas Merritt Nolan was a United States Army major. He began his military career on December 9, 1852 as an artilleryman then served in the 2nd Dragoons. He started as a private and rose through the ranks becoming a First Sergeant. He was commissioned an officer in late 1862 in the Regular Army...
  
   (1835-1883) US Soldier during the American Civil War & Indian Wars
• Norma Nolan
  Norma Nolan
  Norma Nolan , is an Argentine who became, in 1962, the first woman from that country to obtain the Miss Universe title. She won the title in Miami Beach, Florida. Nolan is of Irish and Italian descent...
  
   (born c.1943), Argentinian beauty queen
• Owen Nolan
  Owen Nolan
  Owen Liam Nolan is a Canadian professional ice hockey player, who is currently a free agent. He has played in the National Hockey League for the Quebec Nordiques, Colorado Avalanche, San Jose Sharks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Phoenix Coyotes, Calgary Flames and the Minnesota Wild before signing with...
  
   (born 1972), Canadian ice hockey player
• Pat Nolan, Canadian hockey player
• Pat Nolan
  Pat Nolan
  Patrick J. Nolan is an American lawyer, politician and conservative activist.-Early Political Activism:Nolan began his career as a conservative activist at the age of 14 in the Goldwater for President campaign. Pat was a leader in the Youth for Reagan for Governor in 1966 and in each of Reagan's...
  
   (born 1950), American lawyer, politician & activist
• Patrick Nolan (1881–1941), Canadian politician
• Philip Nolan
  Philip Nolan
  Philip Nolan was a horse-trader and freebooter in Natchez, on the Mississippi River, and the Spanish province of Texas....
  
   (1771-1801), Irish-American confidence trickster
• Richard Nolan
  Richard Nolan
  Richard Michael Nolan is running for United States Congress in the 8th district of Minnesota . He was a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 6th congressional district in the 94th, 95th, and 96th congresses,...
  
   (born 1943), American politician
• Sidney Nolan
  Sidney Nolan
  Sir Sidney Robert Nolan OM, AC was one of Australia's best-known painters and printmakers.-Early life:Nolan was born in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne, on 22 April 1917. He was the eldest of four children. His family later moved to St Kilda. Nolan attended the Brighton Road State School and...
  
   (1917-1992), Australian painter
• Stephen Nolan
  Stephen Nolan
  Stephen Nolan, born Belfast in 1973, is a radio and television presenter for BBC Northern Ireland and BBC Radio Five Live. He was educated at Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and Queen's University Belfast where he studied French and Business Studies....
  
   (born 1973), Northern Irish radio and television presenter
• Ted Nolan
  Ted Nolan
  Theodore John Nolan is currently the Head Coach of Latvia men's national ice hockey team...
  
   (born 1958), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• Tom Nolan (1921-1992), Irish politician
• William F. Nolan
  William F. Nolan
  William Francis Nolan is an American author, who wrote stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson. He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1976 horror film Burnt Offerings which starred Karen Black and...
  
   (born 1928), American novelist
• William I. Nolan
  William I. Nolan
  William Ignatius Nolan was a politician from the U.S. State of Minnesota. He represented the state in the U.S. House of Representatives....
  
   (1874-1943), American politician

Given name

• Nolan Bushnell
  Nolan Bushnell
  Nolan K. Bushnell is an American engineer and entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters chain...
  
   (born 1943), American engineer and entrepreneur who founded Atari, Inc and the Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza-Time Theaters
• Nolan Carroll
  Nolan Carroll
  Nolan Carroll, Jr. is an American football defensive back for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League. He was selected in the 5th round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Miami Dolphins from the University of Maryland.-Early life:...
  
   (born 1987), National Football League (NFL) player
• Nolan Cromwell
  Nolan Cromwell
  Nolan Neil Cromwell is the wide receiver coach for the St. Louis Rams. He was an All-Pro safety for the Los Angeles Rams of the NFL and was the offensive coordinator at Texas A&M University. Cromwell played for the Rams from 1977 through 1987 and was named to the Pro Bowl in four consecutive...
  
   (born 1955), football coach and former NFL player
• Nolan Miller
  Nolan Miller
  Nolan Miller is an American fashion designer and television costume designer best known for his work on the long-running 1980s series Dynasty, its spin-off series The Colbys and the 1991 miniseries Dynasty: The Reunion. He collaborated on many projects with television producers Aaron Spelling and...
  
   (born 1935), American fashion designer
• Nolan Miller (author)
  Nolan Miller (author)
  Nolan Miller was a noted short story author and novelist. Miller was the fiction editor of The Antioch Review and a long-time member of the Antioch College faculty.-Fiction and faculty:...
  
   (1907-2006)
• Nolan Reimold
  Nolan Reimold
  Nolan Gallagher Reimold is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Baltimore Orioles.-Early life:Reimold was born to John and Mary Reimold on October 12, 1983 in Greenville, Pennsylvania. He attended Kennedy Catholic High School in Hermitage, Pennsylvania...
  
   (born 1983), Major League Baseball player
• Nolan Richardson
  Nolan Richardson
  Nolan Richardson is an American basketball head coach, who was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He has coached teams to winning a NCAA Men's Division I Basketball National Championship, a NIT, and a Junior College National Championship, the only coach to do so. Most...
  
   (born 1941), American basketball coach
• Nolan Roux
  Nolan Roux
  Nolan Roux is a French footballer who currently plays for French club Stade Brest in Ligue 1. He primarily plays in the striker role and is the son of former professional football player Bruno Roux, who is currently the manager of amateur club AFC Compiègne...
  
   (born 1988), French footballer
• Nolan Ryan
  Nolan Ryan
  Lynn Nolan Ryan, Jr. , nicknamed "The Ryan Express", is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is currently principal owner, president and CEO of the Texas Rangers....
  
   (born 1947), Hall of Fame Major League Baseball pitcher
• Nolan Smith
  Nolan Smith
  Nolan Derek Smith is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers, having been selected with the 21st pick in the 2011 NBA Draft after four years at Duke University. As a senior, he was named a first team AP All-American and the ACC Player of the Year...
  
   (born 1988), American basketball player

Fictional characters

• Bruce Nolan, from the film Bruce Almighty
  Bruce Almighty
  Bruce Almighty is a 2003 American comedy film directed by Tom Shadyac and written by Steve Koren, Mark O'Keefe and Steve Oedekerk. It stars Jim Carrey as Bruce Nolan, a down-on-his-luck TV reporter who complains to God that He isn't doing His job correctly, and is then offered the chance to try...
  
  
• Philip Nolan, main character of the short story "The Man Without a Country
  The Man Without a Country
  "The Man Without a Country" is a short story by American writer Edward Everett Hale, first published anonymously in The Atlantic in December 1863. It is the story of American Army lieutenant Philip Nolan, who renounces his country during a trial for treason and is consequently sentenced to spend...
  
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• Nolan Heinberg, the secret identity of the fictional character Omni-Man
  Omni-Man
  Omni-Man is a fictional character, a superhero, supervillain and anti-hero in the . Omni-Man is the father of Invincible and a member of Viltrumite race, a humanoid species of extraterrestrial origin who possess superhuman strength, super speed, virtual immortality, and flight. Unusually for a...
  
  
• Lynsey Nolan
  Lynsey Nolan
  Lynsey Nolan is a fictional character from the British Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks, played by Karen Hassan. The character originally appeared in the first series of the Hollyoaks spin-off, Hollyoaks Later, as the former girlfriend of Kris Fisher...
  
  , character in UK TV series Hollyoaks
  Hollyoaks
  Hollyoaks is a long-running British television soap opera, first broadcast on Channel 4 on 23 October 1995. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill...
  
  

See also

• Colby Nolan
  Colby Nolan
  Animals have been submitted as applicants to suspected diploma mills in several cases. On some occasions the animal has been not only admitted, but granted a degree...
  
  , a housecat who was awarded an MBA degree in 2004 by Trinity Southern University, a Texas-based diploma mill
• Nolan Helmets, an Italian helmet manufacturer
• The Nolans
  The Nolans
  The Nolans are an Anglo-Irish all-female band consisting of a group of sisters. The group, best known for their song "I'm In the Mood for Dancing", gained prominence as guest performers on numerous television shows in the United Kingdom...
  
  , an Irish all-female band
• The Nolan Chart
  Nolan Chart
  The Nolan Chart is a political diagram popularized by the American libertarian David Nolan. He reasoned that virtually all human political action can be divided into two general categories: economic and personal...
  
  , a political diagram popularized by Libertarian David Nolan

External links

• Ted Nolan Foundation (with information on the Nolan surname)
• Nolan DNA Project (with information on the Nolan surname)