# Keating (surname)

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, Mathematician
* AnaLouise Keating (born 1961), academic, professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies
* Caron Keating (1962−2004), British TV personality
* Charles Keating (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) (1941−2014), English actor and narrator of audiobooks
* Chris Keating (musician) (born 1982), lead singer of American band Yeasayer
* Dan Keating (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 (born 1962), British actor
* 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 (born 1944), American politician; governor of Oklahoma
* Frank Keating (journalist) (1937−2013), English sports journalist and author
* Frank A. Keating (1895−1973), Major General of the United States Army
* Fred Keating (disambiguation), several people
* Geoffrey Keating (c.1569−c.1644), Irish theologian and historian
* Gladys Keating (1923-2014), Virginia businesswoman, civic activist and politician
* H. R. F. Keating (1926−2011), British novelist
* Henry Sheehy Keating (1775-1847), officer of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, father of Henry Singer Keating
* Henry Singer Keating (1804−1888), British lawyer and barrister
* Isabel Keating, 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 (1930−2009), Irish Labour Party politician
* Karl Keating (born 1950), American Catholic apologist
* Kenneth Keating (1900−1975), American politician, congressional representative and senator for New York, U.S. ambassador to India and Israel
* Larry Keating (1899−1963), American actor
* Michael Keating (actor) (born 1947), British actor
* Michael Keating (Irish politician) (born 1946), Irish politician
* Michael Keating (political scientist) (born 1950), political scientist
* Michael Keating (priest) (1793–1877), Irish Anglican priest; he expressed views on economics in Ireland.
* Michael Keating (public servant) (born 1940), Australian public servant
* Mike Keating (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian hockey player
* Paul Keating (born 1944), 24th Prime Minister of Australia
* Patrick N. Keating, theoretical physicist, of the Keating model
* Richard E. Keating (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 (born 1961), chief executive of the British Library
* Ronan Keating (born 1977), Irish singer
* Seán Keating, (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 (born 1948), American admiral
* Tim Keating (born 1961), Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
* Thomas Keating (1923−2018), monk, founder of Centering Prayer movement
* Tom Keating (1917−1984), art restorer and forger
* Trenna Keating, Canadian actress
* William H. Keating (1799−1840), American geologist
* William J. Keating (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 (born 1972), Canadian cellist and composer
* Maurice Keatinge (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, 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
* John Paul Keating, played by Shaun Evans in the television series Teachers
* Layla Keating, played by Greta Onieogou in the television series All American
* Peter Keating, in The Fountainhead, a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand
Multiple characters in How to Get Away With Murder:
* Annalise Keating, played by Viola Davis, fictional defense lawyer and law professor
* Dr. Hannah Keating, Annalise's sister-in-law, played by Marcia Gay Harden
* Sam Keating, Annalise's husband, played by Tom Verica
* Keating 5, Annalise Keating's interns in How to Get Away With Murder

## Keating genealogy
### DNA projects and one name studies

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

### Published Keating genealogies

* Keating, John Percy, 1855-1920 (1918). John Keating and His Forebears. Internet Archive.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
* Keating of Wexford.
* Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789). "John (b. circa 1150, 6th son of Odo of Carmarthenshire, Wales) from whom those of the name Keating in this Kingdom derive". The peerage of Ireland: or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom. Vol. II. p. 183.