# Daly (surname)

Daly is an Irish surname, derived from the Gaelic Ó Dálaigh. Notable people with the surname include:

## Entertainment and arts

* Andy Daly (born 1971), American actor, writer, and comedian
* Augustin Daly (1838–1899), American theatrical manager and playwright
* Candice Daly (1963–2004), American actress
* Carson Daly, television personality
* Dan Daly (1864–1904), American comic actor
* Eileen Daly, English actress and singer
* Gary Daly, English songwriter and vocalist
* James Daly (actor) (1918–1978), American actor
* Joel Daly (1934–2020), American news anchor and journalist
* John Charles Daly (1914–1991), American journalist game show host and radio personality
* Mark Daly, British actor
* Mike Daly, American alt-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
* Norman Daly (1911-2008), American artist
* Peter-Hugo Daly, actor and drummer
* Richard Daly (1758–1813), Irish actor and theatre manager
* Scott Daly (born 1994), American football player
* Tess Daly (born 1969), English television presenter
* Tim Daly, American theatre, screen and voice actor, director and producer
* Tyne Daly, American actress
* William Merrigan Daly (1887–1936), known as "Bill Daly", Broadway songwriter and conductor

## Sports

* Aidan Daly, New Zealand basketball player
* Aisling Daly (born 1987), Irish mixed martial arts fighter
* Anthony Daly (hurler), Irish
* Bill Daly, Canadian deputy commissioner of hockey
* Charles Dudley Daly, West Point coach, founder of AFCA
* Chuck Daly (1930–2009), American basketball head coach
* Derek Daly, Irish racing driver
* Elliot Daly, (born 1992), English rugby player
* Fred Daly (golfer) (1911–1990), Northern Irish golfer
* Gerry Daly, Irish football player
* Jason Daly, Westmeath Gaelic footballer
* Joe Daly (footballer), English footballer
* John Daly (athlete), Irish steeplechase athlete
* John Daly (golfer), professional golfer
* Jon Daly (footballer), Irish association football player
* Keevil Daly (1923–2011), Guyanese-Canadian weightlifter
* Matt Daly (born 1989), Scottish professional wrestler
* Matt Daley (born 1983), English field hockey player
* Matty Daly (born 2001), English football player
* Rachel Daly (born 1991), English association football player
* Robert Daly, Irish sprinter
* Tom Daly (1891–1946), Canadian baseball player
* Wes Daly, English football player

## Politics and government

* Anthony Daly, Irish agrarian agitator
* Brendan Daly (politician) (1940–2023), Irish Fianna Fáil Party politician
* Chris Daly, American politician, San Francisco, California
* Clare Daly, Irish socialist politician and trade union activist
* Denis Daly (1747–1792), Irish landowner and politician
* Dominick Daly (1798–1868), British Governor of Prince Edward Island, Tobago and South Australia
* Edward Daly (Irish revolutionary) (1891–1916), Irish nationalist
* Edward Daly (mayor) (1926–1993), councillor and mayor of Newham, London
* Fred Daly (politician) (1913–1995), Australian Labor Party politician
* James Daly (activist) (1838-1910) Irish nationalist activist
* James Daly, 1st Baron Dunsandle and Clanconal (1782–1847), Irish baron and politician
* J. Burrwood Daly (1872–1939), US congressman
* John Daly (Fenian) (1845-1916), Irish nationalist
* John Corry Wilson Daly (1796–1878), Canadian politician, businessperson and militia officer
* John Lawrence Daly (1943–2004), self-declared "greenhouse skeptic"
* Lawrence Joseph Sarsfield Daly (1912–1979), fringe American politician
* Malachy Bowes Daly (1836–1920), Canadian politician
* Margaret Daly, served in the European Parliament
* Mark Daly (born 1973), Irish politician
* Teresa Daly, American politician
* Thomas Mayne Daly Sr. (1827–1885), Canadian businessman and political figure
* Thomas Mayne Daly (1852–1911), Canadian politician
* William Davis Daly (1851–1900), American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey
* Will H. Daly (1869–1924), American labor leader, progressive politician and businessman

## Journalism and literature

* Brian Daly, Irish news journalist
* James Daly (journalist), American journalist in San Francisco
* John Daly (journalist), American newspaper and television journalist
* Maureen Daly (1921–2006), American novelist
* Wally K. Daly, English writer for television and radio

## Academics and science

* Herman Daly, ecological economist and professor
* John W. Daly (1933–2008), American biochemist
* Marie Maynard Daly, American biochemist
* Martin Daly, Canadian psychology professor
* Mary Daly (sociologist), Irish sociologist and academic
* Mary E. Daly, Irish historian
* Reginald Aldworth Daly (1871–1957), Canadian geologist
* Richard Daly, known for the Daly detector, a type of mass spectrometry detector
* Samantha Daly, American mechanical engineer

## Religion

* Cahal Daly (1917–2009), Irish Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh
* Edward Daly (bishop) (1933–2016), Irish religious leader
* Edward Celestin Daly (1894–1964), Roman Catholic Bishop of Des Moines, Iowa, 1948–1964
* James Joseph Daly (1921–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop
* Mary Daly, radical feminist and theologian

## Other

* Bernard Daly (1858–1920), Pioneer doctor and Oregon politician
* Charlie Daly (1896-1923) executed Irish Republican
* Daniel Daly (1873–1937), US Marine, Double Medal of Honor recipient
* Ed Daly, US entrepreneur behind World Airways
* Edward C. Daly (1914–1941), United States Navy sailor
* Edward M. Daly, U.S. Army General
* Henry Daly (1823–1895), British Army officer
* Ida Daly (1901–1985), American disability community leader
* James Daly (mutineer), British Army mutineer
* John Daly (outlaw) (1839–1864), American western outlaw
* John Donald Daly (1840–1923), California businessman and landowner
* Marcus Daly (1841–1900), Irish-born American copper-mining businessman
* Paddy Daly, soldier in the Irish Republican Army
* Seamus Daly, Irish Republican
* Thomas Aquinas Daly, American contemporary landscape and still-life painter

## Fictional Characters

* Bill Daly, character in the television show Manifest