# Irving (name)

Irving is an originally Scottish surname, a variant of the name Irvine, which is derived from the eponymous River Irvine in Dumfriesshire. Irving is also used as a male given name.
Notable people with the name include:

## Surname

* Amy Irving (born 1953), American film and stage actress
* Arthur Irving (1930–2024), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
* Bob Irving (sportscaster) (born 1950), Canadian sportscaster
* Bud Irving (1926–2024), Canadian football player
* Charles Irving (surgeon) (?–1794?), Scottish naval surgeon, inventor and colonial entrepreneur
* Clifford Irving (1930–2017), American author who created a hoax autobiography of Howard Hughes
* Dan Irving (1854–1924), British politician, Labour MP
* David Irving (born 1938), British writer, best known for his denial of the Holocaust
* David Irving (footballer) (born 1951), British footballer
* Edmund George Irving (1910–1990), British naval hydrographer
* Edward Irving (1792–1834), Scottish clergyman
* Edward Irving (plant collector) (1816–1855), Scottish surgeon
* Edward A. Irving (1927–2014), Canadian geologist
* Francis Irving (born 1974), British programmer and activist for freedom of information
* George S. Irving, (1922–2016), American actor
* Godfrey Irving (1867–1937), senior Australian Army officer
* Gordon Budd Irving (1898–1918), Canadian World War I flying ace
* Henry Irving (1838–1905), British actor
* Isabel Irving (1871–1944), American actress
* James K. Irving (1928–2024), Canadian industrialist, son of K.C. Irving
* Jayne Irving (born 1956), British television presenter
* John Irving (disambiguation), several people
* Jules Irving (1925–1979), American actor, director, educator, and producer,
* K. C. Irving (Kenneth Colin Irving, 1899–1992), Canadian industrialist, founder of the Irving Group of Companies
* Kyrie Irving (born 1992), American professional basketball player
* Levin Thomas Handy Irving (1828–1892), justice of the Maryland Court of Appeals
* Martin Howy Irving (1831–1912), English rower and educationist in Australia; father of Godfrey Irving
* Mary Jane Irving (1913–1983), American actress
* Robert Irving (disambiguation), several people
* Thomas Ballantyne Irving (1914–2002), publisher of the first American English translation of the Qur'an
* Thomas Irving (Medal of Honor) (1842–?)
* Washington Irving (1783–1859), American author, historian and diplomat
* William Irving (disambiguation), several people

## Given name

* Irving Abella (1940–2022), Canadian writer
* Irving Amen (1918–2011), printmaker
* Irving Azoff (born 1947), American music executive and manager
* Irving Berlin (1888–1989), Russian-born American songwriter
* Irving Block, American matte painter and screenwriter, wrote the story on which Forbidden Planet was based.
* Irving Caesar (1895–1996), American lyricist
* Irving D. Chais (1925–2009), American businessman
* Irving Chernev (1900–1981), Russian-American chess player and author
* Irving Copi (1917–2002), American philosopher
* Irving Cottler (1918–1989), American drummer
* Irving Crane (1913–2001), American pool player
* Irving Dardik (1936–2023), American surgeon
* Irving Davidson (1929–2022), Australian rules footballer
* Irving Davis (1896–1958), American footballer
* Irving Fein (1911–2012), American television and film producer
* Irving Feinstein (1910–1939), American mobster
* Irving Feldman (born 1928), American poet
* Irving Fields (1915–2016), American pianist
* Irving Fine (1914–1962), American composer
* Irving Finkel (born 1951), British philologist and Assyriologist, curator in the Middle East department of the British Museum
* Irving Fisher (1867–1947), American economist
* Irving Folwartshny (1914–1994), American athlete
* Irving Freese (1903–1964), Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut
* Irving Garcia (soccer, born 1988) (born 1988), American footballer
* Irving Garcia (boxer) (born 1979), Puerto Rican boxer
* Irving Gill (1870–1936), American architect
* Irving Goff (1900–1989),
* Irving Goldman (1911–2012), American anthropologist
* Irving B. Goldman (1898–1975), American otolaryngologist
* Irving Gottesman (1930–2016), American psychologist
* Irving Gould (1919–2004), Canadian businessman
* Irving Harper (1916–2015), American industrial designer
* Irving Hexham (born 1943), English-Canadian academic and writer
* Irving Howe (1920–1993), Jewish-American literary critic
* Irving Janis (1918–1990), American psychologist
* Irving Johnson (1905–1991), American adventurer and author
* Irving Kane Pond (1857–1939), American architect
* Irving Kaplan (government official)
* Irving Kaplan (chemist) (1913–1997), American chemist
* Irving Kaplan (radiation oncologist), American radiation oncologist
* Irving Kaplansky (1917–2006), mathematician
* Irving Kaplan (chemist) (1913–1997), an MIT professor
* Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), chemist and physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
* Irving Lavin (1927–2019), American art historian
* Irving R. Levine (1922–2009), broadcast journalist
* Irving Layton (1912–2006), Canadian poet
* Irving Lehman (1876–1945), American lawyer and Jewish politician
* Irving Lerner (1909–1976), American filmmaker
* Irving Lowens (1916–1983), American musicologist and critic
* Irving Malin (1934–2014), American literary critic
* Irving Martin (born 1940s), American record producer
* Irving Mansfield (1908–1988), American producer and writer
* Irving Mills (1894–1985), American music publisher
* Irving Millman (1923–2012), American virologist and microbiologist
* Irving Mondschein (1924–2015), track and field champion
* Irving Morrow (1884–1952), American architect
* Irving Moskowitz (1928–2016), American physician, businessman, and philanthropist
* Irving Mosberg (1908–1973), New York politician and judge
* Irving Nattrass (born 1952), English footballer
* Irving Penn (1917–2009), American photographer
* Irving Peress (1917–2014), American dentist and military officer who became of the target of Army–McCarthy hearings
* Irving S. Reed (1923–2012), American mathematician and engineer
* Irving Reiner (1924–1986), American mathematician
* Irving "Ving" Rhames (born 1959), American actor
* Irv Rubin (Irving David Rubin) (1945–2002), former Jewish Defense League leader
* Irving Sablosky (1924–2016), American diplomat
* Irving Saladino (born 1983), Panamanian long jumper
* Irving Sandler (1925–2018), American art critic and art historian
* Irving Saraf (1932–2012), Polis-born American film producer
* Irving Sayles (1872–1914), African-American vaudeville entertainer
* Irving H. Saypol (1905–1977), American attorney
* Irving Schwartz (1929–2010), Canadian businessman
* Irving Selikoff (1915–1992), American physician
* Irving Slosberg (born 1947), American politician
* Irving Stern (1928–2023), American politician
* Irving Stone (1903–1989), American writer
* Irving Stowe (1915–1974), American lawyer
* Irving Taylor (songwriter) (1914–1983), American songwriter
* Irving Taylor (ice hockey) (1919–1991), Canadian ice hockey player
* Irving Thalberg (1899–1936), American film producer
* Irving Thalberg, Jr. (1930–1987), American philosopher
* Irving C. Tomlinson (1860–1944), American Universalist minister
* Irving Townsend (1920–1981), American record producer and author
* Irving Vendig, (1902–1995), American soap opera writer
* Irving Wallace (1916–1990), American novelist and non-fiction writer
* Irving B. Weiner, American psychologist
* Irving Zola (1935–1994), American activist and writer
* Irving Zurita (born 1991), Mexican footballer