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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.
