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

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See also