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Keating (surname)

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Keating (Irish spelling: Céitinn) is an Irish and English family name.

Surname variations

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Common variations on the Keating surname include Caton, Kaitting, Kating, Keatinge, Keaton, Keith, Keting, Keatting, McKeating, Keatings and O'Keating. A Spanish variation, Cienfuegos,[1][2] also exists.

Notable people

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Fictional people

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  • 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:

Keating genealogy

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DNA projects and one name studies

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Published Keating genealogies

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  • 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.[citation needed]
  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ Keating, John Percy (1918). John Keating and his Forebears. Records of the American Catholic Historical Society. p. 4. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
  2. ^ Roche, James (1850). Critical and miscellaneous essays, by an octogenarian. Oxford University: Privately Printed. p. 183. Retrieved 12 December 2020.