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

See also

• Earvin
• Ervin (disambiguation)
• Ervine
• Erving (disambiguation)
• Erwan
• Erwin (disambiguation)
• Irvin
• Irvine (disambiguation)
• Irwin (disambiguation)