Geary

Geary, an Anglicized rendering of the Irish name O'Gadhra [1], has a number of meanings:

Geary is surname of several people:

• Anthony Geary (1947– ), an American actor
• Benjamin Handley Geary (1891–1976), a British soldier in World War I and a recipient of the Victoria Cross
• David C. Geary, an American academic psychologist
• Cornet Francis Geary (1752–1776), a British cornet killed during the American Revolutionary War
• Geoff Geary (1976– ), an American Major League Baseball player, relief pitcher, currently with the Philadelphia Phillies
• George Geary (1893–1981) English cricketer; Leicestershire's greatest player until David Gower
• George Reginald Geary (1873–1954), mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada from 1910 to 1912
• John W. Geary (1819–1873), mayor of San Francisco, governor of the Kansas Territory, governor of Pennsylvania and general in the American Civil War
• Joseph Geary, New York Times bestselling author
• Roy C. Geary, (1896-1983), a world renowned Irish social scientist and University College Dublin graduate whose seminal research in the area of economics, statistics, demography and national accounting remains to this day central to study in these fields.

Geary can refer to a few places:

• Geary County, Kansas
• Geary, Oklahoma
• Geary, Isle of Skye
• Geary Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in San Francisco, California

Geary can also refer to:

• Geary Act, an 1892 U.S. government law that restricted the rights of Chinese immigrants in the United States
• D. L. Geary Brewing Company, a microbrewery located in Portland, Maine.
• Roy Geary, a fictional character from the television show Prison Break
• James Geary, the Halo.Bungie.Org regular, who spawned a mild internet meme, "gearysux".