Brady (surname)
The name In a listing of the Most Common U.S. Surnames Brady ranked at #488.
Spelling variations include: Braidy, Bradie, Braidie, Braydy, Braydie, Bradigan, O'Bradigan, O'Brady, Grady, Graidy, Gradie, Graidie, Graydy, Graydie, O'Grady and many more.
Other
- Brady Bonds - (a.k.a. the "Brady Plan")
- The Brady Bunch
- Brady Campaign - a campaign to ban handguns in the United States.
- Brady Drum Company - manufacturer of drums in Western Australia
- Brady material
Locations
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Persons Surname
- Alice Brady (1892–1939), American silent-film actress, Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner
- Andrew MacBrady in 1454 he was the first bishop of Kilmore to provide a cathedral church for the diocese. The Cavan Crosier, staff of the early MacBrady bishops, is one of the few Irish crosiers to have survived the Reformation and is now in the National Museum in Dublin.
- Beau Brady (born 1981), Australian actor
- Bo and Hope Brady, fictional characters on the American soap opera Days of Our Lives
- Bob Brady (born 1945), American politician from Pennsylvania
- Charles Brady (artist) (1926–1997), American-born Irish painter
- Charles E. Brady, Jr. (born 1951), American astronaut
- Conor Brady, Irish journalist and newspaper editor
- Cyprian Brady, Irish politician
- Dan Brady, American politician from Ohio
- E. J. Brady (1869–1952), Australian journalist and writer
- Edward Thomas Brady (born 1943), American judge and Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court
- Edwin James Brady (1869-1952), born in Carcour, New South Wales he had an adventurous life in many lands and was the author of some fine sea ballads.
- Fiachra MacBrady (fl. 1710), Gaelic poet
- George Brady (born 1928), Holocaust survivor
- Gerard Brady (born 1936), Irish Fianna Fáil politician and Minister for Education
- Gilbert MacBrady Bishop of Ardagh from 1396 to 1400
- Graham Brady (born 1967), British politician and MP
- Hana Brady (1931–1944), Jewish holocaust victim
- Hugh Brady first Protestant Bishop of Meath and Kildare
- Ian Brady (born 1938), British serial killer
- James Brady (born 1940), American White House Press Secretary shot alongside President Ronald Reagan
- James Bernard MacBrady, Count of the Holy Roman Empire
- James Buchanan Brady aka "Diamond Jim" (1856–1917), prominent American financier
- James H. Brady (1862–1918), Governor of Idaho, United States Senator from Idaho
- James M. Brady, editor of the Washington Post Online
- James R. Brady, Imperial Mathematician of the University of California Bodega Bay
- John Green Brady (1847–1918), American politician, Governor of the District of Alaska (1897–1906)
- John Joseph Brady, American journalist and writer
- Kevin Brady (born 1955), American politician from Texas
- Liam Brady (born 1956), Irish footballer, coach, and television pundit
- Mathew Brady (ca. 1823–1896), Irish-American photographer who documented the American Civil War
- Matthew Brady (1799–1826), Australian bushranger
- Matthew Brady (district attorney), American district attorney in San Francisco (1919–1943)
- Mike Brady (character), fictional character on the American television show The Brady Bunch
- Mike Brady (golfer) (1887–1972), American professional golfer
- Mike Brady (musician) (born 1947), Australian musician
- Michael Brady (died 1745), prominent in military service outside of Ireland and was executed for his part in the service of the "Young Pretender".
- Mrs Brady the Old Lady, fictional character in the British adult spoof comic magazine Viz
- Nicholas F. Brady (born 1930), United States Secretary of the Treasury (1988–1993)
- Paul Brady (born 1947), Irish singer/songwriter
- Peta Brady (born 1972), Australian actress
- Phelim Brady (fl. 1710), a Gaelic poet usually referred to as "bold Phelim Brady the bard of Armagh".
- Rev. Philip MacBrady (died 1719), Gaelic poet and a Protestant clergyman and was very popular with the people of County Cavan, perhaps because he satirised his colleagues.
- Richard Brady, a bishop of Kilmore and a distinguished Franciscan.
- Sami Brady, fictional character from the American soap opera Days of our Lives
- Sarah Brady (born 1942), American gun control activist, wife of James Brady
- Tom Brady (born 1977), American football quarterback and 2-time Super Bowl MVP
- Thomas Brady (1752-1827), a farmer's son from Cootehill, County Cavan, became a Field Marshal in the Austrian service and Governor of Dalmatia
- Vincent Brady (born 1936), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, Government Chief Whip (1987–1991), Minister for Defence (1991–1992)
- Wayne Brady (born 1972), American comedian and TV personality
- William Brady (1899–1961), American Roman Catholic Archbishop of St. Paul (1956–1961)
- William Maziere Brady (1825-1894), author of Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland.
Persons Firstname
- Brady Anderson
- Brady Finta
- Brady Caspar, a prominent member of the American Socialist Party.
Brady History
The original Irish name for Brady was MacBrady and they were a powerful sept belonging to Breffny, their chief holding sway over a territory lying a few miles east of Cavan town, in the barony of Loughter Upper. The Four Masters record many illustrious chiefs of the name there. The historian Abbe MacGeoghegan says that the MacBradys are a branch of the O'Carrolls of Calry, County Leitrim, a statement which has been often repeated, but modern authorities refute this. In any case they have always been prominently associated with County Cavan; and it is in County Cavan and adjacent areas the Bradys are mostly found today. They are indeed very numerous in Ireland with an estimated population of nearly 10,000 persons so called. Brady is among the sixty most common names in Ireland, among the forty most common in Ulster, among the twenty most common in Monaghan and ranks third in County Cavan, the homeland of the sept. The 1890 census figures show the name in significant numbers in County Dublin, County Antrim, County Meath and County Longford.
A number of families of Brady are also to be found in the district around the village of Tuamgraney, County Clare. These are in fact not truly Bradys at all but O'Gradys, of the same family as O'Grady of Kilballyowen, County Limerick: from the time of Henry VIII onwards these O'Gradys identified themselves with the English cause: for that reason, perhaps, they adopted the form Brady instead of Grady. The first Protestant Bishop of Meath and Kildare, for example, was Hugh Brady, a Clareman, son of Donough O'Grady. The Limerick branch, on the other hand, having been Brady for a generation or two, reverted to the correct form O'Grady.
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Heraldry
The Chief Herald of Ireland records the ancient sept arms of MacBrady
Sable, in the sinister base a dexter hand couped at the wrist proper pointing with the index finger at a sun in splendour in dexter chief or.
No crest or motto is recorded, but in 1766, the arms of James Bernard MacBrady, Count of the Holy Roman Empire were recorded as above with the addition of a crest "a cherub proper the wings or" and the motto "claritate dextra" (which roughly means, the right hand is clear). This crest and motto appears in the arms of at least four other Bradys - sufficiently numerous to be regarded as traditional sept symbols along with the shield.