Tyrrell (surname)

Tyrrell or Tyrell is an Anglo-Irish surname.

People with this name include:

• Dame Elizabeth Tyrrell (née Ussher), (1619–1693), daughter of James Ussher chronologicalist of Bible
• Emmett Tyrrell, (born 1943), American author and editor
• George Tyrrell, (1861–1909), priest and Modernist scholar
• George Nugent Merle Tyrrell, English author, introduced the term out-of-body experience
• Jackie Tyrrell, (born 1982), Irish hurler
• James Tyrrell, (c. 1450–1502), English knight
• James Tyrrell (Oakley), (1643–1718), Commissioner of the Privy Seal
• John Tyrell, (15th century), English knight
• John Tyrrell (Oakley), (1646–1692), English Second Admiral of the East Indies.
• Joseph Tyrrell, (1858–1957), Canadian geologist, discoverer of the dinosaur Albertosaurus, and namesake of the Royal Tyrrell Museum
• Ken Tyrrell, (1924–2001), auto racing driver and the founder of the Tyrrell Formula One constructor
• Sir Murray Tyrrell, (1913–1994), Official Secretary to several Governors General of Australia
• Murray Tyrrell (winemaker), (1921–2000), prominent Australian winemaker
• Richard Tyrell, (1716?–1766), Rear Admiral
• Robert Yelverton Tyrrell, classical scholar at Trinity College, Dublin
  • in citations 'Tyrrell-Purser' or 'Tyrrell and Purser' refer to his collaborations with Louis Claude Purser
• Susan Tyrrell, (c. 1945-2012), American actress of Irish descent
• Sir Timothy Tyrrell (died 1632), Master of the Buckhounds to Prince Henry and Charles I of England
• Sir Timothy Tyrrell, (1617–1701), Master of the Buckhounds to Charles I of England
• Tom Tyrrell, Australian rugby league footballer
• Walter Tirel (or Tyrell), (1065 – some time after 1100), an Anglo-Norman nobleman rumored to have killed King William Rufus with an arrow while hunting in the New Forest.
• William Tyrrell (disambiguation), multiple people