Galvin (surname)
Galvin is a surname. It is found throughout Great Britain, Ireland and Spain, with the variant Galvan being common in the Basque country. Earliest records of the name Gauvain are in northern France, and it likely arrived in Ireland with the Norman invasion of 1170 where it was subsequently anglicised. Notable people with the surname include:
- Bob Galvin (1922–2011), Chairman and CEO of Motorola
- Elliot Galvin, a British musician
- Fred Galvin, an American mathematician
- John Galvin (soldier), retired American General and Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University
- John Galvin (Irish politician), Irish Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Cork Borough constituency 1956–1963
- John Galvin, keyboardist for Molly Hatchet
- Keith Galvin, Gaelic footballer with Dublin GAA
- Kevin Galvin, business activist
- Martin Galvin, Irish-American lawyer and Irish republican political activist
- Mick Galvin Irish association footballer
- Pat Galvin, Australian politician (1911–1980)
- Pat Galvin (public servant), Australian public servant (b. 1933)
- Patrick Galvin, Irish writer and poet
- Patrick Galvin (footballer) (1882–1918), English footballer
- Paul Galvin (businessman), founder of the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation that later was renamed to Motorola
- Paul Galvin (footballer), Irish Gaelic footballer with Kerry GAA
- Pud Galvin, an early American baseball player
- Sheila Galvin Irish politician
- Tony Galvin, Irish soccer player
- William Francis Galvin (b. 1950), Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
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