What is "fagan"

Saint Fagan or Phagan (; 2nd century) was a possibly legendary bishop and apostle of Britain

Fagan or Phagan is also a Norman-Irish surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Alex Fagan, former chief of the San Francisco Police Department
• Andrew Fagan, New Zealand singer, writer and songwriter
• Ann Fagan Ginger, lawyer, teacher, writer, and political activist
• Audrey Fagan, former Australian Capital Territory Chief Police Officer
• Brian Fagan, archaeologist and anthropologist
• Carson Fagan, Caymanian international football player
• Clifford Fagan, president of the Basketball Hall of Fame
• Craig Fagan, English footballer
• Cyril Fagan, Irish astrologer
• David Fagan, New Zealand champion sheep shearer
• Ed Fagan, American lawyer
• Eleanora Fagan, also known as Billie Holiday, American jazz singer
• Garth Fagan, modern dance choreographer
• Gerald Fagan, Canadian Conductor
• James Fleming Fagan, major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• Joe Fagan, manager of Liverpool F.C.
• Joseph Fagan, American psychologist
• Kevin Fagan (cartoonist) (born 1956), American cartoonist, creator of the syndicated comic strip Drabble
• Kevin Fagan (doctor) (1909–1992), Australian doctor and World War II hero
• Kevin Fagan (American football) (born 1963), former defensive end for the San Francisco 49ers
• Laurie Fagan, Australian rugby league footballer
• Louise Fagan, Canadian Director/Producer
• Mark M. Fagan, former mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
• Mary Phagan, 13-year-old factory girl murdered in 1913, Atlanta, Georgia.
• Mary Fagan, DCVO
• Michael Fagan (intruder) (born 1948), Buckingham Palace intruder
• Mike Fagan (born 1980), American bowler
• Michael Fagan (software designer), credited with inventing the software inspection
• Michael Fagan, a co-founder of Shambhala Publications
• Myron Coureval Fagan, American playwright, editor, producer and cinematographer
• Oisin Fagan, Irish Boxer, former WBO Middleweight title holder
• Patsy Fagan, Irish snooker player
• Roy Fagan, an Australian politician and Deputy Premier of Tasmania
• Sean Fagan, Australian rugby league football writer
• Shaun Fagan, Scottish association footballer

Fagan , also known by other names including Fugatius, was a possibly legendary 2nd-century bishop and saint, said to have been sent by the pope to answer King Lucius's request for baptism and conversion to Christianity. Together with his companion St Deruvian, he was sometimes reckoned as the apostle of Britain. King Lucius's letter (in most accounts, to Pope Eleutherius) may represent earlier traditions but does not appear in surviving sources before the 6th century; the names of the bishops sent to him does not appear in sources older than the early 12th century, when their story was used to support the independence of the bishops of St Davids in Wales and the antiquity of the abbey at Glastonbury in England. The story became widely known following its appearance in Geoffrey of Monmouth's pseudohistorical History of the Kings of Britain. This was influential for centuries and its account of SS Fagan and Deruvian was used during the English Reformation to support the claims of both the Catholics and Protestants. Geoffrey's account is now considered wholly implausible, but Christianity was well-established in Roman Britain by the third century. Some scholars therefore argue the stories preserve a more modest account of the conversion of a Romano-British chieftain, possibly by Roman emissaries by these names.

Fagan is the presumed namesake of St Fagans near Cardiff, now the home of a Welsh National History Museum. His feast day does not appear in any medieval Welsh calendar of the saints and is not presently observed by the Anglican, Catholic, or Orthodox churches in Wales.

Fagan is a Norman-Irish surname.

Fagan or Fagans may also refer to:

• Saint Fagan (2nd century), a possibly legendary early bishop and apostle of Roman Britain
• St Fagans in Wales
• Fagan in Butte County, California