Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Irish surname, from O'(h)Aonghusa "descendant of Aonghus" ("one-choice").
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 900
Land area (2000): 3.723748 sq. miles (9.644463 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017112 sq. miles (0.044320 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.740860 sq. miles (9.688783 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33700
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.108022 N, 97.898321 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73742
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Hennessey
Wikipedia
Hennessey may refer to:
Hennessey is an Irish surname, being the anglicised form of Ó hAonghusa. Families of this name were found in Kingdom of Uí Failghe and Kingdom of Desmond. Notable people with the surname include:
- Brad Hennessey (born 1980), baseball player
- Dan Hennessey (born 1941), Canadian voice actor
- Dorothy Hennessey (1913–2008), Roman Catholic religious sister and activist
- Gwen Hennessey (born 1932), Roman Catholic religious sister and activist
- Keith Hennessey, director of the U.S. National Economic Council
- Terry Hennessey (born 1942), Welsh footballer
- Wayne Hennessey (born 1987), Welsh footballer
- John Hennessey, founder of Hennessey Performance Engineering
Fictional characters:
- Alistair Hennessey, fictional rival to the eponymous character of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Usage examples of "hennessey".
The only promising-looking Richard Hennessey listed in Los Angeles County ran a production company in Pasadena.
Still, under the influence of his blessed vision, Hennessey would not go near the public-houses, but wandered about the outskirts of the town for hours, keeping apart from the townspeople, and fasting as penance.
He said, simply, that inasmuch as Roger Hennessey could be shown to be a robot rather than a human being Feingold and Charney felt under no obligation to go on honoring its service contract, and had unilaterally abrogated it.
From there, you fly to Rome as Joe Hennessey and Pat Brewster- a news reporter and sound engineer both with CBS, traveling together for a planned broadcast from the Vatican reviewing the first year of the new papacy.
Hennessey asked, coming Into the shed, where she was working on a fat, stylized owl, carving its round eyes into the soft yellow cedar.