Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Irish surname, from Irish mac "son of" + Conall, from Celt. kunovalos "high-powerful."
Wikipedia
McConnell may refer to:
McConnell is a surname (last name), which may also refer to:
- Aaron McConnell (born 1980), American football player
- Brent McConnell, Australian rugby league footballer
- David H. McConnell, founder and president California Perfume Company
- Dorsey W. M. McConnell, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh
- Doug McConnell, American television travel host
- Drew McConnell, musician
- Jack McConnell, Scottish politician
- J. C. McConnell ( John C. McConnell), scientific illustrator
- James McConnell, British locomotive engineer
- James McConnell (Medal of Honor), Philippine–American War Medal of Honor recipient
- James Robert McConnell (1915–1999), Irish theoretical physicist, pontifical academician, Monsignor
- James V. McConnell, biologist
- John McConnell (footballer, born 1881), Scottish footballer
- John H. McConnell, American businessman
- John Michael McConnell, United States Director of National Intelligence
- John Paul McConnell, (1908–1986) Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force
- John Wilson McConnell (1877–1963), Canadian businessman and major philanthropist
- Joseph C. McConnell (1922–1954), top U.S. fighter ace in the Korean War
- Lee McConnell, Scottish athlete
- Michael W. McConnell, federal judge and legal scholar
- Mike McConnell, radio host
- Mitch McConnell (born 1942), United States Senator
- Page McConnell, musician
- Robert McConnell, Northern Irish loyalist and alleged Ulster Volunteer Force member
- Scott McConnell, journalist
- Steve McConnell, software engineer and book author
- Suzie McConnell-Serio (born 1966), American basketball player and coach
- T. J. McConnell (born 1992), American basketball player; nephew of Suzie
- T. T. McConnell (1888–1970), American college baseball coach
- Walter McConnell, ceramic artist
- William McConnel, mill and quarry owner
Usage examples of "mcconnell".
Mary Beth McConnell was now making, based on her knowledge of Native American archaeology, was surely as deadly as the ones that - in her theory - had crushed the skulls and snapped the spines of the Roanoke settlers as they fought their last battle on the shores of the Paquenoke at what was now called Blackwater Landing.
Mary Beth McConnell remembered a project she and her graduate adviser had been involved in: a North Carolina State Historical Society-sponsored disinterment of a nineteenth-century grave to run DNA tests on the body inside, to see if the corpse was that of a descendant of Sir Francis Drake, as a local legend claimed.
McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned, whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other, untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour.
Frantically Martin tried to remember what Herr McConnell had said about motors, engines, and the plans for the drop forge.
Graduates of McConnell have to understand every nut and bolt, every silicon chip and microcircuit of the bewildering array of ordnance that a modern fighter plane can launch at its opponents, in the air or on the ground.
The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, who in a series of papers during the 1960s, first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication, the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest-, reported experiments in which flatworms, trained by pairing light with electric shock, were chopped up and other, 'naive' (that is, untrained) worms allowed to cannibalize them.
Blackwater Landing had its own ghost - the boy who'd kidnapped Mary Beth McConnell.
Like most of the deputies in the county sheriff's department he'd been awake for nearly twenty-four hours, searching for Mary Beth McConnell and the boy who'd kidnapped her.
They were the children of Carl Castanaveras and Jany McConnell, who were, to twenty-two twenty-thirds, genetically the same person.