O'Hara (surname)

O'Hara (Irish: Ó hEaghra) is a surname. The death of the eponym – Eaghra Poprigh mac Saorghus, lord of Luighne, in Connaught – is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters in 926. Notable people with the surname include:

• Aidan O'Hara (born 1964), Irish diplomat
• Annie O'Hara (1869-1897) medical doctor from Melbourne, Australia
• Barratt O'Hara (1882–1969), American politician
• Bernard O'Hara (born 1945), Irish historian
• Catherine O'Hara (born 1954), Canadian and American actress
• Charles O'Hara (1740–1802), British military officer
• Charles O'Hara, 1st Baron Tyrawley (1650–1724), Irish soldier
• Dane O'Hara, New Zealand rugby league footballer
• David O'Hara (born 1965), British actor
• Dorothea Warren O'Hara (1873–1972), American ceramic artist
• Eddie O'Hara (politician) (1937–2016), British politician
• Edwin Vincent O'Hara (1881–1956), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Éilis Ni Dhuibhne (Elisabeth O'Hara; born 1954), Irish novelist
• Elizabeth O'Hara (medical doctor) (1866-1942) from Melbourne, Australia
• Frank O'Hara (1926–1966), American poet
• Gerald Patrick Aloysius O'Hara (1895–1963), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Geoffrey O'Hara (1882–1967), Canadian American composer, singer and music professor
• George O'Hara (actor) (1899–1966), American actor and screenwriter
• Gerry O'Hara (1924–2023), British film and television director
• Glen O'Hara (born 1974), British academic historian
• Harry Fusao O'Hara (1891–1951), Japanese First World War pilot, first and only known Japanese pilot in the British Royal Flying Corps
• Helen O'Hara (born 1955) British musician, violinist
• James O'Hara (quartermaster) (1752?–1819), American army officer
• James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley (1682–1774), British army officer
• James G. O'Hara (1925–1989), American statesman
• Jamie O'Hara (footballer) (born 1986), British football player
• Jamie O'Hara (singer) (1950–2021), American country music singer-songwriter, one half of the duo The O'Kanes
• Jean O'Hara (1913–1973), American prostitute
• Joan O'Hara (1930–2007), Irish actress
• John Bernard O'Hara (1862–1927), Australian poet
• John Francis O'Hara (1888–1960), American catholic cardinal and educator
• John Henry O'Hara (1905–1970), American writer
• John Kennedy O'Hara (born 1961), American politician
• John Myers O'Hara (1870–1944), American poet
• Joseph O'Hara, several people
• Justice O'Hara, several people
• Kane O'Hara (c.1711–1782), Irish composer
• Kelley O'Hara (born 1988), American footballer
• Kelli O'Hara (born 1977), American actress and singer
• Kid O'Hara (1875–1954), American baseball player
• Loral O'Hara (born 1983), American engineer and NASA astronaut
• Maggie Blue O'Hara, Canadian actress
• Mario O'Hara (1946–2012), Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter
• Mark O'Hara (born 1995), Scottish footballer
• Mary O'Hara (born 1935), Irish singer and harpist
• Mary Margaret O'Hara, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Maureen O'Hara (1920–2015), Irish-American actress
• Michael O'Hara, American volleyball player
• Michael O'Hara, American writer and producer
• Michael D. O'Hara (1910–1978), American jurist
• Mike O'Hara, FRS, British geologist
• Miguel O’Hara, Fictional superhero, commonly known as Spider-Man 2099
• Paige O'Hara (born 1956), American singer and actress
• Pat O'Hara (born 1968), American football player, coach
• Patsy O'Hara (1957–1981), Irish Republican hunger striker
• Patrick O'Hara, Irish politician
• Quinn O'Hara (1941–2017), Scottish-born American actress
• Sally Brice-O'Hara (born 1953), American 27th Vice-Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
• Shaun O'Hara (born 1977), American football player
• Shawn O'Hara (1958–2018), American politician
• Theodore O'Hara (1820–1867), American poet and Confederate colonel
• Thomas J. O'Hara C.S.C., Ph.D., an American president of King's College, Pennsylvania
• Tom O'Hara (1942–2019), American runner
• Valentine O'Hara (1875–1941), Irish author and authority on Russia
• Colonel Walter O'Hara (1789–1874), British army officer

Other individuals who use the name O'Hara

• Asia O'Hara (born 1982), American drag queen
• Eureka O'Hara (born 1990), American drag queen
• Phi Phi O'Hara (born 1985), American former drag queen
• Robert O'Hara Burke (1820–1861), Irish soldier, policeman and explorer
• Pat O'Hara Wood (1891–1961), Australian tennis player
• Julia O'Hara Stiles (born 1981), American actress

Fictional characters

• Chief O'Hara (Disney Comics), Disney comic book character
• Chief Miles O'Hara, character from the Batman TV show
• Jack "Butcher" O'Hara, the Green Beret in the game series Commandos
• O'Hara, a major villainous underling from Bruce Lee film Enter the Dragon, played by Karateka Robert Wall
• Juliet O'Hara, a main character in the American comedy-drama television series Psych
• Kimball O'Hara, protagonist of Rudyard Kipling's novel Kim
• Miguel O'Hara is an alternative futuristic version of the comic book superhero Spider-Man
• Neely O'Hara, character in Valley of the Dolls
• Scarlett O'Hara, literary protagonist in Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind
• Scarlett (G.I. Joe), a female character whose actual name is Shana O'Hara
• Dr Eleanor O'Hara, a female main character from American medical comedy-drama TV series Nurse Jackie, referred to mostly as just O'Hara
• Spike O'Hara, the main character in the NES game Ghoul School
• Moira O'Hara, a female side character in American Horror Story: Murder House

See also

• O'Hara (disambiguation)
• O'Hare