Keating (Irish spelling: Céitinn) is an Irish and English family name.

Surname variations

Common variations on the Keating surname include Caton, Kaitting, Kating, Keatinge, Keaton, Keith, Keting, Keatting, McKeating, Keatings and O'Keating. A Spanish variation, Cienfuegos,^[1][2] also exists.

Notable people

• Ailsa Keating, French-British mathematician
• AnaLouise Keating (born 1961), academic, professor of Multicultural Women's and Gender Studies
• Caron Keating (1962−2004), British TV personality
• Charles Keating (1923−2014), American lawyer, banker, best known for his involvement in the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, The Keating Five Scandal
• Charles Keating (actor) (1941−2014), English actor and narrator of audiobooks
• Chris Keating (musician) (born 1982), lead singer of American band Yeasayer
• Dan Keating (1902−2007), longest surviving veteran of the Irish War of Independence
• Dennis Keating (born 1940), Irish footballer
• Derek Keating (1955–2023), Irish Fine Gael politician
• Dominic Keating (born 1962), British actor
• Edward Keating (1875–1965), American newspaper editor and politician, U.S. representative for Colorado, who sponsored the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act of 1916
• Edward Michael Keating (1925–2003), American publisher, journalist, lawyer; founder of Ramparts magazine, member of the New Left movement.
• Edwin Joseph (Ted) Keating (1910−1987), academic and director of the Bank of New Zealand
• Frank Keating (born 1944), American politician; governor of Oklahoma
• Frank Keating (journalist) (1937−2013), English sports journalist and author
• Frank A. Keating (1895−1973), Major General of the United States Army
• Fred Keating (disambiguation), several people
• Geoffrey Keating (c.1569−c.1644), Irish theologian and historian
• Gladys Keating (1923-2014), Virginia businesswoman, civic activist and politician
• H. R. F. Keating (1926−2011), British novelist
• Henry Sheehy Keating (1775-1847), officer of the British Army during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, father of Henry Singer Keating
• Henry Singer Keating (1804−1888), British lawyer and barrister
• Isabel Keating, American actress and singer
• John Keating (disambiguation), multiple people
• Jonathan Keating, British mathematician
• Joseph C. Keating Jr. (1950−2007), US psychologist
• Josephine E. Keating (1838−1908), American literary critic, musician music teacher
• Judith Keating (1957−2021), Canadian senator
• Justin Keating (1930−2009), Irish Labour Party politician
• Karl Keating (born 1950), American Catholic apologist
• Kenneth Keating (1900−1975), American politician, congressional representative and senator for New York, U.S. ambassador to India and Israel
• Larry Keating (1899−1963), American actor
• Michael Keating (actor) (born 1947), British actor
• Michael Keating (Irish politician) (born 1946), Irish politician
• Michael Keating (political scientist) (born 1950), political scientist
• Michael Keating (priest) (1793–1877), Irish Anglican priest; he expressed views on economics in Ireland.
• Michael Keating (public servant) (born 1940), Australian public servant
• Mike Keating (ice hockey) (born 1957), Canadian hockey player
• Paul Keating (born 1944), 24th Prime Minister of Australia
• Patrick N. Keating, theoretical physicist, of the Keating model
• Richard E. Keating (1941−2006), American astronomer, known for the Hafele–Keating experiment
• Richard Harte Keatinge (1825−1904), soldier
• Robert Brendon Keating (1924−2012), American diplomat
• Roly Keating (born 1961), chief executive of the British Library
• Ronan Keating (born 1977), Irish singer
• Seán Keating, (1889−1977), Irish painter, President of the Royal Hibernian Academy
• Sean P. Keating (1903−1976), Irish Republican Army veteran and Irish-American activist and political figure
• Timothy J. Keating (born 1948), American admiral
• Tim Keating (born 1961), Chief of the New Zealand Defence Force
• Thomas Keating (1923−2018), monk, founder of Centering Prayer movement
• Tom Keating (1917−1984), art restorer and forger
• Trenna Keating, Canadian actress
• William H. Keating (1799−1840), American geologist
• William J. Keating (1927–2020), American politician, representative for Ohio's 1st district
• William R. Keating (born 1952), American politician, representative for Massachusetts' 9th congressional district
• Zoë Keating (born 1972), Canadian cellist and composer
• Maurice Keatinge (c.1761−1835), Irish landowner, soldier and politician
• Paffard Keatinge-Clay (1926–2023), British-born architect and sculptor

Fictional people

• Lieutenant Colonel Harry Keating, in The Mauritius Command, a 1977 novel by Patrick O'Brian, based on the real life Henry Sheehy Keating
• John Keating, played by Robin Williams in the 1989 film Dead Poets Society
• John Paul Keating, played by Shaun Evans in the television series Teachers
• Layla Keating, played by Greta Onieogou in the television series All American
• Peter Keating, in The Fountainhead, a 1943 novel by Ayn Rand

Multiple characters in How to Get Away With Murder:

• Annalise Keating, played by Viola Davis, fictional defense lawyer and law professor
• Dr. Hannah Keating, Annalise's sister-in-law, played by Marcia Gay Harden
• Sam Keating, Annalise's husband, played by Tom Verica
• Keating 5, Annalise Keating's interns in How to Get Away With Murder

Keating genealogy

DNA projects and one name studies

• Keating DNA Project (hosted by FamilyTreeDNA.com, run by volunteers)

Published Keating genealogies

• Keating, John Percy, 1855-1920 (1918). John Keating and His Forebears. Internet Archive.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Keating of Wexford.^{[citation needed]}
• Lodge, John; Archdall, Mervyn (1789). "John (b. circa 1150, 6th son of Odo of Carmarthenshire, Wales) from whom those of the name Keating in this Kingdom derive". The peerage of Ireland: or, A genealogical history of the present nobility of that kingdom. Vol. II. p. 183.