Bradley

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Bradley is an English masculine given name. It comes from a surname and a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad clearing" in Old English.^[1]

It is also an Anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic name O’Brolachán (also O’Brallaghan) from County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork.

People

First name

Bradley is the first name of several notable people:

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• Bradley Ayers (born 1935), former CIA operative
• Bradley Cooper (born 1975), American actor.
• Brad Hogg (born 1970), Australian cricket player
• Bradley James (born 1984), British actor
• Bradley McIntosh (born 1981), former member of S Club 7
• Bradley Nowell (1968 – 1996), American musician

Surname

Bradley is the surname of these and other notable people:

• Abraham Bradley, Jr. (1767-1838), First Assistant Postmaster-General of the U.S.
• Andrew Cecil Bradley (1851–1935), English Shakespearean scholar
• Avery Bradley (born 1990), American basketball player
• Bill Bradley (baseball player) (1878–1954), early 20th-century third baseman in Major League Baseball
• Bill Bradley (born 1943), American basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former US Senator from New Jersey
• Brian Bradley (born 1965), Canadian hockey player
• Bruce Bradley (born 1947), American water polo player
• Celeste Bradley (fl. 2001), American author of romance novels
• Craig Bradley (born 1963), Australian rules football player
• Dan Beach Bradley (1804–1873), American Protestant missionary to Siam
• David W. Bradley, computer game designer and programmer
• Ed Bradley (1941–2006), American journalist
• Eoin Bradley, Irish Gaelic footballer, plays for Derry
• F. H. Bradley (1846–1924), British idealist philosopher
• Foghorn Bradley (1855–1900), American baseball umpire
• George Bradley (1852–1931), American baseball player
• George Bradley (Medal of Honor recipient) (1881–1942), American naval officer
• Gwendolyn Bradley, American soprano
• Henry Bradley (1845–1923), Oxford English Dictionary editor
• James Bradley (1693–1762), English astronomer
• James Bradley (Australian writer), (b. 1967), Australian novelist
• James Bradley (author) (b. 1954), American historian, writer
• John Bradley, British author of The Racing Motorcycle volumes
• Joseph Philo Bradley (1813–1892), Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1870–1892
• Liam Bradley, Irish Gaelic football manager
• Loretta Bradley (b. 1933), American psychologist
• Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930–1999), American science fiction author
• Matt Bradley (born 1978), Canadian professional hockey player
• Milton Bradley (1836-1911), board game pioneer
• Milton Bradley (b. 1978), American baseball player
• Omar Bradley (1893–1981), U.S. general
• Paddy Bradley, Irish Gaelic footballer, plays for Derry
• Peter Bradley (born 1953), English politician
• Dr. Robert A. Bradley (1917–1998), Bradley method of natural childbirth
• Ryan Bradley, (born 1983), American figure skater
• Shawn Bradley (born 1972), retired American basketball player
• Tom Bradley (politician) (1917–1998), five-term mayor of Los Angeles, California
• W. C. Bradley (1863–1947), American entrepreneur and Coca-Cola chairman
• Will H. Bradley (1868–1962), American Art Nouveau illustrator and artist

Geographic names

• Bradley Land, a phantom island

References

1. ^ MFnames.com - Origin and Meaning of Bradley

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