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 Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork.

People

First name

Bradley (sometimes shortened to Brad) is the first name of several notable people:

This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change that link to point directly to the intended article.

• Brad Ausmus (born 1969)), American Major League Baseball all-star catcher
• Bradley Ayers (born 1935), CIA operative
• Bradley Cooper (born 1975), American actor
• Brad Hogg (born 1970), Australian cricketer
• Bradley Hore (born 1981), Australian flyweight boxer
• Bradley James (born 1984), British actor
• Bradley Manning, alleged whistleblower / leaker of video in Wikileaks' Collateral Murder case
• Bradley McGee (born 1976), former Australian professional cyclist (road and track)
• Bradley McIntosh (born 1981), member of S Club 7
• Bradley Nowell (1968–1996), American musician
• Brad Pitt (born 1963), American actor
• Bradley Quinn (born 1976), Northern Irish photographer
• Bradley Whitford (born 1959), American actor
• Bradley Wiggins (born 1980), British professional cyclist (road and track)

Surname

Bradley is the surname of these and other notable people:

• Abraham Bradley, Jr. (1767–1838), first Assistant Postmaster-General of the U.S.
• A. C. Bradley (1851–1935), English Shakespearean scholar
• Avery Bradley (born 1990), American basketball player
• Bill Bradley (born 1943), American basketball player, Rhodes scholar, and former US senator from New Jersey
• Bill Bradley (baseball) (1878–1954), early 20th-century third baseman in Major League Baseball
• Bob Bradley (born 1958), former manager of the United States men's national soccer team
• 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 footballer
• 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) (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), (born 1967), Australian novelist
• James Bradley (author) (born 1954), American historian, writer
• John Bradley (disambiguation)
• Joseph P. Bradley (1813–1892), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court 1870–1892
• Keegan Bradley (born 1986), American golfer
• Kepler Bradley (born 1985), Australian rules footballer with Essendon Bombers and Fremantle Dockers
• Liam Bradley, Irish Gaelic football manager
• Loretta Bradley (born 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 (baseball) (born 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
• 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 (American 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
• William J. Bradley (1852–1916), American businessman and New Jersey legislator

References

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