Tyrone (name)

TyronePronunciation| English: /taɪˈroʊn/

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Gender| Male
Other names
Related names| Tyron

Tyrone is a male given name of Irish origin. The name originates from the toponym County Tyrone in Northern Ireland, which in turn derives from the Irish language Tír Eoghain ("land of Eoghan").[1][2] Tír Eoghain was the name of a Gaelic kingdom of medieval Ireland. Eoghan is variant of Eógan and Owen, or the Scottish Ewan.[3] The name was popularised by American actor Tyrone Power (1914–1958),[4] who descended from a long Irish theatrical line going back to his great-grandfather, the Irish actor and comedian Tyrone Power (1797–1841).[5] In the United States, the name became increasingly popular due to use by African Americans.[6]

## People

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### Given name

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Tyrone Power

* Tyrone (producer) (born 1986), Nigerian producer
* Tyrone Berry (born 1987), English footballer
* Tyrone Braxton (born 1964), American football player
* Tyrone Brunson (musician) (1956–2013), American singer
* Tyrone Bogues (born 1965), American professional basketball player
* Tyrone Corbin (born 1962), former basketball player
* Tyrone Davis (disambiguation), multiple people
* Tyrone Ellis (born 1977), American-Georgian basketball coach and player
* Tyrone Garner (disambiguation), multiple people
* Tyrone William Griffin Jr. or Ty Dolla Sign (born 1985), American singer
* Tyrone Guthrie (1900–1971), Anglo-Irish theatrical director
* Tyrone Hayes (born 1967), American biologist and professor
* Tyrone Howe (born 1971), Irish rugby union player
* Tyrone Marshall (born 1974), Jamaican footballer
* Tyrone Mings (born 1993), English footballer
* Tyrone O'Sullivan (c. 1945–2023), Welsh trade unionist
* Tyrone Peachey (born 1991), Australian Rugby League player
* Tyrone Power (Irish actor) (1795–1841), Irish stage actor, comedian, author and theatrical manager
* Tyrone Power (1914–1958), American actor
* Tyrone Power Jr. (born 1959), American actor
* Tyrone Power Sr. (1869–1931), Anglo-American actor
* W. Tyrone Power (1819–1911), Australian artist
* Tyrone Savage (born 1985), Canadian actor
* Tyrone Tracy Jr. (born 1999), American football player
* Tyrone Unsworth (2003–2016), Australian suicide victim
* Tyrone Wheatley (born 1972), American football player
* Tyrone Wheatley Jr. (born 1997), American football player
* Tyrone Williams (disambiguation), multiple people
* Tyrone S. Woods (1971–2012), U.S. Navy SEAL killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack

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* Dana Tyrone Rohrabacher (born 1947), American politician
* Dwyane Tyrone Wade (born 1982), American basketball player
* Michael Tyrone Ellis (born 1967), British politician
* Stephen Tyrone Colbert (born 1964), American satirist and host of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

## Fictional characters

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* Tyrone Biggums, a recurring character on Chappelle's Show
* Tyrone, the friend of a freeloading boyfriend in Erykah Badu's 1997 live hit "Tyrone"
* Tyrone Slothrop, character in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow
* Tyrone Dobbs, a character on Coronation Street
* Dr. Tyrone C. Berger, a character in Judith Guest's 1976 novel Ordinary People and the 1980 film adaptation of the same name
* Tyrone, a character from The Backyardigans
* Tyrone, or T, a character from Trailer Park Boys
* Tyrone, a character in Snatch
* Tyrone King, the main villain in Dead Rising 2
* Tyrone, a character in the cartoon series Baggy Pants and the Nitwits
* James, Linda, Jamie, and Edmund Tyrone, characters in Eugene O'Neill's play Long Day's Journey into Night
* Count Tyrone Rugen, a character from The Princess Bride
* Tyrone Shoelaces, the protagonist of Cheech and Chong's "Basketball Jones"

## References

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1. ^ Sheard, K. M. (2011). Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names. Llewellyn Publications. p. 565\. ISBN 978-0-7387-2368-6.
2. ^ Sierra, Judy (1997). Celtic Baby Names: Traditional Names from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany, Cornwall & the Isle of Man. Folkprint. p. 56\. ISBN 978-0-9636089-5-6. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
3. ^ "Eoghan". Behind the Name. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
4. ^ "Tyrone". Behind the Name. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
5. ^ Traynor, Jessica (22 January 2019). "Tyrone Power, the actor who humanised the 'stage Irishman' stereotype". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
6. ^ Bertrand, Marianne; Mullainathan, Sendhil (July 2003). "Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (PDF). NBER Working Paper Series. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. doi:10.3386/w9873.

## External links

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* The dictionary definition of Tyrone at Wiktionary
* Media related to Tyrone at Wikimedia Commons

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