Caolán
Caolán is an Irish name, from the Irish 'caol' meaning 'slender', 'narrow' or 'fine' and is pronounced 'kay-lawn’, 'quail-on’ or 'keeyl-an’ , depending on the dialect.[1] There are several corrupted or Anglicised spelling variations, including "Kelan", "Keelan" and "Kealan", all pronounced /ˈkiːlɪn/ KEE-lin.
Caolán
- Caolan Lavery (born 1992), Canadian footballer
- Caolan McAleer (born 1993), Irish footballer
- Caolan Mooney (born 1993), Gaelic and Australian rules footballer
- Caolan Ward (born 1992), Gaelic footballer
- Caolan Boyd-Munce (born 2000), Irish footballer
Keelan
As forename
- Keelan Cole (born 1993), American football player
- Keelan Doss (born 1996), American football player
- Keelan Giles (born 1997), Welsh rugby union player
- Keelan Harvick (born 2012) American cart racer
- Keelan Johnson (born 1989), Canadian football player
- Keelan Lebon (born 1997), French footballer
- Keelan Molloy (born 1998), Irish hurler
- Keelan O'Connell (born 1999), English footballer
- Keelan Sexton (born 1997), Gaelic footballer
- Keelan Williams, Welsh footballer and brother of Neco Williams
As surname
- Claire Keelan (born 1975), English actress
- Claudia Keelan (born 1959), American poet, writer and professor
- Grant Robert Keelan, actor in the film Schemers
- John Joseph Keelan (1888 – 1946), lawyer and political figure who represented Happyland
- Kevin Keelan (born 1941), English footballer
- Michael Keelan (born 1955), weightlifter who competed for England and CEO of the Australian Weightlifting Federation
- Richard Keelan, member of Detroit, Michigan band The Spike Drivers
Kealan
- Kealan Patrick Burke (born 1976), Irish writer
See also
- Keelin Shanley (1968 – 2020), journalist, newsreader and RTÉ presenter
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