McCandless (surname)

McCandless, also spelled MacCandless, is an Irish surname, primarily from Ulster and Donegal.[1] It is derived from the Gaelic Mac Cuindlis meaning 'son of Cuindlis/Cuindleas', a given name of uncertain meaning.[2] There are many anglicized variations including McAndles and the Scottish McCandlish.[3][4]

The name is etymologically related to the western Irish Mayo name Ó Cuindlis (which means 'descendant of Cuindlis/Cuindleas').[3][5][6] The earliest form of the given name can be traced back to an abbot from the 8th century called Cuindles.[7]

Notable people
  • Al McCandless (1927–2017), US Congressman
  • Billy McCandless (1894–1955), Northern Irish football player and manager
  • Bruce McCandless (1911–1968), US Navy rear admiral, and Medal of Honor recipient
  • Bruce McCandless II (1937–2017), astronaut who made the first untethered spacewalk
  • Byron McCandless (1881–1967), commodore in the US Navy; vexillologist
  • Christopher McCandless (1968–1992), American hiker and itinerant traveler who starved to death in Alaska; the subject of multiple non-fiction books and documentaries, beginning with Into the Wild (1996)
  • Cromie McCandless (1921–1992), Northern Irish motorcycle road racer; brother of Rex
  • Ezra McCandless (born Monica Kay, 1998), an American who was convicted of the murder of Alex Woodworth
  • Jack McCandless (1892–1940), Irish football player and manager
  • Lincoln Loy McCandless (1859–1940), American politician, cattle rancher, industrialist from Hawaii
  • Paul McCandless (born 1947), American jazz woodwind player and composer
  • Ray B. McCandless (1889–1931), American college sports coach
  • Rex McCandless (1915–1992), Northern Irish motorcycle road racer, designer of the Norton Featherbed motorcycle frame; brother of Cromie
  • Scott Cook "Jack" McCandless (1891–1961), Major League Baseball player
  • Stanley McCandless (1897–1967), considered to be the first theatrical lighting educator
  • William McCandless (1834–1884), Union Army officer in the American Civil War, and later member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
  • Wilson McCandless (1810–1882), US federal judge from Pennsylvania

See also
  • McCandless (disambiguation)
  • Candlish, a less common form of the name, principally Scottish
  • McCanles Gang (sometimes also rendered McCandless), an alleged outlaw gang in the American West of the early 1860s
  • Ó Cuindlis, an etymologically related west Irish surname dating to the 14th century; anglicized as Conlisk, Cundlish, Quinlist, and several other variants

References
  1. "1901/1911 Census, Ireland / Search: McCandless". Search Census. National Archives of Ireland. 2023. Retrieved 11 March 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) The data can be visualized with maps provided here: Griffin, Barry. "MACCANDLESS Surname Maps of Ireland". Irish Surname Maps for the 1901 and 1911 Census of Ireland. Retrieved 11 March 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. "Surname Database: McCandless Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 3 April 2023.
  3. MacLysaght, Edward (1997) [1957]. The Surnames of Ireland (6th ed.). Dublin: Irish Academic Press. pp. 35, 36, 252.
  4. Black, George F. (1946). The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History. New York Public Library. pp. 131, 464.
  5. "Irish names and surnames: Mac Cuindilis".
  6. "Irish names and surnames: Ó Cuindlis".
  7. Ryan, John (1938). The Abbatial Succession at Clonmacnoise. Feil-Sgribhinn Eoin Mhic Neill. p. 499.
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