Tobin (surname)

Tobin (Gaelic;Tóibín, Irish pronunciation: [t̪ˠoːˈbʲiːnʲ], from the Norman surname; de St. Aubyn; originated with Saint Albinus) is an Irish surname.

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The surname Tobin derives from 'tóibín', the Irish version of St Aubyn, which is of Norman-French origin. The Anglo-French St Aubyn family arrived in Ireland in the wake of the Norman Invasion in the 12th century and settled in Counties Tipperary and Kilkenny, and subsequently spread to the neighbouring counties of Cork and Waterford.

By the 1440s there were three major Tobin clans established in south east Tipperary, as well as the senior line in Kilkenny. The Tobins were an eminent family in County Tipperary in medieval times, and the head of the family was known as the Baron of Coursey, although this was not an officially recognised title. The 14th century Annals of Ireland, by Kilkenny Franciscan John Clyn, described the Tobins' as 'a turbulent sect more dreaded by the English than the native Irish'. Ballytobin in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland is named after them. It means Tobins' town and may indicate their exact origin.

A branch of the family who were among the Wild Geese, settled at Nantes in the country of origin, and the best known of these was Edmund Marquis de Tobin (1692 - 1747), who was killed in action in the War of Austrian Succession.

Another branch of the Tobins' settled in Newfoundland and prospered there.


Arts and entertainment

Military
  • E Q "Red" Tobin, American pilot who flew for the Royal Air Force during the Battle of Britain
  • Marian Tobin (born 1873) Irish War of Independance republican
  • John Michael Tobin (1841–1898), American Civil War officer
  • Liam Tobin (1890-1963), Irish army officer
  • Paul E. Tobin, Jr. (born c. 1941), rear admiral in the U.S. Navy
  • Thomas Tate Tobin (1823–1904), American adventurer and US Army scout

Politics
  • Brian Tobin (born 1954), Canadian Liberal politician
  • Edmund William Tobin (1865–1938), Canadian politician
  • James Tobin, George W. Bush's 2004 New England campaign chairman
  • John Tobin (born 1969), American politician
  • Maurice J. Tobin (1901–1953), U.S. governor and Secretary of Labor
  • Stanley Tobin (1871–1948), Canadian farmer and politician
  • Stephen Tobin (1836–1905), Canadian political figure
  • Peadar Tóibín (born 1974), Irish politician

Religion
  • Joseph William Tobin (born 1952), American Roman Catholic archbishop
  • Mary Luke Tobin (1908–2006), American Roman Catholic nun
  • Nettie Tobin (1863–1944), American member of the Bahai community
  • Thomas Joseph Tobin (born 1948), American Roman Catholic bishop

Sports

Other people
  • Austin Joseph Tobin (1903–1978), executive director of the Port of New York Authority
  • Ciarán Tobin, Irish citizen involved in a Hungarian legal case
  • Daniel J. Tobin (1875–1955), American union leader
  • James Tobin (1918–2002), Nobel Prize-winning economist
  • Jonathan S. Tobin, American journalist
  • Joseph Tobin (born 1950), American early childhood education specialist
  • Laura Tobin (born 1981), British broadcast meteorologist
  • Margaret Tobin (disambiguation), several people
  • Neil Tobin (born 1966), American magician
  • Peter Tobin (born 1946), British serial killer
  • Peter J. Tobin (born 1944), American businessman
  • Thomas Tobin (1807–1881), British businessman
  • Tony Tobin, celebrity chef
  • William Tobin, (1927–2009), news editor

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