McCaffery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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Aidan McCaffery
Aidan McCaffery (born 30 August 1957) is an English former professional footballer and football club manager. As player, he made 370 appearances in the Football League, playing as a central defender for Newcastle United, Derby County, Bristol R ...
(born 1957), English footballer and manager
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Anne McCaffery (1926–2011), American writer, winner of Hugo and Nebula awards
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Christian McCaffrey (born 1996), American football player
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Ed McCaffrey
Edward Thomas McCaffrey, Jr. (born August 17, 1968) is an American football coach and former wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for thirteen seasons. McCaffrey played college football for Stanford University and earn ...
(born 1968), American football player
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Edward McCaffery
Edward McCaffery (born c. 1959) is a tax law professor at the University of Southern California Law School (USC) and also a visiting professor of Law and Economics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech).
An internationally recognized ...
(born 1958), American legal scholar
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Fran McCaffery
Francis John McCaffery (born May 23, 1959) is an American college basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at the University of Iowa. He has taken four Division I (NCAA), Division I programs to postseason tournaments, includi ...
(born 1959), American college basketball coach
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Harry McCaffery
Harry Charles McCaffery (November 25, 1858 in St. Louis, Missouri – April 19, 1928 in St. Louis) was a 19th-century professional baseball player. He primarily played outfield for the St. Louis Browns
The St. Louis Browns were a Major Lea ...
(1858–1928), American baseball player
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John McCaffery
John McCaffery (November 30, 1913–October 3, 1983), also known as John K. M. McCaffery, was an American television host who appeared on many game shows and talk shows during the 1940s and 1950s including ''Americana'', '' Television Screen Ma ...
(1913–1983), American television host
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Ken McCaffery
Ken McCaffery (27 September 1929 – 6 February 2021) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer, commentator and administrator. As a player, he was an Australian national and Queensland state representative back. He played his clu ...
(1929–2021), Australian rugby league player
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Larry McCaffery (born 1946), American literary critic and editor
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Margo McCaffery
Margo McCaffery was an American registered nurse and pioneer of the field of pain management nursing
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, ma ...
, American nurse
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Seamus McCaffery
Seamus P. McCaffery (born June 3, 1950) is an American retired Justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Prior to his election to the Supreme Court, he was a judge on the Superior Court of Pennsylvani ...
(born 1950), American judge
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Simon McCaffery (born 1963), American writer
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Steve McCaffery (born 1947), Canadian poet and academic
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Trudy McCaffery
Trudy V. McCaffery (April 10, 1944 – February 12, 2007) was a Thoroughbred racehorse owner-breeder in California who served on the board of directors of the Edwin J. Gregson Foundation, the NTRA Charities, the California Thoroughbred Breeders ...
(1944–2007), racehorse owner and breeder
* Patrick McCaffery, (1844-1862), executed on 11 January 1862, who is the subject of the traditional song
McCafferty
"McCafferty" is an Irish ballad which originated as a street-ballad about British Army Private Patrick McCaffrey, executed in 1862 for the "fragging" of two officers. It is particularly popular in Ireland, where Pvt. McCaffrey came from, and w ...
;Fictional Characters
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Meg McCaffery, one of the main characters of
The Trials of Apollo
''The Trials of Apollo'' is a pentalogy of fantasy adventure and mythological fiction novels written by American author Rick Riordan that collectively form a sequel to the ''Heroes of Olympus'' series. It is set in the same world as the Riordan ...
series by
Rick Riordan. She is a demigod daughter of
Demeter
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Demeter (; Attic: ''Dēmḗtēr'' ; Doric: ''Dāmā́tēr'') is the Olympian goddess of the harvest and agriculture, presiding over crops, grains, food, and the fertility of the earth. Although s ...
and Phillip McCaffery.
See also
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McCafferty (disambiguation)
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