Halsey (surname)

Halsey is an English surname with several possible origins. It may be derived from Alsa, in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, England. This place name was once known as Assey, and was recorded as Alsiesheye in 1268. Another possibility is that the name is derived from Halsway, in Somerset, England. The latter place name is derived from the Old English word elements hals ("neck") and weg ("way", "road").^[1][2]

People

• A. H. Halsey (born 1923), British sociologist
• Alan Halsey (born 1949), British poet
• Brad Halsey (1981–2014), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Brett Halsey (born 1933), American film actor
• Delbert W. Halsey (1919–1942), United States Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient
• Forrest Halsey (1877–1949), American screenwriter
• Frederick A. Halsey (1856–1935),American mechanical engineer and economist
• Frederick Halsey (1839–1927), English politician
• Francis Whiting Halsey (1851–1919), American journalist and historian
• George A. Halsey (1827–1894), American Republican Party politician
• David Halsey (1919–2009), Bishop of Carlisle (1972-1989)
• Hugh Halsey (1794–1858), NYS Surveyor General 1845-1847
• Lionel Halsey (1872–1948), British Royal Navy officer
• Jehiel H. Halsey (1788–1867), U.S. Representative from New York
• John Halsey (privateer) (died 1708), colonial American privateer
• John Halsey (musician), English drummer
• Sir John Walter Brooke Halsey, 4th Baronet (born 1933)
• Margaret Halsey (1910–1997), American writer
• Mark Halsey (born 1961), English football referee
• Neal Halsey (born 1945), American pedatrician
• Nicholas Guy Halsey (born 1948), heir to the Halsey Baronetcy
• Sherman Halsey (1957–2013), American music video and television director
• Silas Halsey (1743–1832), U.S. Representative from New York
• Simon Halsey (born 1958), English choral conductor
• Sir Thomas Halsey, 3rd Baronet (1898–1970), English cricketer and naval officer
• Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863–1951), American Representative from Missouri
• Thomas Plumer Halsey (1815–1854), British MP for Hertfordahire (1846-1854)
• Sir Walter Halsey, 2nd Baronet (1868–1950), British Army officer
• William F. Halsey, Sr. (1853–1920), USN officer
• William Halsey, Jr. (1882–1959), USN naval aviator and admiral in World War II
• William Halsey (mayor), first mayor of Newark, New Jersey
• The Halsey baronets, created in 1920

Fictional characters

• Dr. Catherine Elizabeth Halsey, scientist and creator of the Spartan II project in the Halo series of books and video games.
• Dr. Allan Halsey, Dean of the Medical School at Miskatonic University in H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West–Reanimator
• Charles Halsey, President of the United States in The Outer Limits episode Trial by Fire.
• Lt. Halsey, munitions specialist of shuttle Independence in Armageddon

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