Fintan

Fintan is an Irish given name. Notable persons and characters with this name include:

• Fintan mac Bóchra, a figure in Irish mythology
• Fintan of Clonenagh, a 6th- and 7th-century Irish saint
• Saint Fintan Munnu, a 7th-century Irish saint, a disciple of Saint Columba
• James Fintan Lalor, (1807–1849) an Irish revolutionary,
• Fintan Mundwiler, a 19th-century Swiss Benedictine
• Fintan Kilbride (1927–2006), an Irish priest
• Fintan McAllister, an Irish cricketer
• Fintan Connolly, an Irish film-maker
• Fintan Coogan, Snr (1910–1985), an Irish politician
• Fintan Coogan, Jnr, an Irish politician
• Fintan Cullen, an Irish writer and academic
• Fintan Ryan, a British scriptwriter
• Fintan Walsh, an Irish gaelic football player
• Salmon of Wisdom, an immortal creature in Irish mythology