McGurk

McGurk is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with this surname include:

People

• Adam McGurk (born 1989), Northern Irish footballer
• Anna McGurk (died 1991), English council worker who was raped and murdered
• Anthony McGurk, retired Gaelic footballer
• Brett McGurk, Director for Iraq, United States National Security Council
• Brian McGurk (died after 1712), Irish priest during the Penal Times
• Chris McGurk (born 1957), American producer
• David McGurk (born 1982), English footballer
• Francis McGurk (1909–1978), Scotland international footballer
• Frank McGurk (disambiguation), several people
• Harry McGurk (1936–1998), Scottish cognitive psychologist known for the discovery of the McGurk effect
• Hugh Martin McGurk, former Gaelic footballer; brother of Anthony McGurk
• Johnny McGurk (born 1965), retired Gaelic footballer; brother of Anthony and Hugh
• Michael McGurk (died 1948), Northern Ireland politician
• Michael Loch McGurk (1958–2009), Australian businessman and murder victim
• Tom McGurk (born 1946), Irish poet

Fictional characters

• Jack McGurk, nine-year-old hero of a series of books by Edmund Wallace Hildick
• Slag McGurk, hero of the 1947 film The Mighty McGurk, played by Wallace Beery
• McGurk, a villain in the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby film Road to Utopia
• McGurk, a dog (played by an actor) in the television series pilot McGurk: A Dog's Life

See also

• Carrickmore in the Parish of Termonmaguirc (McGurk), County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
• McGurk Meadow in Yosemite National Park, California
• McGurk Cabin, in Yosemite National Park, the seasonal home of cattleman Jack McGurk from 1895 to 1897
• McGurk Effect, where a sound is misheard because of a misleading visual cue