title: Reagan (surname)
text: # Reagan (surname)
  
  The family name Reagan, and its cognates Regan, O'Regan, O Regan, O'Reagan, is an Anglicized form of the Irish surname Ó Riagáin or Ó Ríogáin, from Ua Riagáin. The meaning is likely to originate in ancient Gaelic from ri "sovereign, king" and the diminutive -in, "the king's child", transliterating as "little king"
  
  The feminine forename Regan is likely to have derived sometime later from the English royal name Regina.
  
  Notable people with the surname include:
  
  * Jimmy Reagan (1891–1975), American boxer who won the World Bantamweight Championship.
  * Ronald Reagan (1911–2004), 40th president of the United States
  * Nancy Reagan (1921–2016), wife of Ronald Reagan and First Lady from 1981 to 1989
     * Maureen Reagan (1941–2001), President Reagan's daughter from his first marriage to Jane Wyman
     * Michael Reagan (born 1945), President Reagan's adopted son and radio talk show host
     * Patricia Ann Reagan (born 1952), better known as Patti Davis, Ronald and Nancy Reagan's daughter
     * Ron Reagan (born 1958), President Reagan's son and journalist
  * Frank Reagan (1919–1972), American football player
  * John Henninger Reagan (1818–1905), Confederate politician
  * Johnny Reagan (1926–2018), American college baseball coach
  * Lisa Reagan, American singer
  * Marc Reagan, NASA Station Training Lead and NEEMO underwater program Mission Director
  * Michael Joseph Reagan (born 1954), American judge
  * Michele Reagan (born 1969), Secretary of State of Arizona
  * Ron Reagan (Florida politician) (born 1954), American politician
  