McGurk is a surname of Irish origin. Notable people with this surname include:
People
edit- 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
edit- 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
- Nick "The Slasher" McGurk, the cover identity assumed by Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 33 1/3
See also
edit- 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