List of Famous people with last name Murphy

Calvin Jerome Murphy is an American retired professional basketball player who played as a guard for the National Basketball Association's San Diego/Houston Rockets from 1970 to 1983, and is a current member of the Houston Rockets' AT&T SportsNet TV broadcast team. Standing at a height of 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m), Murphy has the distinction of being the shortest NBA player inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame, and to play in an NBA All-Star Game.

Michael George Murphy is an American film, television and stage actor. He often plays unethical or morally ambiguous characters in positions of authority, including politicians, executives, and lawyers. He is also known for his frequent collaborations with director Robert Altman, having appeared in twelve films, TV series and miniseries directed by Altman from 1963 to 2004, including the title role in the miniseries Tanner '88. He is also known for his roles in films like Manhattan, An Unmarried Woman, Nashville, The Year of Living Dangerously, Phase IV, The Front, Shocker, Magnolia and Batman Returns.

Tammy Murphy is an American banker who previously worked for Goldman Sachs. She is the wife of the 56th Governor of New Jersey Phil Murphy, currently First Lady of New Jersey, since 2018. Murphy has taken on a public role as First Lady, with a policy portfolio and an office down the hall from her husband.

Elliott James Murphy is an American rock singer-songwriter, novelist, Record producer and journalist living in Paris.

Tucker Murphy is an American-born British cross-country skier who represents the British Overseas territory of Bermuda and has competed since 2006. He finished 88th in the 15 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. He studied at Dartmouth College and Merton College, Oxford.

Paul Peter Murphy, Baron Murphy of Torfaen, KCMCO, KSG, PC is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Torfaen from 1987 to 2015, and served in the Cabinet from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2007 to 2008 in the roles of Northern Irish and Welsh Secretary. He was nominated for a life peerage in the 2015 Dissolution Honours.

Shawn Murphy is an American sound engineer. He has won an Academy Award for Best Sound and has been nominated for another two in the same category. He has worked on more than 350 films since 1983.

Walter Anthony Murphy Jr. is an American composer, keyboardist, songwriter, and record producer. He is best known for the instrumental "A Fifth of Beethoven", a disco adaptation of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony which topped the charts in 1976 and was featured on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack in 1977. Further classical–disco fusions followed, such as "Flight '76", "Rhapsody in Blue", "Toccata and Funk in 'D' Minor", "Bolero", and "Mostly Mozart", but were not as successful.