Politics and governance
Dan Flynn, Texas politician
Edward J. Flynn, American politician, Secretary of State of New York 19291939
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, political activist
John Flynn (Irish politician) (died 1968), Fianna Fáil politician from Kerry
John Flynn (New Brunswick politician) (born 1954)
John Gerrard Flynn, former British Ambassador to Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and Angola
Pádraig Flynn, Irish politician between 1977 and 1999
Patrick Flynn (Canadian politician) (1921-1996), Canadian Liberal Party politician of Irish extraction
Paul Flynn (politician) (born 1935), British Labour Party MP for Newport West
Raymond Flynn, former mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
William S. Flynn (1885-1966), Governor of Rhode Island from 1923 to 1925
Flynn J. Owen Mayor of Nelson, New Zealand from 1879 to 1883
Science, medicine and academia
Colin P. Flynn, professor at the University of Illinois
James R. Flynn, intelligence researcher in New Zealand
John Flynn (minister) (1880-1951), Minister and the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia
Michael J. Flynn, American computer scientist and inventor of Flynn's taxonomy
Michael P. Flynn, electrical engineering professor at University of Michigan
Shirley E. Flynn, Wyoming historian
Helen Flynn, inventor at the University of Oxford
Maryirene Ilchert-Flynn M.D.,American Orthopedic Surgeon and New York City Police Department Police Surgeon