hooligan

from Russian хулиган hooligan (thug, ruffian, young opponent of the Soviet regime) via English hooligan (1898). Other sources (Clarence Rook, Hooligan Nights, 1899) trace the origin to a certain Patrick Hooligan, a petty criminal from the Borough of London, sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a policeman, or (Earnest Weekley, Romance of Words, 1912) to the Irish Houlihan family from Southwark, London.