List of Irish people

Architecture

George Ashlin

Angela Brady

George Drumgoole Coleman

Sir Thomas Drew

Yvonne Farrell

Eileen Gray

James Hoban – designer of the White House

Francis Johnston

Sheila O'Donnell

Thomas Parke

Edward Lovett Pearce

Kevin Roche

Michael Scott

Actors

Sara Allgood – actress

Jonas Armstrong – actor, star of the BBC series Robin Hood

Spranger Barry – actor

Patrick Bergin – film actor

Sarah Bolger – actress, played Princess Mary Tudor in The Tudors; Spiderwick Chronicles; Princess Aurora in Once Upon a Time

Stephen Boyd – film actor

Kenneth Branagh – actor on stage, film and TV, the Harry Potter movies

Brid Brennan – actress

George Brent – Hollywood actor

Harry Brogan – actor

Pierce Brosnan – actor, best known as James Bond from 1994 to 2005

Gabriel Byrne – TV and film actor

Todd Carty – TV, stage and film actor and director

Elaine Cassidy – film actress

Tony Clarkin – actor of stage, TV, radio, film; voiceover artist

Michael Colgan – actor

Kerry Condon – actress

D'Arcy Corrigan – Hollywood actor

Catherine Cusack – stage and TV actor; daughter of Cyril Cusack

Cyril Cusack – actor of stage, film and TV (born in South Africa)

Niamh Cusack – TV actress; daughter of Cyril Cusack

Sinéad Cusack – stage, film and TV actress; daughter of Cyril Cusack; married to Jeremy Irons

Sorcha Cusack – film and TV actress; daughter of Cyril Cusack

Daniel Day-Lewis – English-born Oscar winner

Thomas Doggett – actor

Alison Doody – actress, best known for her role in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Richard Dormer – actor, playwright, known for roles in "Game of Thrones" and "Fortitude"

Jamie Dornan – actor and former model; played the Huntsman in Once Upon a Time; best known for roles in The Fall and Fifty Shades of Grey

Roma Downey – actor, best known for her role as Monica in the TV series Touched by an Angel

Ada Dyas – actress

Hilton Edwards – co-founder of the Gate Theatre, born in UK

Colin Farrell – Hollywood actor

Michael Fassbender – Hollywood actor, born in West Germany

Barry Fitzgerald – Abbey Theatre actor turned Hollywood star

Fionnula Flanagan – actress

Brenda Fricker – Oscar winner

Bronagh Gallagher – actress

Michael Gambon – theatre, TV and film actor, Harry Potter films

Charles K. Gerrard – Hollywood actor

Douglas Gerrard – Hollywood actor

Mel Gibson – actor and director, born in New York, United States

Aidan Gillen – actor, The Wire, Game of Thrones, Queer as Folk

Brendan Gleeson – actor, Harry Potter films

Brian Gleeson – actor

Domhnall Gleeson – actor

Richard Harris – actor, Harry Potter films

Forrester Harvey – Hollywood actor

Amy Joyce Hastings – actress

Amy Huberman – actress

Valene Kane – actress, The Fading Light

Brendan Kelly – actor

David Kelly – actor

J. M. Kerrigan – Abbey actor

Joanne King – actress

Dervla Kirwan – actress, Ballykissangel, Goodnight Sweetheart

Evanna Lynch – actress,Harry Potter films

Joe Lynch – TV actor

John Lynch – actor

Micheál Mac Liammhóir – co-founder of the Gate Theatre, born in UK

Gerard McCarthy – actor, Hollyoaks

Sean McClory – actor

F. J. McCormick – Abbey actor

Damian McGinty – TV actor Glee

Patrick McGoohan – actor and creator of The Prisoner

Barry McGovern – stage, film and TV actor

Katie McGrath – film and TV actress

Gerard McSorley – actor

Colm Meaney – Hollywood actor

Jonathan Rhys Meyers – film and TV actor

Charles Mitchel – actor and newsreader

Damien Molony – (stage and television actor)

Colin Morgan – actor of stage, film and TV, best known for being the lead in Merlin

Edward Mulhare – actor; played Captain Daniel Gregg in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Knight Rider

Cillian Murphy – actor

Devon Murray – actor, Seamus Finnigan in the Harry Potter movies

Liam Neeson – actor

James Nesbitt – actor

Jim Norton – character actor

Colin O'Donoghue – actor, former member of The Enemies; best known for playing Captain Hook in Once Upon A Time

Chris O'Dowd – actor and comedian

Ardal O'Hanlon – actor and comedian

Joan O'Hara – actress

Maureen O'Hara – actress

Jason O'Mara – actor

Milo O'Shea – actor

Maureen O'Sullivan – actor; mother of Mia Farrow

Peter O'Toole – Oscar winner

Glenn Quinn – actor

Stephen Rea – actor

Jack Reynor – actor

Paul Ronan – actor, The Devil's Own; father of Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan – actress

Andrew Scott – film, stage and television actor

Fiona Shaw – actress, the Harry Potter movies

Robert Sheehan – actor

Arthur Shields – actor; younger brother of Barry Fitzgerald

Niall Tóibín – actor and comedian

Stuart Townsend – actor and boxer

Aidan Turner – actor, played John Mitchell in the BBC's Being Human and Kili in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Richard Wall – actor

Chefs

Darina Allen – Irish personality and TV chef

Mrytle Allen – Irish chef, teacher and writer

Rachel Allen – Irish celebrity chef

Michael Bolster

Rory Carville

Richard Corrigan

Matthew Darcy

Matt Dowling

Kevin Dundon

Oliver Dunne

Comedians

Dave Allen

Aisling Bea

Ed Byrne

Jimmy Carr

Risteárd Cooper

Neil Delamere

PJ Gallagher

Brendan Grace

Sean Hughes

Jon Kenny

Denis Leary

Andrew Maxwell

Tim McGarry

Dylan Moran

Dermot Morgan – comedian, actor, radio personality

Colin Murphy

Graham Norton

Dara Ó Briain

Ardal O'Hanlon

Hector Ó hEochagáin

Jimmy O'Dea

David O'Doherty

Deirdre O'Kane

Jarlath Regan – comedian, journalist, interviewer, author, cartoonist

Mario Rosenstock – comedian, impressionist, actor, musician

Pat Shortt

Tommy Tiernan

Jackie Wright

Music – A to C

Chloë Agnew – singer

Iain Archer – singer/songwriter and producer

Gerald Barry – Aosdána

Derek Bell – harpist

Ed Bennett – composer

Mary Bergin – tin whistler

Big Tom – lead singer of Big Tom and The Mainliners

Wallis Bird – singer, songwriter

Frances Black – singer

Mary Black – singer

Bono – lead singer of U2

Ciarán Bourke – singer/guitarist

Brian Boydell – composer

Brídín Brennan – singer

Moya Brennan – musician

Niall Breslin – lead singer of The Blizzards

Chris de Burgh – singer, songwriter, musician

Joe Burke – accordionist

Kevin Burke – fiddler

Nicky Byrne – singer of Westlife, songwriter

Eamonn Campbell – guitarist, producer

Vivian Campbell – co-lead guitarist of Def Leppard

Seán Cannon – singer, guitarist

Paddy Casey – singer/songwriter

Patrick Cassidy – composer

Mic Christopher – singer/songwriter

Bobby Clancy – singer, banjo, guitar, harmonica, and bodhrán player

Liam Clancy – singer, guitarist

Paddy Clancy – singer, harmonica player

Tom Clancy – singer

Willie Clancy – uilleann piper

Julia Clifford – traditional fiddle player

Michael Coleman – fiddler

Finghin Collins – pianist

Tadhg Cooke – singer

Andrea Corr – singer from The Corrs

Caroline Corr – drummer

Jim Corr – guitarist

Sharon Corr – fiddle player

Phil Coulter – composer

Nadine Coyle – singer

Music – D to K

Damien Dempsey – singer/songwriter

Mike Denver – singer

Joe Dolan – singer/entertainer

Ryan Dolan – singer/songwriter

Ronnie Drew – singer, guitarist

Keith Duffy – singer of Boyzone

The Edge – guitarist, singer of U2

Kian Egan – singer of Westlife, songwriter

Séamus Ennis – uilleann piper

Enya – singer/songwriter

Órla Fallon – singer, harpist

Ciarán Farrell – composer

Mark Feehily – singer of Westlife, songwriter

Angela Feeney – opera singer

John Field – composer; creator of the nocturne

Shane Filan – singer of Westlife, songwriter

Mick Flannery – singer/songwriter

W. H. Grattan Flood – author and musicologist

Dave Flynn – award-winning composer, guitarist and singer-songwriter

Gavin Friday – singer

Finbar Furey – singer/ songwriter, uillean piper, 5-string banjo player, actor

Rory Gallagher – blues/rock guitarist

Sir James Galway – flautist

Bobby Gardiner – accordionist

Stephen Gately – singer of Boyzone

Mark Geary – singer

Bob Geldof – songwriter, singer of the Boomtown Rats, activist

Len Graham – singer

Michael Graham – singer of Boyzone

Bernadette Greevy – mezzo-soprano

John and Edward Grimes – X Factor 2009

Marc Gunn – autoharper, singer/songwriter, and podcaster, formerly of the Brobdingnagian Bards

Carmel Gunning – tin whistler

Lisa Hannigan – singer/songwriter

Glen Hansard – Oscar-winning singer/songwriter

Hamilton Harty – composer and arranger

Catherine Hayes – opera singer

Gemma Hayes – singer

Una Healy – member of girl band The Saturdays

Christie Hennessy – singer/songwriter

Paul David Hewson – also known as Bono, lead singer and principal lyricist of U2

Niall Horan – member of British-Irish boy band One Direction

Hozier – musician and singer-songwriter

Red Hurley – singer

Brian Irvine – composer

Jolyon Jackson – composer musician

Fergus Johnston – Aosdána

Siva Kaneswaran – member of boy band The Wanted

Dolores Keane – singer

Richard Kearns – classical composer

Ronan Keating – singer/songwriter

Paddy Keenan – uilleann piper

Lisa Kelly – singer

Luke Kelly – singer

Brian Kennedy – singer

Paddy Killoran – fiddler

Katie Kim – singer/songwriter, musician

Dave King – singer/songwriter

David Kitt – musician

Music – L to P

Damien Leith – singer/songwriter, winner of Australian Idol 2006

Gary Lightbody – lead singer of Snow Patrol

Josef Locke – singer

Johnny Logan – singer/songwriter

Cora Venus Lunny – violinist

Dónal Lunny – musician

Shane Lynch – singer of Boyzone

Phil Lynott – Thin Lizzy frontman

Jimmy MacCarthy – singer/songwriter

Mickey MacConnell – singer/songwriter

Shane MacGowan – English-born singer/songwriter

Sean Mackin – backup vocals and violinist of Yellowcard

Sean Maguire – violinist

Sarah Makem – singer

Tommy Makem – singer-songwriter

Enda Markey – singer

Philip Martin – pianist, Aosdána

Gwendolyn Masin – violinist, author, pedagogue

Larry Mathews – singer/songwriter, violinist

John Count McCormack – singer

Eleanor McEvoy – singer/songwriter

Brian McFadden – singer/songwriter

Damian McGinty – Celtic Thunder; played Rory Flanagan on Glee

Geraldine McGowan – folk singer

Barney McKenna – banjo player

Susan McKeown – Grammy Award-winning vocalist and songwriter

Geraldine McMahon – harpist

Paul McSherry – guitarist

Patrick Monahan – singer/songwriter; solo artist; member of Train

Christy Moore – singer/songwriter

Gary Moore – guitarist, singer/songwriter

Van Morrison – singer/songwriter

Lee Mulhern – singer/songwriter

Samantha Mumba – singer, actress

Mundy – singer/songwriter

John Murphy – fiddle player

Róisín Murphy – singer

Ruby Murray – singer

Máiréad Nesbitt – fiddler

Méav Ní Mhaolchatha – singer

Mairéad Ní Mhaonaigh – musician

Eithne Ní Uallacháin – singer

Pádraigín Ní Uallacháin – singer

Turlough O'Carolan – 17th-century harpist and composer ("Last of the Bards")

Colm Ó Cíosóig – musician, drummer of My Bloody Valentine

Maura O'Connell – singer

Máirtín O'Connor – accordionist

Sinéad O'Connor – singer

Daniel O'Donnell – country-and-western singer

Danny O'Donoghue – lead singer of The Script

Liam O'Flynn – uilleann piper

Mary O'Hara – harpist/singer

Mícheál Ó hEidhin – musician

Damian O'Neill – lead guitarist of The Undertones

John O'Neill – guitarist of The Undertones; writer of Teenage Kicks

Seán Ó Riada – composer and musician

Annmarie O'Riordan – singer/songwriter

Dolores O'Riordan – singer/songwriter, guitarist

Gilbert O'Sullivan – pop singer, songwriter, pianist

Una Palliser – violinist, violist, singer

Tommy Peoples – fiddler

Brendan Phelan – songwriter

Glen Power – drums, The Script

Music – Q to Z

Carmel Quinn – singer

Paddy Reilly – singer/guitarist

Damien Rice – singer/songwriter

Leo Rowsome – uilleann piper

Derek Ryan

Frank Ryan – tenor

Dana Rosemary Scallon – MEP-singer turned politician

Sharon Shannon – traditional musician

Feargal Sharkey – lead singer of The Undertones

John Sheahan – fiddler

Mark Sheehan – guitarist of The Script

Kevin Shields – musician, vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine

Chris Singleton – singer/songwriter

Donal Skehan – singer

Carly Smithson – singer

Patsy Touhey – piper

Paddy Tunney – singer

VerseChorusVerse – musician and singer/songwriter, pseudonym of Tony Wright

Liam Weldon – singer, songwriter

Andy White – singer/songwriter

Colm Wilkinson – singer

Ian Wilson – composer

James Wilson – composer

Dance

Breandán de Gallaí – Irish dancer

Joanne Doyle – Irish dancer

Monica Loughman – ballet

Tristan MacManus – ballroom and Latin dancer, Dancing with the Stars, US season 13

Lola Montez (Eliza Gilbert) – dancer, courtesan

Dame Ninette de Valois – ballet

Bill Whelan – composer

Writing – A to C

William Allingham – poet

John Banville – novelist

George Barrington

Sebastian Barry – novelist

Brendan Behan – playwright, novelist

Maeve Binchy – novelist

Dermot Bolger – novelist

Patrick Brontë – poet

Stephen Brown – writer, bibliographer

J. B. Bury – historian

William Carleton – novelist

Austin Clarke

Brian Cleeve – author

Brian Coffey – poet

Eoin Colfer – author

Eoghan Corry – journalist and author

Sister Margaret Anna Cusack – the "Nun of Kenmare", patriot and controversialist

Writing – D to K

Thomas Osborne Davis – writer, poet

Seamus Deane – Aosdána

Patrick Deeley – poet

Eamon Delaney

Frank Delaney

Greg Delanty – poet

Denis Devlin – poet

Roddy Doyle – novelist

Margaretta Eagar – memoirist

Garth Ennis – comic writer

Sir Samuel Ferguson – poet

Roderick Flanagan – historian

Brian Friel – playwright, Aosdána

Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver Goldsmith – novelist and dramatist

Augusta, Lady Gregory – playwright and founder of the Abbey Theatre

Hugo Hamilton – author

Dermot Healy – Aosdána

Randolph Healy – poet

Seamus Heaney – Saoi of Aosdána, Nobel Laureate

Aidan Higgins – Aosdána

Pat Ingoldsby – poet, playwright, television performer

Jennifer Johnston – Aosdána

Neil Jordan – author, film director, Aosdána

James Joyce – novelist

Trevor Joyce – poet

Herminie Templeton Kavanagh – author

Patrick Kavanagh – poet

John B. Keane – playwright, novelist and essayist

Benedict Kiely – Saoi of Aosdána

Caitlín R. Kiernan – American novelist and paleontologist

Anatoly Kudryavitsky – poet

Writing – L to P

Derek Landy – Skulduggery Pleasant series

Mary Lavin – Saoi of Aosdána

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – gothic novelist

Francis Ledwidge – poet

C. S. Lewis – author of the Chronicles of Narnia

Michael Longley – Aosdána

Seosamh Mac Grianna – Gaelic author

Oliver MacDonagh – historian

Walter Macken – novelist

James Clarence Mangan – poet

Malachi Martin – horror writer

Edward Martyn – playwright, art patron and political activist

Frank McCourt – writer

Martin McDonagh – playwright

Hugh McFadden – poet and critic

John McGahern – novelist, Aosdána

Frank McGuinness – Aosdána

Gerard McKeown – writer

Paula Meehan – poet

John Montague – poet

Thomas Moore – poet

Paul Muldoon – poet

Richard Murphy – poet, Aosdána

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill – poet

Christopher Nolan – poet, Aosdána

Edna O'Brien – novelist, Aosdána

Seán O'Casey – playwright

Frank O'Connor – short story writer

Ulick O'Connor – Aosdána

Máirtín Ó Direáin – Irish-language poet, Aosdána

Peadar O'Donnell – novelist, autobiographer and revolutionary

Harry O'Donovan – scriptwriter

Dennis O'Driscoll – poet

Seán Ó Faoláin – Saoi of Aosdána

Liam O'Flaherty – novelist, short story writer

Brian O'Nolan (aka Myles na gCopaleen – Flann O'Brien) – novelist, columnist

Philip O'Sullivan Beare – writer, historian

James Plunkett – Aosdána

Katherine Purdon-Irish writer

Writing – R to Z

Gabriel Rosenstock – poet

George William Russell – writer and critic

Maurice Scully – poet

Darren Shan – novelist, author of The Saga of Darren Shan

George Bernard Shaw – novelist, playwright

John D. Sheridan – short story writer and humorist

Richard Brinsley Sheridan – playwright

James Simmons – poet

Michael Smith – poet

Paul Smith – novelist, playwright

Annie M. P. Smithson – novelist

Geoffrey Squires – poet

Laurence Sterne – novelist

Bram Stoker – author of Dracula

Francis Stuart – Saoi of Aosdána

Jonathan Swift – Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, novelist and satirist

John Millington Synge – dramatist

William Trevor – writer, Aosdána

William Wall – novelist, poet

Oscar Wilde – novelist, poet, satirist

Macdara Woods – poet

Maev-Ann Wren – writer

William Butler Yeats – poet and Nobel laureate

Business

Donie Cassidy – businessman and TD

Elaine Coughlan – venture capitalist

Bill Cullen – businessman, philanthropist and media personality

Niall FitzGerald – honorary KBE, chief executive of Unilever

James Gamble – co-founder of Procter & Gamble

Arthur Guinness – brewer

Pat McDonagh – founder of Supermac's

J. P. McManus – businessman

Denis O'Brien – businessman

Michael O'Leary – CEO of Ryanair

Anthony J F O'Reilly – Independent Newspapers and head of Heinz, 1979–1996

David J. O'Reilly – CEO of Chevron

Tony Ryan – founder of Ryanair and Guinness Peat Aviation

Peter Sutherland – Chairman of BP Plc; Chairman of Goldman Sachs International; formerly Ireland's representative at the European Commission

Science, education and technology

Robert Adrain (1775–1843) – scientist, mathematician and United Irishman

Thomas Andrews (1813–1885) – chemist and physicist

Francis Beaufort (1774–1857) – hydrographer, developed a scale for classifying wind strength

John Stewart Bell (1928–1990) – atomic physicist, 'Bell's Inequalities'

John Desmond Bernal (1901–1971) – X-ray crystallography

Robert Boyle (1627–1691) – physicist, 'Boyle's law'

Louis Brennan (1852–1932) – principle of a guided missile, wire-guided torpedo

Pádraig de Brún (1889–1960) – scholar and mathematician

Lucien Bull (1876–1972) – high speed photography, modern electrocardiogram (ECG)

Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943– ) – discovered pulsars

Nicholas Callan (1799–1864) – inventor of the induction coil and discoverer the principle of the dynamo

Aeneas Coffey (1780–1852) – heat exchanger, inventor of the column still

William Monad Crawford – entomologist

Shane Curran – software developer, entrepreneur

William Dargan – railway engineer

David Doak (b. 1967) – scientist, video game developer and entrepreneur

Frederick G. Donnan – chemist

Michael Everson – expert in writing systems and Unicode, born in USA

Harry Ferguson – engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch

George FitzGerald (1851–1901) – theoretical physicist, 'FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction'

John Robert Gregg (1868–1948) – Gregg shorthand system

William Rowan Hamilton – quaternions; mathematical physics

John Philip Holland (1841–1914) – submarine designer

Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) – botanist

John Joly (1857–1933) – photometer, colour photography

Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) – meteorologist

Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) – crystallographer

Robert Mallet (1810–1881) – seismology

Alexander Mitchell (1780–1868) – lighthouse and marine engineer

Richard O'Keefe – computer scientist

Frank Pantridge (1916-2004) – inventor of the mobile defibrillator

Dorothy Price (1890–1954) – physician who introduced the BCG tuberculosis vaccine to Ireland

Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (1819–1903) – mathematician, physicist, 'Stokes Theorem' and Stokes-Navier Equations'

George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911) – atomic physicist, named the electron and measured its charge

John Lighton Synge (1897–1995) – mathematician

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824–1907) – physicist

John Tyndall (1820–1893) – physicist

Ernest Walton (1903–1995) – physicist, 1951 Nobel Prize in Physics

Mary Ward (1827–1869) – microscopist

John Richardson Wigham (1829–1906) – inventor and lighthouse engineer

Thomas Wynne (1942–2005) – inventor, mechanic and engineer

Sport

George Best – soccer player (Northern Ireland)

John Pius Boland – double Olympic medal-winner, tennis,1896

Packie Bonner – soccer player

Andre Botha – cricketer

Jeremy Bray – cricketer

Andrew Bree – swimmer

Tommy Byrne – racing driver

Kenny Carroll – cricketer

Michael Carruth – Olympic gold medal winner, boxing

Eamonn Coghlan – runner

Séamus Coleman – footballer

Enda Colleran – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Ray Cummins – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Brendan Cusack – fencer

Liam Daish – soccer player

Derek Daly – racing driver

Gordon D'Arcy – rugby union player

Paul Darragh – showjumper

Ron Delany – Olympic medal winner/athletics

Fergal Devitt – current WWE wrestler

Ken Doherty – former World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association champion

John Doyle – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Mick Doyle – rugby union player

Damien Duff – soccer player

Joey Dunlop – motorcycle racer, 26 times Isle of Man TT race winner

Eamon Dunphy – former soccer player, media commentator and broadcaster

Kieran Dynes – NASCAR driver

Seamus Elliott – professional cyclist

Jonny Evans – Northern Irish footballer

Stephen Farrelly – current WWE wrestler

Dave Finlay – former WWE wrestler

Ciaran Fitzgerald – rugby union player; British and Irish Lions captain

Seán Flanagan – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Sharon Foley – track and field athlete

Carl Frampton – boxer

Mick Galwey – rugby player

Edmond Gibney – equestrian

Darron Gibson – soccer player

Johnny Giles – soccer player

Peter Gillespie – cricketer

Shay Given – soccer player

Pádraig Harrington – golfer and three time Golf Majors winner

Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed – 19th-century mountaineer

David Healy – soccer player (Northern Ireland)

Kevin Heffernan – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Denis Hickie – rugby union player

Alex Higgins – Snooker player

Ray Houghton – soccer player

Denis Irwin – soccer player

Trent Johnston – cricketer

Eddie Jordan – racing driver and Formula 1 team owner

John Keane – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Robbie Keane – soccer player

Roy Keane – soccer player

Eddie Keher – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Joe Kelly – racing driver

Seán Kelly – cyclist

David Kennedy – racing driver

Joe Keohane – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Kevin Kilbane – soccer player

Michael Kinane – jockey

Ham Lambert – rugby union and cricket player

Tommy Langan – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Dave Langford-Smith – cricketer

Jim Langton – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Liam Lawrence – soccer player for Shrewsbury Town FC and former Republic of Ireland international

Alan Lewis – rugby union referee

Becky Lynch – current WWE wresstler

Jack Lynch – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium, politician

Eddie Macken – horse showjumper

Mick Mackey – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Owen Madden – soccer player

Dan Marten – cyclist

Dave McAuley – boxer

Kevin McBride – boxer

Willie John McBride – rugby union player and British and Irish Lions captain

Kyle McCallan – cricketer

David McCann – cyclist

Mick McCarthy – soccer player and former Republic of Ireland soccer manager

Wayne McCullough – Olympic silver medalist; WBC World Boxing Champion

Paul McGinley – golfer

Owen Roe McGovern – former Gaelic football player for Cavan; an All-Ireland player

Paul McGrath – soccer player

Conor McGregor – mixed martial artist

Barry McGuigan – former world Featherweight boxing champion

Catherina McKiernan – track and field athlete

Jimmy McLarnin – boxer

Lory Meagher – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Jason Molins – cricketer

John Mooney – cricketer

Paul Mooney – cricketer

Eoin Morgan – cricketer

Geordan Murphy – rugby union player

Seán Murphy – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Tommy Murphy – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Owen Nolan – hockey player

Kevin O'Brien – cricketer

Niall O'Brien – cricketer

Vincent O'Brien – voted greatest horse trainer of all time by Racing Post

Pat O'Callaghan – Olympic gold medal, hammer, 1928, 1932

Martin O'Connell – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Mick O'Connell – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Patrick O'Connell – Real Betis/FC Barcelona manager, 1930s

Paul O'Connell – rugby union player and British and Irish Lions captain

Cian O'Connor – show jumper who had Olympic gold medal taken from him

Shane O'Connor – Alpine skier, Olympian 2010

Nick O'Donnell – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Brian O'Driscoll – rugby union player and British and Irish Lions captain

Ronan O'Gara – rugby union player

Dan O'Keeffe – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Malcolm O'Kelly – rugby union player

Jonjo O'Neill – jockey

Seán O'Neill – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

J. J. O'Reilly – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Tony O'Reilly – rugby union player

Derval O'Rourke – World Indoor Champion and European silver medalist

Peter O'Sullevan – horse racing commentator

Eddie O'Sullivan – rugby union coach

Gillian O'Sullivan – World Championships silver medalist

Sonia O'Sullivan – Olympic silver medalist

Michael Phelan – billiards

Paddy Phelan – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

William Porterfield – cricketer

Seán Purcell – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Niall Quinn – soccer player

Bobby Rackard – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Boyd Rankin – cricketer

Tony Reddin – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Christy Ring – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Nicolas Roche – cyclist

Stephen Roche – cyclist

Michael Roe – racing driver

Alain Rolland – rugby union player and referee

Glenn Ross – Strongman

Mark Scanlon – cyclist

Tom Sharkey – boxer

Mikey Sheehy – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Michelle Smith – multi gold medalist 1996 Olympics

Des Smyth – golfer

Dr. Bethel Solomons – rugby union player, Ireland national team, Olympic team silver

Pat Spillane – Gaelic footballer, member of the Football Team of the Millennium

Steve Staunton – soccer player

Jim Stynes – champion Australian rules footballer

Katie Taylor – boxer, Irish, European, World and Olympic champion in the 60 kg division. Olympic Gold Medalist (2012)

Bob Tisdall – Olympic gold medal, 400mH, 1932

John Treacy – Olympic silver medal, marathon, 1984

Ruby Walsh – jockey

Brian Whelahan – member of the hurling Team of the Millennium

Ronnie Whelan – soccer player

Andrew White – cricketer

Norman Whiteside – Northern Irish footballer

Joe Wickham – former FAI President and soccer player

Keith Wood – rugby union player

Others

Aidan of Lindisfarne – saint

Anne Anderson – Irish Ambassador to the United States

Eamonn Andrews – television personality, producer and businessman

Todd Andrews – civil servant

Alfred Chester Beatty – mining magnate

George Berkeley – philosopher

Seán Brady – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

Brigh Brigaid – 1st-century Irish judge

Brigid of Kildare – Irish saint and bishop

William Brown – Irish-born Argentine Admiral

Amanda Byram – broadcaster

Gay Byrne – broadcaster and presenter of The Late Late Show (1962–1999)

Graham Cantwell – director

Edward Carson – Lord Carson, barrister and politician

Nellie Cashman – gold prospector in the United States; born in County Cork

Harry Clarke – stained glass artist

Desmond Connell – Roman Catholic Cardinal of Ireland

James Craig – Viscount Craigavon, politician

Tom Crean – explorer

Rosanna Davison – Miss World 2003

Moya Doherty – impresario

Bishop James Doyle – Bishop

Jim Duffy – Irish advisor to Australia's Republic Advisory Committee

Saint Dymphna – Irish saint

Margaretta Eagar – Limerick-born governess to the last Russian royal family

Robin Eames – Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland

Johannes Scotus Eriugena – theologian (b. 810)

Brendan Finucane – Fighter pilot for the Royal Air Force

Michael Anthony Fleming – Bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador

Brian Gibbons – Welsh politician

Glenda Gilson – model

Veronica Guerin – journalist, murdered by drug dealers in 1996

Mary, Lady Heath – early aviator

Eamonn Holmes – journalist and broadcaster

Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet – pioneer settler of America

Pat Kenny – broadcaster and former presenter of The Late Late Show

Peter Lacy – Russian field marshal

James Larkin – Labour leader

Eliza Lynch – mistress of Francisco Solano López, Paraguayan dictator

Catherine McAuley – founder the Sisters of Mercy

Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh – scribe, translator, historian and genealogist

Edward MacLysaght – Chief Herald of Ireland, 1943–54

Martin Maher – cadet instructor at the United States Military Academy

Diarmuid Martin – Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland

Edward Martyn – co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre

Catherine McGuinness – Justice of the Supreme Court of Ireland, President of the Law Reform Commission

John McKenna – Liverpool FC manager

Seán William McLoughlin (AKA Jacksepticeye) – YouTube personality

Michael Mills – ombudsman and political journalist

Annie Moore – first person to pass through Ellis Island immigration system

John Moore – director

Lord Killanin – former head of the International Olympic Committee

Kevin Murphy – Ombudsman and Information Commissioner

Graham Norton – television personality and actor

Pat O'Connor – director

Patricia O'Brien – United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel, Irish Ambassador to Geneva

Seosamh Ó Duibhginn – writer, editor, publisher, Republican, and Gaelic language activist

Gráinne O'Malley – pirate queen

Seamus O'Regan – politician, former television personality, and former host of CTV's Canada AM, born in Newfoundland, Canada

Emily O'Reilly – journalist, ombudsman and Information Commissioner

Jon Riley – major in the Saint Patrick's Battalion of the Mexican Army

Katharine O'Shea – mistress of Charles Stewart Parnell

Ian Paisley – Lord Paisley, Northern Irish politician

Saint Patrick – Irish patron saint

Margaret Phelan- founder of the Kilkenny Archeological Society

Horace Plunkett – founder of co-operative movement

Phoebe Prince – victim of bullycide

Robert Ross – British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars

Mary Ryan – first woman in Ireland or Great Britain to be appointed Professor in a University.

Ernest Shackleton – explorer

Ray Shah - DJ and radio personality

Gerard Slevin – Chief Herald of Ireland, 1954–81

Timothy Smiddy – academic, economist, Ireland's first ambassador

Mary Catherine Tinney – first female Irish ambassador (to Sweden)

Sarah Travers – BBC Newsline newsreader; attended Dominican College; lives in Portstewart

Philip Treacy – milliner

David Trimble – Lord Trimble, Northern Irish politician

Ryan Tubridy – entertainer

Peter Tyndall – ombudsman

Louis Walsh – music manager and television personality

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington – Field Marshal (defeated Napoleon at Battle of Waterloo), Commander-in-Chief of the British Army and British Prime Minister

Mary Whelan – Irish diplomat, appointed ambassador to Austria in 2014

Laura Whitmore – television presenter

Terry Wogan – television and radio personality