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List of Irish people

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This is a list of famous Irish people.

It covers

  • people who come from the island of Ireland, which includes people from both Irish states, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
  • people of Irish descent who identified themselves or involved themselves with Ireland (eg, Eamon de Valera, Princess Grace of Monaco),
  • people who chose to adopt an Irish identity or Irish citizenship (eg, Daniel Day Lewis).

Some people born on the island of Ireland, particularly from Northern Ireland, also regard themselves as British. Perhaps because of the extent of Irish emigration, talented people of Irish birth or descent have become known throughout the world.

Art


Architecture

  • James Hoban (designer of White House)
  • Kevin Roche
  • Eileen Gray
  • Sam Stephenson

Actors

Music

Dance

Writing

Politics


Science and technology

  • Nicholas Comins (binaural stethoscope)
  • John Phillip Holland (submarine designer)
  • John Boyd Dunlop (pneumatic tyre)
  • William Rowan Hamilton (quaternions; mathematical physics)
  • George Francis FitzGerald - physicist

Sport

  • Eddie Irvine, Formula One driver
  • Paul McGinley, golfer
  • George Best, footballer
  • Dave McAuley, boxer
  • Barry McGuigan, boxer
  • Jonjo O'Neill, jockey
  • Roy Keane, footballer
  • Colm O'Rourke, Gaelic footballer
  • Sean Boylan, long-time manager of All-Ireland winning Meath football team
  • Mick O'Dywer, successful gaelic inter-county football manager
  • Sonia O'Sullivan, Olympic medal winner
  • Eamon Coughlan, runner
  • Ruby Walsh, jockey
  • Eamon Dunphy, soccer player turned media commentator and broadcaster
  • Michelle Smith - disgraced Olympic swimming medal-winner
  • Ronnie Delaney - Olympic medal winner/athletics
  • Mick McCarthy - former Republic of Ireland manager

Other

  • Harry Clarke - stained glass artist
  • Arthur Guinness - brewer
  • Terry Wogan - TV and radio "personality"
  • Gay Byrne - broadcaster and presenter of the Late Late Show (1962-1999)
  • Eamonn Andrews - TV personality, producer and businessman
  • Graham Norton - TV personality and actor
  • Pat Kenny - broadcaster & presenter of the Late Late Show (1999-present)
  • George Berkeley - philosopher
  • Neil Jordan - cinema director and author
  • Desmond Connell, Cardinal Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland
  • Lord Eames, Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
  • Jim Duffy - Irish advisor to Australia's Republic Advisory Committee
  • Lord Killanin, former head of the International Olympic Movement
  • St. Patrick - Welsh born Irish patron saint
  • St. Brigid - Irish saint and bishop
  • Dermot Morgan - satirist and star of Father Ted
  • Lord Henry Mountcharles - rock impressario, owner of Slane Castle, politician
  • 6th Earl of Longford - Gate Theatre manager
  • Lady Mary Heath - early aviator
  • Michelle Burke - twice Oscar-winner for make-up
  • Philip Treacey - milliner
  • Norah Barnacle - wife of James Joyce
  • Sir Horace Plunkett - founder of co-operative movement
  • Sir Anthony O'Reilly - Independent Newspapers and head of Heinz
  • Kitty O'Shea - mistress of Charles Stewart Parnell
  • Edward Martyn - co-founder of the Irish Literary Theatre
  • James Larkin - labour leader
  • William Martin Murphy - Dulin Employers Association (1911)
  • Johannes Scotus Erigena - theologian (b.810)
  • Ernest Shackleton - explorer


See also: List of people by nationality

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