Ireland
People of this nationality
Robert Fagan
1761 – 1816
anthropologist
Sophia Derivan
b. 2000
tennis player
Jonathan O'Brien
b. 1971
politician
Patrick D. Tyrrell
1831 – 1920
U.S. Secret Service agent
Gerald Griffin
1803 – 1840
writer
Conor Cusack
b. 1979
hurler
Noel Slevin
b. 1954
journalist
Peter Eccles
b. 1962
association football player
Paul Wallace
b. 1971
rugby union player
Ismania Nugent
1838 – 1918
lady-in-waiting
Carmel Snow
1887 – 1961
fashion editor
Breon Corcoran
b. 1971
business executive
John MacKenna
b. 1952
novelist
Stephen McGuinness
b. 1973
association football player
Henry McStay
b. 1985
association football player
Orla Walsh
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Micheál Lyng
b. 1985
Gaelic football player
Cahir Healy
b. 1986
hurler
Ralph McLean
b. 1901
radio personality
Mae Sexton
b. 1955
politician
Stephen Milne
b. 1985
sailor
Brian Brendan Wright
b. 1945
drug trafficker
Lóegaire Lorc
sovereign
Michael Quinn
b. 1990
Australian rules football player
Mary-Pat Moore
b. 1961
cricketer
Joe Clarke
b. 1986
hurler
John King
1865 – 1938
military personnel
Emer Higgins
b. 1983
politician
Mikey Lee
b. 1993
hurler
Paul McGrath
b. 1966
Gaelic football player
Declan Brady (Irish criminal)
criminal
Carey Joyce
1922 – 2010
politician
Kevin Doherty
b. 1980
association football coach
Alexander Carte
1805 – 1881
zoologist
Ruth McCabe
actor
Aleen Cust
1868 – 1937
veterinarian
John Hassett
1891 – 1955
politician
Mark McGuinness
b. 2001
association football player
Paddy Forde
1922 – 1972
politician
Rea Garvey
b. 1973
singer
Roy Magowan
b. 1939
athlete
Tim Goodbody
b. 1983
sailor
Charles Breslin
1964 – 1985
Willie Penrose
b. 1956
politician
Richard Coakley
b. 1983
rower
Nóra Ní Shíndile
singer
Christopher O'Sullivan
b. 1982
politician
Leo O'Kelly
b. 1949
singer-songwriter
Matt Brennan
b. 1936
politician
Professor John Cummings
b. 1828
musician
Tony Guilfoyle
b. 1960
actor
Barbara Fitzgerald
1911 – 1982
novelist
Jim Cashman
b. 1965
hurler
Peter von Lacy
1678 – 1751
governor
Pádraig Reidy
b. 1986
Gaelic football player
Pádraic Mannion
b. 1993
hurler
James Kernan
b. 1958
equestrian
Winifred Carney
1887 – 1943
trade unionist
Augustus Young
b. 1943
poet
Éamon de Buitléar
1930 – 2013
film director
Pat McCarthy
record producer
Gene Kerrigan
b. 1950
journalist
Patricia Forde
b. 1960
writer
Martin Duffy
b. 1952
film director
Patrick Thomas Leonard
1828 – 1905
Yaakov Herzog
1921 – 1972
diplomat
Samuel Beckett
1906 – 1989
writer
Michael O'Hickey
1860 – 1916
Kyle McCall
b. 1992
rugby union player
John Bacon
b. 1973
association football player
Samthann
poet
Brian Murphy
b. 1983
association football player
Colm McCoy
1936 – 2010
boxer
Jennifer Gray
b. 1993
cricketer
Thomas Heary
b. 1979
association football player
Catherine Connolly
b. 1955
politician
Sabina Higgins
b. 1944
actor
Desmond Lacey
1925 – 1974
association football player
Michael Courtney
1945 – 2003
Catholic priest
Con O'Callaghan
1908 – 1976
athletics competitor
Emma C. Teeling
zoologist
Peter Roche
politician
Séamus Plunkett
b. 1961
hurler
Denis Rice
b. 1958
rower
Doris E. Smith
1919 – 1994
novelist
Paul Cummins
b. 1984
basketball player
Cristiano Fitzgerald
b. 2003
association football player
David Feldman
b. 1947
non-fiction writer
Lee Cronin
b. 1982
screenwriter
Phil Chevron
1957 – 2013
singer
Patrick Curran
politician
Evin Nolan
1930 – 2016
painter
James Connor
b. 1959
dressage rider
James Regan
b. 1991
hurler
Conor Whelan
b. 1996
hurler
Michael Martin Dwyer
1984 – 2009
Victor Griffin
1924 – 2017
priest
Chris Hayes
b. 1987
jockey
Kevin Higgins
1967 – 2023
poet
Peter Crowley
b. 1990
Gaelic football player