Ireland
People of this nationality
Jason Ryan
b. 1976
Gaelic football player
Éamonn O'Doherty
1939 – 1999
political activist
Jimmy O'Brien
b. 1996
rugby union player
Thomas Pakenham
1757 – 1836
naval officer
John Traynor
1948 – 2021
drug trafficker
Lord Henry FitzGerald
1761 – 1829
politician
Ollom Fotla
king
Zoe Wilson
b. 1997
field hockey player
Joanne O'Riordan
b. 1996
sports journalist
Jack Kavanagh
b. 1988
hurler
James Burke
politician
William Magennis
1867 – 1946
politician
Diarmuid Wilson
b. 1965
politician
Jack Carson
b. 2000
cricketer
Aileen Noonan
b. 1950
chess player
Kevin O'Sullivan
b. 1984
Gaelic football player
Eoin Price
b. 1988
hurler
John Pender
b. 1963
association football player
John Lighton Synge
1897 – 1995
mathematician
Brendan Lynch
b. 1949
Gaelic football player
Deirdre Brennan
b. 1934
playwright
Constantia Maxwell
1886 – 1962
historian
Christopher Nugent
1840 – 1898
Jimmy Prendergast
b. 1949
hurler
A. Garland Mears
1842 – 1920
writer
Conor Hourihane
b. 1991
association football player
Rothechtaid Rotha
king
Tomas Coman
b. 1979
athletics competitor
Michael Paul Riordan
1789 – 1862
clerk
Thomas Shine
1872 – 1955
Catholic priest
Paddy Waters
hurler
Dónall Ó Cualáin
b. 1957
police officer
Thomas McCarthy
b. 1954
poet
Robert Richard Scanlan
1801 – 1876
painter
Jim Muldoon
b. 1946
rower
Paddy O'Loughlin
b. 1997
hurler
Robin Morton
1939 – 2021
social worker
Liam Horner
1943 – 2003
sport cyclist
Patrick Hegarty
1926 – 2002
politician
Daniel McLaughlin
b. 1990
Gaelic football player
Martin J. Tobin
b. 1951
physician
Robert Emmet
1780 – 1803
politician
Ruairí Deane
b. 1991
Gaelic football player
James Geoghegan
1886 – 1951
politician
Conor O'Callaghan
b. 1968
poet
Shane O'Sullivan
b. 1985
hurler
Denis O'Brien
b. 1958
businessperson
Charles E. Kelly
1902 – 1981
cartoonist
Andrew Jameson
1855 – 1941
politician
Caroline Casey
b. 1971
P. A. Murphy
1920 – 1973
Gaelic football player
Pete Finnerty
b. 1964
hurler
Jackie Mooney
1938 – 2017
association football player
Emma Flanagan
b. 1991
cricketer
Séamus Downey
b. 1960
sport cyclist
James Bolger
b. 2000
association football player
Neal Blaney
1893 – 1948
politician
William English
poet
Rory Keenan
b. 1980
actor
John Jinks
1872 – 1934
politician
Richard Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork
1829 – 1904
politician
Seamus Kennedy
b. 1964
singer
Euphan Maxwell
1887 – 1964
Ophthalmology
John Treacy
b. 1957
marathon runner
Daniel Hogan
1899 – 1980
politician
Dervla McTiernan
b. 1977
novelist
Geri Maye
b. 1901
continuity announcer
Mia Griffin
b. 1998
sport cyclist
Martin Carey
b. 1974
hurler
William Morton
b. 1956
curate
Larry McMahon
1929 – 2006
politician
Brian Farrell
1929 – 2014
writer
Margaret Hinchey
1870 – 1944
trade unionist
Pat Kenneally
b. 1968
Gaelic football player
Ruairí Brugha
1917 – 2006
politician
Liam Lawton
b. 1959
songwriter
Jerome Maher
hurler
Freddie Anderson
1922 – 2001
poet
Joe Connolly
b. 1956
hurler
Paddy O'Brien
b. 1945
musician
Sarah Hamilton
Actress
Paul Gogarty
b. 1968
singer
Stephen Archer
b. 1988
rugby union player
Sylvia Gee
b. 1977
association football player
Margaret Heffernan
b. 1942
chief executive officer
Ossie Colhoun
b. 1938
cricketer
George Barry
1825 – 1867
politician
Daniel Corkery
1878 – 1964
politician
Máirín Diamond
b. 1957
poet
Liam Higgins
1945 – 2006
Gaelic football player
Jamie O'Callaghan
b. 1990
rugby league player
Alan Mathews
b. 1965
association football player
Sonny Condell
b. 1949
singer-songwriter
Michael O'Brien
1933 – 2025
politician
Mary Lou McDonald
b. 1969
politician
Christopher Jones
1936 – 2018
Catholic priest
Marie Louise Reilly
b. 1980
rugby union player
Declan Dalton
b. 1997
hurler
Simon Geoghegan
b. 1968
rugby union player
John Lawlor
1820 – 1901
sculptor