Ireland
People of this nationality
Hilda Wallis
1900 – 1979
tennis player
Emily Whelan
b. 2002
Gaelic football player
Stiofán Ó Fearail
singer
Malachy McGurran
1938 – 1978
politician
Shane Farrell
b. 2000
association football player
Terry Donovan
b. 1958
association football player
John Kiersey
1895 – 1960
politician
Natasha Nic Gairbheith
b. 1981
model
Edward MacLysaght
1887 – 1986
politician
Frank Ryan
1902 – 1944
journalist
John McCarthy
b. 1938
Anglican cleric
Charles Rooke
1870 – 1946
rugby union player
Eithne Ní Uallacháin
1957 – 1999
singer
Tom Wood
b. 1951
photographer
Walter Campbell
1886 – 1967
field hockey player
Chris Wall
1946 – 2021
politician
Donnchad mac Aedacain
monarch
Richard Rothwell
1800 – 1868
painter
Robert Rowlette
1873 – 1944
military physician
Noel Hill
b. 1958
musician
Thomas Alfred Jones
1823 – 1893
painter
Kelly Murphy
b. 1989
sport cyclist
Corban Walker
b. 1967
visual artist
Philip Pilkington
b. 1987
economist
Camilla Hannon
b. 1936
politician
Beatrice Behan
1925 – 1993
botanical collector
Stephen O'Mara
1844 – 1926
politician
Noel Walsh
1935 – 2020
association football coach
Ronnie Gibbons
b. 1980
association football player
Thomas Farrell
1827 – 1900
sculptor
Barney Moylan
b. 1943
hurler
Noel Mooney
b. 1976
chief executive officer
Oliver O'Gara
Frank Aiken
1898 – 1983
diplomat
Gerard Davison
1967 – 2015
politician
Aidan Ryan
b. 1965
hurler
Dominic Ryan
b. 1990
rugby union player
Michael Elmore-Meegan
b. 1959
human rights defender
Liam Whyte
1926 – 2019
politician
Mark Ward
b. 1974
politician
Juliette Crosbie
voice actor
Thomas Joseph Walsh
1911 – 1988
musicologist
Eoin Reddan
b. 1980
rugby union player
Adam Rudden
b. 1983
poet
Will Connors
b. 1996
rugby union player
John Galvin
b. 1953
hurler
Royce Burke-Flynn
b. 1987
rugby union player
Harry Boland
1925 – 2013
basketball player
Jack Boyle
b. 2002
rugby union player
Dana Rosemary Scallon
b. 1951
singer
Siomón Brecc
king
John Lyle Donaghy
1902 – 1946
teacher
Colman Corrigan
b. 1962
Gaelic football player
Robert Anthony Welch
1947 – 2013
poet
Patrick Heeney
1881 – 1911
composer
Patrick J. Reynolds
1920 – 2003
politician
Mick O'Brien
1893 – 1940
association football player
Áine Hardiman
1926 – 2013
nun
Hugh Roe O'Donnell
1572 – 1602
military personnel
Tadhg Mór Ó hUiginn
poet
Paul Mescal
b. 1996
stage actor
Eochu Apthach
king
Phyllis Ryan
1920 – 2011
actor
Christy Canavan
b. 1947
association football player
Patrick Vincent Duffy
1832 – 1909
painter
Hugh Doherty
1921 – 2014
association football player
Sarah Torrans
b. 1999
field hockey player
Niamh Coyne
b. 2001
swimmer
Bill Graham
1951 – 1996
author
Christy O'Connor Jr.
1948 – 2016
golfer
Rita Childers
1915 – 2010
Anne Margaret Rowan
1844 – 1913
writer
Gerald Mulcahy
1934 – 1994
athlete
Caroline O'Donoghue
writer
Hugh Douglas Hamilton
1740 – 1808
painter
Tim Pat Coogan
b. 1935
television presenter
Jimmy Keaveney
b. 1945
Gaelic football player
Fionán Murray
b. 1979
Gaelic football player
Ciarán Ward
b. 1970
judoka
Tony Killeen
b. 1952
politician
Johnny Murtagh
b. 1970
horse trainer
Pat Herbert
b. 1953
hurler
Ronan Curran
b. 1981
Gaelic football player
Alex Pearce
b. 1988
association football player
Mary Parr
b. 1961
hurdler
Jack Brady
b. 1996
association football player
George Noble Plunkett
1851 – 1948
diplomat
Ben Tansey
1953 – 2011
Gaelic football player
John Keogh
1740 – 1817
Niall Stokes
b. 1951
music journalist
Richard Rahilly
b. 1839
politician
Mickey O'Connell
b. 1979
hurler
Jimmy Dunne
1921 – 1972
politician
Mark Connolly
b. 1991
association football player
Willie O'Dea
b. 1952
politician
Pat Falvey
b. 1957
explorer
Edmond Malone
1741 – 1812
literary historian
Niamh Wycherley
historian
Alan Averill
b. 1975
singer
Tírechán
Catholic priest