List of Irish people

This is a list of notable Irish people who were born on the island of Ireland, in either the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland, and have lived there for most of their lives. Also included on the list are people who were not born in Ireland, but have been raised as Irish, have lived there for most of their lives or in regards to the Republic of Ireland, have adopted Irish citizenship (e.g., Daniel Day-Lewis). The names are sorted by surname.

Location of Ireland

Art

Architecture

Actors

Chefs
  • Darina Allen – Irish personality and TV chef
  • Myrtle Allen – Irish chef, teacher and writer
  • Rachel Allen – Irish celebrity chef
  • Danni Barry
  • Michael Bolster
  • Rory Carville
  • Richard Corrigan
  • Matthew Darcy
  • Matt Dowling
  • Kevin Dundon
  • Oliver Dunne
  • Catherine Healy
  • Neven Maguire – Irish celebrity chef
  • Clare Smyth

Comedians

Music – A to C

Music – D to K

Music – L to P

Music – Q to Z

Dance

Writing – A to C

Writing – D to K

Writing – L to P

Writing – R to Z

Business

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
  • George Boole (1815–1864) – Boolean Algebra, Digital Logic
  • 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 (born 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
  • William Dargan – railway engineer
  • David Doak (born 1967) – scientist, video game developer and entrepreneur
  • Frederick G. Donnan – chemist
  • Michael Everson – expert in writing systems and Unicode, born in the U.S.
  • Wentworth Erck – astronomer, poor-law guardian and magistrate
  • Harry Ferguson – engineer, designer of the modern farm tractor, inventor of the three-point hitch
  • George FitzGerald (1851–1901) – theoretical physicist, 'FitzGerald-Lorentz Contraction'
  • Patrick Ganly (1809–1899) – geologist; described the use of cross-bedding in stratification
  • John Robert Gregg (1868–1948) – Gregg shorthand system
  • William Rowan Hamilton – mathematician, astronomer and mathematical physicist
  • Áine Hardiman – nun, headteacher, anti-apartheid activist
  • John Philip Holland (1841–1914) – submarine designer
  • Ellen Hutchins (1785–1815) – botanist
  • John Joly (1857–1933) – photometer, colour photography
  • Sindy Joyce – education
  • Richard Kirwan (1733–1812) – meteorologist
  • Alice Lawrenson, (1841–1900) – botanical writer and gardener
  • Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–1971) – crystallographer
  • Christine E. Loscher – biotechnologist
  • Percy Ludgate (1883–1922) – designer of the second Analytical Engine
  • Lydia Lynch – immunologist
  • Kathleen Lynn (1874–1955) – one of the first female medical doctors in Ireland, politician and activist
  • Robert Mallet (1810–1881) – seismology
  • Alexander Mitchell (1780–1868) – lighthouse and marine engineer
  • Dervilla Mitchell – engineer
  • Hannah Moylan (1867–1902) – first woman to get a degree in Science in Ireland
  • Robert Murphy (1806–1843) – mathematician and physicist
  • Cliona O’Farrelly – immunologist, Trinity College
  • 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
  • Patricia Redlich (1940–2011) – clinical psychologist
  • 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

TV and Radio

Saints

Others

See also
  • List of Cork people
  • List of Donegal people
  • List of Dublin people
  • List of Galway people
  • List of Kilkenny people
  • List of Limerick people
  • List of Meath people
  • List of Sligo people
  • List of Waterford people

Further References
  1. "The Top 100 Books of All Time". The Guardian. 8 May 2002. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. Bloom, Harold (1994). "Beckett…Joyce…Proust…Shakespeare". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 493–514. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  3. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 555. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  4. Bloom, Harold (1994). "Joyce's Agon with Shakespeare". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 413–432. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  5. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 553. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  6. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 537–538. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  7. Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 544. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  8. Wood, James (7 October 1994). "The best books since 1945". The Guardian. pp. 29–30.
  • Hamilton, Catherine Jane (1900). Notable Irishwomen. Dublin, Ireland: Sealy, Bryers & Walker. Retrieved 10 November 2013.


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