List of Famous people born in County Carlow, Ireland

William Desmond Taylor was an Anglo-Irish-American film director and actor. A popular figure in the growing Hollywood motion picture colony of the 1910s and early 1920s, Taylor directed fifty-nine silent films between 1914 and 1922 and acted in twenty-seven between 1913 and 1915.

Pádraig Amond is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a striker for League Two side Newport County.

Samuel Haughton was an Irish scientific writer.

Harriet Bagwell was an Irish philanthropist and promoter of local cottage industry.

James Haughton, nicknamed "Vegetable" Haughton, was an Irish social reformer, temperance activist and vegetarian.

Henry Bruen was an Irish first-class cricketer and British Army officer.

Denis Robert Pack-Beresford (1864–1942) was an Irish entomologist and arachnologist.

Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is an Irish barrister from Carlow and previously a broadcaster with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). She presented Eurovision Song Contest 1994 in Dublin along with Gerry Ryan.