List of Famous people born in County Donegal, Ireland

Enya

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin
Born on May 17, 1961 (age 63)
Height 157 cm | 5'2

Eithne Pádraigín Ní Bhraonáin, known professionally as Enya, is an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and musician. Born into a musical family and raised in the Irish-speaking area of Gweedore in County Donegal, Enya began her music career when she joined her family's Celtic folk band Clannad in 1980 on keyboards and backing vocals. She left in 1982 with their manager and producer Nicky Ryan to pursue a solo career, with Ryan's wife Roma Ryan as her lyricist. Enya developed her sound over the following four years with multitracked vocals and keyboards with elements of new age, Celtic, classical, church, and folk music. She has sung in ten languages.

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Joseph Duffy

First Name Joseph
Last Name Duffy
Born on February 18, 1988 (age 36)
Height 178 cm | 5'10

Joseph Duffy is an Irish retired mixed martial artist who competed in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional since 2008, he has formerly competed for Cage Warriors and was a contestant on The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck. He is also a former professional boxer.

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Amybeth McNulty

First Name Amybeth
Born on November 7, 2001 (age 22)
Height 160 cm | 5'3

Amybeth McNulty is an Irish-Canadian actress. She is known for her starring role as Anne Shirley in the CBC/Netflix drama series Anne with an E (2017–2019), based on the 1908 novel Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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Séamus Coleman

First Name Séamus
Born on October 11, 1988 (age 35)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Séamus Coleman is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a right-back and captains both Premier League club Everton and the Republic of Ireland national team.

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Daniel O'Donnell

First Name Daniel
Last Name O'Donnell
Born on December 12, 1961 (age 62)

Daniel Francis Noel O'Donnell, MBE is an Irish singer, television presenter and philanthropist. After rising to public attention in 1983 he has since become a household name in Ireland and Britain; he has also had considerable success in the US and Australia. In 2012, he became the first artist to have a different album in the British charts every year for 25 consecutive years.

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Rory Gallagher

First Name Rory
Last Name Gallagher
Born on March 2, 1948
Died on June 14, 1995 (aged 47)

William Rory Gallagher was an Irish blues and rock multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer. Born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, and brought up in Cork, Gallagher recorded solo albums throughout the 1970s and 1980s, after forming the band Taste during the late 1960s. His albums have sold over 30 million copies worldwide.

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William C. Campbell

William Cecil Campbell
First Name William
Last Name Campbell
Born on June 28, 1930 (age 94)

William Cecil Campbell is an Irish biologist and parasitologist with American citizenship, known for his work in discovering a novel therapy against infections caused by roundworms, for which he was jointly awarded the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He helped to discover a class of drugs called ivermectins, whose derivatives have been shown to have "extraordinary efficacy" in treating River blindness and Lymphatic filariasis, among other parasitic diseases affecting animals and humans. Campbell worked at the Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research 1957–1990, and is currently a research fellow emeritus at Drew University.

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Conrad Logan

Conrad Joseph Logan
First Name Conrad
Last Name Logan
Born on April 18, 1986 (age 38)

Conrad Joseph Logan is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Stamford.

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Art Parkinson

First Name Art
Born on October 19, 2001 (age 22)

Art Parkinson is an Irish actor from Moville in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster. He began his professional acting career at the age of seven. He is best known for his role as Rickon Stark on the HBO series Game of Thrones, and Kubo in the film Kubo and the Two Strings.

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Mark Farren

First Name Mark
Last Name Farren
Born on May 1, 1982
Died on February 3, 2016 (aged 33)
Height 180 cm | 5'11

Mark Farren was an Irish footballer who played as a forward for Derry City in his prime.

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