List of Famous people born in Ireland
Mark O'Rowe
Mark O'Rowe is an Irish playwright and screenwriter.
Stephen Henderson
Stephen Francis Henderson is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Crystal Palace.
Sam Magee
Samuel Magee is an Irish badminton player. He won 2009 European Junior Badminton Championships in the boys' doubles event at Milan, Italy with his partner Sylvain Grosjean of France. He was a bronze medalists at the European Games in the mixed doubles event with his sister Chloe Magee in 2015 Baku and 2019 Minsk, also in the men's doubles with his brother Joshua Magee in 2015.
Ed Guiney
Ed Guiney is an Irish film producer and the co-founder of Element Pictures, best known for producing the 2015 films The Lobster and Room, 2016's A Date for Mad Mary, and 2018's The Favourite. Room and A Date for Mad Mary earned him an IFTA Award for Best Film. He has been nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Picture, for Room and The Favourite.
Lottie Ryan
Lottie Ryan is an Irish TV and Radio Presenter with RTE in Ireland
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Thaddeus O'Sullivan is an Irish director, cinematographer, and screenwriter.
John Banville
William John Banville is an Irish novelist, short story writer, adapter of dramas and screenwriter. Though he has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov", Banville himself maintains that W. B. Yeats and Henry James are the two real influences on his work.
Emma Bolger
In America is a 2002 road drama film directed by Jim Sheridan. The semi-autobiographical screenplay by Jim Sheridan and his daughters, Naomi and Kirsten, focuses on an immigrant Irish family's struggle to start a new life in New York City, as seen through the eyes of the elder daughter.
Richard Higgins
Richard Brendan Higgins KC*HS, USAF (ret) is an Irish-born American bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Higgins served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA from 2004 to 2020.
Richard Bruton
Richard Bruton is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Chairman of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party since July 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin Bay North since 2016, and previously from 1982 to 2016 for the Dublin North-Central constituency. He previously served as Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment from 2018 to 2020, Minister for Education and Skills from 2016 to 2018, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation from 2011 to 2016, Deputy Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2010, Minister for Enterprise and Employment from 1994 to 1997 and Minister of State for Energy Affairs from 1986 to 1987. He was a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 1981 to 1982.