List of Famous people born in Ireland

Peter O'Meara is an Irish actor. Known for his work on the London stage he came to the screen in the HBO series Band of Brothers playing the role of Lieutenant Norman Dike. He garnered a popular following on USA TV series Peacemakers as Detective Larimer Finch bringing the science of the future to the old west opposite Tom Berenger as Marshall Jared Stone. For this, he received the Western Heritage Bronze Wrangler award.

Jacqui Hurley is an Irish athlete, sports manager, sports broadcaster and chat show host employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). She is the co-presenter of Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1 and presents the sports news on RTÉ television news each day. Hurley has played at the highest level in the sports of basketball and camogie and currently manages the Irish under-16 women's basketball team. On 1 February 2009, she became the first woman to present a sports show on RTÉ Radio when she began working on Sunday Sport.

Patrick Joseph Walsh, is an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and from 1991 until 2008 he was the 31st bishop of Down & Connor.

Pauline McLynn is an Irish character actress and author. She is best known for her roles as Mrs Doyle in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted, Libby Croker in the Channel 4 comedy drama Shameless, Tip Haddem in the BBC One comedy Jam & Jerusalem, and Yvonne Cotton in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. McLynn also appeared as a Garda in Sky One's Trollied.

Avril Doyle is a former Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State at the Department of the Taoiseach from 1995 to 1997 and Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Environmental Protection from 1986 to 1987. She served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 1999 to 2004 and 2004 to 2009, a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wexford constituency from 1982 to 1989 and 1992 to 1997 and a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 1989 to 1992 and 1997 to 2002.

Kiev Connolly is an Irish singer and musical director.

Moe Dunford is an Irish actor who is best known for his roles in Vikings and Patrick's Day.

Fionnuala Sherry is an Irish violinist and vocalist. She makes up half of the New Instrumental duo Secret Garden, which won the Eurovision Song Contest 1995 with the predominantly instrumental piece "Nocturne".

Timothy Vincent Murphy is an Irish actor based in Los Angeles. His notable 2015 roles have been on The Bastard Executioner, Grace and Frankie, and True Detective. He played Galen O'Shea for three seasons on the Kurt Sutter FX series, Sons of Anarchy. For his portrayal, Murphy won the 2013 BuzzFocus Readers Choice Award for "Best Villain". He appeared for two seasons on NCIS: Los Angeles as Russian super-villain Sidorov, and a season on the CBS series, Criminal Minds as Emily Prentiss' nemesis/love interest, Ian Doyle. He has guest starred on such series as Hawaii Five-0, Revenge, Burn Notice, Shameless, Quantico, 24, Nip/Tuck, Alias, Six Feet Under, and Code Black.

There are five members in the English-Irish boy band the Wanted: Max George Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes who are from England, and Siva Kaneswaran who is from Ireland.