List of Famous people born in Leinster, Ireland

Henry De Vere Stacpoole

First Name Henry
Last Name Stacpoole
Born on April 9, 1863
Died on April 12, 1951 (aged 88)

Henry de Vere Stacpoole was an Irish-British author, born in Ireland in Kingstown. His best-known work is the 1908 romance novel The Blue Lagoon, which has been adapted into multiple films. He published using his own name and sometimes the pseudonym Tyler de Saix.

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Peter Rice

First Name Peter
Last Name Rice
Born on June 16, 1935
Died on October 25, 1992 (aged 57)

Peter Rice was an Irish structural engineer. Born in Dublin, he grew up in 52 Castle Road, Dundalk in County Louth, and spent his childhood between the town of Dundalk, and the villages of Gyles' Quay and Inniskeen. He was educated at Queen's University of Belfast where he received his primary degree, and spent a year at Imperial College, London. Rice acted as Structural Engineer on three of the most important architectural works of the 20th century: the Sydney Opera House, Pompidou Centre and the Lloyd's Building and was renowned for his innate ability to act as both engineer and designer.

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Charlie Murphy

Charlotte Murphy
First Name Charlie
Last Name Murphy

Charlotte Murphy is an Irish actress. She is best known for her role as Siobhán Delaney in the RTÉ drama series Love/Hate, for which she won Best TV Actress at the 2013 Irish Film and Television Award, and Best Actress in a Lead Role at the 2015 Irish Film and Television Awards. She won a further two IFTA awards in 2017, for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Ann Gallagher in the BBC One drama series Happy Valley, and in 2018 for Best Actress in a Supporting Role as Jessie Eden in the BBC One historical crime drama series Peaky Blinders.

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Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh

First Name Cearbhall
Born on February 12, 1911
Died on March 21, 1978 (aged 67)

Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, judge and barrister who served as the fifth President of Ireland from December 1974 to October 1976. He served as a Judge of the European Court of Justice from 1973 to 1974, Chief Justice of Ireland from 1961 to 1973, a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1953 to 1973, and Attorney General of Ireland from 1946 to 1948 and from 1951 to 1953.

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Charles Yelverton O'Connor

First Name Charles
Last Name O'Connor
Born on January 11, 1843
Died on March 10, 1902 (aged 59)
Born in Ireland, Leinster

Charles Yelverton O'Connor,, was an Irish engineer who is best known for his work in Western Australia, especially the construction of Fremantle Harbour, thought to be impossible, and the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme.

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Leslie Cliff

First Name Leslie
Last Name Cliff
Born on June 5, 1908
Died on August 2, 1969 (aged 61)

Leslie Howard Talbot Cliff was a British pair skater who competed with his wife, Violet Cliff. The couple finished seventh at the 1936 Winter Olympics. That same year, they won the silver medal at the European Figure Skating Championships and the bronze at the World Figure Skating Championships. They won another bronze at the 1937 World Championships.

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Kenneth Edgeworth

First Name Kenneth
Born on February 26, 1880
Died on October 10, 1972 (aged 92)
Born in Ireland, Leinster

Kenneth Essex Edgeworth was an Army officer, engineer, economist and independent theoretical astronomer. He was born 26 February 1880 in Street, County Westmeath. Edgeworth is best known for proposing the existence of a disc of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1930s. Observations later confirmed the existence of the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt in 1992. Today those distant solar system bodies including Pluto, Eris, and Makemake, are grouped into the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, or Kuiper belt.

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Tony Adams

First Name Tony
Last Name Adams
Born on February 15, 1953
Died on October 22, 2005 (aged 52)

Anthony Patrick "Tony" Adams was an Irish film and theatrical producer.

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Patrick Sarsfield

First Name Patrick
Last Name Sarsfield
Born on January 1, 1628 (age 398)
Born in Ireland, Leinster

Patrick Sarsfield was an Irish landowner and soldier of the seventeenth century noted for his role in the Irish Confederate Wars. He is best known as the father of Patrick Sarsfield, Earl of Lucan, and is sometimes referred to as Patrick Sarsfield the Elder because of this.

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Anne Randolph

First Name Anne
Last Name Randolph
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