List of Famous people born in Leinster, Ireland

Paul Gogarty

First Name Paul
Last Name Gogarty
Born on December 20, 1968 (age 57)

Paul Nicholas Gogarty is an Irish Independent politician who has served as a South Dublin County Councillor for Lucan since May 2014. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2002 to 2011.

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William Desmond Taylor

William Cunningham Deane-Tanner
First Name William
Last Name Taylor
Born on April 26, 1872
Died on February 1, 1922 (aged 49)

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.

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George Brent

George Brendan Nolan
First Name George
Last Name Brent
Died on May 26, 1979 (aged 9)

George Brent was an Irish-American stage, film, and television actor. He is best remembered for the eleven films he made with Bette Davis, which included Jezebel and Dark Victory.

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Katie McGrath

First Name Katie
Last Name McGrath
Born on January 3, 1983 (age 43)
Height 166 cm | 5'5

Katie McGrath is an Irish actress. In television, she is best known for portraying Morgana on the BBC One series Merlin (2008–2012), Lucy Westenra on the British-American series Dracula (2013–2014), Sarah Bennett in the first season of the Canadian horror anthology series Slasher (2016) and for her role as Lena Luthor on the American superhero series Supergirl (2016–present). Her film roles include Lady Thelma Furness in the drama film W.E. and Jules Daley in the Christmas movie A Princess for Christmas (2011), Zara Young in the science fiction adventure film Jurassic World (2015), and Elsa in the epic fantasy film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017).

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Jim Corr

First Name Jim
Last Name Corr
Born on July 31, 1964 (age 61)

James Steven Ignatius Corr, is an Irish musician, singer, songwriter and DJ. He is a member of the Irish folk/rock band The Corrs, the other members being his three younger sisters Andrea, Sharon and Caroline.

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Yvonne McGuinness

First Name Yvonne
Born on October 12, 1972 (age 53)

Yvonne McGuinness is an Irish visual artist who works in a variety of contexts, including video installation and print. Born in Kilkenny, Ireland and now based in Monkstown, County Dublin, her works have been shown in Ireland and the UK, and she holds an MA from the Royal College of Art in London.

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Damien Duff

First Name Damien
Last Name Duff
Born on March 2, 1979 (age 47)
Height 176 cm | 5'9

Uefa European u18 championship.winner

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George Berkeley

First Name George
Last Name Berkeley
Born on March 12, 1685
Died on January 14, 1753 (aged 67)

George Berkeley – known as Bishop Berkeley – was an Anglo-Irish philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called "immaterialism". This theory denies the existence of material substance and instead contends that familiar objects like tables and chairs are ideas perceived by the minds and, as a result, cannot exist without being perceived. Berkeley is also known for his critique of abstraction, an important premise in his argument for immaterialism.

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Pat Smullen

Patrick Joseph Smullen
First Name Pat
Last Name Smullen
Born on May 22, 1977
Died on September 15, 2020 (aged 43)
Born in Ireland, Leinster

Patrick Joseph Smullen, was an Irish jockey who won the Irish flat racing Champion Jockey title nine times. In a career running from 1992 to 2018 he rode 1,845 winners in Ireland and 47 in Britain. Amongst his biggest successes were riding Harzand to victories in the Epsom Derby and Irish Derby in 2016. He was stable jockey to Dermot Weld from 1999 until 2018.

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Jimmy Dunne

James Gerard Dunne is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for Burnley.

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