List of Famous people with last name Cork

Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, also known as the Great Earl of Cork, was an English-born politician who served as Lord Treasurer of the Kingdom of Ireland.

Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and Orrery KP, PC, styled Viscount Dungarvan between 1834 and 1856, was a British courtier and Liberal politician. In a ministerial career spanning between 1866 and 1895, he served three times as Master of the Buckhounds and twice as Master of the Horse.

John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and 5th Earl of Orrery, FRS was a writer and a friend of Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson.

Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork and 7th Earl of Orrery was an Irish peer.

General Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork and Orrery KP, styled Viscount Dungarvan from 1768 to 1798, was an Irish soldier and peer.

John William Boyle, 14th Earl of Cork and 14th Earl of Orrery DSC VRD, styled The Honourable John Boyle from 1965 to 1995, was an Irish and British peer.

Hamilton Boyle, 6th Earl of Cork and 6th Earl of Orrery was the son of John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Lady Henrietta Hamilton. He inherited the titles of 6th Earl of Cork and Orrery and 3rd Baron Boyle of Marston from his father in 1762.

Bruce Cork was a physicist who discovered the antineutron in 1956 while working at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He retired from Lawrence in 1986. He died October 7, 1994 at the age of 78 after a long illness.

Saint Finbar, Finbarr, Finnbar, or Finnbarr, in Irish Fionnbharra, very often abbreviated to Barra, was Bishop of Cork and abbot of a monastery in what is now the city of Cork, Ireland. He is patron saint of the city and of the Diocese of Cork. His feast day is 25 September.