List of Famous people with last name Dunsany

Robert Plunkett, 5th Baron Dunsany was an Anglo-Irish nobleman of the Tudor period

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist. Over 90 volumes of fiction, essays, poems and plays appeared in his lifetime. Material has continued to appear. He gained a name in the 1910s as a great writer in the English-speaking world. Best known today are the 1924 fantasy novel, The King of Elfland's Daughter, and his first book, The Gods of Pegāna, which depicts a fictional pantheon. Many critics feel his early work laid the grounds for the fantasy genre. Born in London as heir to an old Irish peerage, he was raised partly in Kent, but later lived mainly at Ireland's possibly longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara. He worked with W. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory supporting the Abbey Theatre and some fellow writers. He was a chess and pistol champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted. He devised an asymmetrical game called Dunsany's chess. In later life, he gained an honorary doctorate from Trinity College Dublin. He retired to Shoreham, Kent in 1947. In 1957 he took ill when visiting Ireland and died in Dublin of appendicitis.

John Plunkett, 3rd Baron of Dunsany was an Anglo-Irish nobleman.

Christopher Plunkett, 1st Baron of Dunsany was an Irish peer. He was the second son of Sir Christopher Plunkett, 1st Baron Killeen.

Edward Plunkett, 4th Baron of Dunsany was an Anglo-Irish nobleman: he was killed in battle during the Irish Rebellion of 1520-1.