List of Famous people named Finbarr

Finbarr Donnelly was a singer and songwriter from Northern Ireland, best known as the vocalist with the post-punk band Five Go Down to the Sea?. Known for his striking stage presence and absurdist, surreal lyrics, he and the band were hugely influential on later generations of Irish musicians. Mark McAvoy, author of "Cork Rock: From Rory Gallagher to the Sultans of Ping", writes that "Donnelly probably would have been the most influential musician and songwriter in terms of the Cork music scene and the bands that stemmed from it."

Finbarr O'Reilly is an independent Irish/Canadian photographer. He was the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize exhibition photographer and is a regular contributor to The New York Times. He won the 2019 World Press Photo First Place prize in the Portraits category, and also won the premier World Press Photo of the Year award of the 49th annual World Press Photo contest in 2006. He has earned numerous other top industry awards from Pictures of the Year International and the National Press Photographers Association. O'Reilly is the co-author with Sgt. Thomas James Brennan of Shooting Ghosts, a joint memoir by a conflict photographer and U.S. Marine whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls. O'Reilly has been a Harvard Nieman Fellow (2012-2013), a Yale World Fellow (2015) an Ochberg Fellow at Columbia University's Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma (2014), a MacDowell Colony Fellow (2016), and a writer in residence at the Carey Institute for Global Good (2016).

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.