List of people from Dublin
Dublin , as the capital city of Ireland and the largest city in Ireland, has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople. Also include are people affiliated with Dublin before the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
List of Dublin people
James Joyce
Oscar Wilde
Jonathan Swift
Bono
Sinéad O'Connor
Phil Lynott
Aidan Gillen
Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson
Becky Lynch
Writers, composers and philosophers
Sebastian Barry – playwright
Samuel Beckett – novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet and Nobel laureate
Brendan Behan – poet, short story writer novelist, playwright
George Berkeley – empiricist philosopher
Jon Berkeley – writer
Maeve Binchy – writer
Dermot Bolger – writer
Elizabeth Bowen – writer
Clare Boylan – writer
Christy Brown – writer
John Byrne – columnist, cartoonist
Austin Clarke – poet, novelist, dramatist
Marita Conlon-McKenna – children's author
Annie Jessy Curwen – author
Donnacha Dennehy – composer
Roddy Doyle – writer
Anne Enright – writer
Dave Fanning – rock journalist
John Field – pianist, composer, wrote the first nocturnes
Oliver Goldsmith – writer
Annie French Hector – novelist
Pat Ingoldsby – poet
James Joyce – author, poet
Trevor Joyce – poet
Jane Jowitt – poet, memoirist
Patrick Kavanagh – poet and novelist
Brendan Kehoe – software developer, author
Sheridan Le Fanu – novelist
James Clarence Mangan – poet
Columba Marmion – monk
Aidan Mathews – poet, dramatist, novelist
David McSavage – comedy writer
Thomas Moore – poet
Vincent O'Brien – composer
Seán O'Casey – playwright, memorist
John O'Keeffe – writer
Fintan O'Toole – journalist and political commentator
George William Russell – writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and theosophist
George Bernard Shaw – novelist, playwright and Nobel laureate
Ronan Sheehan – novelist, short story writer, essayist
Frances Sheridan – novelist
Richard Brinsley Sheridan – playwright
Annie P. Smithson – novelist
Charles Villiers Stanford – composer
Robert Prescott Stewart – composer
Bram Stoker – novelist
Jonathan Swift – writer, satirist
John Millington Synge – playwright
Oscar Wilde – playwright, author, poet
Maev-Ann Wren – writer
William Butler Yeats – poet, playwright and Nobel laureate
Zozimus (Michael Moran) – poet
Entertainers
Eamonn Andrews – radio and television presenter
Caitriona Balfe – actress (Outlander )
Bono – lead singer with U2 and campaigner on world debt
Wilfrid Brambell – actor (Steptoe & Son )
Ronan Browne – musician
Gabriel Byrne – actor
Gay Byrne – former presenter of The Late Late Show , the world's second longest-running chat show
Nicky Byrne – singer in Westlife
Luke Cheevers – traditional singer, song collector and songwriter
Dean Clark – actor
Cathy Davey – singer-songwriter
Chris De Burgh – musician
Alison Doody – actress
Craig Doyle – television and radio presenter
Ronnie Drew – musician
The Dubliners – folk and ballad group (Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barnie McKenna, John Sheahan)
Joe Duffy – broadcaster
Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin – stage actress
Joe Elliott – lead singer of Def Leppard
Siobhan Fahey – singer-songwriter, Bananarama and Shakespears Sister
Colin Farrell – actor
Marian Finucane – broadcaster
Barry Fitzgerald – actor
Brenda Fricker – actress
Michael Gambon – actor
Orla Gartland – singer-songwriter, musician
Stephen Gately – singer
Bob Geldof – The Boomtown Rats lead singer; Live Aid organiser
Aidan Gillen – actor (Game of Thrones )
Brian Gleeson – actor
Brendan Gleeson – actor
Domhnall Gleeson – actor
John & Edward Grimes – singing twins nicknamed "Jedward "
Glen Hansard – lead singer of The Frames; actor
Neasa Hardiman – director
C. Morton Horne – musical comedy actor
Siva Kaneswaran – member of boy band The Wanted
Ronan Keating – singer
Lisa Kelly – singer
Luke Kelly – musician
Pat Kenny – former presenter of The Late Late Show , the world's longest-running chat show
Lisa Lambe Laois actress and singer
Phil Lynott – from the band Thin Lizzy
Annie Mac – DJ and presenter
Edwin Maxwell – actor
Brian McFadden – former singer in Westlife
Kitty McShane – actor/singer who appeared in the Old Mother Riley films with Arthur Lucan
Jonathan Rhys Meyers – actor
Larry Mullen – drummer for U2
Samantha Mumba – singer, actress
Aubrey Murphy – violinist
Jonathon Ng – musician, under the alias EDEN
Colm Ó Cíosóig – musician, drummer of My Bloody Valentine
Sinéad O'Connor – singer
Jimmy O'Dea – actor and comedian
Danny O'Donoghue – lead singer for The Script
Maureen O'Hara – actress
Liam Ó Maonlaí – singer, bodhrán player; member of Hothouse Flowers
Maureen O'Sullivan – actress
Gerard Parkes – actor; moved with his family to Canada
Noel Purcell – actor, singer
Glenn Quinn – actor
Gerry Ryan – television presenter
Andrew Scott – actor (Sherlock )
Thomas Sheridan – actor
Kevin Shields – musician, vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine
Carly Smithson – singer, appeared on American Idol ; lead singer of We Are the Fallen
Ronan Tynan – inspirational tenor
Bernie Tormé – guitarist
Ryan Tubridy – current presenter of The Late Late Show , the world's longest-running chat show
Aidan Turner – actor (The Hobbit , Being Human , Poldark )
Louis Walsh – judge of X-Factor
Alisha Weir – actress and singer
Politicians and leaders
Soldiers
Sport
Other
See also
References
^ "DAVIS, Thomas, (1806 – 1895)" . Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 4 April 2014 .
^ Highfill, Philip H.; Burnim, Kalman A.; Langhans, Edward A. (1993). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 . Vol. 16. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press . p. 225. ISBN 978-0-8093-1803-2 .