Top 30 most important and famous people from Ireland - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Writer, author of Dubliners and Ulysses	James Joyce	88%
Writer, author of The Picture of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde	88%
Rock band, With or Without You, I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For	U2	82%
Writer, author of Dracula	Bram Stoker	81%
Actor, famous for his role in Schindler's List	Liam Neeson	81%
Actor known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond in the Bond film series	Pierce Brosnan	68%
Actor, famous for his roles in The Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot and Lincoln, three times winner of Academy Award	Daniel Day-Lewis	67%
Writer, author of Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift	63%
Mixed martial artist former Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) featherweight and lightweight double-champion	Conor McGregor	56%
Footballer of 1990s and 2000s, legend of Manchester United	Roy Keane	56%
Writer, author of Waiting for Godot, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969	Samuel Beckett	54%
Actor, famous for his role in Lawrence of Arabia	Peter O'Toole	53%
Playwright, author of Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan, winner of Nobel Prize and Academy Award	George Bernard Shaw	49%
Actor, famous for his roles in Daredevil and Alexander	Colin Farrell	42%
Writer and key figure of XX century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. Winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923	William Butler Yeats	39%
Actor famous for his role as Alastor Moody in the Harry Potter films. He is also known for his supporting roles in films such as Braveheart and Troy	Brendan Gleeson	38%
Actress and singer, who became successful in Hollywood from the 1940s to the 1960s. She was a natural redhead who was known for playing passionate but sensible heroines, often in Westerns and adventure films	Maureen O'Hara	29%
Actor, famous for his roles in Red Desert, This Sporting Life and Camelot	Richard Harris	29%
Politician, called The Liberator, his mobilization of Catholic Ireland secured the final installment of Catholic emancipation in 1829 and allowed him to take a seat in the United Kingdom Parliament to which he had been twice elected	Daniel O'Connell	28%
Actor, famous for his role as Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter film series	Michael Gambon	28%
Painter, known for his raw, unsettling imagery. Focusing on the human form, his subjects included crucifixions, portraits of popes, self-portraits, and portraits of close friends, with abstracted figures sometimes isolated in geometrical structures	Francis Bacon	26%
The first modern chemist, one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method	Robert Boyle	24%
Poet, author of Death of a Naturalist, winner of Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995	Seamus Heaney	22%
Politician who opposed British rule in Ireland, and was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916, commanding the Irish Citizen Army	James Connolly	19%
Philosopher whose primary achievement was the advancement of a theory he called immaterialism or subjective idealism	George Berkeley	10%
Physicist who made major contributions in optics, classical mechanics and abstract algebra. His work was fundamental to modern theoretical physics, particularly his reformulation of Newtonian mechanics	William Rowan Hamilton	8%
Physicist and mathematician who made contributions to fluid mechanics, physical optics, with notable works on polarization and fluorescence, vector calculus and contributed to the theory of asymptotic expansions	George Stokes	7%
Writer, author of The Vicar of Wakefield and The Deserted Village	Oliver Goldsmith	7%
Physicist known for his work with John Cockcroft to construct one of the earliest types of particle accelerator, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1951	Ernest Walton	6%
Composer and Celtic harper, considered by many to be Ireland's national composer	Turlough O'Carolan	3%

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