45 Famous People from Ireland

Can you name 45 famous people from Ireland?

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Actor who rose to fame in Normal People and starred in Gladiator II	Paul Mescal
Singer-songwriter and a member of the boy band One Direction	Niall Horan
Mixed martial artist and UFC champion	Conor McGregor
Novelist who wrote Ulysses	James Joyce
Actor who played in Phone Booth, The Recruit and Daredevil	Colin Farrell
Most capped player and the top goal scorer of Ireland	Robbie Keane
Comedy chat show host	Graham Norton
Actor who portrayed Tommy Shelby in the series Peaky Blinders	Cillian Murphy
Crime reporter who was shot dead by drug lords in 1996	Veronica Guerin
Female sprinter and national record holder from the 60m up to the 400m	Rhasidat Adeleke
Long distance runner and world champion in athletics	Sonia O'Sullivan
Novelist who wrote the 1953 play Waiting for Godot	Samuel Beckett
Playwright who wrote Pygmalion and Saint Joan	George Bernard Shaw
Anglo-Irish explorer who led three expeditions to the Antarctic	Ernest Shackleton
Second of only two cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories	Stephen Roche
Actress who won Oscars for Best Actress for her role in Hamnet	Jessie Buckley
CEO of Ryanair airline	Michael O'Leary
Comedian and the star of sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys	Brendan O'Carroll
Founder of the famous Dublin brewery	Arthur Guinness
Actor who played Dumbledore in the early Harry Potter films	Richard Harris
Actor who played in Steve Jobs and 12 Years a Slave	Michael Fassbender
Antarctic explorer who participated in three British expeditions	Tom Crean
Author of Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift

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Lead singer of The Cranberries	Dolores O'Riordan
Actor who portrayed T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia	Peter O'Toole
Actor who played in The Usual Suspects and Miller’s Crossing	Gabriel Byrne
Frontman of the rock band U2	Bono
Political leader referred as 'the Liberator'	Daniel O'Connell
Female pirate and partner of Calico Jack Rackham	Anne Bonny
Founder of a F1 team which operated from 1991 to 2005	Eddie Jordan
Author of the Gothic horror novel Dracula	Bram Stoker
Poet who wrote Sailing to Byzantinum	William Butler Yeats
Novelist who wrote The Portrait of Dorian Gray	Oscar Wilde
Singer who performed the song Nothing Compares 2 U	Sinead O'Connor
Leading figure in the Irish struggle for independence	Michael Collins
President of Ireland from 2011 to 2025	Michael D. Higgins
Lead singer of the rock band The Boomtown Rats	Bob Geldof
Lead singer of boyband group Boyzone	Ronan Keating
Captain of the Ireland rugby team from 2003 until 2012	Brian O'Driscoll
Famous redhead who often played in westerns and adventure films	Maureen O'Hara
First female president of Ireland from 1990 to 1997	Mary Robinson
Female professional boxer and world champion	Katie Taylor
Actor who played James Bond	Pierce Brosnan
Singer known for her Celtic and New Age stylings	Enya
Actress who played in Atonement, Brooklyn and Ladybird	Saoirse Ronan

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Level 60

Jan 17, 2023

Maybe add Danny O'Donoghue from The Script?

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