United States of America
- Michael Corcoran, General in the Union Army
- Philip Sheridan, General in the Union Army
- Jeremiah O'Brien
- Thomas Francis Meagher
- Commodore John Barry "Father of the American Navy"
- Myles Walter Keogh
- Edward Stack
- Richard Montgomery
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