Historical
- Pery Baylee, Final Commandant/Supervisor of Convicts, Sarah Island (1831–1833)
- Kathleen Clarke, First Lady Mayoress of Dublin, widow of Tom Clarke
- Cornelius Colbert, Irish rebel and pioneer of Fianna Éireann.
- Michael Colivet, Irish rebel, Commandant of 1916 Rising in Limerick and first TD for Limerick in Dail Éireann.
- Edward Daly, Commandant of 1916 Rising - Four Courts.
- Seán Sabhat, IRA leader killed on active service in 1957
- Gillebert of Limerick, bishop of Limerick (d. 1140)
- Mary Jane Kelly, Jack the Ripper victim
- Peter Lacy, Russian Field Marshal
- William Monsell, 1st Baron Emly (1812–1894), statesman and reformer
- John T. Mullock, Roman Catholic bishop of St. John's, Newfoundland (1850–1869)
- Sir Thomas Myles, surgeon, sailor, Home Ruler and gun-runner (1857–1937)
- Sylvester O'Halloran pioneering surgeon
- William Brooke O'Shaughnessy responsible for introducing the therapeutic use of cannabis to Western Medicine.
- Gearóid Mac Eoin an Irish academic whose studies have focused especially on aspects of Irish language, literature and history
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