People
- John Moyney, an (rish recipient of the Victoria Cross, was born in Rathdowney.
- Another Victoria Cross recipient, James Pearson, was also from Rathdowney.
- John Maher's novel The Luck Penny (Brandon 2007) is set in Rathdowney, in 1849. It is loosely based on the life of the Church of Ireland minister and Assyriologist Dr Edward Hincks.
- James Ryan, an Irish novelist (South of the Border)
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