County Wexford - People

People

• John Barry - Commander United States Navy.
• John Banville - journalist and author (winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2005).
• Paddy Berry - singer, song collector and folklorist.
• Wallis Bird - musician.
• Myles Byrne - participant in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Thomas Cloney - participant in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• John Henry Colclough – participant in the Irish Rebellion of 1798
• Eoin Colfer - best-selling children's author.
• Brendan Corish - Irish Labour Party leader and Tánaiste.
• Gordon D'Arcy- Rugby player, Leinster & Ireland.
• Francis Danby - 19th century painter.
• Pádraic Delaney - actor.
• Anne Doyle - RTÉ newsreader.
• Kevin Doyle - football player.
• Shane Dunphy - writer, journalist, sociologist, broadcaster and musician.
• John French - maternal grandfather of George Harrison
• Nicholas French - former RC Bishop of Ferns.
• Nicholas Furlong - author, journalist and historian.
• Edward Hay - author of a history of the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Beauchamp Bagenal Harvey - participant in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Herbert Hore - historian.
• Patrick Kennedy - great-grandfather of John F. Kennedy (former president of the United States).
• Father John Murphy - participant in the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
• Aidan O'Brien - horse trainer.
• Michael O'Hanrahan - Irish rebel executed for fighting in the 1916 Easter Rising.
• Nicky Rackard - hurling player.
• John Redmond - 19th/20th century nationalist politician.
• Billy Roche - playwright.
• Dick Roche - politician.
• James Ryan - politician and Irish Revolutionary.
• Martin Storey - hurling player.
• Colm Tóibín - Booker Prize-nominated author.
• Michael Balfe - 19th century composer, grew up in Wexford.
• Major G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton - zoologist, grew up in Kilmanock
• Des Bishop - New York-born comedian, went to school in Co. Wexford.
• Chris de Burgh - Argentinian-born singer-songwriter, based in Co. Wexford.
• Anna Maria Hall (Mrs. S.C. Hall) - 19th century novelist, raised in Bannow.