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.

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