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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