People
- Muhammad Ali, boxer and sporting icon, whose great grandfather is claimed to be from Ennis and is claimed by the town as one of their own. That claim is disputed by historians and genealogists.
- James Bartholomew Blackwell, French Revolutionary soldier
- Thomas Dermody, 18th century poet
- Michael Enright, Democratic Left politician
- Kelly Gough, television and stage actress
- Kieran Hanrahan, radio host and tenor banjo player who won the All-Ireland banjo championship at age 14
- Maeve Kelly, novelist
- Des Lynam, Irish presenter on British television
- Sean Matgamna, Trotskyist theorist
- William Mulready, 19th century genre painter
- Daniel O'Connell, MP returned for the Clare electoral area, was known as "The Liberator" for his winning of Catholic Emancipation in 1829
- Maura O'Connell, singer
- Tomás O'Maoldomhnaigh, realist painter
- Mark O'Halloran, screenwriter best known for the screenplays Adam and Paul and Garage
- Dara O'Kearney, international ultramarathon runner and professional poker player
- Johnny Patterson (1840–1889) singer and composer (born in Feakle but raised in Ennis)
- Harriet Smithson actress and first wife of French composer Hector Berlioz
- Stephen Woulfe, Liberal politician who became Solicitor-General for Ireland in 1836 and as Attorney-General for Ireland in 1838; he became first Catholic to be Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer.
- Marcus Paterson eminent eighteenth century lawyer and politician who became Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas.
- Máiréad Ní Ghráda, Irish playwright and poet
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