Business
- Donie Cassidy – businessman and TD
- Niall FitzGerald – honorary KBE, chief executive Unilever
- James_Gamble_(industrialist) – Co-Founder of Procter_&_Gamble
- Arthur Guinness – brewer
- Pat McDonagh – founder of Supermac's
- J. P. McManus – businessman
- Denis O'Brien – businessman
- Michael O'Leary – CEO of Ryanair
- David J. O'Reilly – CEO of Chevron
- Anthony J F O'Reilly – Independent Newspapers and head of Heinz, 1979–1996
- Margaret Rudkin – Founder of Pepperidge Farm
- Tony Ryan – founder of Ryanair and Guinness Peat Aviation
- Peter Sutherland – Chairman of BP Plc, and Chairman of Goldman Sachs International and formerly Ireland's representative at the European Commission
- Thomas Nash (Newfoundland) Irish fisherman, boat builder, and entrepreneur. Settled in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Founder of Branch, Newfoundland and Labrador
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