Fictional People Named Sweeney
- Sweeney, the violent, ape-like antihero of several poems by T. S. Eliot, including The Waste Land
- Moira/Max Sweeney, fictional character on the Showtime television network series The L Word
- Sweeney Todd, fictional barber and serial killer
- Sinbad Sweeney, fictional character in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside
- Mr. Sweeney, fictional character in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide
- The Sweeney Sisters, a recurring musical sketch from 1980s era, Saturday Night Live featuring Candy Sweeney (Jan Hooks) and her sister Liz (Nora Dunn)
- Lieutenant Sweeney, fictional character in the 2005 film Dead Men Walking
- Sweeney, the main character in the Irish legend seen in Sweeney Astray
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“Now Sweeney phones from London, W. 2,
saying, Martyr, my religion is love, is you.
Be seated, my Sweeney, my invisible fan.
Surely the words will continue, for that’s
what’s left that’s true.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)