List of people from Dublin
Dublin, as the capital city of the Republic of Ireland and the largest city in Ireland as produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople.
List of Dublin people
Writers, composers and philosophers
- Samuel Beckett - playwright, novelist, poet.
- Brendan Behan - poet, short story writer novelist, playwright.
- George Berkeley - empiricist philosopher.
- Austin Clarke - poet, novelist, dramatist, etc.
- John Field - pianist, composer, wrote the first nocturnes.
- Oliver Goldsmith - writer.
- James Joyce - author, poet.
- Sean O'Casey - playwright, memorist
- George Bernard Shaw - playwright.
- Bram Stoker - novelist.
- John Millington Synge - playwright.
- Jonathan Swift - writer, satirist.
- Oscar Wilde - playwright, author, poet.
- William Butler Yeats - poet, playwright.
Entertainers
- Bono - lead singer with U2 and campaigner on world debt.
- Gabriel Byrne - actor.
- Gay Byrne - former presenter of the Late Late Show, the world's longest running chat show.
- Donald Clarke - internationally acclaimed film critic.
- The Dubliners - folk and ballad group (Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barnie McKenna, John Sheahan).
- Colin Farrell - actor.
- Bob Geldof - Boomtown Rats lead singer and Live Aid organiser.
- Pat Kenny - current presenter of the Late Late Show, the world's longest running chat show.
- Dónal Lunny - musician.
- Christy Moore - singer / songwriter.
- Sinéad O'Connor - singer.
- Liam Ó Maonlaí - siner / bodhrán player & member of Hothouse Flowers.
Politicians and Leaders
- Bertie Ahern - Taoiseach.
- Edmund Burke - father of modern conservatism.
- Sir Edward Carson - leader of Irish unionism and British cabinet minister.
- Garret FitzGerald - Taoiseach.
- Charles Haughey - Taoiseach.
- Sean Lemass - Taoiseach (prime minister) from 1959-1966.
- Jim Mitchell - youngest Lord Mayor of Dublin (aged 29).
- Patrick Pearse - writer, leader of the Easter Rising.
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - soldier, politician, British Prime Minister.
- Theobald Wolfe Tone - revolutionary, leader of the United Irishmen.