Famous people born in Ireland

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Cillian Murphy

Cillian Murphy


Cillian Murphy is an Irish actor of stage and screen. Since making his debut in his home country in the late 1990s, Murphy has also become a presence in British and American cinemanoted by critics for his performances in a wide range of roles.....
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Eoin Morgan

Eoin Morgan


Eoin Joseph Gerard Morgan is an Irish cricketer who captains the England national cricket team in One Day Internationals and Twenty 20 International. A lefthanded batsman, he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has been selected for Englands Test, ODI and Twenty20 squads. He originally represented his native Ireland at international level before switching to play for England. He was the first and is one of the only two players in history to score an ODI hundred for two nations and is particu....
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Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls


Edward Michael Bear Grylls is a British adventurer, writer and television presenter. He is widely known for his television series Man vs. Wild , originally titled Born Survivor Bear Grylls in the United Kingdom. Grylls is also involved in a number of wilderness survival television series in the UK and US. In July 2009, Grylls was appointed the youngestever Chief Scout in the UK at age 35.....
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Domhnall Gleeson

Domhnall Gleeson


Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor. He is best known for his portrayal of General Hux in Star Wars The Force Awakens, Bill Weasley in the Harry Potter film franchise, Caleb in Ex Machina and Tim Lake in About Time. He has acted on both stage and screen, earning a Tony Award nomination in 2006 for his role in the Broadway production The Lieutenant of Inishmore. He has performed in several shows at Dublins Gate Theatre, including adaptations of American Buffalo and Great Expectations.....
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Evanna Lynch

Evanna Lynch


Evanna Patricia Lynch is an Irish actress and model. She rose to prominence for her portrayal of Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter film series, appearing in four films and their tiein video games. She has made fashion accessories and recorded an audiobook of Foster by Claire Keegan. She has also appeared in photo shoots for various magazines, and modelled for Katrin Thomas and Ciaran Sweeney.....
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Graham Norton

Graham Norton


Graham William Walker , better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is an Irish television and radio presenter, comedian, and actor based in the United Kingdom. He is a fivetime BAFTA TV Award winner for his comedy chat show The Graham Norton Show. Previously shown on BBC Two, it took the prestigious Friday night slot on BBC One from Jonathan Ross in 2010. He also presents on BBC Radio 2 and is the BBC television commentator of the Eurovision Song Contest, which led Hot Press to describe him a....
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James Nesbitt

James Nesbitt


William James Nesbitt, OBE is an actor and presenter from Northern Ireland. Born in Ballymena, County Antrim, Nesbitt grew up in the nearby village of Broughshane, before moving to Coleraine, County Londonderry. He wanted to become a teacher like his father, so he began a degree in French at the University of Ulster. He dropped out after a year when he decided to become an actor, and transferred to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After graduating in 1987, he spent seven years....
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John Gerrard artist

John Gerrard artist


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Susan Smith Walsh

Susan Smith Walsh


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Caitriona Balfe

Caitriona Balfe


Caitriona Balfe is an Irish actress and model. She is best known for her performance as Claire Beauchamp in the Starz series Outlander, for which she received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Television Series Drama.....
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Darragh MacAnthony

Darragh MacAnthony


Darragh MacAnthony is an Irish football chairman, author and entrepreneur. The son of Austin MacAnthony, a nightclub owner, MacAnthony was educated at St Marys College, Dublin. He moved to Spain with his family as a 15yearold. He is a fan of Liverpool F.C.....
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Liam Cunningham

Liam Cunningham


Liam Cunningham is an Irish stage and screen actor. He is best known as Davos Seaworth in the HBO epicfantasy series Game of Thrones. He has been nominated for the London Film Critics Circle Award, the British Independent Film Award, has won two Irish Film amp Television Awards, and shared a BAFTA with Michael Fassbender, for their crimedrama short film Pitch Black Heist.....
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Stefan Molyneux

Stefan Molyneux


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Philip Treacy

Philip Treacy


Philip Treacy OBE is an Irish milliner and designer based in London.....
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Brian McFadden

Brian McFadden


Brian Nicholas McFadden is an Irish singersongwriter and TV presenter who rose to fame in 1998 as a member of the Irish boyband Westlife as one of the lead singers and frontman. When he resided in Australia, he was a judge on Australias Got Talent. Following his departure from Westlife in 2004, McFadden released his debut solo album, Irish Son, which peaked within the top 5 on both the Danish and Irish Albums Charts, and produced his first two No. 1 solo singles Real to Me in four European coun....
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Stephen Nolan

Stephen Nolan


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Kamal Ibrahim presenter

Kamal Ibrahim presenter


Kamal Ibrahim is an Irish television presenter, actor and former male model. He was the winner of Mister World 2010, having won the competition held in Incheon, South Korea on 27 March 2010.....
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David Perry game developer

David Perry game developer


David Perry is a Northern Irish video game developer and programmer. He became prominent for programming platform games for 16bit home consoles in the early to mid 1990s, including Disneys Aladdin, Cool Spot, and Earthworm Jim. He founded Shiny Entertainment, where he worked from 1993 to 2006. Perry created games for companies such as Disney, 7 Up, McDonalds, Orion Pictures, and Warner Bros. In 2008 he was presented with an honorary doctorate from Queens University Belfast for his services to c....
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Allen Leech

Allen Leech


Allen Leech , and known in his early career by his birth name Alan Leech, is an Irish stage, television and film actor best known for his role as chauffeurturnedsoninlaw Tom Branson on Downton Abbey. A native of Killiney, Leech made his professional acting debut with a small part in a 1998 production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He made his first major film appearance as Vincent Cusack in Cowboys amp Angels and earned an Irish Film amp Television Awards nomination in 2004 with his performance as....
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Tim McGarry

Tim McGarry


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