List of Cork people

Cork is the second city of Ireland and largest county in Ireland and has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business people.

Historical and/or political figures

• John Anderson - businessman
• Sir John Arnott - businessman, newspaper owner
• Anthony Barry - politician, photographer
• Peter Barry - Tánaiste
• Tom Barry - guerilla leader during war of independence, author of the book Guerilla Days in Ireland
• Joseph Brennan - civil servant
• Sir George Callaghan - Admiral of the Fleet
• Patrick Cleburne - Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• Hugh Coveney - government minister
• Simon Coveney - Teachta Dála and MEP
• Thomas Croke - Archbishop of Cashel
• Eileen Desmond - government minister, Senator, MEP
• Gerald Goldberg - first Jewish lord mayor
• T.C. Hammond - Church of Ireland clergyman
• William Baylor Hartland - plant breeder, seedsman
• Ellen Hutchins - botanist
• Mary Harris "Mother" Jones - labour organiser, born near Cork
• Jim Lane - Republican Socialist
• Cornelius Lucey - Bishop of Cork and Ross
• Jack Lynch - taoiseach and hurler
• Thomas Mac Curtain - Lord Mayor of Cork
• Terence MacSwiney - lord mayor and hunger striker
• Daniel Mannix - Archbishop of Melbourne
• Micheál Martin - government minister and lord mayor
• Stephen Moylan - Quartermaster General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• Michael Murphy - first Irish president of the European Court of Auditors
• William O'Brien - Nationalist politician and MP; founder of All-for-Ireland League
• Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - nationalist
• Batt O'Keeffe - government minister
• Daniel Florence O'Leary - South American brigadier general
• Michael O'Riordan - socialist politician
• John Cyril Porte - pioneer aviator
• John Roach - major shipbuilder in postbellum United States
• Adi Roche - humanitarian campaigner
• Brendan Ryan - Senator and lecturer at CIT
• D. D. Sheehan - Nationalist politician and first Labour MP
• Kathy Sinnott - MEP
• Robert Spence - Archbishop of Adelaide
• William Thompson - political and philosophical writer
• Sir Robert Torrens - Prime Minister South Australia; pioneer of Land Registration system

Military

• James Adams - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Michael Collins - revolutionary leader, and Chairman of Provisional Government
• John Dunlay - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• William English - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Richard Fitzgerald - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Thomas Kent - Irish nationalist
• Thomas Lane - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Samuel Lawrence - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• David Lord - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Ambrose Madden - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Mick Mannock - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• James Murray - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Timothy O'Hea - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Michael O'Leary - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Gerald O'Sullivan - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• John Sullivan - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• James Travers - recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Joseph Ward - recipient of the Victoria Cross

Sports

• Hugh T. Baker - cricketer
• Mick Barry - bowler (road)
• James Brophy - cricketer
• Noel Cantwell - international footballer
• Graham Canty - footballer and international rules captain
• Brian Carney - former rugby league and rugby union player
• Mark Carroll - long distance athlete
• Mark Cohen - cricketer
• Joe Deane - hurler
• Damien Delaney - international footballer
• Patrick Dineen - cricketer
• Jack Doyle - boxer
• Percy Exham - cricketer
• James Foley - cricketer
• William Harman - cricketer
• Ryan Hartslief - footballer and rugby player
• Colin Healy - international footballer
• Tom Horan - cricketer (Australia)
• Denis Irwin - international footballer
• Roy Keane - international footballer
• Alan Lewis - cricketer, rugby union referee
• Jack McAuliffe - boxer
• Teddy McCarthy - GAA sportsman, played on both Cork hurling and football double winning teams
• Sam Maguire - GAA sportsman
• David Meyler - international footballer
• Liam Miller - international footballer
• Tony Mullane - major league baseball player
• Donncha O'Callaghan - Rugby Union player
• Dr. Pat O'Callaghan - twice Olympic gold medal winner
• Frank O'Farrell - international footballer and manager
• Ronan O'Gara - rugby union player
• Seán Óg Ó hAilpín - hurler
• Ciarán Ó Lionáird - international middle distance athlete
• Derval O'Rourke - World Indoor Champion Hurdler 2006; European outdoor silver medallist 2006
• Marcus O'Sullivan - middle distance athlete
• Sonia O'Sullivan - world champion athlete and cross country runner
• Christy Ring - hurler
• Peter Stringer - rugby union player
• John Allen (hurler) - former Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer

Film and entertainment

• Jack Gleeson - actor
• Sarah Greene
• Eddie Hobbs - TV personality
• George Hook - TV/radio personality
• Fergal Keane, OBE - BBC journalist
• Danny La Rue, OBE - female impersonator
• Joe Lynch
• Mark Mahon - film director
• Pixie McKenna - TV personality, doctor
• Edward Mulhare - TV actor
• Cillian Murphy - actor
• Graham Norton - TV personality
• Bill O'Herlihy - TV personality
• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - actor
• Tony Scannell - actor
• Fiona Shaw, CBE - actor
• Niall Tóibín - comic actor
• Eileen Walsh - actor

Literature

• Helmut Kollars - writer and illustrator
• Frank O'Connor - author
• Seán Ó Faoláin - writer
• Joseph O'Neill - writer
• Seán Ó Ríordáin - poet
• P.A. Ó Síocháin - journalist, author, lawyer and Irish language activist
• Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan - Catholic priest, author, political activist
• William Trevor - writer
• William Wall - author

Music and arts

• Abraham Abell - antiquarian
• James Barry - neoclassical painter
• Kim Carroll - composer and guitarist
• Cathal Coughlan - singer/songwriter
• Robert Day - antiquarian, photographer
• Mick Flannery - singer/songwriter
• Aloys Fleischmann - composer, professor of music at UCC
• The Frank and Walters - band
• Rory Gallagher - singer/songwriter and guitarist
• John Hogan - sculptor
• Pina Kollar - singer and songwriter
• Sir Hugh Lane - patron of arts
• Charles Lynch - classical pianist
• Daniel Maclise - artist
• Jimmy McCarthy - singer/songwriter
• Paul McSwiney - composer and dramatist
• Sean O'Hagan - musician
• Una Palliser - violinist, violist, singer
• Noel Redding - member of The Jimi Hendrix Experience
• Anthony Ruby - painter
• Brian Smyth - painter
• John Spillane - singer/songwriter
• The Sultans Of Ping - band
• Henry Jones Thaddeus - painter
• Finbar Wright - singer/songwriter

Cork "characters"

• Thady Quill - historical rake

See also

• Lord Mayor of Cork
• List of Irish people