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Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan is an Irish actor. He achieved worldwide fame playing the lead role in four James Bond films from 1995 to 2002: GoldenEye, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day. Brosnan has also received two Golden Globe Award nominations for Nancy Astor (1982) and The Matador (2005).
Mary Harris Jones
Irish-born American labor and community organizer (1837–1930)
Maureen O'Hara
Irish–American actress and singer (1920–2015)
William C. Campbell
Irish biochemist
Benedict Anderson
American political scientist (1936-2015)
Lafcadio Hearn
Greek-Irish writer, translator, and teacher who introduced the culture and literature of Japan to the West (1850–1904)
Thomas Mayne Reid
American writer (1818–1883)
Gabriel Byrne
Irish actor
Frank McCourt
Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer
Lola Montez
Irish dancer and actress (1821–1861)
Samantha Power
Irish-American academic, author and diplomat
Typhoid Mary
infected houseworker in New York City

Maureen O'Sullivan
Irish-American actress (1911-1998)

Becky Lynch
Irish professional wrestler and actress

Geraldine Fitzgerald
Irish-American actress (1913–2005)

Kevin Farrell
Irish-American Roman Catholic cardinal (born 1947)

Kevin Roche
Irish-born American architect (1922-2019)
Dan O'Herlihy
Irish actor (1919–2005)
Kathleen Antonelli
Irish computer programmer (1921-2006)

John Flanagan
Irish-American hammer thrower

Sara Allgood
Irish actress (1880-1950)

Cornelius Ryan
Irish American journalist (1920–1974)

Colum McCann
Irish writer and journalist
Stuart Townsend
Irish actor

Herbert Brenon
Irish film director and screenwriter (1880-1958)
Tim O'Reilly
Irish-American author and publisher
William Brown
admiral in the Argentine Navy
Martin Sheridan
American athletics competitor (1881–1918)
Joseph Murphy
American writer (1898–1981)
George Brent
Irish-American actor (1899-1979)
Owen Moore
Irish-born actor in American films (1886-1939)
Una O'Connor
Irish actress (1880–1959)
James Hoban
Irish architect
Patrick James Ryan
Irish American hammer thrower (1881-1964)
James McHenry
American politician (1753-1816)
Mary Proctor
British astronomer (1862–1957)
Matt McGrath
Olympic athletic competitor (1877–1941)
Jason O'Mara
Irish actor
Milo O'Shea
Irish American actor (1926-2013)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
American artist (1848–1907)
Pat McDonald
American shot putter (1878–1954)
Patricia Collinge
American actress (1892-1974)
John Philip Holland
Irish-American marine engineer (1841–1914)

Tim Ahearne
Irish long and triple jumper (1885–1968)
Thomas Francis Meagher
Irish nationalist & American politician (1823-1867)
William Quan Judge
American occult writer (1851–1896)
John Dominic Crossan
American academic
John Murphy Farley
Catholic cardinal (1842–1918)

Fitz James O'Brien
Irish-American writer
William J. Duane
American politician, Jackson administration cabinet member (1780-1865)
Patrick Leahy
Irish athlete
Eamonn Coghlan
Irish runner and politician
Creighton Hale
American actor (1882–1965)
James Mason
Irish chess player, journalist and writer (1849–1905)
Caitlín R. Kiernan
writer
Alexander Campbell
Scots-Irish American ordained minister (1788–1866)
Tom Moore
Irish-American actor and film director (1883-1955)
John J. Glennon
Catholic cardinal (1862–1946)
James Shields
Irish-American politician and general (1806-1879)
Brían F. O'Byrne
Irish actor