County Laois

List of notable Laois people

• Darina Allen, TV chef
• John Barrett (1753-1821), Vice Provost, Trinity College, 1807-1821
• Charles Beale (1850-1930), founding president of the Federated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia
• Joseph Beale (1770-1815), Quaker industrialist
• Joshua Bewley, tea merchant
• Lisa Burke, Sky News weathercaster
• Rev. Dr. Patrick Collier (1882-1964), Bishop of Ossory, 1928-1964
• Evelyn Cusack, meteorologist
• William Dargan (1799-1867), responsible for the Industrial Exhibition, 1853
• Dr. Daniel Delaney (1747-1814), Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin
• Eileen Dunne (1958- ), TV newscaster
• Oliver Flanagan, former Minister for Defence
• Hon. William Russell Grace (1832-1904), mayor of New York 1880-1885
• James A. Graves (1827-1910), Australian commissioner of trade and customs, 1881-1883
• Rt. Hon. Joseph Hutchinson (1852-1928), Lord Mayor of Dublin 1904-1906
• Peter Burrowes Kelly, (1811-1883), author "The Manor of Glenmore"
• James Fintan Lalor (1807-1849), Young Irelander
• Peter Lalor (1827-1887), leader of the Eureka Stockade miners revolt, Melbourne
• John Lalor-Fitzpatrick (1875-1949), Nationalist MP for Ossory, 1916-1818
• Dr. Bartholomew Mosse (1712-1759), founder, Rotunda Maternity Hospital, Dublin
• Kevin O'Higgins, former Irish Free State Minister for Justice
• James Pim, railway engineer, "Quaker father of Irish railways"
• Kivas Tully (1820-1905), architect, Trinity College, Toronto, the Custom House and the Bank of Montreal