Irish people

Irish ethnicity is common in many countries. Many people are descended from Irish emigrants.

Notable people of Irish descent

• Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
• Gruffydd ap Cynan, Prince of Gwynedd
• Howell the Good, first and last King of all Wales
• Kenneth I of Scotland, first king of Scotland
• Muhammad Ali - great-grandson of Abe Grady of Ennis, Co. Clare.
• Anne Bonny - pirate
• Jeff Buckley - singer-songerwriter
• Mariah Carey - pop star
• William Harvey Carney - American Civil War hero, Medal of Honor awardee
• William Tierney Clark - English engineer
• Ivonne Coll - actress and singer
• Cyril Connolly - English man of letters
• Charles de Gaulle - French solider and politicion
• Robert De Niro - actor
• Martin R. Delany - American abolitionist
• Howie Dorough - of The Backstreet Boys
• James Duane - Mayor of New York, son of a Galwayman
• Miguel Ferrer - actor
• Ella Fitzgerald - American jazz singer
• Harrison Ford - actor
• Vicente Fox - President of Mexico
• Marcus Garvey - founder of the UNIA-ACL
• Ernesto Guevara - Argentine born Communist revolutionary and guerrilla leader
• Sir John Johnson - American Loyalist leader
• William Joyce - aka Lord Haw-Haw; American-born Nazi propaganda broadcaster
• John F. Kennedy - former President of the United States
• Alex Haley - biographer of Malcolm X, author of Roots
• Jimi Hendrix - Irish/Cherokee grandmother; greatest guitarist EVER.
• Douglas Hogg, 3rd Viscount Hailsham - son of a member of the Tribes of Galway
• Edward Kelley - Worchester-born medium and Knight of Bohemia
• Stephen King - American writer, descendant of the King/Mac Con Raoi clan of Galway
• Thomas Arthur Lally, French general, executed 1766
• Denis Leary - American comedian and actor
• John Lennon - of The Beatles
• Owney Madden - Irish American gangster
• Dalton McGuinty - Premier of Ontario
• Felix Magath - director of FC Bayern Munich
• Patrice MacMahon, duc de Magenta - French General and President of France
• Brian Mulroney - former Prime Minister of Canada
• Álvaro Obregón - President of Mexico
• Conan O'Brien - American comedian
• Richard O'Connor - WWII British General
• Juan O'Gorman - Mexican artist
• Bernardo O'Higgins - South American revolutionary, first Chilean head of state
• Ana María O'Neill - women's right's activist
• Shaquille O'Neal - NBA player
• Joseph Cornelius O'Rourke - Russian General
• Anthony Quinn - American actor