List of people from Sligo

Sligo, a town in the north-west of Ireland and county town of County Sligo, has produced noted artists, authors, entertainers, politicians and business-people.

Music

 * Perry Blake, singer and songwriter
 * Tabby Callaghan, musician, The X Factor finalist
 * Michael Coleman, musician
 * Thomas Connellan, harper/composer
 * William Connellan, harper/composer
 * Kian Egan, member of Westlife
 * Mark Feehily, member of Westlife
 * Shane Filan, member of Westlife
 * Tommy Fleming, singer
 * Carmel Gunning, traditional Irish musician and singer
 * Paddy Killoran, musician
 * Naisse Mac Cithruadh, musician
 * Maisie McDaniel, Irish country and showband singer
 * James Morrison, musician
 * Seamie O'Dowd, multi-instrumentalist and former member of Dervish
 * Mary O'Hara, singer and harpist
 * Lisa Stanley, Irish country singer/songwriter and daughter of Maisie McDaniel

Arts and literature

 * Leland Bardwell, poet, novelist and playwright
 * Mary Colum, literary critic and author
 * Owen Connellan, scholar, RIA
 * Thady Connellan, scholar, published Irish-English dictionary 1814
 * Neil Jordan, filmmaker and novelist; won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game
 * Brian Leyden, short story writer and novelist
 * Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Irish scribe, author of the Great Book of Irish Genealogies
 * Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fir Bhisigh, historian, scribe compiler of the Yellow Book of Lecan, Great Book of Lecan
 * Joe McGowan, author and historian
 * Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, Ollamh of poetry at Lissadell and crusader
 * Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn, file/poet, author of many poems in classical Dán Díreach style
 * Jack Butler Yeats, painter and cartoonist
 * William Butler Yeats, poet

Historical and political figures

 * St. Attracta of Killaraght, Irish ecclesiastic, 5th century, Saint
 * Declan Bree, politician and social campaigner, former Labour TD for Sligo/Leitrim
 * John J. Burns, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
 * Frank Carty, Sligo IRA leader during the War of Independence and Irish Civil War; elected a TD for Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil
 * William Bourke Cockran, U.S. congressman
 * Brigadier General Michael Corcoran, Union army general, American civil war
 * Luke Duffy, trade unionist and politician
 * Féchín of Fore, Irish ecclesiastic
 * Michael Fenton, first Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
 * Patrick J. Hamrock, Colorado National Guardsman, participant in Sioux Wars and Ludlow Massacre
 * John Jinks, politician
 * Tuathal Mac Cormac Maelgarbh ua Cairbre, King of Ireland?, conqueror of Brega
 * Chris MacManus, Sinn Féin MEP for Midlands–North-West Constituency
 * Seán MacManus, former Sinn Féin Mayor of Sligo
 * Cairbre Mac Néill, Irish king and warrior, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages
 * Ray MacSharry, former government minister and EU Commissioner
 * Linda Kearns MacWhinney Nurse, revolutionary and Fianna Fáil politician
 * Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), revolutionary; first elected female MP in the UK Parliament; first Irish female cabinet minister
 * Alexander McCabe, revolutionary and Sinn Féin TD, later a member of Cumann na nGaedheal
 * Martin Moffat, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Nath í of Achad an Rí, 6th century Irish ecclesiastic
 * Fearghal Ó Gadhra, Chief of Coolavin, patron of the Annals of the Four Masters
 * Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno, Governor of Chile and Viceroy of Peru during the Spanish domination of the Americas
 * Bernardo O'Higgins, Liberator of Chile
 * William Partridge, trade unionist, revolutionary, leader of Irish Citizen Army, fought during Easter Rising
 * Liam Pilkington, IRA commander, 3rd western division, 1921-23. Anti-treaty IRA
 * Martin Savage, Irish Republican
 * Brian Luighnech Ua Conchobhair, King of Cairbre Drom Cliabh, ancestor of the Ó Conchobar Sligigh, son of Toirdealbhach Mór Ó Conchobar, High King of Ireland 1106-1156

Medicine and science

 * William Cunningham Blest, creator of the first Chilean School of Medicine
 * Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist

Sports

 * Jonathan Dolan, Irish badminton player
 * Sean Fallon, former Republic of Ireland and Celtic F.C. footballer
 * Mickey Kearins GAA
 * Paul McGee, Sligo Rovers F.C. and Ireland international soccer player
 * Mona McSharry swimmer
 * Barnes Murphy GAA
 * Christopher O'Donnell, Ireland International track and field sprinter
 * Eamonn O'Hara GAA
 * Mark Scanlon, cyclist
 * Brother Walfrid (aka Andrew Kerins), Marist Brother, and founder of Celtic F.C. in Glasgow

Film and entertainment

 * Pauline Flanagan, film and television actress
 * Scott Fredericks, film and television actor, radio producer
 * Neil Jordan, director of The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins
 * Eugene Lambert, puppeteer and children's entertainer
 * Pauline McLynn, actress, Mrs Doyle in the sitcom Father Ted
 * Noelle Middleton, film and television actress
 * Lola Montez, actress, exotic dancer, courtesan and the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
 * Joan O'Hara, film and television actress
 * Dearbhla Walsh, film and TV director
 * Olga Wehrly, actor

Business

 * Niall FitzGerald, Chairman of Reuters Group plc; former Chairman and CEO of Unilever plc
 * Dermot Mannion, CEO of Aer Lingus