List of people from Waterford

The following is a list of people from Waterford, Ireland.

Ecclesiastics

 * Richard Chenevix (1697–1779), Church of Ireland bishop
 * Charles Joseph Henderson (1924–2006), Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (UK) and Bishop of Tricala
 * Tobias Kirby (1804–1895), Rector of the Irish College Rome 1850–1891; archbishop of Ephesus 1885
 * Michael O'Hickey (1860–1916), priest, Professor of Irish at Maynooth University
 * Nicholas Quemerford (c. 1554–1599), Irish Jesuit priest
 * Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), religious founder
 * Michael Sheehan (1870–1945), Archbishop of Germia; author, professor
 * Luke Wadding (1588–1657), theologian, historian, patriot
 * Michael Wadding (1591–1644),Jesuit priest and missionary to New Spain
 * Nicholas Wiseman (1802–1865), cardinal

Sport

 * Jim Beglin (born 1963), soccer player
 * Craig Breen (born 1990), rally driver
 * Niamh Briggs (born 1984), Irish international rugby player
 * Locky Byrne (1913–1941), hurler
 * Tom Cheasty (1934–2007), hurler
 * Paddy Coad (1920–1992), soccer player
 * Tom Cunningham (1931–2022), hurler
 * Pat Fanning (1918–2010), hurler, GAA President
 * Mick Flannelly (1930–2021), hurler
 * Andy Fleming (1916–2011), hurler
 * Austin Flynn (1933–2021), hurler
 * Philly Grimes (1929–1989), hurler
 * Larry Guinan (born 1938), hurler
 * Alfie Hale (born 1939), soccer player
 * Noel Hunt (born 1982), Irish international soccer player
 * Stephen Hunt (born 1981), Irish international soccer player
 * John Keane (1917–1975), hurler
 * Sean Kelly (born 1956), Ireland's most successful racing cyclist, one of the top eight cyclists of all time
 * Martin Óg Morrissey (born 1934), hurler
 * Christy Moylan (1916–1996), hurler
 * Daryl Murphy (born 1983), Irish international soccer player
 * Johnny O'Connor (1928–2010), hurler
 * Peter O'Connor (1872–1957), athlete, Olympic champion
 * John O'Shea (born 1981), Irish international soccer player
 * Ciarán Power (born 1976), Olympic Games cyclist 2000, 2004
 * Ned Power (1929–2007), hurler
 * Seamus Power (1929–2016), hurler
 * Susan Smith-Walsh (born 1971), Olympic athlete
 * John Treacy (born 1957), Olympic athlete, world champion
 * Frankie Walsh (1936–2012), hurler
 * Patricia Walsh (born 1960), Olympic athlete
 * Charlie Ware (1933–2013), hurler
 * Jim Ware (1908–1983), hurler
 * Thomas Barr (born 1992), Olympic athlete
 * Jessie Barr (born 1989), Olympic athlete

Politics and military

 * Mary Butler (born 1966), politician
 * William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse (1826–1892), soldier
 * Denis Cashman (1843–1897), Fenian, patriot
 * Hugh Collender, Young Irelander, businessman
 * Ciara Conway (born 1980), former Labour Party politician
 * Paudie Coffey (born 1969), Minister of State for Housing and planning from 2014 to 2016
 * Edward Collins (1941–2019), Irish Fine Gael politician
 * Maurice Cummins (b. 1953), Irish Fine Gael politician
 * David Cullinane
 * Lorraine Clifford-Lee
 * John Condon, boy soldier, youngest Allied soldier to die in First World War
 * Martin Cullen (born 1954), former Fianna Fail politician
 * John Deasy
 * Austin Deasy
 * Frank Edwards, left wing activist, Spanish Civil War fighter
 * Francis Hearn, patriot
 * John Hearne, orator, lawyer and architect of the 1937 Irish Constitution, or Bunracht na hÉireann
 * William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand
 * Brendan Kenneally
 * Billy Kenneally (1925-2009), Fianna Fail politician, twice Mayor of Waterford
 * Thomas Kyne (1905-1981), Labour Party politician
 * George Lennon (1900-1991), vice commanding officer, West Waterford I.R.A. (1919–1922)
 * Patrick Little (1884-1963), Fianna Fail politician, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs
 * Thaddeus Lynch (1901-1966), Fine Gael politician
 * Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867), patriot, conceived the Irish tricolour
 * Thomas Meagher (1796–1874), Irish politician and businessman
 * Richard Mulcahy, (1886–1971), Irish Army C.O.C., Fine Gael politician
 * Ann Ormonde (born 1935), former Irish Fianna Fail politician
 * William Palliser (1830–1882), politician, inventor
 * John Paul Phelan (born 1978), politician
 * John Redmond (1856–1918), leader of the Irish Party in Westminster
 * Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), British Army C.O.C.
 * Thomas Sexton (1848–1932), journalist, financial expert, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament
 * Richard Lalor Shiel (1791–1851), Orator, M.P
 * Alfred Webb (1834–1908), President of the 1894 Indian National Congress and MP for West Waterford

Science

 * Lucien Bonaparte-Wyse (1845–1909), entomologist
 * Robert Boyle (1627–1691), physicist
 * Richard J. Ussher (1841–1913), ornithologist
 * Ernest Walton (1903–1995), Nobel Laureate (Physics 1951)

Arts, theatre and entertainment

 * Keith Barry (born 1976), magician, mentalist, illusionist
 * Carrie Crowley, TV personality
 * Teresa Deevy, playwright
 * Val Doonican, entertainer
 * Seán Dunne, poet
 * Fiona Glascott
 * Dorothea Jordan (1761-1816), actress; mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom
 * Charles Kean, Shakespearean actor
 * Anna Manahan (1924–2009), actress
 * Gerardine Meaney (born 1962), feminist critic
 * Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter
 * Patrick C. Power, writer and historian
 * Hal Roach, comedian
 * Frank Ryan (1900–1965), tenor
 * William Vincent Wallace (1814–1865), opera composer

General

 * Eugene Byrne (born 1959), author, journalist
 * Risteard De Hindeberg (1863–1916), priest, Irish language activist, author, musician
 * Grattan Flood (1857–1928), musicologist and historian
 * Valentine Greatrakes, 17th-century healer
 * John Hogan (1800–1858), sculptor
 * Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara (1715–1810), teacher, poet
 * Ellen Organ (1903–1908), saintly child known as "Little Nellie of Holy God"
 * Thomas Sautelle Roberts (c. 1749–1778), landscape artist