User:The.Q/sandbox/List of people from Sligo

Sligo is a town in the North West of the Republic of Ireland and the county town of County Sligo, and has produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business-people.

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Music

 * Perry Blake, singer and songwriter
 * Tabby Callaghan, musician, semi-finalist in Season 1 of The X Factor
 * Kian Egan, member of Westlife
 * Mark Feehily, member of Westlife
 * Shane Filan, member of Westlife
 * Naisse Mac Cithruadh, musician
 * Maisie McDaniel, Irish country and showband singer
 * 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
 * Thomas Rice Henn, Literary critic
 * Anna Kelly, served in the GPO during the Easter Rising, former secretary to Michael Collins, journalist, the first women's page editor in Ireland, interviewed Adolf Hitler in 1938
 * Brian Leyden, short story writer and novelist
 * Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, Ollamh of poetry at Lissadell and crusader

Historical and political figures

 * Declan Bree, politician and social campaigner, former Labour TD for Sligo/Leitrim
 * William Bourke Cockran, Lawyer and US congressman
 * 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
 * J.J. Clancy, Sinn Féin (TD) of the First Dáil for Sligo North 1918-1921
 * Four generations of the Cooper family, landowners (Markree Castle) and politicians, including Joshua Cooper (died 1757), his son Joshua Cooper (1732–1800), his son Joshua Edward Cooper, his brother Edward Synge Cooper and his son Edward Joshua Cooper who built Markree Observatory
 * Brigadier General Michael Corcoran, Union army general, American civil war
 * Luke Duffy, trade unionist and politician
 * Michael Fenton, first Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
 * Feichín of Fore, Irish ecclesiastic
 * James Gallagher, Fianna Fáil politician, 1961-1981
 * Eva Gore-Booth, poet, trade unionist and suffragist
 * Sir Henry Gore-Booth, landlord and explorer
 * Patrick J. Hamrock, Colorado National Guardsman, participant in Sioux Wars and Ludlow Massacre
 * William Holmes, Tory MP in the United Kingdom in the early nineteenth century.
 * John Jinks, politician, mayor of Sligo and TD for Leitrim-Sligo in 1927
 * Linda Kearns MacWhinney Nurse, revolutionary and Fianna Fáil politician
 * Hugh Hyacinth O'Rorke MacDermot, Prince of Coolavin, solicitor general and attorney general for Ireland
 * 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
 * Thomas MacPartlin, Trade Unionist, a leading figure in the 1913-14 Dublin lock-out, Labour Party Senator in 1922-23
 * Ray MacSharry, former government minister and EU Commissioner
 * Tuathal Mac Cormac Maelgarbh ua Cairbre, King of Ireland, conqueror of Brega
 * Peter Mair, Political scientist, whose work became a standard work on the Irish party system
 * 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
 * Charles O'Conor, writer and historian, best known for his championing and preservation of Irish culture and history in the eighteenth century
 * William Bernard O'Donoghue, treasurer in the provisional government established by Louis Riel at the Red River Colony, and leader of the last Fenian invasion of Manitoba
 * 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
 * Colonel William Gregory Wood-Martin, author, antiquarian and archaeologist

Religious figures

 * St. Attracta of Killaraght, Irish ecclesiastic, 5th century, Saint
 * John Clancy, catholic Bishop of Elphin
 * John Healy, catholic Bishop of Clonfert 1896-1903 and Archbishop of Tuam 1903-1918
 * Nath í of Achad an Rí, 6th century Irish ecclesiastic

Medicine and science

 * William Cunningham Blest, creator of the first Chilean School of Medicine
 * Thomas Dillon, chemist and nationalist
 * Bryan Higgins, natural philosopher in chemistry
 * William Higgins, chemist, one of the early proponents of atomic theory, nephew of Bryan Higgins
 * Charles Alexander MacMunn, doctor who first described the respiratory pigment in blood, one of the most significant discoveries ever made by an Irish doctor
 * Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist

Sports

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

Film and entertainment

 * Pauline Flanagan, movie and television actress
 * Scott Fredericks, movie 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
 * Lola Montez, actress, exotic dancer, courtesan and the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
 * Joan O'Hara, movie and television actress
 * Dearbhla Walsh, film and TV director
 * Noelle Middleton, movie and television actress

Business

 * Niall FitzGerald, Chairman of Reuters Group plc; former Chairman and CEO of Unilever plc
 * Dermot Mannion, CEO of Aer Lingus
 * Belinda Mulrooney, frontier entrepreneur, reputedly "the richest woman in the Klondike"