Ireland (surname)

Ireland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

- Alexander Ireland (journalist) (1810–1894), Scottish journalist
- Alexander Ireland (1901–1966), British boxer
Alleyne Ireland (1871–1951), British traveller and author
Andrew Ireland (disambiguation)
- Andy Ireland (born 1930), American politician
- Andrew Ireland (footballer) (born 1953), Australian rules footballer and administrator
- Andrew Ireland (rower) (born 1982), Canadian rower
Ann Ireland (1953–2018), Canadian fiction author
- Anne Ireland (1842–1893), English writer and biographer
- Anne Ireland (volleyball) (born 1946), Canadian volleyball player
Anthony Ireland (disambiguation)
- Anthony Ireland (actor) (1902–1957), British actor
- Anthony Ireland (basketball) (born 1989), American basketball player
- Anthony Ireland (cricketer) (born 1984), Zimbabwean cricketer
Bernard Ireland (????–2019), British naval engineer and writer
Betty Ireland (born 1946), American politician
Betty de Courcy Ireland (1911–1999), Irish socialist and anti-war activist
Brian Ireland (born 1980), American drummer
Brian de Courcy-Ireland (1900–2001), British naval officer
Celia Ireland (born 1966), Australian actress
Charles Thomas Ireland Jr. (1921–1972), American businessman
Chris Ireland (born 1951), American pharmacist and professor
Christopher Ireland (born ????), American brigadier general
Clifford C. Ireland (1878–1930), American politician
Colin Ireland (1954–2012), British serial killer
Courtney Ireland (born ????), New Zealander athlete
Craig Ireland (born 1975), Scottish footballer
- Daniel Frederick Ireland (1949–2016), American-Canadian film producer and director
- Daniel Anthony Ireland (born 1990), Australian football player
Darwin Ireland (born 1971), American football player
David Ireland (disambiguation)
- David Ireland (artist) (1930–2009), American artist
- David Ireland (author) (born 1927), Australian novelist
- David Ireland (colonel) (1832–1864), American soldier
- David Ireland (playwright) (born 1976), Northern Irish-born playwright and actor
De Courcy Ireland (1873–1915), Irish cricketer and British Indian Army officer
Denis Ireland (1894–1974), Irish essayist and political activist
Dennis Ireland (born 1954), New Zealander motorcycle racer
Doug Ireland (born 1946), American journalist
Eleanor Ireland (born 1926), British computer scientist
Faith Ireland (born 1942), American judge
Gail L. Ireland (1895–1988), American attorney and politician
Gary Ireland (born 1961), Australian cricketer
George Ireland (disambiguation)
- George Ireland (businessman) (1801–1879), British businessman
- George Ireland (MP) (died 1596), English politician
- George Ireland (New Zealand politician) (1829–1880), New Zealander politician
- George Ireland (1913–2001), American basketball coach
Gilbert Ireland (1624–1675), English politician
Greg Ireland (born 1965), Canadian ice hockey coach
Innes Ireland (1930–1993), Scottish race car driver
Jake Ireland (born 1946), Canadian football referee
- James Ireland (1846–1886), Scottish architect
- James Ireland (musician) (born ????), Australian drummer
Janna Ireland (born 1985), African-American photographer
Jeff Ireland (born 1970), American football administrator
Jerry Ireland (1938–2020), English footballer
Jill Ireland (1936–1990), English actress
Jimmie Ireland (1903–1998), Scottish rugby union player
John Ireland (1914–1992), Canadian-American actor and film director
John Ireland (disambiguation)
- John Ireland (theologian) (fl. 1459–1495), Scottish theologian, diplomat, and priest
- John Ireland (pirate) (1694–1701), American pirate
- John Ireland (writer), (died 1808), British author
- John Ireland (Anglican priest) (1761–1842), English Anglican priest and philanthropist
- John Busteed Ireland (1823–1913), American lawyer, writer, and landowner
- John Ireland (politician) (1827–1896), American politician
- John Ireland (archbishop) (1838–1918), American religious leader and academic
- John Ireland (composer) (1879–1962), English composer
- John Ireland (philatelist) (1882–1965), British philatelist
- John Ireland (cricketer) (1888–1970), English amateur cricketer
- John de Courcy Ireland (1911–2006), Irish historian and activist
- John Ireland (1914–1992), Canadian-American actor and film director
- John Ireland (South African musician) (born 1954), South African pop musician
- John Ireland (sportscaster) (born 1963), American sportscaster
- Jon Ireland (born 1967), Australian tennis player
Jordie Ireland (born 1997), Australian musician and producer
Justina Ireland (born ????), American author
Karin Ireland (born ????), American author
Kathy Ireland (born 1963), American model, actress, author, and entrepreneur
Kenny Ireland (1944–2014), Scottish director and actor
Kevin Ireland (born 1933), New Zealander poet
Kylie Ireland (born 1970), American pornographic actress and radio show host
Kym Ireland (born 1955), Australian field hockey player
Lynwood Ireland (born 1942), American politician
Mardy S. Ireland (born ????), American author and psychoanalyst
Margaret Ann Ireland (1928–2018), Canadian pianist and radio producer and broadcaster
Marin Ireland (born 1979), American actress
Mark Ireland (disambiguation)
- Mark Ireland (artist) (born 1960), Australian artist, musician and filmmaker
- Mark Ireland (priest) (born 1960), British Archdeacon of Blackburn
Mary E. Ireland (1934–1927), American author and translator
Merritte W. Ireland (1867–1952), Surgeon General of the United States Army
Mike Ireland (born 1974), Canadian speed skater
Patricia Ireland (born 1945), American feminist and administrator
Paul Ireland (born 1970), Scottish actor
R. Duane Ireland (born ???), American professor and author
Richard Ireland (disambiguation)
- Richard Davies Ireland (1816–1877), Australian politician
- Richard Ireland (rower) (born ????), English rower
Robert Ireland (disambiguation)
- Robert Ireland (died 1599) (1532–1599), English politician
- Robert Livingston Ireland Jr. (1895–1981), American businessman
- Robert Ireland (footballer, born 1900), Scottish footballer
- Robert McGregor Innes Ireland (1930–1993), British military officer
- Robert Ireland (Australian footballer) (born 1948), Australian rules footballer
Roderick L. Ireland (born 1944), American judge
Samuel Ireland (1744–1800), British author
Sean Ireland (born 1969), Canadian speed skater
Sidney Ireland (1886–1964), English footballer
Simon Ireland (born 1971), English footballer
Stephen Ireland (born 1986), Irish footballer
Thomas James Ireland (1792–1863), British politician
Tim Ireland (born 1953), American baseball player
- Walter Ireland (tennis) (1882–1932), Romanian tennis player
- Walter Ireland (1923–2010), American politician
William Ireland (disambiguation)
- William Ireland (Jesuit) (1636–1679), English Jesuit and martyr falsely accused of conspiring to murder King Charles II
- William Henry Ireland (1775–1835), English forger of Shakespearean documents and plays
- William M. Ireland (died 1891), One of the founders of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry
- William Addison Ireland (1880–1935), American cartoonist
- William Ireland (tennis) (1882–1932), Romanian tennis player
- William Henry Ireland (politician) (1883–1962), Canadian merchant and political figure
- Willis "Bill" Ireland (1927–2007), American college football and baseball coach

Ireland is also used as a forename, like in:

Ireland Baldwin (born 1995), American actress and model
Ireland Thomas (1875–1955), American stage performer, newspaper columnist, and theater manager

Ireland is also used as a middle name, like in:

James Ireland Cash, Jr. (born 1947), American business academic
James Ireland Craig (1868–1952), Scottish mathematician and meteorologist
John Ireland Blackburne (1783–1874), British politician, father of the man born 1817
John Ireland Blackburne (1817–1893), British army officer and politician, son of the man born 1783
John Ireland Howe (1793–1876), American inventor
John Ireland Falconer (1879–1954), Scottish lord provost

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