List of people from Dublin

• Sebastian Barry – playwright
• Samuel Beckett – novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet and Nobel laureate
• Brendan Behan – poet, short story writer novelist, playwright
• George Berkeley – empiricist philosopher
• Jon Berkeley – writer
• Maeve Binchy – writer
• Dermot Bolger – writer
• Elizabeth Bowen – writer
• Clare Boylan – writer
• Christy Brown – writer
• John Byrne – columnist, cartoonist
• Austin Clarke – poet, novelist, dramatist
• Marita Conlon-McKenna – children's author
• Annie Jessy Curwen – author
• Donnacha Dennehy – composer
• Roddy Doyle – writer
• Anne Enright – writer
• Dave Fanning – rock journalist
• John Field – pianist, composer, wrote the first nocturnes
• Oliver Goldsmith – writer
• Annie French Hector – novelist
• Pat Ingoldsby – poet
• James Joyce – author, poet
• Trevor Joyce — poet
• Jane Jowitt – poet, memoirist
• Patrick Kavanagh – poet and novelist
• Brendan Kehoe - software developer, author
• Sheridan Le Fanu – novelist
• James Clarence Mangan – poet
• Columba Marmion – monk
• Aidan Mathews – poet, dramatist, novelist
• David McSavage – comedy writer
• Thomas Moore – poet
• Vincent O'Brien – composer
• Seán O'Casey – playwright, memorist
• John O'Keeffe – writer
• Fintan O'Toole – journalist and political commentator
• George William Russell – writer, editor, critic, poet, painter and theosophist
• George Bernard Shaw – novelist, playwright and Nobel laureate
• Ronan Sheehan – novelist, short story writer, essayist
• Frances Sheridan – novelist
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan – playwright
• Annie P. Smithson – novelist
• Charles Villiers Stanford – composer
• Robert Prescott Stewart – composer
• Bram Stoker – novelist
• Jonathan Swift – writer, satirist
• John Millington Synge – playwright
• Oscar Wilde – playwright, author, poet
• Maev-Ann Wren – writer
• William Butler Yeats – poet, playwright and Nobel laureate
• Zozimus (Michael Moran) – poet

• Eamonn Andrews – radio and television presenter
• Caitriona Balfe – actress (Outlander)
• Bono – lead singer with U2 and campaigner on world debt
• Wilfred Brambell – actor (Steptoe & Son)
• Ronan Browne – musician
• Gabriel Byrne – actor
• Gay Byrne – former presenter of The Late Late Show, the world's second longest-running chat show
• Nicky Byrne – singer in Westlife
• Luke Cheevers – traditional singer, song collector and songwriter
• Dean Clark – actor
• Cathy Davey – singer/songwriter
• Chris De Burgh – musician
• Alison Doody – actress
• Craig Doyle – television and radio presenter
• Ronnie Drew – musician
• The Dubliners – folk and ballad group (Luke Kelly, Ronnie Drew, Barnie McKenna, John Sheahan)
• Joe Duffy – broadcaster
• Elizabeth Rebecca Edwin – stage actress
• Joe Elliott – lead singer of Def Leppard
• Siobhan Fahey – singer/songwriter, Bananarama and Shakespears Sister
• Colin Farrell – actor
• Marian Finucane – broadcaster
• Barry Fitzgerald – actor
• Brenda Fricker – actress
• Michael Gambon – actor
• Orla Gartland – singer/songwriter, musician
• Stephen Gately – singer
• Bob Geldof – The Boomtown Rats lead singer; Live Aid organiser
• Aidan Gillen – actor (Game of Thrones)
• Brian Gleeson – actor
• Brendan Gleeson – actor
• Domhnall Gleeson – actor
• John & Edward Grimes – singing twins nicknamed "Jedward"
• Glen Hansard – lead singer of The Frames; actor
• Neasa Hardiman – director
• C. Morton Horne – musical comedy actor
• Siva Kaneswaran – member of boy band The Wanted
• Ronan Keating – singer
• Lisa Kelly – singer
• – Cinematic connoisseur / Cristo Clone
• Luke Kelly – musician
• Pat Kenny – former presenter of The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show
• Phil Lynott – from the band Thin Lizzy
• Annie Mac - DJ and presenter
• Edwin Maxwell – actor
• Brian McFadden – former singer in Westlife
• Kitty McShane – actor/singer who appeared in the Old Mother Riley films with Arthur Lucan
• Jonathan Rhys Meyers – actor
• Larry Mullen – drummer for U2
• Samantha Mumba – singer, actress
• Aubrey Murphy – violinist
• Jonathon Ng – musician, under the alias EDEN
• Colm Ó Cíosóig – musician, drummer of My Bloody Valentine
• Sinéad O'Connor – singer
• Jimmy O'Dea – actor and comedian
• Danny O'Donoghue – lead singer for The Script
• Maureen O'Hara – actress
• Liam Ó Maonlaí – singer, bodhrán player; member of Hothouse Flowers
• Maureen O'Sullivan – actress
• Gerard Parkes – actor; moved with his family to Canada
• Noel Purcell – actor, singer
• Glenn Quinn – actor
• Gerry Ryan – television presenter
• Andrew Scott – actor (Sherlock)
• Thomas Sheridan – actor
• Kevin Shields – musician, vocalist and guitarist of My Bloody Valentine
• Carly Smithson – singer, appeared on American Idol; lead singer of We Are the Fallen
• Bernie Tormé – guitarist
• Ryan Tubridy – current presenter of The Late Late Show, the world's longest-running chat show
• Aidan Turner – actor (The Hobbit, Being Human, Poldark)
• Louis Walsh – judge of X-Factor

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See also[]

• List of University of Dublin people
• List of University College Dublin people
• List of Dublin City University people
• List of Irish people
• Category:People from County Dublin

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