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			This is a list of '''notable Irish Americans''', including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants.
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			==List==
			===Actors===
			{{Main\|List of American actors of Irish descent}}

	==~~Science~~==		===Arts===
			{{anchor\|Performance_Art}}
	* ], ] founding physicians
			* ] – photographer
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			* ] – dancer; mother is from County Mayo
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			* ] – songwriter and musician, lead singer of Nirvana
	* ], medical pioneer
	* ], ~~astronaut~~		* ] – sculptor
			* ] – singer and actress
			* ] – sculptor
			* ] – cartoonist, illustrator, writer
			* ] – dancer<ref>http://www.slate.com/id/2127055/fr/rss "The important thing to know about Michael Flatley is that he's Irish-American... His success comes from his ability to join unlikely elements together—Irish and Americans, step dancing and flamenco, pretension and frivolity."</ref>
			* ] – painter, Irish immigrant best known for ] renderings of still life<ref>http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/sHarnett.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020804233302/http://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/sHarnett.html \|date=4 August 2002 }} "William Harnett American, born Ireland, 1848(?)-1892"</ref>
			* ] – portrait painter
			* ] – painter
			* ] – dancer, actress; mother of Chinese and Irish descent
			* ] – dancer, actor, singer, director, choreographer
			* ] – sculptor and illustrator
			* ] – artist, activist
			* ] – sculptor
			* ] – singer, dancer, member of the South Korean group ]; mother is Korean and father is of Irish ancestry
			* ] – art historian and curator
			* ] – sculptor
			* ] – singer, frontman of the Doors
			* ] – painter<ref>{{Cite web\|title = John Neagle Papers\|url = http://www.amphilsoc.org/collections/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.N125.p-ead.xml\|date = 1 January 2002\|access-date = 21 February 2016\|first = John\|last = Neagle}}</ref>
			* ] – sculptor
			* ] – painter<ref>http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geox.htm {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810172837/http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geox.htm \|date=10 August 2006 }} "Of Irish and Hungarian ancestry, Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wis...."</ref>

			* ] – animator, artist; of Irish and Italian ancestry
	==Music==
			* ] – photographer
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			* ] – sculptor, politician, foundry owner
	* ], ] member
			* ] – miniaturist
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			* ] – painter, student of Eakins, Civil War Medal of Honor
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			* ] – sculptor and designer; grandfather is from Dublin
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			* ] – sculptor; Irish mother<ref>http://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibitions/gaudens/gaudens.shtml "Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848 to an Irish mother and a French father."</ref>
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			* ] – sculptor, brother of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
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			* ] – sculptor
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	==~~Literature~~==		=== Astronauts ===
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			* ] – Command Module Pilot for ], 1969
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			* ] – Lunar Module Pilot for ]
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			* ] – commander for ] and ]; pilot for ] and ]
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			* ] – NASA astronaut; he and his brother Mark are the only twins and the only siblings who have both traveled in space
			* ] – Science Pilot for ]

	==~~Entertainment~~==		===Business===
			* ] – financier and philanthropist<ref>{{cite book\|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471391026 \|title=Diamond Jim Brady: Prince of the Gilded Age: H. Paul Jeffers: 9780471391029: Amazon.com: Books \|website=Amazon \|date=17 August 2001 \|publisher=Wiley \|isbn=978-0-471-39102-9 \|access-date=23 September 2013}} "Born in 1856 into an Irish immigrant family who ran a saloon on the Lower East Side..."</ref>
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			*] – judge of Pennsylvania Supreme Court, abolitionist
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			*] - President and CEO of ]
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			* ] – founder of pizza Hut
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			*] - American ] and philanthropist. He has been described as one of Silicon Valley's "]".
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			* Ivar "Pop" Coulson – inventor of the ]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://illinoisstatesoceity.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/10/page/7/ \| title=Illinois State Society of Washington, DC }}</ref>
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			* ] – Omaha businessman and philanthropist
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			* ] (1831–1907) – Omaha businessman and philanthropist
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			* ] – fur trader
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			* ] – founder of ], inventor of the ]
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			* ] (1841–1900) – A "Copper King" of Butte, Montana, United States
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			* Charles Elmer Doolin – founder of ]
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			*] – Anglo-Irish
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			* ] – Global Head of Equities, Multi-Asset and ] at ] Asset Management<ref>{{cite news \|title=Dawn Fitzpatrick/UBS O'Connor \|url=http://irishamerica.com/2014/09/dawn-fitzpatrick/ \|newspaper=Irish America }}</ref>
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			* ] – former CEO of ]
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			* ] – founder of ]; Anglo-Irish<ref>http://www.ieeeghn.org/index.php/Henry_Ford "Ford was born on 30 July 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, the son of Irish immigrants (of English ancestry) who fled the potato famine in the 1840s."</ref>
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			*] - American private equity investor who co-founded and served as Managing Principal of the private investment firm Centerbridge Partners until his retirement in 2020
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			* ] – inventor of the car radio; founder of Motorola
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			*] - chairman and CEO of ]
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			* ] – lawyer, president of the ], prosecuted the trial against the ]<ref>http://www.spartacus-educational.com/USAgowenF.htm "Franklin Gowen, the fifth son of an Irish immigrant, was born in Philadelphia in 1836..."</ref>
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			* ] (1832–1904) – mayor of New York City and founder of W. R. Grace and Company
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	* ], ]		* John Holahan – creator of ]
			* ] – ] chairman<ref>http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/decjan/top100/100.asp {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060507092404/http://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/decjan/top100/100.asp \|date=7 May 2006 }} "www.irishboard.com"</ref>
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			* ] – ] chairman, former ambassador to the UK and father of President JFK.
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			* ] – ] of ]; commercial pilot
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			* ] – American billionaire businessman, landowner, and philanthropist
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			* ] – founders of ]
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			* ] – Chief Justice of Montana Supreme Court
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			*] – inventor of hot sauce
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			* ] – minority owner of WWE
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			* ] – CBO of WWE
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	* ], ]		* ] – CEO of ]
			*] - President of ]. Known for using 1950s computer spreadsheets featuring graphs, a new idea
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			* ] – founder of Mellon Bank
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			* ] – founder of ]<ref>http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2000/feb2000p13_21.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060619071929/http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2000/feb2000p13_21.html \|date=19 June 2006 }} "On his father's side there was the Irish connection, his grandfather coming from Tipperary and his paternal grandmother from Cork..."</ref>
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			*] - chairman and CEO of ]
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			* ] – businessman and film producer
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			* ] – entrepreneur<ref>http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bill_rancic/index.shtml {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927200643/http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bill_rancic/index.shtml \|date=27 September 2007 }} "grew up in the suburb Orland Park, to a Croatian-Irish family..."</ref>
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			* ] – owner of Moore and Sinnott, the largest rye whiskey distillery in the United States before Prohibition
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			*] – inventor of the skyscraper<ref>{{cite encyclopedia \|title=Louis Sullivan \|encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica \|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Sullivan \|quote=His Irish-born father and Swiss-born mother had immigrated to the United States in 1847 and 1850, respectively \|access-date=January 18, 2024 }}</ref>
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			* ] – former CEO of ]<ref> "The Irish-Catholic kid who learned to play golf as a 12-year-old caddy beat a champion..."</ref>
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			*] - CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, a division of ]
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			*] - ] of ] and chair of the board of Bank of America Europe.
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			*] - American businessman and entrepreneur
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			*] - American investor and founder, ] and ] of ], an ] firm
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			*] - American businessman who dealt in mining stocks and operated silver mines.
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			*] - Manufacturer, businessman and philanthropist
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			*] - Founding owner of the ]
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			*] - Founder of ]
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			*] - Businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of ], the travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. He was the founder of the ], one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world.
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	==~~Sports~~==		===Educators===
			* ] – "Mother Jones", educator and labor organizer
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			*] (1933–1998) – president of Queens College, president of Bennington College, and chancellor of the ]
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			* ] – educator who was killed in the 2012 ]; hid students and died trying to protect them<ref name="VS">{{cite news\| url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/16/victoria-soto-newtown-tea_n_2311762.html \|title=Victoria Soto, Newtown Teacher, Emerges As Hero After Shooting \| publisher=Huffingtonpost.com \| date=16 December 2012 \|access-date=21 December 2012 \| first=Roque \| last=Planas}}</ref>
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			===Film directors, producers and scriptwriters===
	==Military==
			* ] (1985–) – American writer, actor, producer, and showrunner. He is of Irish, Spanish, and Cuban descent.<ref>{{cite web\|last=Betancourt\|first=Manuel\|title=Rafael Casal on Creating a Complex Portrait of Oakland's Race & Class Dynamics in 'Blindspotting'\|url=https://remezcla.com/features/film/blindspotting-rafael-casal/\|website=]\|access-date=27 June 2020}}</ref>
	* ], US Naval officer, author of '']''
			* ] (1930–2009) – senior executive for ] and son of Roy O. Disney
	* ], Father of the American Navy
			* ] (1893–1971) – Walt Disney's brother
	* ], ]
			* ] (1901–1966)<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.justdisney.com/WaltDisney100/biography/01.html \|title=Walt Disney - 100 Years of Walt Disney \|access-date=7 June 2006 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317193523/http://www.justdisney.com/WaltDisney100/biography/01.html \|archive-date=17 March 2006}} "his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-English descent."</ref>
	* ], Fenian and Father of the US Submarine Service
			* ] – known for independent films like '']''; born in New York; his grandparents were immigrants from County Kerry and County Cavan, Ireland
	* ], soldier in ]
			* ] (1894–1973) – director, best known for stylish Westerns and the film classic '']''
	* ], most decorated combat soldier of ]
			* ] (1956–) – known for both writing and directing the highest grossing rated R film of all time ($370,782,930), '']''<ref>{{Cite book \| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_A73Xj1u0X4C&q=%22The+Gibson+family+connection.%22 \| title=Mel Gibson\| isbn=9780949773340\| last1=Hanrahan\| first1=John\| year=1986\| publisher=Little Hills Press}}</ref>
	* ], ] in ]
			* ] (1899–1980)<ref>http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/hitchcock.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060626233059/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/hitchcock.html \|date=26 June 2006 }} "He was the youngest child of an East End family whose father ran a poulterer's and greengrocer's business and whose mother came of Irish stock. The family was Catholic."</ref><ref>http://www.classictrailers.co.uk/alfredbio.html "In 1955, he became an American citizen."</ref>
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			* ] (1906–1987)<ref>{{Cite web \|title=ShowBiz Ireland - John Huston script, Amparo, found by son \|url=http://www.showbiz.ie/news/october00/26-huston01.shtml \|access-date=2023-08-07 \|website=www.showbiz.ie}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|date=2006-02-11 \|title=The religion of director John Huston \|url=http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/John_Huston.html \|access-date=2023-08-07 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211131033/http://www.adherents.com/people/ph/John_Huston.html \|archive-date=11 February 2006 }}</ref>
			* ] (1892–1950)
			* ] (1898–1969)<ref>http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/mccarey.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060110193821/http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/mccarey.html \|date=10 January 2006 }} "Leo McCarey was the first son of Irish-Catholic Thomas McCarey, a well-known boxing promoter, and French-born Leona McCarey, for whom he is named."</ref>
			* ] (1954–)<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Younge \|first=Gary \|date=2003-10-04 \|title=The capped crusader \|language=en-GB \|work=The Guardian \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2003/oct/04/michaelmoore.features \|access-date=2023-08-07 \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>
			* ] (1950–) – independent film director and writer, frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films<ref>http://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Interview_John%20Sayles.html "Both of my parents are half Irish"</ref>
			* ] (1880–1960)
			* ] (1963–)
			* ] (1872–1922)
			* ] (1887–1980)
			* ] (1896–1975)
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			===Gangsters and mobsters===
	==Politics==
			{{Main\|List of Irish American mobsters}}
	* ], ]
	* ], St. Louis mayor
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	* ], San Francisco Democratic party leader
	* ], Cleveland mayor, ]
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	* ], California governor
	* ], California governor, Oakland mayor
	* ], New Jersey governor
	* ], Chicago mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
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	* ], New York governor
	* ], Pennsylvania governor
	* ], Detroit mayor
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	* ], New York City mayor
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	* ], St. Louis mayor
	* ], First Ward Alderman in Chicago 1893-1938
	* ], Boston mayor
	* ], New York City mayor
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	* ], Chicago mayor
	* ], Chicago mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], Jacksonville mayor
	* ], ] (''American-born'')
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], Wisconsin governor
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	* ], California governor
	* ], Chicago mayor
	* ], Jersey City mayor
	* ], Omaha mayor
	* ], San Jose mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, US Postmaster General
	* ], Boston mayor
	* ], New Orleans mayor
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	* ], Pittsburgh mayor
	* ], Chairman of the Democartic National Committee
	* ], Boston mayor
	* ], Pittsburgh mayor
	* ], founder of ]
	* ], ] politcal machine boss
	* ], New York City mayor
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	* ], Buffalo mayor
	* ], Jersey City mayor
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	* ], Chicago mayor
	* ], Oakland mayor
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	* ], Oklahoma governor
	* ], Chicago mayor
	* ], ] boss
	* ], Buffalo mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], First Ward Alderman in Chicago 1897-1923
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	* ], U.S. ]
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	* ], Chicago mayor
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	* ], Louisiana governor
	* ], Illinois Attorney General
	* ], Illinois ], Illinois Democratic Party Chairman
	* ], St. Louis mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
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	* ], Jersey City mayor
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	* ], San Francisco mayor
	* ], Pittsburgh mayor
	* ], Speaker of the House
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	* ], St. Paul mayor
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	* ], New Jersey governor
	* ], Pittsburgh mayor
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	* ], Brooklyn Democratic party boss
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	* ], New York City mayor
	* ], San Jose mayor
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	* ], St. Louis mayor
	* ], San Jose mayor
	* ], ] boss
	* ], San Diego mayor
	* ], Detroit mayor, Michigan governor
	* ], Arkansas governor
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	* ], Pittsburgh mayor
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	* ], Albany mayor
	* ], St. Louis mayor
	* ], Indiana governor
	* ], San Jose mayor
	* ], St. Paul mayor
	* ], Boston's first Irish mayor
	* ], New York City mayor
	* ], Albany mayor
	* ], San Diego mayor
	* ], Maryland governor
	* ], New York City mayor
	* ], New Orleans mayor
	* ], Baltimore mayor
	* ], Jersey City mayor
	* ], Speaker of the House
	* ], Connecticut governor
	* ], 65th ]
	* ], Kansas City Democratic machine boss
	* ], San Francisco mayor, ]
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	* ], Los Angeles mayor
	* ], Illinois governor
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	* ], Buffalo democratic machine boss
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	* ], New York governor
	* ], Milwaukee mayor
	* ], Massachusetts governor
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	* ], Massachusetts' first ] governor
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	* ], Boston mayor

			=== Journalists, media ===
	==Religion==
			{{main\|Irish American journalism}}
	* ], Archbishop of St. Paul
	* ], Archbishop of St. Louis
	* ], America's first Catholic bishop and founder of ]
	* ], Archbishop of Chicago
	* ], Bishop of New York
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	* ], Archbishop of New York
	* ], Archbishop of Baltimore
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	* ], Archbishop of New York
	* ], Archbishop of New York
	* ], Archbishop of Chicago
	* ], Archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis
	* ], Bishop of ], American bishop with ] ancestry
	* ], S.J., President of Georgetown College
	* ], Archbishop of New York
	* ], Archbishop of St. Paul
	* ], Roman Catholic priest, author and sociologist
	* ], Archbishop of Los Angeles
	* ], Archbishop of Washington D.C.
	* ], Archbishop of New York
	* ], ] founder, priest
	* ], Archbishop of St. Paul
	* ], Archbishop of New York
	* ], Archbishop of Boston
	* ], Bishop of Chicago
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	* ], Roman Catholic Archbishop
	* ], Archbishop of Chicago
	* ], first bishop of Buffalo
	* ], Archbishop of Newark

			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Kurtz \|first=Howard \|date=August 25, 1998 \|title=As The Globe Turns \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/daily/globe0825.htm \|access-date=2022-12-06 \|website=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>
	==Gangsters==
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			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|last=O'Hehir \|first=Andrew \|title=The Gospel According to Jimmy Breslin \|url=https://southerncrossreview.org/37/breslin.htm \|website=southerncrossreview.org}}</ref>
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			* ] (1925–2008)
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			* ]<ref>Smolenyak, Megan. {{cite news \|title=Ann Coulter's Immigrant Ancestors \|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/ann-coulters-immigrant-an_b_8332212.html \|accessdate=21 October 2015 \|work=Huffington Post}}</ref>
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			* ] (1842–1928) – editor of the '']'' 1903–1928
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			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|date=18 July 2002 \|title=Phil Donahue's liberal oasis \|url=https://www.salon.com/2002/07/18/donahue/ \|website=Salon}}</ref>
	* ], ], gunman, Monk Eastman and Five Points Gang member
			* ]<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Redhead and the Gray Lady - How Maureen Dowd Became America's Most Dangerous Columnist \|url=http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14946/index4.html \|url-status=dead \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326221415/http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14946/index4.html \|archivedate=26 March 2006 \|accessdate=7 June 2006}} "...her Irish sensibilities"</ref>
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	* ], New York		* ] (1857–1896) – editor of the '']''
			* ] (1837–1913) – founded the ''Irish World'' in New York
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			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2007-01-17 \|title=Sean Hannity \|url=https://genprogress.org/sean-hannity/ \|access-date=2022-12-06 \|website=Generation Progress \|language=en-US}}</ref>
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			* ] – Washington political reporter and columnist
			* ] (1820–1886) – editor of ''Freeman's Journal'' (New York)
			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|date=17 February 2011 \|title=Echo Profile: Host with a punch \|url=https://www.irishecho.com/2011/02/echo-profile-host-with-a-punch-2/ \|website=irishecho.com}}</ref>
			* ] (1815–1875) – editor of leading Confederate newspaper
			* ] (1950– ) – author, political analyst and columnist
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			* ] – journalist and producer
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			* ] (1844–1890) – editor of '']''
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			* ]<ref>{{Cite news \|date=April 5, 1956 \|title=The Ed Sullivan Story - He Relates Irish Origin of Family \|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press-es-story-irish-orig/10818620/ \|work=Detroit Free Press}}</ref>
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			* ] – ''NBC News'' anchor
			* ] – talk show host
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			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Showcase \|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/daily/globe0825.htm \|access-date=2023-08-07 \|website=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>
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			* ]<ref>http://www.webstationone.com/fecha/cal-may/may5.htm {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060320163730/http://www.webstationone.com/fecha/cal-may/may5.htm\|date=20 March 2006}} "the daughter of Irish immigrants."</ref>
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			* ]<ref>http://southerncrossreview.org/37/breslin.htm "His book has been criticized for its intemperate remarks about the Irish and their American great-grandchildren, but if Jimmy Breslin is not qualified to make those judgments... who is?"</ref>
			* ] – author, Boston newspaper columnist and New England radio talk-show host; has claimed family "two-boater" Irish ancestry (i.e., Ireland-to-Canada, then Canada-to-Maine) on his father's side
			* ]<ref>http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/neilcavuto/2004/01/17/10459.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051007044238/http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/neilcavuto/2004/01/17/10459.html\|date=7 October 2005}} "Look, I'm half-Italian and half-Irish..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>{{Citation \|title=Carson Daly Interview with Avi the TV Geek \| date=26 July 2008 \|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP8XHFalWLk \|access-date=2022-09-06 \|language=en}}</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/07/18/donahue/index.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060304202949/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/07/18/donahue/index.html\|date=4 March 2006}} "When he and Buchanan squared off on camera to debate the recent Pledge of Allegiance court ruling, they were just another pair of wealthy, middle-aged, white Irish Catholic men pontificating."</ref>
			* ]<ref>{{cite web \|title=The Redhead and the Gray Lady - How Maureen Dowd Became America's Most Dangerous Columnist \|url=http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14946/index4.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060326221415/http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/people/features/14946/index4.html \|archive-date=26 March 2006 \|access-date=7 June 2006}} "Dowd is assumed by most people to be a Democrat... in reality she was part of this kind of Irish-Catholic mafia that included Chris Matthews and Mike Kelly..."</ref>
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			* ]<ref>{{cite news \|last=Ebert \|first=Roger \|title=Roger Ebert's Last Words, con't. \| Roger Ebert's Journal \| Roger Ebert \|url=http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/02/roger_eberts_last_words_cont.html \|access-date=23 September 2013 \|publisher=Blogs.suntimes.com}}</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://www.saja.org/hamill.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051212152137/http://www.saja.org/hamill.html\|date=12 December 2005}} "Born in Brooklyn in 1935, of Irish immigrant parents, Pete Hamill served in the US Navy, attended Mexico City College..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://www.campusprogress.org/tools/195/ "Hannity, a proclaimed devout Irish Catholic, has blamed liberals for actions taken..."</ref>
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			* ]<ref>http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17164 {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051124125137/http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=17164\|date=24 November 2005}} "But Chris Matthews, the Irish-American host of MSNBC's political talk show "Hardball"..."</ref>
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			* ] (1950– ) – author, political analyst and pundit for the Republican Party<ref>'''Noonan''' – "I pick Dublin because I was there most recently, and also because I'm Irish-American..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://users.vnet.net/allbell/irish.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060426233932/http://users.vnet.net/allbell/irish.html\|date=26 April 2006}} "O'Brien, the proud Irishman, clad very casually in denims and navy blue shirt..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>{{cite web \|title=CNN Programs - Anchors/Reporters - Soledad O'Brien \|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/obrien.soledad.html \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100522014949/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/obrien.soledad.html \|archive-date=22 May 2010 \|access-date=23 May 2010 \|website=]}} "O'Brien was named to Irish American Magazine's "Top 100 Irish Americans" on two occasions."</ref><ref>http://www.kepplerspeakers.com/speakers/obriensoledad.asp "Soledad O'Brien brings her unique heritage of Latino, Irish, and African-American cultures..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2004-02-14 \|title=MSNBC - Norah O'Donnell \|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna3688941 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040214122609/http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3688941/ \|archive-date=14 February 2004 \|url-status=live \|access-date=2023-08-07}}</ref>
			* ] – New York-based reporter; later a business executive with Merrill Lynch
			* ]<ref> "He was raised Irish-Catholic in Long Island, NY..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/91.2/br_28.html "He was the son of an English woman of aristocratic origins and an Irish-born..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://www.kipaddotta.com/regis-philbin.html {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060415042954/http://www.kipaddotta.com/regis-philbin.html\|date=15 April 2006}} "Part of an Irish-American Catholic family, he was the eldest son of Frank and Florence..."</ref>
			* ], fist anchor woman in America
			* ] (1950–2008) – journalist, hosted NBC's ''Meet the Press'' from 1991 until his death in 2008<ref>'''Russert''' – "Irish America magazine has named him one of the top 100 Irish Americans in the country and he was selected as a Fellow of the Commission of European Communities."</ref><ref>http://www.beliefnet.com/story/192/story_19270_1.html "I thought that certainly people I grew up with in the Irish Catholic neighborhood in Buffalo would want to read it."</ref>
			* ] (1870–1930) – sports journalist ('']'')
			* ]<ref>http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/freeman/20060304-9999-1c04freeman.html "As you may recall, Ed Sullivan, whose heritage was Irish ..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>http://www.imdiversity.com/villages/hispanic/arts_culture_media/amoruso_elizabeth_vargas_1205.asp {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628022327/http://www.imdiversity.com/Villages/Hispanic/arts_culture_media/amoruso_elizabeth_vargas_1205.asp\|date=28 June 2006}} "Born in New Jersey of a Puerto Rican father and Irish American mother, and a self-described army brat..."</ref>
			* ]<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Walsh \|first=John \|url=https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067100669X \|title=Tears of Rage \|date=2003-04-01 \|publisher=Pocket \|isbn=978-0-671-00669-3 \|language=English}}</ref>
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			===Law enforcement===
	==Others==
			* ] – Director of the ] from March 2013 to January 2017
	* ], ]
			* ] – former New York Police Commissioner
	* ], icon of the ]
			* ] – Chicago Police Chief
	* ], founder of ]
			* ] – United States Border Patrol Agent, BORTAC (USBP Tactical Response Team) Operator
	* ], World poker champion
			* ] – New York City Police Sergeant who served in the ] from June 1926 to July 1948
	* ], ]
			* ] – former ] commissioner (Irish mother)
	* ], the ] of the ] in ]
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	* ], ] leader
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	* ], founder of ]
	* ]~~, news anchor~~		* ]

	* ], the father of American architecture
			===Law===
			* ]
			* ] – ]<ref> "The second of eight children born to Irish immigrants..."</ref>
			* ] – civil rights attorney<ref name=wollenberg>{{Cite book \| last = Wollenberg \| first = Charles \| title = Rebel Lawyer: Wayne Collins and the Defense of Japanese American Rights \| publisher = Heyday \| year = 2018 \| page = \| isbn = 9781597144360 \| url = https://archive.org/details/rebellawyerwayne00woll/page/9 }}</ref>
			* ] – former ]<ref>http://www.savemartha.com/martha_stewart_trial_who.html "He was born in Yonkers 42 years ago, the second of four children in a middle-class Irish-American family."</ref>
			* ] – ] of the ]
			* ] – ]<ref>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,1707291,00.html "His parents were Irish-born and he grew up in a working-class Irish American community..."</ref>
			* ] – ]<ref>https://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/legal_entity/104/background "Ethnicity Irish"</ref>
			* ] – ]<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Late US senator Robert F Kennedy inducted to Irish-America Hall of Fame \|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/late-us-senator-robert-f-kennedy-inducted-to-irish-america-hall-of-fame-1.526918 \|access-date=2023-08-07 \|newspaper=The Irish Times \|language=en}}</ref>
			* ] – ] of the ]
			* ] – chief counsel for the ]
			* ] – ]
			* ] – ] of the ]
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			*] - ] of the ]
			*] - Lawyer known for hostage negotiation of 1960–1962 with the Soviet Union

			===Literature===
			* ] – playwright; author of '']''<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl128.htm \|title=Philip Barry Papers \|publisher=Library.georgetown.edu \|access-date=15 November 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000902094732/http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/cl128.htm \|archive-date=2 September 2000 \|url-status=dead }}</ref>
			* ] – author of '']''
			* ] – poet, part of the second generation of the New York School; author of ''The Sonnets''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu">{{cite web\|url=http://undpress.nd.edu/book/P01095/ \|title=The Book of Irish American Poetry // Books // University of Notre Dame Press \|publisher=Undpress.nd.edu \|access-date=15 November 2013}}</ref>
			* ] – poet; one of the founders of the ] school of poetry<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – poet, translator, and critic; served as ] 1945–1946<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; awarded the 1988 ] for his novel '']''
			* ] – author of ''A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled''
			* ] – travel writer; awarded an honorary ] for his contribution to literature
			* ] – novelist and travel writer; author of ''The Gallery''
			* ] – author, poet, and punk musician; author of '']''
			* ] – author and poet; provided the basis for the character Dean Moriarty in ]'s novel '']''
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; author of the ] detective series that shaped the modern "]" story
			* ] – playwright and screenwriter; awarded the 1945 ] for '']''
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; her novel '']'' (1899) is considered a proto-feminist precursor to ]
			* ] – novelist; author of many bestselling novels, including '']'' and '']''
			* ] – bestselling author of suspense novels
			* ] – poet; served two terms as ] 2001–2003<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – novelist; author of '']''
			* ] – crime novelist; author of the bestselling ] detective series
			* ] – novelist and memoirist; author of '']'' and '']''
			* ] – poet and author associated with the ]; awarded a 2000 ] Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; her novel '']'' (1942) is considered the first ]
			* ] – science fiction author<ref>The Search for Philip K Dick by Anne R Dick, Tachyon Publications 2010</ref>
			* ] – novelist; author of '']'', named on the ]
			* ] – poet and novelist; associated with the ] movement and "third generation" American ] poets
			* ] – poet; winner of the 1961 ] for his volume ''Poems''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter; author of '']''<ref>{{cite web \|last1=Kennedy \|first1=Douglas \|title=The Name Game \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-name-game-1609952.html \|website=The Independent}}</ref>
			* ] – novelist; author of the ] trilogy, named on the ]
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; his novel '']'' was named on both the ] and the ''TIME'' 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005<ref name="autogenerated2005">{{cite news\| url=http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html \| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051019053903/http://www.time.com/time/2005/100books/the_complete_list.html \| url-status=dead \| archive-date=19 October 2005 \| magazine=Time \| title=All-Time 100 Novels \| date=16 October 2005}}</ref>
			* ] – poet, critic, and translator; served as ] 1984–1985
			* ] – novelist and academic; winner of the 1979 ] for ''The Year of the French''
			* ] – ] novelist; author of bestselling ] series
			* ] – poet and short story writer; awarded the 2002 ] for ''Felt''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – poet, short story writer, essayist, and playwright<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – poet, memoirist, and essayist; author of '']''
			* ] – journalist, columnist, novelist, and short story writer
			* ] – novelist, columnist, and academic; known for his best-selling crime novels, including '']''
			* ] – writer and filmmaker
			* ] – poet, novelist, and short-story writer; awarded the 2001 ] for ''Selected Poems''
			* ] – poet; winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the ] for ''The Good Thief''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – poet and literary critic; awarded ] in 1981 for ''The Liberties'' and 1986 for ''My Emily Dickinson''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – ] novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters"<ref>{{cite book \|author=] \|year=1917 \|orig-year=First published 1916 \|title=Years of My Youth \|url=https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/47060 \|chapter=I \|chapter-url=https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47060/47060-h/47060-h.htm#page_001 \|publisher=Harper & Brothers \|access-date=January 23, 2024 \|quote=I can reasonably suppose that it is because of the mixture of Welsh, German, and Irish in me that I feel myself so typically American}}</ref>
			* ] – poet; finalist for the 2005 ] for ''The Orchard''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – novelist and schoolteacher
			* ] – poet associated with the ] group; awarded a 1980 ] for ''In Time''
			* ] – novelist and author, winner of the 1983 ] for Fiction, 1984 ] for '']'', and a 1984 ] for '']''
			* ] – poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and children's author<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – poet and academic
			* ] – author and ]-winning playwright
			* ] – poet; awarded the 1983 ] and 1983 ] for Poetry for ''Selected Poems''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – ]- and ]-nominated science fiction author
			* ] – poet and author; awarded a 2000 ] for ''It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry and Prose''
			* ] – poet and publisher; winner of the 1989 ] Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1992 ] Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; namesake of the annual ] administered by the ]
			* ] – novelist, author of '']'' and '']''
			* ] – poet and academic; awarded the 1982 ] for ''Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream''
			* ] – poet, critic, and scholar; awarded the 2005 ] for Criticism for ''The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin''
			* ] – poet and essayist; awarded a 1998 ] for ''The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade''
			* ] – memoirist; winner of a 2000 ] for ''All Souls: A Family Story From Southie''
			* ] – novelist and playwright; author of '']'' and winner of the 2007 ] for '']''
			* ] – memoirist; winner of the 1996 ] and the 1997 ] for '']''
			* ] – novelist; awarded the 1998 ] and a 1999 ] for '']''
			* ] – author, physician
			* ] – poet
			* ] – poet; awarded a 1984 ] for ''Echoes Inside the Labyrinth'' and the 1989 ] for ''Selected Poems: 1938–1988''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer; nominated for a ] for '']''
			* ] – author
			* ] – novelist; author of '']''
			* ] – poet; awarded the 1999 ]
			* ] – playwright; winner of six ] and nominated for the 1994 ] for ''A Perfect Ganesh''
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; awarded ]'s 2001 ] for her story "Aqua Boulevard"
			* ] – novelist; awarded the 1937 ] for '']''
			* ] – poet
			* ] – journalist and children's author; awarded the 1972 ] for '']''
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; prominent author of fiction about the ], including '']'', a finalist for both the ] and the ]
			* ] – novelist, winner of the 1962 ] for '']''
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; notable author in the ] style
			* ] – poet, prominent member of the ]<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – novelist; author of '']'', named one of the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005<ref name="autogenerated2005"/>
			* ] – poet
			* ] – poet and critic, associated with the second generation ] poets; author of ''The Maximus Poems''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – playwright; awarded the 1936 ] and four-time winner of the ]
			*] – writer, poet, editor, and literary critic<ref>Quinn 1998, p. 13</ref>
			* ] – novelist and short story writer; winner of the 1963 ] for '']''
			* ] – ] novelist; author of bestselling '']'' series
			* ] – humorist and freestyle mogul skier on the ]
			* ] – ] novelist; first inductee into the ] Hall of Fame
			* ] – poet and academic; currents ]
			* ] – poet; awarded the 1990 ] for ''God Hunger''<ref name="undpress.nd.edu"/>
			* ] – playwright and screenwriter; winner of the 2005 ] for '']''
			* ] – author and screenwriter
			* ] – crime novelist; author of bestselling ] detective novels
			* ] – novelist; posthumously awarded the 1981 ] for '']''
			* ] – novelist, playwright, best known for ''Beggars of Life''
			* ] – novelist and screenwriter; awarded a 2004 ] for ''And All The Saints''
			* ] – fantasy and science fiction author; winner of three ]s and six ]s

			===Military===

			*] – father of the ]; Irish-born<ref>http://www.ushistory.org/more/commodorebarry.html "...born at Ballysampson on Our Lady's Island, which is part of Tacumshin Parish in County Wexford, Ireland"</ref>
			*] – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2013 to 2017.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/history/us-history-biographies/william-joseph-casey\|title=William Joseph Casey \| Encyclopedia.com\|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.irishcentral.com/news/how-the-sons-of-irish-ancestors-rose-the-ranks-of-the-cia-video-187489431-237559881 \| title=How the sons of Irish ancestors rose the ranks of the CIA - VIDEO \| date=18 January 2013 }}</ref>
			*] – Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1981 to 1987.
			*] - Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Director of NSA
			*] – Union general born in Kerry
			*] – United States Army general<ref>http://thewildgeese.irish/profiles/blogs/corcoran-part-1-from-bane-to-toast-of-the-nation "A policeman in Ireland"</ref>
			*] – leader of ]; son of Irish immigrants<ref> "Hickey is the son of working-class Irish immigrants..."</ref>
			*] – US Army officer, noted for action in the southwest during the Mexican–American War<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08132b.htm\|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Irish (In Countries Other Than Ireland)\|website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref>
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			*] – The most senior United States military officer on active duty during World War II, he held several titles and exercised considerable influence over foreign and military policy. As a fleet admiral, he was the first flag officer ever to hold a five-star rank in the U.S. Armed Forces.
			*] – ] general<ref>http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bfrazer9&id=I6258 "LEWIS, Andrew, soldier, born in Donegal, Ireland, about 1720"</ref>
			*] – naval officer and author whose work, including ''Sea Power'', inspired the creation of the modern United States Navy
			*] – guiding light and head of faculty at West Point for decades prior to the Civil War; influential author whose published works were the keystone for spreading engineering knowledge throughout the antebellum US; his Napoleon seminar at West Point informed Civil War strategies, North and South
			*] – commanding general of the Army of the Potomac who led the Union forces to victory at Gettysburg in 1863
			*] – ] general, ]
			*] – ] general<ref>{{Cite EB1911\|wstitle= Montgomery, Richard \|volume= 18 \| page= 784 }}</ref>
			*] – most decorated combat soldier of ]<ref>http://www.irishtribute.com/heritage/viewer.adp@article=1538218.html "One of the countless young Irish Americans queuing up in front of the recruitment offices..."</ref>
			*Lt. ] – Navy Seal, Medal of Honor
			*] – ], ]; parents were Irish immigrants<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.americanrevolution.org/murphy.php\|title=The Saratoga Rifleman\|website=www.americanrevolution.org}}</ref>
			*], Jr. 19th-century Irish-American naval officer
			*] – captain in ]<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.navysite.de/dd/dd975.htm\|title=USS O'Brien (DD 975)\|website=www.navysite.de}}</ref>
			*Joseph T. O'Callaghan – Medal of Honor
			*] – ] general, ]<ref>"General John O'Neill arrived in the United States from Ireland in 1848..."</ref>
			*] – general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
			*] – high ranking ] expert<ref>{{Cite magazine\|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2002/01/14/the-counter-terrorist\|title=The Counter-Terrorist\|magazine=The New Yorker\|first=Lawrence\|last=Wright\|date=7 January 2002\|via=www.newyorker.com}}</ref>
			*] – Revolutionary War heroine<ref>http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacumber/molly.htm "She survived her husband many years, known of course as Molly McCauly, and the statements so frequently made that Molly Pitcher was a young Irish woman..."</ref>
			*] – general commanding the right wing of the Army of the Potomac who surprised Lee and committed the Union Army to battle at Gettysburg in July 1863; killed in the front lines while personally rallying troops for counterattacks during the first day of fighting
			*] – ], ], ]<ref>http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=olney&id=I42643 "Philip's parents, came to United States in 1830... John and Mary were second degree cousins from County Cavan, Ireland."</ref>
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			* ]
			* ]
			* ] – lieutenant general
			* ] - A ] in the ], famous for his exploits in the ] (1801–1805). He was presented a sword for his part in attempting to restore Prince ] to his throne as the Bey of ]. That sword is the inspiration for the United States Marine Corps officer uniform since 1825.
			* ] - He is regarded as the founding father of the CIA, and a statue of him stands in the lobby of the ] in ].
			* ] - Major General who distinguished himself by heading the first modern American military combat intelligence function during ].

			===Musicians===
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			===Politicians===
			{{Main\|List of American politicians of Irish descent}}

			===Presidents===
			At least 22 ] have some Irish ancestral origins,<ref name="autogenerated1">{{Cite web\|url=http://irishamericanheritage.com/ProcWebPages/1995.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509054147/http://irishamericanheritage.com/ProcWebPages/1995.htm\|url-status=dead\|title=irishamericanheritage.com\|archive-date=9 May 2008\|website=irishamericanheritage.com\|access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref> although the extent of this varies. For instance, President Clinton claims Irish ancestry despite there being no documentation of any of his ancestors coming from Ireland, while ] has strongly documented Irish origins. Ronald Reagan's great-grandfather was an Irish Roman Catholic. Kennedy and Joe Biden were raised as practicing Catholics.

			;] (Scotch-Irish and English)
			: 7th President 1829–37: He was born in the predominantly Ulster-Scots ] area of ] two years after his parents left ], near ] in ]. A ] pays tribute to the legacy of 'Old Hickory', the People's President. Andrew Jackson then moved to ], where he served as Governor.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, Andrew Jackson \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref><ref>Jackson 1985, p. 9.</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish)
			:11th President, 1845–49: His ancestors were among the first Ulster-Scots settlers, emigrating from ] in 1680 to become a powerful political family in ], ]. He moved to ] and became its governor before winning the presidency.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com">{{cite web \|title=Ulster-Scots and the United States Presidents \|url=https://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/fs/doc/new_range_of_ulster-scots_booklets/US_and_USA_Presidents_BK3_AW_6.pdf \|website=The Ulster-Scots Agency \|access-date=12 March 2022}}</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish)
			:15th President, 1857–61: Born in a log cabin (which has been relocated to his old school in ]), 'Old Buck' cherished his origins: "My Ulster blood is a priceless heritage". The Buchanans were originally from ], near ] in ] where the ancestral home still stands.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/> Buchanan also had pre-plantation Irish ancestry being a descendant of the O'Kanes from ].
			;] (Irish and English)
			:17th President, 1865–69: His grandfather suppoosedly left ], near ] in County Antrim around 1750 and settled in ] he was of English ancestry. Andrew worked there as a tailor and ran a successful business in ], ], before being elected Vice-President. He became President following ]'s assassination. His Mother was Mary “Polly” McDonough of Irish ancestry 1782.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/><ref>Robert A. Nowlan (2016). The American Presidents From Polk to Hayes: What They Did, What They Said & What Was Said About Them. Outskirts Press. p. 387. {{ISBN\|9781478765721}}. Archived from the original on 23 December 2016.</ref>
			;] (Possibly Irish, Scotch-Irish, English and Scottish)
			:18th President, 1869–77: The home of his maternal great-grandfather, John Simpson, at ], County Tyrone, is the location for an exhibition on the eventful life of the victorious ] commander who served two terms as President. Grant visited his ancestral homeland in 1878.<ref name="Ulter Scots Agency">{{cite web\|url= http://www.ulsterscotsagency.com/fs/doc/new_range_of_ulster-scots_booklets/US_and_USA_Presidents_BK3_AW_6.pdf\|title=Ulster-Scots and the United States Presidents \|publisher=Ulter Scots Agency \|access-date=12 July 2010}}</ref> His grandmother was Rachel Kelley, the daughter of an Irish pioneer.<ref>White 2016, p. 6</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://billiongraves.com/grave/RACHEL-KELLY-GRANT/20776952\|title = Rachel Kelly Grant 1746 - 1805 BillionGraves Record}}</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish and English)
			:21st President, 1881–85: His election was the start of a quarter-century in which the White House was occupied by men of Ulster-Scots origins. His family left ], near ], County Antrim, in 1815. There is now an interpretive centre, alongside the Arthur Ancestral Home, devoted to his life and times.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/><ref>Northern Ireland Tourist Board.</ref><ref> Accessed 3 March 2010. "Arthur Cottage, situated in the heart of County Antrim, only a short walk from the village of Cullybackey is the ancestral home of Chester Alan Arthur, the 21st President of the USA."</ref>
			;] (Irish and English)
			:22nd and 24th President, 1885–89 and 1893–97: Born in ], he was the maternal grandson of merchant Abner Neal, who emigrated from County Antrim in the 1790s.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/> Stephen Grover Cleveland was born to Ann (née Neal) and Richard Falley Cleveland. Ann Neal was of Irish ancestry and Richard Falley Cleveland was of Anglo-Irish and English ancestry.<ref>Nevins, 8–10</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish and English)
			:23rd President, 1889–93: His mother, Elizabeth Irwin, had Ulster-Scots roots through her two great-grandfathers, James Irwin and William McDowell. Harrison was born in ] and served as a brigadier general in the ] before embarking on a career in ] politics which led to the White House.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, Benjamin Harrison \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish and English)
			:25th President, 1897–1901: Born in ], the descendant of a farmer from Conagher, near ], County Antrim, he was proud of his ancestry and addressed one of the national Scotch-Irish congresses held in the late 19th century. His second term as president was cut short by an assassin's bullet.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.mckinley.lib.oh.us/mckinley/biography.htm \|title=William McKinley - 25th President of the United States\|access-date=14 July 2011 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208050447/http://www.mckinley.lib.oh.us/mckinley/biography.htm \|archive-date=8 December 2010 }}</ref>
			;] (Irish, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Scotch, English and French)
			:26th President, 1901-09: Roosevelt's mother, ], had Ulster Scots ancestors who emigrated from ], County Antrim, in May 1729. Roosevelt praised "Irish Presbyterians" as "a bold and hardy race."<ref>Theodore Roosevelt, ''The Winning of the West'', Volume 1, Kessinger Publishing, 2004, pg. 77</ref> However, he also said: "But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen." (Roosevelt was referring to "]", not ], in this context)<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://home.comcast.net/~nhprman/trhyphenated.htm \|title=Theodore Roosevelt's "Hyphenated Americanism" Speech, 1915 \|access-date=12 July 2010 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090125114220/http://home.comcast.net/~nhprman/trhyphenated.htm \|archive-date=25 January 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, Theodore Roosevelt \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref>
			;] (Irish and English)
			:27th President, 1909–13: His great-great-great-grandfather, Robert Taft was born in 1640 in Ireland and immigrated to America, during the mid 17th century. Robert taft was from ].<ref>{{cite web\| first = John T \| last = Marck \| url = http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1118.html \| title = William H. Taft \| publisher = aboutfamouspeople.com \| access-date = 14 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, William Taft \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish)
			:28th President, 1913–21: Of Ulster-Scot descent on both sides of the family, his roots were very strong and dear to him. He was the grandson of a printer from ], near ], County Tyrone, whose former home is open to visitors. Throughout his career, Wilson reflected on the influence of his ancestral values on his constant quest for knowledge and fulfillment.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/>
			;] (Scotch-Irish and English)
			:29th President, 1921–23.<ref>{{cite web\| url = http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312172/harding.html \| title = Warren Gamaliel Harding \| publisher = thinkquest.com \| access-date = 16 April 2008}}</ref>
			;] (Scotch-Irish and German)
			:33rd President, 1945–53.<ref>{{cite web\| first = John T \| last = Marck \| url = http://www.aboutfamouspeople.com/article1124.html \| title = Harry S. Truman \| publisher = aboutfamouspeople.com \| access-date = 16 April 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, Harry S Truman \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref>
			;] (Irish)
			:35th President, 1961–63 (ancestors from ], ], ], ] and ]).<ref name=kelleher>{{cite book \|last1=Kelleher \|first1=Lynne \|title=The Green and White House: Ireland and the US Presidents \|date=2023 \|publisher=Black & White Publishing \|location=Edinburgh \|isbn=978-1785303562}}</ref>{{rp\|231}}
			;] (Irish, Scotch-Irish, English and German)
			:37th President, 1969–74: Nixon's ancestors left Ulster in the mid-18th century; the Quaker Milhous family ties were with County Antrim and ] and County Cork.<ref name="ulsterscotsagency.com"/>
			;] (Scotch-Irish & English)
			:39th President, 1977–1981 (distant ancestors from County Antrim).<ref name="Ulter Scots Agency"/>
			;] (Irish, English and Scottish)
			:40th President, 1981–89: He was the great-grandson, on his father's side, of Irish migrants from ] who came to America via Canada and England in the 1840s. His mother was of Scottish and English ancestry.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, Ronald Reagan \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref>
			;] (Irish and English)
			:41st President, 1989–93: County Wexford historians have found that his apparent ancestor, ] (known as Strongbow for his arrow skills), is remembered as a desperate, land-grabbing warlord whose calamitous foreign adventure led to the suffering of generations. Shunned by ], he offered his services as a mercenary in the 12th-century invasion of Wexford in exchange for power and land. He would die from a festering ulcer in his foot, which his enemies said was the revenge of Irish saints whose shrines he had violated. The genetic line can also be traced to Dermot MacMurrough, the Gaelic king of Leinster reviled in history books as the man who sold Ireland by inviting Strongbow's invasion to save himself from a local feud.<ref>{{cite news\|url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jan/27/usa.angeliquechrisafis\|title=Scion of traitors and warlords: why Bush is coy about his Irish links \|work=The Guardian\|access-date=13 July 2010 \|location=London \|first=Angelique \|last=Chrisafis \|date=27 January 2005}}</ref><ref name="DIG">{{cite web\|url=http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eseanjmurphy/dir/pres.htm \|title=American Presidents with Irish Ancestors \|publisher=Directory of Irish Genealogy \|access-date=15 April 2008}}</ref>
			;] (Irish, Scotch-Irish and English)<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://cassidyclan.org/cassidy-history/clinton-cassidy-connection/\|title = President Clinton/Cassidy Connection \| Cassidy Clan}}</ref>
			:42nd President, 1993–2001: According to a census document, Clinton's paternal great-grandmother Hattie Hayes had two Irish parents and his paternal great-grandfather had an Irish father. Clinton's mother's maiden name, Cassidy, also suggests Irish ancestry on the maternal side, although there is no documentation to substantiate that claim.<ref name= "kelleher" />{{rp\|129-130, 234}}
			;] (Irish, Scottish, Dutch, Welsh, French, German & English)
			:43rd President, 2001–09: One of his five times great-grandfathers, William Holliday, was born in Rathfriland, ], about 1755, and died in Kentucky about 1811–12. One of the President's seven times great-grandfathers, William Shannon, was born somewhere in County Cork about 1730, and died in Pennsylvania in 1784.<ref name="DIG"/>
			;] (Kenyan, English and Irish)
			:44th President, 2009–2017: His paternal ancestors came to America from ] and his maternal ancestors came to America from England. His ancestors lived in New England and the South and by the 1800s most were in the Midwest. His father was Kenyan and the first of his family to leave Africa.<ref name="The Presidents, Barack Obama">{{cite web\|url=http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|title=The Presidents, Barack Obama \|publisher=American Heritage.com \|access-date=19 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060210002715/http://www.americanheritage.com/people/presidents/ \|archive-date=10 February 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.wargs.com/political/obama.html \|title=Ancestry of Barack Obama \|publisher=William Addams Reitwiesner \|access-date=2 December 2009 }}</ref> His great-great-grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, was born in the Irish town of ].<ref name=NPR>{{cite news\|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/05/23/136580099/obama-gets-in-touch-with-his-irish-roots \|title=Obama Gets in Touch with his Irish Roots \|newspaper=npr.org \|access-date=8 March 2017}}</ref>
			;], (Irish and English)
			: 46th President 2021-present: His closest link to Ireland is his great-grandfather James Finnegan, who was born in County Louth in 1840.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Smolenyak \|first=Megan \|author-link=Megan Smolenyak \|date=April–May 2013 \|title=Joey From Scranton—VP Biden's Irish Roots \|url=https://irishamerica.com/2013/03/joey-from-scranton-vice-president-bidens-irish-roots/ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103080608/https://irishamerica.com/2013/03/joey-from-scranton-vice-president-bidens-irish-roots/ \|archive-date=January 3, 2021 \|access-date=April 15, 2020 \|work=]}}</ref>

			===Science===
			* ] – Rhodes Scholar, MacArthur genius, bioengineer and inventor<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142737/k.6839/Fellows_List__October_2003.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016151133/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142737/k.6839/Fellows_List__October_2003.htm\|url-status=dead\|title=Fellows List – October 2003 – MacArthur Foundation\|archive-date=16 October 2007\|access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref>
			* ] – Known as The Father of Oral Surgery<ref>{{cite web \| url=http://www.ohiocountylibrary.org/wheeling-history/-wheeling-hall-of-fame-simon-p.-hullihen-/4148 \| title=Simon P. Hullihen \| publisher=ohiocountylibrary.org \| access-date=12 January 2019}}</ref>
			* ] – Medical Pioneer<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bkfk.com/inventions/irishinventors.asp \|access-date=7 June 2006 \|url-status=dead \|title=Irish American Inventors
			\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060322162528/http://www.bkfk.com/inventions/irishinventors.asp \|archive-date=22 March 2006 }} "Charles McBurney (1845–1913) was an Irish American medical pioneer famous in his field for his early reports about appendicitis."</ref>
			*] – ], ]
			*] - Biochemist who won the 1986 ] and was nominated for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
			*] - Won the 2012 ]. He is best known for the invention of the ] (or balloon catheter), which revolutionized the treatment of blood clots (]). He was inducted into the ] in 2001.
			*] - Chemist who won the 2019 ] and the 2007 ].
			*] - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and winner of the 2007 ]. He is considered the 'father of molecular endocrinology' and has received numerous other awards as well, including the prestigious ].
			*] - 1990 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
			*] - 2014 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
			*] - 2015 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
			*] - 1980 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physics
			*] - Computer scientist who won the 2017 ] for work in developing the ] (RISC) architecture.
			*] - Computer Scientist who won the 2019 ].
			*] - Was awarded the 1971 ] for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States ], and the ].
			*] - Mathematician who was awarded the ] in 2022 and the ] in 2010.
			*] - Mathematician who received the ] in applied mathematical sciences and who made contributions to many areas of research such as pattern formation, nonlinear waves and solutions, optics, wave turbulence, plasmas and fluids and coherent structures.
			*] - Immunologist and Professor of Microbiology and ] who was best known for his discovery of immune response genes and the first definitive physical map of the ].
			*] - Professor in theoretical physics known for his work on ], particularly for exploiting ] (in the form of a ]) for applications to ], ], and ].
			*] - Professor of Chemistry and winner of several awards, including the 2006 ], the 2022 ], and the 1999 ].
			*] - 1934 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
			*] - 2004 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
			*] - ] and educator, and a founding member of the ], serving as its first treasurer from 1964 to 1974.
			*] - Also known as Kay McNulty, was a computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ], one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers.
			*] - Physician and referred to as the "Father of American Chemistry". One of the oldest obelisks in New York City is dedicated to him near ] on Broadway.
			*] – ] of the ]; ]<ref>{{cite web \|title=John Philip Holland \|url=http://www.rnsubmus.co.uk/holland/inventor.htm \|access-date=15 November 2013 \|publisher=Rnsubmus.co.uk}} "John Philip Holland was born in Ireland in 1841. He emigrated to America where his first successful submarine design was paid for by Irish nationalists seeking Ireland's liberation from Britain."</ref>
			*] - Biologist who has won several awards including the ] in Life Science from the ] "for proposing and demonstrating that the diversity and multiplicity of animal life is largely due to the different ways that the same genes are regulated rather than to mutation of the genes themselves."
			*] - Physicist who has earned multiple awards including the ] award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of ], and the 2021 ] in Physics.
			*] - Computer scientist and electrical engineer who in 2013, the ] Test Technology Technical Community honored with a Lifetime Contribution Medal. In 2014, Hayes was recognized with the ] ] Pioneering Achievement Award "for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing."
			*] - Theoretical physicist specializing in ] who won the prestigious 1998 ] for his "original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems."
			*] - Physician and medical researcher whose research contributions include various aspects of ], surgical cost-efficiency and surgical education, while his clinical research contributions include developing enhanced recovery pathways in minimally invasive ] ], ] of the ], ] and ], ]-saving surgery, re-operative abdominal surgery, and ].
			*] - ] and inventor.
			*] - Astronomer who is the co-discoverer of the ]. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center conferred its highest honor, the Award of Merit, on O'Keefe in 1992.
			*] - American ] who invented a device called the ] for high-energy physics experiments. He is well known for the idea known as an ].
			*] - Professor of Surgery who invented the Myxo ETlogix ring, a heart valve repair ring.
			*] - Biochemist and first women to win the Osbourne Medal by the ]. Sullivan was also awarded the ] in 1954 by the ].
			*] - Physicist and materials scientist. He is best known for winning a ] in 2013.
			*] - Professor of Mechanical Engineering who received the ] in 2009.
			*] - Irish-American professor of ], ], and ]. As a member of the Dewar research group he co-authored ], or AM1, a ] method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in ].
			*] - Professor of ] with over 200 publications
			*] - Scientist and engineer who was awarded the ] in 1982
			*] - Medical researcher who has won several awards including the 2013 ], ], ], the ] as well as the 2009 ]. His work contributed substantially to the development of low-dose ] to prevent heart attacks and stroke.
			*] - ] professor and is considered the founder of modern ]. He is known for the ], an equation used to estimate the ] loads in the design of ] and other ]. He also worked in the ] of ] and was elected to their Propulsion Hall of Fame in 1984.
			*] - Irish-American ] and ]
			*] - ] and ] ]. Several medical terms are named after him including: Murphy's button, ], ], ], and ]. The ] co-founder ] called him "the surgical genius of our generation".
			*] - Mathematician who won the Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson award in 2016.
			*] - Electrical Engineer who won the ]
			*] - Civil Engineer for which ] is named after.
			*] - ] and ] manager. He worked on the radio ] of the ] ]
			*] – molecular biologist, geneticist, co-author with ] of academic paper proposing double-helix structure of DNA molecule.<ref>{{cite web \|title=The discovery of the double helix, 1951-53 \|url=https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/sc/feature/doublehelix \|website=profiles.nlm.nih.gov/}}</ref>
			*] - ] pioneer and a senior ] manager during the ]. He was awarded the ].
			*] - Electrician and Inventor. Newspaper feature coverage in 1909 called him "the world's greatest telegraph expert and inventor." Delany was a two-time recipient of the ] awarded by the ], one in 1886 for "Synchronous Telegraphy" and another in 1896 for "Telegraphy, High speed system".
			*] - Physicist who served as chief research officer at the ]. He also is a Fellow of the ], the ] and the ].
			*] - Physicist and pioneer in quantum mechanics. The ] and the ] are co-named after him. He participated in the development of radar during world war II and was awarded the ] by the ] in 1968.
			*] - Physicist who received numerous awards, including the Medal for Merit, the nation's highest civilian award, for his work on optics in ] and the ] in 1951.
			*] - Computer Scientist
			*] - American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total ]. He was one of the most-renowned heart surgeons in the world.
			*] - Professor of Psychology and Computer Science. He is most famous for developing the ] recirculating algorithm for learning in ].
			*] - Medical research scientist and a leading expert in the science and treatment of addiction.
			*] - Mathematician whose work ''Elements of Geometry, theoretical and practical'' was one of the first two or three original geometries published in the United States.
			*] - Professor of Medicine at ], an expert in ] and is widely recognized for his research in the clinical and biologic aspects of ].
			*] - Medical Researcher. He was a member of the team of scientists that discovered the ] virus at the ] (CDC) and is internationally known for his work on ], ] and hemorrhagic fevers, with over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles.

			===Sports===
			* ] – former professional boxer
			* ] – NFL player
			* ] – professional road racing cyclist
			* ] – mixed martial artist
			*] - former NBA player
			* ] – former basketball player
			* ] – NHL player, Florida Panthers
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – NFL player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback
			* ] – Basketball Hall of Famer
			* ], soccer player, international for Ireland
			* ] – WWE wrestler
			* ] – MLB baseball player
			* ] – NHL player, Ottawa Senators
			* ] – soccer player, international for Ireland
			* ] – MLB baseball player
			* ] – former basketball player
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – former NFL player
			* ] – NFL player, Chicago Bears
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – NHL player, Boston Bruins
			* ] – former NHL player
			* ] – professional golfer
			* ] – former professional soccer player
			* ] – former professional boxer
			* ] – former professional soccer player
			* ] – MLB professional baseball player
			* ] – basketball coach
			* ] – professional basketball player
			* ] – NHL player, Anaheim Ducks
			* ] – NFL player, New England Patriots
			* ] – NFL player, Denver Broncos quarterback
			* ] – former professional wrestler
			* ] - professional wrestler
			* ] – MLB player, New York Yankees pitcher
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional basketball player
			* ] – NHL player, Calgary Flames
			* ] – professional basketball player
			* ] – WWE wrestler
			* ] – WWE wrestler
			* ] - American football – former NFL player
			* ] – professional golfer
			* ] – MMA fighter
			* ] – MLB player, New York Yankees shortstop
			* ] – NHL player, Chicago Blackhawks
			* ] – NBA player/coach
			* ] – soccer player, had 1 cap for Ireland
			* ] – basketball coach
			* ] – basketball coach
			* ] – Olympic swimmer
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – WWE wrestler
			*] - NFL player, San Francisco 49ers
			* ] – MLB player, catcher for the Houston Astros
			* ] – professional tennis player
			* ] – professional basketball player
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – NBA player
			* ] – MLB player, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder
			* ] – TNA wrestler
			*] - former NBA player
			* ] – late Basketball Hall of Famer
			* ] – NHL player, Chicago Blackhawks
			* ] – basketball player
			* ] – basketball player
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – basketball player
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional basketball player
			* ] – MLB player, Boston Red Sox outfielder
			*] - UFC fighter
			* ] – professional golfer
			* ] – NHL player, Los Angeles Kings
			* ] – current general manager of the Detroit Lions
			* ] – NFL head coach of the Atlanta Falcons
			* ] – pro wrestler
			* ] – soccer player
			* ] – skier, US Ski Team
			* ] – former boxer, current boxing trainer<ref>{{cite news\| url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-boxing-world-roach-idUSKBN0NM2Z220150501 \| work=Reuters \| title=Modest Roach plays down role in Pacquaio transformation \| date=1 May 2015}}</ref>
			* ] – NFL player, Green Bay Packers
			* ] – NHL player, New Jersey Devils
			* ] - professional wrestler and retired mixed martial artist
			* ] – NHL professional hockey player, won the Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007
			* ] – professional wrestler
			* ] – professional surfer
			* ] – PGA Golf Hall of Famer
			* ] – NBA head coach (Dutch-Irish American father)
			* ] – MLB player, Miami Marlins outfielder
			* ] – professional boxer, first Heavyweight champion of gloved boxing
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional boxer
			* ] – professional basketball player
			* ] Soccer Player For ]


			===Others===

			* ] - ] leader and mass murderer

			* ] – ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.frontiertimes.com/outlaws/billy_the_kid.html \|title=FrontierTimes – Outlaws – Billy The Kid \|publisher=Frontiertimes.com \|access-date=15 November 2013}} "aka Billy Bonney, from his birth in New York's Irish slums..."</ref>
			* ]
			* ] - podcast host and UFC commentator
			* ] – aka Thomas Fitzpatrick broken hand.
			* ] - outlaw
			* ]
			* ] - outlaw
			* ] - frontiersman and fur trapper
			* ] - outlaw
			* ]
			* ]
			* ]
			* ]
			* ] – ] director
			* ] – marksman
			* ] – born Molly Tobin; Irish-born father<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.mollybrownmuseum.com/ \|title=Molly Brown Museum control page \|publisher=Mollybrownmuseum.com \|access-date=15 November 2013}}</ref>
			* ] – American diplomat, Harvard professor, columnist and lecturer; 19th Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; 17th United States Permanent Representative to NATO; United States Ambassador to Greece 1997–2001<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://usa.usembassy.de/etexts/docs/burns121505e.htm\|title=German-American Relations - Documents\|access-date=28 March 2020}}</ref>
			* ] (1922–2001) – Academy Award-winning makeup artist<ref>{{cite news \|title=Obituary:John Chambers: Make-up master responsible for Hollywood's finest space-age creatures\|author=Brian Pendreigh\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/sep/07/guardianobituaries.filmnews \|work=The Guardian\|date=7 September 2001 \|access-date=27 February 2013 \|location=London}}</ref>
			* ] – astrologer
			* ] – first female commander of a ]<ref>http://www.ntif.org/theme/irish.html "The Irish American contribution to space exploration has continued in recent years with astronauts Kathryn Sullivan and Eileen Collins..." {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527031956/http://www.ntif.org/theme/irish.html\|date=27 May 2006}}</ref>
			* ] – third president of ]
			* ] – ], printed the first copies of the ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.virtualology.com/virtualwarmuseum.com/revolutionarywarhall/JOHNDUNLAP.NET/ \|title=John Dunlap \|publisher=Virtualology.com \|date=2 April 2001 \|access-date=15 November 2013}} "John Dunlap, born in Ireland in 1747..."</ref>
			* ] – lawman
			* ] – professor at Harvard University<ref>"I am descended from a white man... who slept with a black slave. And we know from the analysis of the DNA that... goes back to Ireland" </ref>
			* ] – art director
			* ] – ] as a ] in ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.aoh61.com/history/ir_american.htm \|title=Famous Irish Americans \|publisher=Aoh61.com \|date=5 October 2004 \|access-date=15 November 2013}} "A native of Ireland, she had been sold as a slave in Barbados..."</ref>
			* ] – world poker champion<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.worldpokertour.com/players/?x=profile&id=2280 \|title=WPT \| Players \| Players \|publisher=Worldpokertour.com \|access-date=15 November 2013}} "Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts of Irish descent..."</ref>
			* ] – Bishop of Portland, America's first African-American bishop; born a slave according to the laws of Georgia to an Irish immigrant and his beloved African wife; first graduate and valedictorian of the ] in Massachusetts
			* ] – Captain of the Revenue Cutter ''Bear''; defender of Alaska's Native Americans; inspiration for Jack London's ''The Sea Wolf''; prominent figure in James Michener's ''Alaska''; younger brother of James and Patrick Healy
			* ] – President of Georgetown University, considered its second founder; brother of James Healy; first African-American president of an American university; Priest in the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
			* ] – ] of the ] in ]<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://two.archiseek.com/2009/james-hoban-1762-1831/ \|title=James Hoban (1762–1831) – Biographies – Irish Architecture \|publisher=Two.archiseek.com \|date=6 June 2009 \|access-date=15 November 2013}} "Hoban studied at the Dublin Society School in Dublin before emigrating to the United States of America..."</ref>
			* ] – frontierswoman<ref> "Mary Jemison was born on board the ship Planter on the way from Ireland to America." {{webarchive \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030214705/http://home.dc.rr.com/claesjonsson/Jemison.htm \|date=30 October 2007 }}</ref>
			* ] – lawman
			* ] – former First Lady; her mother, ], was of mostly Irish descent
			* ] – migrant<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.mayolibrary.ie/en/LocalStudies/Emigration/LetterSamples/\|title=Letter Samples\|publisher=Mayo County Library\|access-date=16 October 2017}}</ref>
			* ] – orator, patriot, activist<ref>{{Cite book\|chapter-url=https://en.wikisource.org/Woman_of_the_Century/Marguerite_Moore\|title=Woman of the Century\|chapter=Marguerite Moore \|access-date=28 March 2020\|via=Wikisource}}</ref>
			* ] – chess player<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/morphy.htm \|title=Paul Morphy Genealogy \|access-date=15 November 2013 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028033945/http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lab/7378/morphy.htm \|archive-date=28 October 2009 }}</ref>
			* ] – Canadian model of Irish, Welsh, and Russian descent
			* ] – stepsister and wife of William Tecumseh Sherman. Because they would have needed to buy a slave to help with the children, Mrs. Sherman refused to accompany her husband to command at the Louisiana military academy, which later became LSU. During the Civil War, she and their children took up residence at Notre Dame University, with which her family was closely affiliated.
			* ] – Presbyterian minister
			* ] – last bare-knuckle boxing heavyweight champion of the world; first gloved heavyweight champion of the world; first American athlete to become a national celebrity and to earn over $1 million
			* ] – ], founder, and proprietor of '']''; a white supremacist, anti-Semitic news and commentary website.
			* ] – major figure in the ] and ] scandals involving President ]; mother is of Irish descent
			* ] – professional wrestling promoter and executive American football executive Businessman (paternal grandmother is Irish descent)
			* ] – professional wrestler (Irish descent)
			* ] – American businessman and current president of the ]

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This is a list of notable Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants.

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Actors

Main article: List of American actors of Irish descent

Arts

Mathew Brady – photographer
Jean Butler – dancer; mother is from County Mayo
Kurt Cobain – songwriter and musician, lead singer of Nirvana
Jerome Connor – sculptor
Auliʻi Cravalho – singer and actress
Thomas Crawford – sculptor
Colleen Doran – cartoonist, illustrator, writer
Michael Flatley – dancer
William Harnett – painter, Irish immigrant best known for trompe-l'œil renderings of still life
George Peter Alexander Healy – portrait painter
Thomas Hovenden – painter
Carrie Ann Inaba – dancer, actress; mother of Chinese and Irish descent
Gene Kelly – dancer, actor, singer, director, choreographer
James E. Kelly – sculptor and illustrator
Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt – artist, activist
Edward McCartan – sculptor
Nancy Jewel McDonie – singer, dancer, member of the South Korean group Momoland; mother is Korean and father is of Irish ancestry
Dorothy Miner – art historian and curator
Samuel Murray – sculptor
Jim Morrison – singer, frontman of the Doors
John Neagle – painter
William Rudolf O'Donovan – sculptor
Georgia O'Keeffe – painter

Eileen O'Meara – animator, artist; of Irish and Italian ancestry
Timothy H. O'Sullivan – photographer
Maurice J. Power – sculptor, politician, foundry owner
John Ramage – miniaturist
George Reynolds – painter, student of Eakins, Civil War Medal of Honor
Christopher Ross – sculptor and designer; grandfather is from Dublin
Augustus Saint-Gaudens – sculptor; Irish mother
Louis Saint-Gaudens – sculptor, brother of Augustus Saint-Gaudens
John Talbott Donoghue – sculptor

Astronauts

Eileen Collins – commander for STS-93 and STS-114; pilot for STS-63 and STS-84
Michael Collins – Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11, 1969
James Irwin – Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 15
Mark Kelly – commander for STS-124 and STS-134; pilot for STS-121 and STS-108
Scott Kelly – NASA astronaut; he and his brother Mark are the only twins and the only siblings who have both traveled in space
Joseph P. Kerwin – Science Pilot for Skylab 2

Business

Diamond Jim Brady – financier and philanthropist
George Bryan – judge of Pennsylvania Supreme Court, abolitionist
Mortimer J. Buckley - President and CEO of The Vanguard Group
Dan and Frank Carney – founder of pizza Hut
Ron Conway - American venture capitalist and philanthropist. He has been described as one of Silicon Valley's "super angels".
Ivar "Pop" Coulson – inventor of the Milkshake
Edward Creighton – Omaha businessman and philanthropist
John A. Creighton (1831–1907) – Omaha businessman and philanthropist
George Croghan – fur trader
Michael J. Cullen – founder of King Kullen, inventor of the supermarket
Marcus Daly (1841–1900) – A "Copper King" of Butte, Montana, United States
Charles Elmer Doolin – founder of Frito-Lay
Charles Stark Draper – Anglo-Irish
Dawn Fitzpatrick – Global Head of Equities, Multi-Asset and O'Connor at UBS Asset Management
John L. Flannery – former CEO of General Electric
Henry Ford – founder of Ford Motor Company; Anglo-Irish
Mark Gallogly - American private equity investor who co-founded and served as Managing Principal of the private investment firm Centerbridge Partners until his retirement in 2020
Paul Galvin – inventor of the car radio; founder of Motorola
James P. Gorman - chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley
Franklin B. Gowen – lawyer, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, prosecuted the trial against the Molly Maguires
William Russell Grace (1832–1904) – mayor of New York City and founder of W. R. Grace and Company
John Holahan – creator of Lucky Charms
Herb Kelleher – Southwest Airlines chairman
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. – SEC chairman, former ambassador to the UK and father of President JFK.
John Leahy – COO of Airbus; commercial pilot
John C. Malone – American billionaire businessman, landowner, and philanthropist
Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's
Mike McGrath – Chief Justice of Montana Supreme Court
Edmund McIlhenny – inventor of hot sauce
Shane McMahon – minority owner of WWE
Stephanie McMahon – CBO of WWE
Vince McMahon – CEO of WWE
Robert McNamara - President of Ford Motor Company. Known for using 1950s computer spreadsheets featuring graphs, a new idea
Thomas Mellon – founder of Mellon Bank
Tom Monaghan – founder of Domino's Pizza
Brian Moynihan - chairman and CEO of Bank of America
Pat Powers – businessman and film producer
Bill Rancic – entrepreneur
Joseph F. Sinnott – owner of Moore and Sinnott, the largest rye whiskey distillery in the United States before Prohibition
Louis Sullivan – inventor of the skyscraper
Jack Welch – former CEO of General Electric
Mary Callahan Erdoes - CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, a division of JPMorgan Chase
Anne Finucane - Vice chair of Bank of America and chair of the board of Bank of America Europe.
Edward F. Crawford (businessman) - American businessman and entrepreneur
Cathie Wood - American investor and founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, an investment management firm
William S. O'Brien - American businessman who dealt in mining stocks and operated silver mines.
Peter McCarthy (industrialist) - Manufacturer, businessman and philanthropist
Art Rooney - Founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers
James E. Casey - Founder of UPS
Chuck Feeney - Businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, the travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. He was the founder of the Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world.

Educators

Mary Harris Jones – "Mother Jones", educator and labor organizer
Joseph S. Murphy (1933–1998) – president of Queens College, president of Bennington College, and chancellor of the City University of New York
Victoria Leigh Soto – educator who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting; hid students and died trying to protect them

Film directors, producers and scriptwriters

Rafael Casal (1985–) – American writer, actor, producer, and showrunner. He is of Irish, Spanish, and Cuban descent.
Roy E. Disney (1930–2009) – senior executive for The Walt Disney Company and son of Roy O. Disney
Roy O. Disney (1893–1971) – Walt Disney's brother
Walt Disney (1901–1966)
Thom Fitzgerald – known for independent films like The Hanging Garden; born in New York; his grandparents were immigrants from County Kerry and County Cavan, Ireland
John Ford (1894–1973) – director, best known for stylish Westerns and the film classic The Quiet Man
Mel Gibson (1956–) – known for both writing and directing the highest grossing rated R film of all time ($370,782,930), The Passion of the Christ
Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)
John Huston (1906–1987)
Rex Ingram (1892–1950)
Leo McCarey (1898–1969)
Michael Moore (1954–)
John Sayles (1950–) – independent film director and writer, frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie films
Mack Sennett (1880–1960)
Quentin Tarantino (1963–)
William Desmond Taylor (1872–1922)
Raoul Walsh (1887–1980)
William A. Wellman (1896–1975)
Shannen Doherty
Pat Powers (businessman)

Gangsters and mobsters

Main article: List of Irish American mobsters

Journalists, media

Main article: Irish American journalism

Mike Barnicle
Nellie Bly
Jimmy Breslin
William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925–2008)
Howie Carr
Ann Coulter
John Devoy (1842–1928) – editor of the Gaelic American 1903–1928
Phil Donahue
Maureen Dowd
Roger Ebert
Jimmy Fallon
Austin E. Ford (1857–1896) – editor of the New York Freeman
Patrick Ford (1837–1913) – founded the Irish World in New York
Pete Hamill
Sean Hannity
Greg Kelly
Mary McGrory – Washington political reporter and columnist
James McMaster (1820–1886) – editor of Freeman's Journal (New York)
Chris Matthews
John Mitchel (1815–1875) – editor of leading Confederate newspaper
Peggy Noonan (1950– ) – author, political analyst and columnist
Conan O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien – journalist and producer
Norah O'Donnell
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) – editor of Boston Pilot
Bill O'Reilly
John L. O'Sullivan
Dennis Roddy
Mark Shields (1937–2022)
Ed Sullivan
Elizabeth Vargas – ABC News anchor
Brian Williams – NBC News anchor
Ellen DeGeneres – talk show host
Ben Bradlee
Ben Bradlee, Jr.
Tom Kenny
Billy West
Loretta Lynn
Dennis Quaid
Randy Quaid
Karen Allen
Jim Acosta
Mike Barnicle
Bob Costas
Greta Van Susteren
Nellie Bly
Joseph I. Breen
Jimmy Breslin
Howie Carr – author, Boston newspaper columnist and New England radio talk-show host; has claimed family "two-boater" Irish ancestry (i.e., Ireland-to-Canada, then Canada-to-Maine) on his father's side
Neil Cavuto
Carson Daly
Phil Donahue
Maureen Dowd
Brian Doyle-Murray
Roger Ebert
Pete Hamill
Sean Hannity
Greg Kelly
Megyn Kelly
Chris Matthews
Kayleigh McEnany
Nick Mullen
Bill Murray
Joel Murray
Peggy Noonan (1950– ) – author, political analyst and pundit for the Republican Party
Conan O'Brien
Soledad O'Brien
Norah O'Donnell
Michael O'Looney – New York-based reporter; later a business executive with Merrill Lynch
Bill O'Reilly
John L. O'Sullivan
Regis Philbin
Sally Quinn, fist anchor woman in America
Tim Russert (1950–2008) – journalist, hosted NBC's Meet the Press from 1991 until his death in 2008
John B. Sheridan (1870–1930) – sports journalist (Sporting News)
Ed Sullivan
Elizabeth Vargas
John Walsh
Brian Williams
Smith Hart
Bruce Hart
Keith Hart
Dean Hart
Bret Hart
Ross Hart
Diana Hart
Owen Hart
Ireland Baldwin
Alec Baldwin
Daniel Baldwin
Stephen Baldwin
William Baldwin
Emily Deschanel
Nicole Sullivan
Kevin Conroy
Tim McGraw
Debbie Reynolds

Law enforcement

John O. Brennan – Director of the CIA from March 2013 to January 2017
Raymond W. Kelly – former New York Police Commissioner
Francis O'Neill – Chicago Police Chief
Brian Terry – United States Border Patrol Agent, BORTAC (USBP Tactical Response Team) Operator
Charles V. Glasco – New York City Police Sergeant who served in the New York City Police Department from June 1926 to July 1948
Bernard Kerik – former NYPD commissioner (Irish mother)
Buckey O'Neill
William J. Brady
Bat Masterson

Law

James Duane
William J. Brennan, Jr. – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Wayne M. Collins – civil rights attorney
James B. Comey – former United States Deputy Attorney General
Charles Patrick Daly – Chief Justice of the New York Court of Common Pleas
Patrick Fitzgerald – United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois
Anthony Kennedy – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Robert F. Kennedy – United States Attorney General
Roger I. McDonough – Chief Justice of the Utah Supreme Court
Dorothy Miner – chief counsel for the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
Frank Murphy – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Roger J. Traynor – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of California
James Sullivan (governor)
George Wythe McCook
James Clark McReynolds
Charles Carroll (barrister)
Brett Kavanaugh - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Amy Coney Barrett - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
James B. Donovan - Lawyer known for hostage negotiation of 1960–1962 with the Soviet Union

Literature

Philip Barry – playwright; author of The Philadelphia Story
L. Frank Baum – author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Ted Berrigan – poet, part of the second generation of the New York School; author of The Sonnets
John Berryman – poet; one of the founders of the Confessional school of poetry
Louise Bogan – poet, translator, and critic; served as Poet Laureate of the United States 1945–1946
T. Coraghessan Boyle – novelist and short story writer; awarded the 1988 PEN/Faulkner Award for his novel World's End
Quinn Bradlee – author of A Different Life: Growing Up Learning Disabled
Bill Bryson – travel writer; awarded an honorary OBE for his contribution to literature
John Horne Burns – novelist and travel writer; author of The Gallery
Jim Carroll – author, poet, and punk musician; author of The Basketball Diaries
Neal Cassady – author and poet; provided the basis for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac's novel On the Road
Raymond Chandler – novelist and short story writer; author of the Philip Marlowe detective series that shaped the modern "private eye" story
Mary Coyle Chase – playwright and screenwriter; awarded the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Harvey
Kate Chopin – novelist and short story writer; her novel The Awakening (1899) is considered a proto-feminist precursor to American modernism
Tom Clancy – novelist; author of many bestselling novels, including The Hunt for Red October and Clear and Present Danger
Mary Higgins Clark – bestselling author of suspense novels
Billy Collins – poet; served two terms as Poet Laureate of the United States 2001–2003
Joe Connelly – novelist; author of Bringing Out the Dead
Michael Connelly – crime novelist; author of the bestselling Harry Bosch detective series
Pat Conroy – novelist and memoirist; author of The Great Santini and The Prince of Tides
Robert Creeley – poet and author associated with the Black Mountain poets; awarded a 2000 American Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award
Maureen Daly – novelist and short story writer; her novel Seventeenth Summer (1942) is considered the first young adult novel
Philip K. Dick – science fiction author
J.P. Donleavy – novelist; author of The Ginger Man, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels
Kirby Doyle – poet and novelist; associated with the New American Poetry movement and "third generation" American modernist poets
Alan Dugan – poet; winner of the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his volume Poems
John Gregory Dunne – journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter; author of True Confessions
James T. Farrell – novelist; author of the Studs Lonigan trilogy, named on the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels
F. Scott Fitzgerald – novelist and short story writer; his novel The Great Gatsby was named on both the Modern Library List of Best 20th-Century Novels and the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005
Robert Fitzgerald – poet, critic, and translator; served as Poet Laureate of the United States 1984–1985
Thomas Flanagan – novelist and academic; winner of the 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award for The Year of the French
Vince Flynn – political thriller novelist; author of bestselling Mitch Rapp series
Alice Fulton – poet and short story writer; awarded the 2002 Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for Felt
Tess Gallagher – poet, short story writer, essayist, and playwright
Lucy Grealy – poet, memoirist, and essayist; author of Autobiography of a Face
Pete Hamill – journalist, columnist, novelist, and short story writer
George V. Higgins – novelist, columnist, and academic; known for his best-selling crime novels, including The Friends of Eddie Coyle
Amber L. Hollibaugh – writer and filmmaker
Fanny Howe – poet, novelist, and short-story writer; awarded the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Selected Poems
Marie Howe – poet; winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series for The Good Thief
Susan Howe – poet and literary critic; awarded American Book Awards in 1981 for The Liberties and 1986 for My Emily Dickinson
William Dean Howells – realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters"
Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet; finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for The Orchard
Myra Kelly – novelist and schoolteacher
Robert Kelly – poet associated with the deep image group; awarded a 1980 American Book Award for In Time
William Kennedy – novelist and author, winner of the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Ironweed, and a 1984 American Book Award for O Albany!
X. J. Kennedy – poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and children's author
Richard Kenney – poet and academic
Jean Kerr – author and Tony Award-winning playwright
Galway Kinnell – poet; awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and 1983 National Book Award for Poetry for Selected Poems
R. A. Lafferty – Hugo- and Nebula-nominated science fiction author
Michael Lally – poet and author; awarded a 2000 American Book Award for It's Not Nostalgia: Poetry and Prose
James Laughlin – poet and publisher; winner of the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1992 National Book Awards Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters; namesake of the annual James Laughlin Award administered by the Academy of American Poets
Dennis Lehane – novelist, author of A Drink Before the War and Mystic River
John Logan – poet and academic; awarded the 1982 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Only the Dreamer Can Change the Dream
William Logan – poet, critic, and scholar; awarded the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
Thomas Lynch – poet and essayist; awarded a 1998 American Book Award for The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Michael Patrick MacDonald – memoirist; winner of a 2000 American Book Award for All Souls: A Family Story From Southie
Cormac McCarthy – novelist and playwright; author of Blood Meridian and winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Road
Frank McCourt – memoirist; winner of the 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for Angela's Ashes
Alice McDermott – novelist; awarded the 1998 National Book Award and a 1999 American Book Award for Charming Billy
Brian McDonough – author, physician
Campbell McGrath – poet
Thomas McGrath – poet; awarded a 1984 American Book Award for Echoes Inside the Labyrinth and the 1989 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for Selected Poems: 1938–1988
Thomas McGuane – novelist, screenwriter, and short story writer; nominated for a National Book Award for Ninety-Two in the Shade
Seanan McGuire – author
Jay McInerney – novelist; author of Bright Lights, Big City
James McMichael – poet; awarded the 1999 Arthur Rense Prize
Terrence McNally – playwright; winner of six Tony Awards and nominated for the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for A Perfect Ganesh
Maile Meloy – novelist and short story writer; awarded The Paris Review's 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction for her story "Aqua Boulevard"
Margaret Mitchell – novelist; awarded the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Gone with the Wind
Helen Curtin Moskey – poet
Robert C. O'Brien – journalist and children's author; awarded the 1972 Newbery Medal for Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Tim O'Brien – novelist and short story writer; prominent author of fiction about the Vietnam War, including The Things They Carried, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award
Edwin O'Connor – novelist, winner of the 1962 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Edge of Sadness
Flannery O'Connor – novelist and short story writer; notable author in the Southern Gothic style
Frank O'Hara – poet, prominent member of the New York School
John O'Hara – novelist; author of Appointment in Samarra, named one of the TIME 100 Best English-Language Novels from 1923 to 2005
Theodore O'Hara – poet
Charles Olson – poet and critic, associated with the second generation American Modernist poets; author of The Maximus Poems
Eugene O'Neill – playwright; awarded the 1936 Nobel Prize for Literature and four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Edgar Allan Poe – writer, poet, editor, and literary critic
J.F. Powers – novelist and short story writer; winner of the 1963 National Book Award for Morte d'Urban
Anne Rice – horror novelist; author of bestselling Interview with a Vampire series
Ryan Max Riley – humorist and freestyle mogul skier on the US Ski Team
Nora Roberts – romance novelist; first inductee into the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame
Kay Ryan – poet and academic; currents Poet Laureate of the United States
Michael Ryan – poet; awarded the 1990 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for God Hunger
John Patrick Shanley – playwright and screenwriter; winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Doubt: A Parable
Nicholas Sparks – author and screenwriter
Mickey Spillane – crime novelist; author of bestselling Mike Hammer detective novels
John Kennedy Toole – novelist; posthumously awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Confederacy of Dunces
Jim Tully – novelist, playwright, best known for Beggars of Life
Michael Walsh – novelist and screenwriter; awarded a 2004 American Book Award for And All The Saints
Roger Zelazny – fantasy and science fiction author; winner of three Nebula Awards and six Hugo Awards

Military

John Barry – father of the United States Navy; Irish-born
John Brennan – Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2013 to 2017.
William J. Casey – Director of Central Intelligence (CIA) from 1981 to 1987.
Michael Hayden (general) - Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Director of NSA
Patrick Edward Connor – Union general born in Kerry
Michael Corcoran – United States Army general
James Hickey – leader of Operation Red Dawn; son of Irish immigrants
Stephen W. Kearny – US Army officer, noted for action in the southwest during the Mexican–American War
David Conner (naval officer)
William D. Leahy – The most senior United States military officer on active duty during World War II, he held several titles and exercised considerable influence over foreign and military policy. As a fleet admiral, he was the first flag officer ever to hold a five-star rank in the U.S. Armed Forces.
Andrew Lewis – Continental Army general
Alfred Thayer Mahan – naval officer and author whose work, including Sea Power, inspired the creation of the modern United States Navy
Dennis Hart Mahan – guiding light and head of faculty at West Point for decades prior to the Civil War; influential author whose published works were the keystone for spreading engineering knowledge throughout the antebellum US; his Napoleon seminar at West Point informed Civil War strategies, North and South
George Gordon Meade – commanding general of the Army of the Potomac who led the Union forces to victory at Gettysburg in 1863
Thomas Francis Meagher – United States Army general, Fenian
Richard Montgomery – Continental Army general
Audie Murphy – most decorated combat soldier of World War II
Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy – Navy Seal, Medal of Honor
Timothy Murphy – marksman, Continental Army; parents were Irish immigrants
Thomas Macdonough, Jr. 19th-century Irish-American naval officer
Jeremiah O'Brien – captain in Continental Navy
Joseph T. O'Callaghan – Medal of Honor
John O'Neill – United States Army general, Fenian
George S. Patton – general in the United States Army who commanded the Seventh United States Army in the Mediterranean Theater of World War II, and the Third United States Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944.
John P. O'Neill – high ranking anti-terrorism expert
Molly Pitcher – Revolutionary War heroine
John Reynolds – general commanding the right wing of the Army of the Potomac who surprised Lee and committed the Union Army to battle at Gettysburg in July 1863; killed in the front lines while personally rallying troops for counterattacks during the first day of fighting
Philip Sheridan – United States Army, General of the Army, Cavalry
John Sullivan – Continental Army general
William M. Browne
Richard Busteed
Joseph Finegan
William Gamble
James Hagan
James Lawlor Kiernan
Walter P. Lane
Michael Kelly Lawler
Patrick Theodore Moore
James Shields
Thomas Alfred Smyth
Thomas William Sweeny
James McLaughlin
Samuel Brady
James Clinton Anglo-Irish
Stephen Moylan
James Moore (Continental Army officer)
Hercules Mulligan
Thomas Hickey (soldier)
Richard Butler (general)
Edward Hand
Thomas McInerney
Thomas White (patriot)
Simon Girty
Charles Clinton
Myles Keogh
Patrick Edward Connor
Stephen Joseph McGroarty
Robert Nugent (officer)
John McCausland
Lawrence O'Bryan Branch
Peter O'Brien (Medal of Honor)
John Gregory Bourke
Edmond Butler
Henry D. O'Brien
Out of the 115 killed at Battle of Bunker Hill 22 were Irish-born some of their names include Callaghan, Casey, Collins, Connelly, Dillon, Donohue, Flynn, McGrath, Nugent, Shannon, and Sullivan
Robert Magaw
John Rutledge – Anglo-Irish
Richard Byrnes
Bennet C. Riley
Philip Kearny
William Wilson Quinn – lieutenant general
Presley O'Bannon - A first lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, famous for his exploits in the First Barbary War (1801–1805). He was presented a sword for his part in attempting to restore Prince Hamet Karamanli to his throne as the Bey of Tripoli. That sword is the inspiration for the United States Marine Corps officer uniform since 1825.
William J. Donovan - He is regarded as the founding father of the CIA, and a statue of him stands in the lobby of the CIA headquarters building in Langley, Virginia.
Dennis E. Nolan - Major General who distinguished himself by heading the first modern American military combat intelligence function during World War I.

Musicians

Main article: List of American musicians of Irish descent

Politicians

Main article: List of American politicians of Irish descent

Presidents

At least 22 presidents of the United States have some Irish ancestral origins, although the extent of this varies. For instance, President Clinton claims Irish ancestry despite there being no documentation of any of his ancestors coming from Ireland, while Kennedy has strongly documented Irish origins. Ronald Reagan's great-grandfather was an Irish Roman Catholic. Kennedy and Joe Biden were raised as practicing Catholics.

Andrew Jackson (Scotch-Irish and English): 7th President 1829–37: He was born in the predominantly Ulster-Scots Waxhaws area of South Carolina two years after his parents left Boneybefore, near Carrickfergus in County Antrim. A heritage centre in the village pays tribute to the legacy of 'Old Hickory', the People's President. Andrew Jackson then moved to Tennessee, where he served as Governor.
James Knox Polk (Scotch-Irish): 11th President, 1845–49: His ancestors were among the first Ulster-Scots settlers, emigrating from Coleraine in 1680 to become a powerful political family in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He moved to Tennessee and became its governor before winning the presidency.
James Buchanan (Scotch-Irish): 15th President, 1857–61: Born in a log cabin (which has been relocated to his old school in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania), 'Old Buck' cherished his origins: "My Ulster blood is a priceless heritage". The Buchanans were originally from Deroran, near Omagh in County Tyrone where the ancestral home still stands. Buchanan also had pre-plantation Irish ancestry being a descendant of the O'Kanes from County Londonderry.
Andrew Johnson (Irish and English): 17th President, 1865–69: His grandfather suppoosedly left Mounthill, near Larne in County Antrim around 1750 and settled in North Carolina he was of English ancestry. Andrew worked there as a tailor and ran a successful business in Greeneville, Tennessee, before being elected Vice-President. He became President following Abraham Lincoln's assassination. His Mother was Mary “Polly” McDonough of Irish ancestry 1782.
Ulysses S. Grant (Possibly Irish, Scotch-Irish, English and Scottish): 18th President, 1869–77: The home of his maternal great-grandfather, John Simpson, at Dergenagh, County Tyrone, is the location for an exhibition on the eventful life of the victorious Civil War commander who served two terms as President. Grant visited his ancestral homeland in 1878. His grandmother was Rachel Kelley, the daughter of an Irish pioneer.
Chester A. Arthur (Scotch-Irish and English): 21st President, 1881–85: His election was the start of a quarter-century in which the White House was occupied by men of Ulster-Scots origins. His family left Dreen, near Cullybackey, County Antrim, in 1815. There is now an interpretive centre, alongside the Arthur Ancestral Home, devoted to his life and times.
Grover Cleveland (Irish and English): 22nd and 24th President, 1885–89 and 1893–97: Born in New Jersey, he was the maternal grandson of merchant Abner Neal, who emigrated from County Antrim in the 1790s. Stephen Grover Cleveland was born to Ann (née Neal) and Richard Falley Cleveland. Ann Neal was of Irish ancestry and Richard Falley Cleveland was of Anglo-Irish and English ancestry.
Benjamin Harrison (Scotch-Irish and English): 23rd President, 1889–93: His mother, Elizabeth Irwin, had Ulster-Scots roots through her two great-grandfathers, James Irwin and William McDowell. Harrison was born in Ohio and served as a brigadier general in the Union Army before embarking on a career in Indiana politics which led to the White House.
William McKinley (Scotch-Irish and English): 25th President, 1897–1901: Born in Ohio, the descendant of a farmer from Conagher, near Ballymoney, County Antrim, he was proud of his ancestry and addressed one of the national Scotch-Irish congresses held in the late 19th century. His second term as president was cut short by an assassin's bullet.
Theodore Roosevelt (Irish, Scotch-Irish, Dutch, Scotch, English and French): 26th President, 1901-09: Roosevelt's mother, Mittie Bulloch, had Ulster Scots ancestors who emigrated from Glenoe, County Antrim, in May 1729. Roosevelt praised "Irish Presbyterians" as "a bold and hardy race." However, he also said: "But a hyphenated American is not an American at all. This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen." (Roosevelt was referring to "nativists", not American Indians, in this context)
William Howard Taft (Irish and English): 27th President, 1909–13: His great-great-great-grandfather, Robert Taft was born in 1640 in Ireland and immigrated to America, during the mid 17th century. Robert taft was from County Louth.
Woodrow Wilson (Scotch-Irish): 28th President, 1913–21: Of Ulster-Scot descent on both sides of the family, his roots were very strong and dear to him. He was the grandson of a printer from Dergalt, near Strabane, County Tyrone, whose former home is open to visitors. Throughout his career, Wilson reflected on the influence of his ancestral values on his constant quest for knowledge and fulfillment.
Warren G. Harding (Scotch-Irish and English): 29th President, 1921–23.
Harry S. Truman (Scotch-Irish and German): 33rd President, 1945–53.
John F. Kennedy (Irish): 35th President, 1961–63 (ancestors from County Wexford, County Limerick, County Cork, County Clare and County Fermanagh).
Richard Nixon (Irish, Scotch-Irish, English and German): 37th President, 1969–74: Nixon's ancestors left Ulster in the mid-18th century; the Quaker Milhous family ties were with County Antrim and County Kildare and County Cork.
Jimmy Carter (Scotch-Irish & English): 39th President, 1977–1981 (distant ancestors from County Antrim).
Ronald Reagan (Irish, English and Scottish): 40th President, 1981–89: He was the great-grandson, on his father's side, of Irish migrants from County Tipperary who came to America via Canada and England in the 1840s. His mother was of Scottish and English ancestry.
George H. W. Bush (Irish and English): 41st President, 1989–93: County Wexford historians have found that his apparent ancestor, Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke (known as Strongbow for his arrow skills), is remembered as a desperate, land-grabbing warlord whose calamitous foreign adventure led to the suffering of generations. Shunned by Henry II, he offered his services as a mercenary in the 12th-century invasion of Wexford in exchange for power and land. He would die from a festering ulcer in his foot, which his enemies said was the revenge of Irish saints whose shrines he had violated. The genetic line can also be traced to Dermot MacMurrough, the Gaelic king of Leinster reviled in history books as the man who sold Ireland by inviting Strongbow's invasion to save himself from a local feud.
Bill Clinton (Irish, Scotch-Irish and English): 42nd President, 1993–2001: According to a census document, Clinton's paternal great-grandmother Hattie Hayes had two Irish parents and his paternal great-grandfather had an Irish father. Clinton's mother's maiden name, Cassidy, also suggests Irish ancestry on the maternal side, although there is no documentation to substantiate that claim.
George W. Bush (Irish, Scottish, Dutch, Welsh, French, German & English): 43rd President, 2001–09: One of his five times great-grandfathers, William Holliday, was born in Rathfriland, County Down, about 1755, and died in Kentucky about 1811–12. One of the President's seven times great-grandfathers, William Shannon, was born somewhere in County Cork about 1730, and died in Pennsylvania in 1784.
Barack Obama (Kenyan, English and Irish): 44th President, 2009–2017: His paternal ancestors came to America from Kenya and his maternal ancestors came to America from England. His ancestors lived in New England and the South and by the 1800s most were in the Midwest. His father was Kenyan and the first of his family to leave Africa. His great-great-grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, was born in the Irish town of Moneygall.
Joe Biden, (Irish and English): 46th President 2021-present: His closest link to Ireland is his great-grandfather James Finnegan, who was born in County Louth in 1840.

Science

Jim Collins – Rhodes Scholar, MacArthur genius, bioengineer and inventor
Simon Hullihen – Known as The Father of Oral Surgery
Charles McBurney – Medical Pioneer
O. Timothy O'Meara – Mathematician, University of Notre Dame
Eugene P. Kennedy - Biochemist who won the 1986 Heinrich Wieland Prize and was nominated for the 1968 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Thomas J. Fogarty - Won the 2012 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. He is best known for the invention of the embolectomy catheter (or balloon catheter), which revolutionized the treatment of blood clots (embolus). He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2001.
Michael O'Keeffe (chemist) - Chemist who won the 2019 Gregori Aminoff Prize and the 2007 Newcomb Cleveland Prize.
Bert W. O'Malley - Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology and winner of the 2007 National Medal of Science. He is considered the 'father of molecular endocrinology' and has received numerous other awards as well, including the prestigious Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize.
Joseph Murray - 1990 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
John O'Keefe - 2014 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
William C. Campbell - 2015 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
James Cronin - 1980 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physics
John L. Hennessy - Computer scientist who won the 2017 Turing Award for work in developing the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture.
Pat Hanrahan - Computer Scientist who won the 2019 Turing Award.
John McCarthy (computer scientist) - Was awarded the 1971 Turing Award for his contributions to the topic of AI, the United States National Medal of Science, and the Kyoto Prize.
Dennis Sullivan - Mathematician who was awarded the Abel Prize in 2022 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010.
Alan C. Newell - Mathematician who received the John von Neumann Prize in applied mathematical sciences and who made contributions to many areas of research such as pattern formation, nonlinear waves and solutions, optics, wave turbulence, plasmas and fluids and coherent structures.
Hugh McDevitt - Immunologist and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology who was best known for his discovery of immune response genes and the first definitive physical map of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC).
Jonathan Dowling - Professor in theoretical physics known for his work on quantum technology, particularly for exploiting quantum entanglement (in the form of a NOON state) for applications to quantum metrology, quantum sensing, and quantum imaging.
Peter Dervan - Professor of Chemistry and winner of several awards, including the 2006 National Medal of Science, the 2022 Priestley Medal, and the 1999 Linus Pauling Award.
William P. Murphy - 1934 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
Linda B. Buck - 2004 Nobel Prize-winning scientist in Physiology or Medicine
Thomas Christian Kavanagh - Civil engineer and educator, and a founding member of the National Academy of Engineering, serving as its first treasurer from 1964 to 1974.
Kathleen Antonelli - Also known as Kay McNulty, was a computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers.
William James MacNeven - Physician and referred to as the "Father of American Chemistry". One of the oldest obelisks in New York City is dedicated to him near St. Paul's Chapel on Broadway.
John Philip Holland – inventor of the submarine; Fenian
Sean B. Carroll - Biologist who has won several awards including the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science from the Franklin Institute "for proposing and demonstrating that the diversity and multiplicity of animal life is largely due to the different ways that the same genes are regulated rather than to mutation of the genes themselves."
Margaret Murnane - Physicist who has earned multiple awards including the MacArthur Fellowship award in 2000, the Frederic Ives Medal/Quinn Prize in 2017, the highest award of The Optical Society, and the 2021 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.
John P. Hayes - Computer scientist and electrical engineer who in 2013, the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Community honored with a Lifetime Contribution Medal. In 2014, Hayes was recognized with the ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation Pioneering Achievement Award "for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing."
Thomas Maurice Rice - Theoretical physicist specializing in condensed matter physics who won the prestigious 1998 EPS Europhysics Prize for his "original contributions to the theory of strongly correlated electron systems."
Conor P. Delaney - Physician and medical researcher whose research contributions include various aspects of surgery, surgical cost-efficiency and surgical education, while his clinical research contributions include developing enhanced recovery pathways in minimally invasive laparoscopic colorectal surgery, carcinoma of the colon and rectum, Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis, sphincter-saving surgery, re-operative abdominal surgery, and colonoscopy.
Joseph John O'Connell - Electrical engineer and inventor.
John A. O'Keefe (astronomer) - Astronomer who is the co-discoverer of the YORP effect. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center conferred its highest honor, the Award of Merit, on O'Keefe in 1992.
Gerard K. O'Neill - American physicist who invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments. He is well known for the idea known as an O'Neill cylinder.
Patrick M. McCarthy (surgeon) - Professor of Surgery who invented the Myxo ETlogix ring, a heart valve repair ring.
Betty Sullivan - Biochemist and first women to win the Osbourne Medal by the American Association of Cereal Chemists. Sullivan was also awarded the Garvan–Olin Medal in 1954 by the American Chemical Society.
Craig Fennie - Physicist and materials scientist. He is best known for winning a MacArthur Award in 2013.
Neville Hogan - Professor of Mechanical Engineering who received the Rufus Oldenburger Medal in 2009.
Eamonn Healy - Irish-American professor of chemistry, organic chemistry, and biochemistry. As a member of the Dewar research group he co-authored Austin Model 1, or AM1, a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry.
David Madigan - Professor of Statistics with over 200 publications
John F. McCarthy Jr. - Scientist and engineer who was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1982
Garret A. FitzGerald - Medical researcher who has won several awards including the 2013 Schottenstein Prize, Lefoulon-Delalande Prize, Scheele Award, the Lucian Award as well as the 2009 Taylor Prize. His work contributed substantially to the development of low-dose aspirin to prevent heart attacks and stroke.
Morrough Parker O'Brien - Hydraulic engineering professor and is considered the founder of modern coastal engineering. He is known for the MOJS equation, an equation used to estimate the wave loads in the design of oil platforms and other offshore structures. He also worked in the aerospace division of General Electric and was elected to their Propulsion Hall of Fame in 1984.
Katherine A. Fitzgerald - Irish-American Molecular biologist and virologist
John Benjamin Murphy - Physician and abdominal surgeon. Several medical terms are named after him including: Murphy's button, Murphy drip, Murphy’s punch, Murphy’s test, and Murphy-Lane bone skid. The Mayo Clinic co-founder William James Mayo called him "the surgical genius of our generation".
John McCarthy (mathematician) - Mathematician who won the Gilbert de Beauregard Robinson award in 2016.
Michael J. Flynn - Electrical Engineer who won the Computer Pioneer Award
Michael O'Shaughnessy - Civil Engineer for which O'Shaughnessy Dam (California) is named after.
Joseph Francis Shea - Aerospace engineer and NASA manager. He worked on the radio inertial guidance system of the Titan I intercontinental ballistic missile
James Watson – molecular biologist, geneticist, co-author with Francis Crick of academic paper proposing double-helix structure of DNA molecule.
Paul C. Donnelly - Guided missile pioneer and a senior NASA manager during the Apollo Moon landing program. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal.
Patrick Bernard Delany - Electrician and Inventor. Newspaper feature coverage in 1909 called him "the world's greatest telegraph expert and inventor." Delany was a two-time recipient of the Elliott Cresson Medal awarded by the Franklin Institute, one in 1886 for "Synchronous Telegraphy" and another in 1896 for "Telegraphy, High speed system".
Patrick G. O'Shea - Physicist who served as chief research officer at the University of Maryland. He also is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Edward Condon - Physicist and pioneer in quantum mechanics. The Franck–Condon principle and the Slater–Condon rules are co-named after him. He participated in the development of radar during world war II and was awarded the Frederic Ives Medal by the Optical Society in 1968.
Brian O'Brien (optical physicist) - Physicist who received numerous awards, including the Medal for Merit, the nation's highest civilian award, for his work on optics in World War II and the Frederic Ives Medal in 1951.
Patrick O'Neil - Computer Scientist
Denton Cooley - American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. He was one of the most-renowned heart surgeons in the world.
Randall C. O'Reilly - Professor of Psychology and Computer Science. He is most famous for developing the Leabra recirculating algorithm for learning in neural networks.
Charles P. O'Brien - Medical research scientist and a leading expert in the science and treatment of addiction.
Eugenius Nulty - Mathematician whose work Elements of Geometry, theoretical and practical was one of the first two or three original geometries published in the United States.
James D. Griffin (oncologist) - Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, an expert in medical oncology and is widely recognized for his research in the clinical and biologic aspects of hemotologic malignancies.
F. A. Murphy - Medical Researcher. He was a member of the team of scientists that discovered the Ebola virus at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and is internationally known for his work on rabies, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fevers, with over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Sports

Muhammad Ali – former professional boxer
Danny Amendola – NFL player
Lance Armstrong – professional road racing cyclist
Micah Ashby – mixed martial artist
Larry Bird - former NBA player
Cal Bowdler – former basketball player
Brian Boyle – NHL player, Florida Panthers
James J. Braddock – professional boxer
Tom Brady – NFL player, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback
Joseph "Joe" Brennan – Basketball Hall of Famer
Courtney Brosnan, soccer player, international for Ireland
Phillip Brooks (CM Punk) – WWE wrestler
Tom Cahill – MLB baseball player
Ryan Callahan – NHL player, Ottawa Senators
Kyra Carusa – soccer player, international for Ireland
Chris Coghlan – MLB baseball player
Marty Conlon – former basketball player
Billy Conn – professional boxer
Dan Connolly – former NFL player
George Connor – NFL player, Chicago Bears
Gerry Cooney – professional boxer
James J. Corbett – professional boxer
Charlie Coyle – NHL player, Boston Bruins
Matt Cullen – former NHL player
John Daly – professional golfer
Clint Dempsey – former professional soccer player
Jack Dempsey – former professional boxer
Landon Donovan – former professional soccer player
Pat Duff – MLB professional baseball player
Mike Dunleavy Sr. – basketball coach
Mike Dunleavy Jr. – professional basketball player
Patrick Eaves – NHL player, Anaheim Ducks
Julian Edelman – NFL player, New England Patriots
John Elway – NFL player, Denver Broncos quarterback
Dave Finlay – former professional wrestler
Mick Foley - professional wrestler
Whitey Ford – MLB player, New York Yankees pitcher
Mike Gibbons – professional boxer
Tommy Gibbons – professional boxer
Mike Hall – professional basketball player
Noah Hanifin – NHL player, Calgary Flames
Luke Harangody – professional basketball player
Jeff Hardy – WWE wrestler
Matt Hardy – WWE wrestler
Tom Harmon - American football – former NFL player
Ben Hogan – professional golfer
Holly Holm – MMA fighter
Derek Jeter – MLB player, New York Yankees shortstop
Patrick Kane – NHL player, Chicago Blackhawks
Jason Kidd – NBA player/coach
Joe Lapira – soccer player, had 1 cap for Ireland
Jay Larranaga – basketball coach
Jim Larranaga – basketball coach
Katie Ledecky – Olympic swimmer
Tommy Loughran – professional boxer
Rebecca Quinn (Becky Lynch) – WWE wrestler
Christian McCaffrey - NFL player, San Francisco 49ers
Brian McCann – MLB player, catcher for the Houston Astros
John McEnroe – professional tennis player
Donnie McGrath – professional basketball player
Terry McGovern – professional boxer
Kevin McHale – NBA player
Larry Miggins – MLB player, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder
Shannon Moore – TNA wrestler
Chris Mullin - former NBA player
Charles "Stretch"Murphy – late Basketball Hall of Famer
Connor Murphy – NHL player, Chicago Blackhawks
Troy Murphy – basketball player
Larry O'Bannon – basketball player
Philadelphia Jack O'Brien – professional boxer
Patrick O'Bryant – basketball player
Mike O'Dowd – professional boxer
Ian O'Leary – professional basketball player
Troy O'Leary – MLB player, Boston Red Sox outfielder
Sean O'Malley - UFC fighter
Ted Potter Jr. – professional golfer
Jonathan Quick – NHL player, Los Angeles Kings
Bob Quinn – current general manager of the Detroit Lions
Dan Quinn – NFL head coach of the Atlanta Falcons
John Quinlan – pro wrestler
Giovanni Reyna – soccer player
Ryan Max Riley – skier, US Ski Team
Freddie Roach – former boxer, current boxing trainer
Aaron Rodgers – NFL player, Green Bay Packers
Kevin Rooney – NHL player, New Jersey Devils
Ken Shamrock - professional wrestler and retired mixed martial artist
Ryan Shannon – NHL professional hockey player, won the Stanley Cup with Anaheim in 2007
Sheamus – professional wrestler
Kelly Slater – professional surfer
Sam Snead – PGA Golf Hall of Famer
Erik Spoelstra – NBA head coach (Dutch-Irish American father)
Giancarlo Stanton – MLB player, Miami Marlins outfielder
John L. Sullivan – professional boxer, first Heavyweight champion of gloved boxing
Gene Tunney – professional boxer
Mickey Walker – professional boxer
Andre Ward – professional boxer
Mickey Ward – professional boxer
Lenny Wilkens – professional basketball player
Derrick Williams Soccer Player For Atlanta United FC

Others

Jim Jones - Cult leader and mass murderer

Billy the Kid – gunslinger
George Croghan
Joe Rogan - podcast host and UFC commentator
Thomas Fitzpatrick (trapper) – aka Thomas Fitzpatrick broken hand.
John Kinney (outlaw) - outlaw
Lawrence Murphy
Bill Doolin - outlaw
Hugh Glass - frontiersman and fur trapper
John Daly (outlaw) - outlaw
Hopalong Cassidy
Tom O'Day
Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet
George Shannon (explorer)
Joseph Breen – Production Code director
Frank E. Butler – marksman
The "Unsinkable" Molly Brown – born Molly Tobin; Irish-born father
R. Nicholas Burns – American diplomat, Harvard professor, columnist and lecturer; 19th Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs; 17th United States Permanent Representative to NATO; United States Ambassador to Greece 1997–2001
John Chambers (1922–2001) – Academy Award-winning makeup artist
Cheiro – astrologer
Eileen Collins – first female commander of a Space Shuttle
Éamon de Valera – third president of Ireland
John Dunlap – printer, printed the first copies of the Declaration of Independence
Wyatt Earp – lawman
Henry Louis Gates – professor at Harvard University
Cedric Gibbons – art director
Ann Glover – hanged as a witch in Boston
Dan Harrington – world poker champion
James Healy – Bishop of Portland, America's first African-American bishop; born a slave according to the laws of Georgia to an Irish immigrant and his beloved African wife; first graduate and valedictorian of the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts
Michael Healy – Captain of the Revenue Cutter Bear; defender of Alaska's Native Americans; inspiration for Jack London's The Sea Wolf; prominent figure in James Michener's Alaska; younger brother of James and Patrick Healy
Patrick Healy – President of Georgetown University, considered its second founder; brother of James Healy; first African-American president of an American university; Priest in the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits)
James Hoban – Architect of the White House in Washington, DC
Mary Jemison – frontierswoman
Bat Masterson – lawman
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis – former First Lady; her mother, Janet Lee Bouvier, was of mostly Irish descent
Margaret McCarthy – migrant
Marguerite Moore – orator, patriot, activist
Paul Charles Morphy – chess player
Coco Rocha – Canadian model of Irish, Welsh, and Russian descent
Ellen Ewing Sherman – stepsister and wife of William Tecumseh Sherman. Because they would have needed to buy a slave to help with the children, Mrs. Sherman refused to accompany her husband to command at the Louisiana military academy, which later became LSU. During the Civil War, she and their children took up residence at Notre Dame University, with which her family was closely affiliated.
David Steele – Presbyterian minister
John L. Sullivan – last bare-knuckle boxing heavyweight champion of the world; first gloved heavyweight champion of the world; first American athlete to become a national celebrity and to earn over $1 million
Andrew Anglin – Neo-Nazi, founder, and proprietor of The Daily Stormer; a white supremacist, anti-Semitic news and commentary website.
Kathleen Willey – major figure in the Paula Jones and Monica Lewinsky scandals involving President Bill Clinton; mother is of Irish descent
Vince McMahon – professional wrestling promoter and executive American football executive Businessman (paternal grandmother is Irish descent)
Seth Rollins – professional wrestler (Irish descent)
Dana White – American businessman and current president of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC)

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