Most Famous People from Ireland
People from Ireland, ranked by worldwide fame rather than local attention.
As of August 30, 2026, Conor McGregor leads iFANN's Famous rankings for Ireland, ahead of Pierce Brosnan and Niall Horan.
Powered by the Global Fame Engine v5.61, which combines multiple worldwide public signals and discloses evidence coverage for each People ranking. Updated daily.
Enya
195.4K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Colin Farrell
444.7K Wikipedia views · 14+ news articles
Roy Keane
371.9K Wikipedia views · 25+ news articles
Cillian Murphy
481.3K Wikipedia views · 13+ news articles
Paul Mescal
415K Wikipedia views · 829 news articles
Bono
203K Wikipedia views
Barry Keoghan
272.9K Wikipedia views · 282 news articles
Hozier
92.5K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
185.4K Wikipedia views · 6+ news articles
Ronan Keating
98.7K Wikipedia views · 34 news articles
Jimmy Carr
185.1K Wikipedia views · 240 news articles
Brendan Gleeson
317.6K Wikipedia views · 216 news articles
Jacksepticeye
48.5K Wikipedia views · 20 news articles
Graham Norton
94K Wikipedia views · 539 news articles
Bob Geldof
129.1K Wikipedia views · 71 news articles
Andrew Scott
226.4K Wikipedia views · 278 news articles
Eve Hewson
291K Wikipedia views · 63 news articles
Domhnall Gleeson
185.9K Wikipedia views · 72 news articles
Becky Lynch
95.8K Wikipedia views · 160 news articles
Ian Garry
665.9K Wikipedia views · 4.3K news articles
Caitríona Balfe
153.5K Wikipedia views · 40+ news articles
Aidan Gillen
138.8K Wikipedia views · 53 news articles
Nicola Coughlan
119.7K Wikipedia views · 307 news articles
Finn Bálor
77.2K Wikipedia views · 152 news articles
Martin McDonagh
128.9K Wikipedia views · 105 news articles
Robbie Keane
120.4K Wikipedia views · 18+ news articles
Sheamus
152.4K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Fiona Shaw
164.3K Wikipedia views · 65 news articles
Kerry Condon
211.6K Wikipedia views · 59 news articles
Evanna Lynch
76.4K Wikipedia views · 167 news articles
Gabriel Byrne
124.8K Wikipedia views · 17 news articles
Glen Hansard
2.2M Wikipedia views · 1.1K news articles
Larry Mullen Jr.
30.2K Wikipedia views · 11 news articles
Aidan Turner
156.1K Wikipedia views · 9+ news articles
Maria Doyle Kennedy
74.3K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Colm Meaney
112.9K Wikipedia views · 24 news articles
Chris O'Dowd
269K Wikipedia views · 48 news articles
Robert Sheehan
77.4K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Sarah Bolger
119.1K Wikipedia views · 14+ news articles
Denis Irwin
33.3K Wikipedia views · 6+ news articles
Stuart Townsend
206.1K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Anne Bonny
113.9K Wikipedia views · 7 news articles
Maura Higgins
111.2K Wikipedia views · 538 news articles
Una Healy
20.8K Wikipedia views · 77 news articles
CMAT
51.9K Wikipedia views · 6 news articles
Sinéad Cusack
104.8K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Eoin Macken
77K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Rea Garvey
5.9K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Aoife Valkyrie
43.3K Wikipedia views · 60 news articles
Damien Molony
98.1K Wikipedia views · 10+ news articles
Dominique McElligott
53.7K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles
Jamie-Lee O'Donnell
61.1K Wikipedia views · 24+ news articles
Damien Dempsey
18.4K Wikipedia views · 12+ news articles
Laura Whitmore
59.6K Wikipedia views · 4+ news articles
Tommy Tiernan
18K Wikipedia views · 9+ news articles
Paul McGinley
14.3K Wikipedia views · 5+ news articles
Jordan Devlin
26.7K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles
Móglaí Bap
26.4K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles
Paul Ronan
22.4K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles