Most Famous Living People from Ireland
People from Ireland, ranked by worldwide fame rather than local attention.
As of November 5, 2026, Cillian Murphy is the most famous living person in Ireland in iFANN's rankings, ahead of Conor McGregor and Pierce Brosnan.
Ranking updated November 5, 2026 by the iFANN Rankings Desk. How the ranking works
Powered by the Global Fame Engine v5.70, which combines multiple worldwide public signals and discloses evidence coverage for each People ranking. Updated daily.

Niall Horan
135.7K Wikipedia views · 8+ news articles

Colin Farrell
466.9K Wikipedia views · 43+ news articles

Enya
181.8K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles

Roy Keane
189.4K Wikipedia views · 61+ news articles

Paul Mescal
324.1K Wikipedia views · 436 news articles

Bono
249.1K Wikipedia views · 46+ news articles

Ronan Keating
125.9K Wikipedia views · 117 news articles

Barry Keoghan
272.8K Wikipedia views · 185 news articles

Hozier
100.7K Wikipedia views · 7 news articles

Jimmy Carr
261.2K Wikipedia views · 106 news articles

Andrew Scott
466.4K Wikipedia views · 660 news articles

Graham Norton
129.6K Wikipedia views · 480 news articles

Sally Rooney
179.9K Wikipedia views · 760 news articles

Brendan Gleeson
277.4K Wikipedia views · 125 news articles

Jonathan Rhys Meyers
160K Wikipedia views · 1+ news articles

Bob Geldof
119K Wikipedia views · 143 news articles

Robbie Keane
109.4K Wikipedia views · 22 news articles

Caitríona Balfe
245.9K Wikipedia views · 135 news articles

Domhnall Gleeson
312.5K Wikipedia views · 125 news articles

Becky Lynch
75.2K Wikipedia views · 132 news articles

Eve Hewson
221.1K Wikipedia views · 35 news articles

Aidan Gillen
173.9K Wikipedia views · 63 news articles

Martin McDonagh
259K Wikipedia views · 344 news articles

Gabriel Byrne
126.9K Wikipedia views · 32 news articles

Brian McFadden
119.5K Wikipedia views · 81 news articles

Fiona Shaw
206.7K Wikipedia views · 144 news articles

Ian Garry
82.6K Wikipedia views · 1.2K news articles

Evanna Lynch
86.6K Wikipedia views · 14 news articles

Kerry Condon
214.4K Wikipedia views · 88 news articles

Aidan Turner
149.6K Wikipedia views · 53 news articles

Nicola Coughlan
121.2K Wikipedia views · 60 news articles

Larry Mullen Jr.
64.4K Wikipedia views · 143 news articles

Maura Higgins
472.4K Wikipedia views · 269 news articles

Colm Meaney
113.9K Wikipedia views · 87 news articles

Séamus Coleman
107.4K Wikipedia views · 8 news articles

Robert Sheehan
69.1K Wikipedia views · 3+ news articles

John Nellis
189.8K Wikipedia views · 398 news articles

Stuart Townsend
130.4K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles

Chris O'Dowd
131.5K Wikipedia views · 106 news articles

Maria Doyle Kennedy
53K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles

Katie Taylor
460.3K Wikipedia views · 55 news articles

Brian Gleeson
87.3K Wikipedia views · 20 news articles

Sinéad Cusack
96.4K Wikipedia views · 6 news articles

Rea Garvey
11.9K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles

Pete Fry
108.2K Wikipedia views · 142 news articles

J. P. McManus
17.3K Wikipedia views · 46 news articles

Michael Graham
12K Wikipedia views · 55 news articles

Damien Molony
39.4K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles

Moe Dunford
11.2K Wikipedia views · 0+ news articles

Pat Shortt
6.7K Wikipedia views · 6 news articles

Mick Galwey
1.8K Wikipedia views · 2+ news articles


