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Cork is the second city and largest county of the Republic of Ireland, and has produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business-people.

List of Cork people

Historical and/or political figures

• John Anderson - Businessman
• Sir John Arnott - Businessman Newspaper Owner
• Anthony Barry - Politician, photographer
• Peter Barry - Tánaiste
• Tom Barry - guerilla leader during war of independence, author of the book "Guerilla days in Ireland"
• Joseph Brennan - civil servant
• Patrick Cleburne - Major General in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War
• Michael Collins - revolutionary leader, and Chairman of Provisional Government
• Simon Coveney - Teachta Dála and MEP
• Hugh Coveney - government minister
• Thomas Croke - Archbishop of Cashel
• Eileen Desmond - government minister, Senator, MEP
• Gerald Goldberg - first Jewish lord mayor
• William Baylor Hartland - Plant Breeder/Seedsman
• Ellen Hutchins - Botanist
• Mother Jones - famous labour organiser born near Cork
• Jim Lane - republican socialist
• Cornelius Lucey - Bishop of Cork and Ross
• Jack Lynch - taoiseach and hurler
• Terence MacSwiney - lord mayor and hunger striker
• Micheál Martin - government minister and lord mayor
• Daniel Mannix - Archbishop of Melbourne
• Stephen Moylan - Quartermaster General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War
• William O'Brien - Nationalist politician and MP., founder All-for-Ireland League
• Batt O'Keeffe - government minister
• Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - nationalist
• Daniel Florence O'Leary - South American brigadier general
• Michael O' Riordan - socialist politician
• John Roach (shipbuilder)
• Adi Roche - humanitarian campaigner
• Brendan Ryan - Senator and lecturer at CIT
• D. D. Sheehan - Nationalist politician and first Labour MP.
• Kathy Sinnott - MEP
• William Thompson - political and philosophical writer

Sports

• Mick Barry - bowler(road)
• Denis Irwin - international footballer
• Roy Keane - international footballer
• Sam Maguire - GAA sportsman
• Teddy McCarthy - GAA sportsman played on both Cork hurling & football double winning teams
• Liam Miller - international footballer
• Tony Mullane - major league baseball player^[1]
• Donncha O'Callaghan - Rugby Union player
• Pat O'Callaghan, Dr. - twice Olympic Gold Medal winner
• Ronan O'Gara - Rugby Union player
• Seán Óg Ó hAilpín - hurler
• Sonia O'Sullivan - world champion athlete and cross country runner
• Christy Ring - hurler
• Peter Stringer - Rugby Union player
• Derval O'Rourke - World Indoor Champion Hurdler 2006 and European outdoor Silver medallist 2006
• Joe Deane - hurler
• Graham Canty - footballer and international rules captain

Film and Entertainment

• Eddie Hobbs - TV personality
• Danny La Rue, OBE - female impersonator
• Fergal Keane, OBE - BBC journalist
• Cillian Murphy - actor
• Edward Mulhare - TV actor
• Graham Norton - TV personality
• Jonathan Rhys-Meyers - actor
• Fiona Shaw, CBE - actor
• Niall Tóibín - comic actor

Literature

• Conal Creedon - playwright^{[citation needed]}
• Frank O'Connor - author
• P.A. Ó Síocháin - journalist, author, lawyer and Irish language activist
• Canon Patrick Augustine Sheehan - Catholic priest, author, political activist
• William Wall - author
• Seán Ó Faoláin - writer

Music and arts

• Abraham Abell - antiquarian
• Berkus - artist and musician
• Cathal Coughlan - singer songwriter
• Jimmy Crowley - traditional musician^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Day - antiquarian, photographer 1836-1914
• Mick Flannery - singer/songwriter
• Aloys Fleischmann- composer, professor of music UCC
• The Frank and Walters - band
• Rory Gallagher - singer/songwriter and guitarist
• John Hogan - sculptor
• Sir Hugh Lane - patron of arts
• Gladys Leach - painter^{[citation needed]}
• Charles Lynch - classical pianist
• Daniel Maclise - artist
• Jimmy McCarthy - singer songwriter
• Diarmuid O'Dálaigh - poet^{[citation needed]}
• Sean O'Hagan - musician
• Anthony Ruby - painter
• Brian Smyth - painter
• John Spillane - singer songwriter
• Stump (band) - band
• The Sultans Of Ping - band
• Henry Jones Thaddeus - painter

Cork "Characters"

• Thady Quill historical rake

References

• 1. ^ [1969] (1979) in Reichler, Joseph L.: The Baseball Encyclopedia, 4th edition, New York: Macmillan Publishing. ISBN 0-02-578970-8. 

See also

• Lord Mayor of Cork
• List of Irish people