List of Waterford people
Waterford is a significant urban centre in the south-east of Ireland and is a city of Ireland.
List of Waterford people
- Kelly Proper(1988-present), Track Star, Long Jump and Runner, set numerous current local/national/international records for these events.Olympic athlete for **the 2012 games.
- Keith Barry, magician, mentalist, illusionist
- Jim Beglin, soccer player
- Robert Boyle, physicist
- Eugene Byrne, author, journalist
- Richard Chenevix, (1697–1779), Church of Ireland Bishop
- John Condon, boy soldier, youngest Allied soldier to die in First World War (Aged 14 in the second battle of Ypres. Due to a typo error by a member of the CWGC, John Condon WAS recognised as the youngest servicemen killed in World War I, however he is not. He was aged at least 18 when he died and the body in his grave is not his either.
- Carrie Crowley, TV personality
- Val Doonican, entertainer
- Grattan Flood, renowned musicologist and historian
- Dan Fraher, Republican activist, athlete and GAA organiser
- Philly Grimes, hurler
- John Hearne, orator, lawyer and architect of the 1937 Irish Constitution, or Bunracht na hÉireann
- William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand
- Noel Hunt, Irish international soccer player
- Stephen Hunt, Irish international soccer player
- John Keane, hurler
- Sean Kelly, Ireland's most successful racing cyclist, one of the top eight cyclists of all time
- George Lennon, vice commanding officer West Waterford I.R.A. (1919–1922), Flying Column Leader
- Anna Manahan (1924–2009), actress
- Thomas Francis Meagher, Irish patriot, conceived the Irish tricolour
- Daryl Murphy, Irish international soccer player
- Peter O'Connor, athlete, Olympic champion
- John O'Shea, Irish international soccer player
- Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter
- Edmund Ignatius Rice, founder of the Christian Brothers, established Mount Sion School in 1802, now beatified by the Catholic Church.
- John Treacy, athlete, world champion
- William Vincent Wallace, opera composer
- Luke Wadding, theologian, historian, patriot
- Alfred Webb, President of the 1894 Indian National Congress and MP for West Waterford
- Ernest Walton, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics 1951