List of Waterford people
Ecclesiastics
- Richard Chenevix (1697–1779), Church of Ireland Bishop
- Charles Joseph Henderson (1924-2006) Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (UK) and Bishop of Tricala
- Tobias Kirby (1804–1895), Rector of the Irish College Rome 1850-1891; archbishop of Ephesus 1885
- Michael O'Hickey, priest, Professor of Irish at Maynooth University
- Edmund Ignatius Rice, religious founder
- Michael Sheehan, Archbishop of Germia; author, professor
- Luke Wadding (1588–1657), theologian, historian, patriot
- Michael Wadding, priest
- Nicholas Wiseman, Cardinal
Sport
- Jim Beglin, soccer player
- Locky Byrne, hurler
- Tom Cheasty, hurler
- Paddy Coad, soccer player
- Tom Cunningham, hurler
- Pat Fanning, hurler, GAA President
- Mick Flannelly, hurler
- Andy Fleming, hurler
- Austin Flynn, hurler
- Philly Grimes, hurler
- Larry Guinan, hurler
- Alfie Hale, soccer player
- 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
- Declan Lonergan, Olympian, represented Ireland in the 1996 Games in Atlanta in cycling on the track
- Martin Og Morrissey, hurler
- Christy Moylan, hurler
- Daryl Murphy, Irish international soccer player
- Johnny O'Connor, hurler
- Peter O'Connor, athlete, Olympic champion
- John O'Shea, Irish international soccer player
- Ciarán Power, Olympic Games cyclist 2000, 2004
- Ned Power, hurler
- Seamus Power, hurler
- Susan Smith-Walsh, Olympic athlete
- John Treacy, Olympic athlete, world champion
- Frankie Walsh, hurler
- Patricia Walsh, Olympic athlete
- Charlie Ware (born 1933), hurler
- Jim Ware, hurler
Politics and military
- William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse, soldier
- Denis Cashman, Fenian, patriot
- Hugh Collender, Young Irelander, businessman
- John Condon, boy soldier, youngest Allied soldier to die in First World War
- Martin Cullen, politician
- Frank Edwards, left wing activist, Spanish Civil War fighter
- Francis Hearn, patriot
- John Hearne, orator, lawyer and architect of the 1937 Irish Constitution, or Bunracht na hÉireann
- William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand
- George Lennon, vice commanding officer, West Waterford I.R.A. (1919–1922)
- Patrick Little, politician
- Thomas Francis Meagher, patriot, conceived the Irish tricolour
- Richard Mulcahy, Irish Army C.O.C.
- William Palliser, politician, inventor
- John Redmond, leader of the Irish Party in Westminster
- Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts, British Army C.O.C.
- Thomas Sexton, journalist, financial expert, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament
- Richard Lalor Shiel, Orator, M.P
- Alfred Webb, President of the 1894 Indian National Congress and MP for West Waterford
Science
- Lucien Bonaparte-Wyse, entymologist
- Robert Boyle, physicist
- Richard J. Ussher, ornithologist
- Ernest Walton, Nobel Laureate (Physics 1951)
Arts, theatre and entertainment
- Keith Barry, magician, mentalist, illusionist
- Carrie Crowley, TV personality
- Teresa Deevy, playwright
- Val Doonican, entertainer
- Seán Dunne, poet
- Dorothea Jordan, actress; mistress of King William IV of England
- Charles Kean, Shakespearean actor
- Anna Manahan (1924–2009), actress
- Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter
- Hal Roach, comedian
- Frank Ryan, tenor
- James Ryan, magician, mentalist[1]
- William Vincent Wallace (1814–65), opera composer
General
- Eugene Byrne, author, journalist
- Risteard De Hindeberg, priest, Irish language activist, author, musician
- Grattan Flood, musicologist and historian
- Valentine Greatrakes, 17th-century healer
- John Hogan, sculptor
- Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara, teacher, poet
- Ellen Organ (1903–08), saintly child known as "Little Nellie of Holy God"
- Thomas Sautelle Roberts, landscape artist
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