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Cork is the second largest city of Ireland and largest
county in Ireland and has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business people.
Historical and/or political figures
John Anderson – businessman
[1]
Sir John Arnott – businessman, newspaper owner
Anthony Barry – politician, photographer
Katty Barry – restaurateur
[2]
Mick Barry –
Teachta Dála and
Socialist politician.
[3]
Peter Barry –
Tánaiste
Tadhg Barry – journalist, trade unionist and nationalist
Tom Barry – guerilla leader during war of independence, author of the book Guerilla Days in Ireland
Olive Beamish – suffragette activist
Anne Bonny – pirate
Joseph Brennan – civil servant
Sir George Callaghan – Admiral of the Fleet
Patrick Cleburne –
Major General in the
Confederate States Army during the
American Civil War
Hugh Coveney – government minister
Simon Coveney –
Tánaiste
[4]
Thomas Croke –
Archbishop of Cashel
Donal Creed (1924 – 2017):
Fine Gael politician;
MEP ,
Teachta Dála ,
Minister of State under
Garret FitzGerald
[5]
Michael Creed (b. 1963): Former Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine
[6]
Eileen Desmond – government minister,
Senator ,
MEP
Mary Elmes – aid worker honoured as '
Righteous Among the Nations ' for saving 200 Jewish children during WWII
Gerald Goldberg – first
Jewish lord mayor
T. C. Hammond – Church of Ireland clergyman
William Baylor Hartland – plant breeder, seedsman
John Pope Hennessy – author, governor of Hong Kong and Mauritius
Ellen Hutchins – botanist
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones – labour organiser, born near Cork
Jim Lane –
Irish Republican Socialist
Cornelius Lucey –
Bishop of Cork and Ross
Jack Lynch – Taoiseach and hurler
Thomas Mac Curtain – Lord Mayor of Cork
Terence MacSwiney – Lord Mayor and hunger striker
Daniel Mannix –
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne
Micheál Martin –
Taoiseach
[7]
Sake Dean Mahomed (1759–1851) – Bengali traveller, surgeon, entrepreneur, and one of the most notable early non-European immigrants to the Western World
Stephen Moylan –
Quartermaster General of the
Continental Army during the
American Revolutionary War
Michael Murphy – first Irish president of the European Court of Auditors
Nano Nagle – educator who founded the
Presentation Sisters
William O'Brien – nationalist politician and MP; founder of
All-for-Ireland League
Fergus O'Connor – Irish nationalist and publisher
Dáithí Ó Conaill – Irish republican
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa – nationalist
Batt O'Keeffe – government minister
[8]
Michael O'Riordan – socialist politician
John Cyril Porte – pioneer aviator
John Roach – major shipbuilder in
postbellum United States
Adi Roche – humanitarian campaigner
Brendan Ryan –
Senator and lecturer at
CIT
William Henry John Seffern – printer, newspaper editor, journalist and historian
D. D. Sheehan – nationalist politician and first Labour MP
Kathy Sinnott –
MEP
Robert Spence –
Roman Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide
William Thompson – political and philosophical writer
Sir
Robert Torrens – Prime Minister South Australia; pioneer of Land Registration system
Thady Quill – historical rake
The
Wallace sisters – IRA Intelligence officers
Scientists
Military
Sports
Film, entertainment and media
Literature
Music and arts
Bands
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a
b O'Driscoll, Des (13 June 2014).
"Recalling the great nights of Cork's Arcadia" .
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a
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