# List of people from Sligo

Sligo, a town in the north-west of Ireland and county town of County Sligo, has produced noted artists, authors, entertainers, politicians and business-people.

## Music

* Perry Blake, singer and songwriter
* Tabby Callaghan, musician, The X Factor finalist
* Michael Coleman, musician
* Thomas Connellan, harper/composer
* William Connellan, harper/composer
* Kian Egan, member of Westlife
* Mark Feehily, member of Westlife
* Shane Filan, member of Westlife
* Tommy Fleming, singer
* Carmel Gunning, traditional Irish musician and singer
* Paddy Killoran, musician
* Naisse Mac Cithruadh, musician
* Maisie McDaniel, Irish country and showband singer
* James Morrison, musician
* Seamie O'Dowd, multi-instrumentalist and former member of Dervish
* Mary O'Hara, singer and harpist
* Lisa Stanley, Irish country singer/songwriter and daughter of Maisie McDaniel

## Arts and literature

* Leland Bardwell, poet, novelist and playwright
* Mary Colum, literary critic and author
* Owen Connellan, scholar, RIA
* Thady Connellan, scholar, published Irish-English dictionary 1814
* Neil Jordan, filmmaker and novelist; won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game
* Brian Leyden, short story writer and novelist
* Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh, Irish scribe, author of the Great Book of Irish Genealogies
* Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fir Bhisigh, historian, scribe compiler of the Yellow Book of Lecan, Great Book of Lecan
* Joe McGowan, author and historian
* Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, Ollamh of poetry at Lissadell and crusader
* Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn, file/poet, author of many poems in classical Dán Díreach style
* Jack Butler Yeats, painter and cartoonist
* William Butler Yeats, poet

## Historical and political figures

* St. Attracta of Killaraght, Irish ecclesiastic, 5th century, Saint
* Declan Bree, politician and social campaigner, former Labour TD for Sligo/Leitrim
* John J. Burns, mayor of Burlington, Vermont
* Frank Carty, Sligo IRA leader during the War of Independence and Irish Civil War; elected a TD for Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil
* William Bourke Cockran, U.S. congressman
* Brigadier General Michael Corcoran, Union army general, American civil war
* Luke Duffy, trade unionist and politician
* Féchín of Fore, Irish ecclesiastic
* Michael Fenton, first Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
* Patrick J. Hamrock, Colorado National Guardsman, participant in Sioux Wars and Ludlow Massacre
* John Jinks, politician
* Tuathal Mac Cormac Maelgarbh ua Cairbre, King of Ireland?, conqueror of Brega
* Chris MacManus, Sinn Féin MEP for Midlands–North-West Constituency
* Seán MacManus, former Sinn Féin Mayor of Sligo
* Cairbre Mac Néill, Irish king and warrior, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages
* Ray MacSharry, former government minister and EU Commissioner
* Linda Kearns MacWhinney Nurse, revolutionary and Fianna Fáil politician
* Constance Markievicz (née Gore-Booth), revolutionary; first elected female MP in the UK Parliament; first Irish female cabinet minister
* Alexander McCabe, revolutionary and Sinn Féin TD, later a member of Cumann na nGaedheal
* Martin Moffat, soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Nath í of Achad an Rí, 6th century Irish ecclesiastic
* Fearghal Ó Gadhra, Chief of Coolavin, patron of the Annals of the Four Masters
* Ambrosio O'Higgins, 1st Marquess of Osorno, Governor of Chile and Viceroy of Peru during the Spanish domination of the Americas
* Bernardo O'Higgins, Liberator of Chile
* William Partridge, trade unionist, revolutionary, leader of Irish Citizen Army, fought during Easter Rising
* Liam Pilkington, IRA commander, 3rd western division, 1921-23. Anti-treaty IRA
* Martin Savage, Irish Republican
* Brian Luighnech Ua Conchobhair, King of Cairbre Drom Cliabh, ancestor of the Ó Conchobar Sligigh, son of Toirdealbhach Mór Ó Conchobar, High King of Ireland 1106-1156

## Medicine and science

* William Cunningham Blest, creator of the first Chilean School of Medicine
* Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, mathematician and physicist

## Sports

* Jonathan Dolan, Irish badminton player
* Sean Fallon, former Republic of Ireland and Celtic F.C. footballer
* Mickey Kearins GAA
* Paul McGee, Sligo Rovers F.C. and Ireland international soccer player
* Mona McSharry swimmer
* Barnes Murphy GAA
* Christopher O'Donnell, Ireland International track and field sprinter
* Eamonn O'Hara GAA
* Mark Scanlon, cyclist
* Brother Walfrid (aka Andrew Kerins), Marist Brother, and founder of Celtic F.C. in Glasgow

## Film and entertainment

* Pauline Flanagan, film and television actress
* Scott Fredericks, film and television actor, radio producer
* Neil Jordan, director of The Crying Game, Interview with the Vampire, Michael Collins
* Eugene Lambert, puppeteer and children's entertainer
* Pauline McLynn, actress, Mrs Doyle in the sitcom Father Ted
* Noelle Middleton, film and television actress
* Lola Montez, actress, exotic dancer, courtesan and the mistress of King Ludwig I of Bavaria
* Joan O'Hara, film and television actress
* Dearbhla Walsh, film and TV director
* Olga Wehrly, actor

## Business

* Niall FitzGerald, Chairman of Reuters Group plc; former Chairman and CEO of Unilever plc
* Dermot Mannion, CEO of Aer Lingus