# List of people from Waterford

The following is a list of people from Waterford, Ireland.

## 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 (1860–1916), priest, Professor of Irish at Maynooth University
* Nicholas Quemerford (c. 1554–1599), Irish Jesuit priest
* Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), religious founder
* Michael Sheehan (1870–1945), Archbishop of Germia; author, professor
* Luke Wadding (1588–1657), theologian, historian, patriot
* Michael Wadding (1591–1644),Jesuit priest and missionary to New Spain
* Nicholas Wiseman (1802–1865), cardinal

## Sport

* Jim Beglin (born 1963), soccer player
* Craig Breen (1990–2023), rally driver
* Niamh Briggs (born 1984), Irish international rugby player
* Locky Byrne (1913–1941), hurler
* Tom Cheasty (1934–2007), hurler
* Paddy Coad (1920–1992), soccer player
* Tom Cunningham (1931–2022), hurler
* Pat Fanning (1918–2010), hurler, GAA President
* Mick Flannelly (1930–2021), hurler
* Andy Fleming (1916–2011), hurler
* Austin Flynn (1933–2021), hurler
* Philly Grimes (1929–1989), hurler
* Larry Guinan (born 1937), hurler
* Alfie Hale (born 1939), soccer player
* Noel Hunt (born 1982), Irish international soccer player
* Stephen Hunt (born 1981), Irish international soccer player
* John Keane (1917–1975), hurler
* Sean Kelly (born 1956), Ireland's most successful racing cyclist, one of the top eight cyclists of all time
* Martin Óg Morrissey (born 1934), hurler
* Christy Moylan (1916–1996), hurler
* Daryl Murphy (born 1983), Irish international soccer player
* Johnny O'Connor (1928–2010), hurler
* Peter O'Connor (1872–1957), athlete, Olympic champion
* John O'Shea (born 1981), Irish international soccer player
* Ciarán Power (born 1976), Olympic Games cyclist 2000, 2004
* Ned Power (1929–2007), hurler
* Seamus Power (1929–2016), hurler
* Susan Smith-Walsh (born 1971), Olympic athlete
* John Treacy (born 1957), Olympic athlete, world champion
* Frankie Walsh (1936–2012), hurler
* Patricia Walsh (born 1960), Olympic athlete
* Charlie Ware (1933–2013), hurler
* Jim Ware (1908–1983), hurler
* Thomas Barr (born 1992), Olympic athlete
* Jessie Barr (born 1989), Olympic athlete

## Politics and military

* Mary Butler (born 1966), politician
* William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse (1826–1892), soldier
* Denis Cashman (1843–1897), Fenian, patriot
* Hugh Collender, Young Irelander, businessman
* Ciara Conway (born 1980), former Labour Party politician
* Paudie Coffey (born 1969), Minister of State for Housing and planning from 2014 to 2016
* Edward Collins (1941–2019), Irish Fine Gael politician
* Maurice Cummins (born 1953), Irish Fine Gael politician
* David Cullinane
* Lorraine Clifford-Lee
* John Condon, boy soldier, youngest Allied soldier to die in First World War
* Martin Cullen (born 1954), former Fianna Fail politician
* John Deasy
* Austin Deasy (1936–2017), Irish Fine Gael politician
* Frank Edwards, left wing activist, Spanish Civil War fighter
* Francis Hearn, patriot
* John Hearne (1893–1969), orator, lawyer and architect of the 1937 Irish Constitution, or Bunracht na hÉireann
* William Hobson (1792–1842), first Governor of New Zealand
* Brendan Kenneally
* Billy Kenneally (1925–2009), Fianna Fail politician, twice Mayor of Waterford
* Thomas Kyne (1905–1981), Labour Party politician
* George Lennon (1900–1991), vice commanding officer, West Waterford I.R.A. (1919–1922)
* Patrick Little (1884–1963), Fianna Fail politician, Minister for Posts and Telegraphs
* Thaddeus Lynch (1901–1966), Fine Gael politician
* Thomas Francis Meagher (1823–1867), patriot, conceived the Irish tricolour
* Thomas Meagher (1796–1874), Irish politician and businessman
* Richard Mulcahy, (1886–1971), Irish Army C.O.C., Fine Gael politician
* Ann Ormonde (born 1935), former Irish Fianna Fail politician
* William Palliser (1830–1882), politician, inventor
* John Paul Phelan (born 1978), politician
* John Redmond (1856–1918), leader of the Irish Party in Westminster
* Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), British Army C.O.C.
* Thomas Sexton (1848–1932), journalist, financial expert, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament
* Richard Lalor Shiel (1791–1851), Orator, M.P
* Alfred Webb (1834–1908), President of the 1894 Indian National Congress and MP for West Waterford

## Science

* Lucien Bonaparte-Wyse (1845–1909), entomologist
* Robert Boyle (1627–1691), physicist
* Richard J. Ussher (1841–1913), ornithologist
* Ernest Walton (1903–1995), Nobel Laureate (Physics 1951)

## Arts, theatre and entertainment

* Keith Barry (born 1976), magician, mentalist, illusionist
* Carrie Crowley, TV personality
* Teresa Deevy (1894–1963), playwright
* Val Doonican, entertainer
* Seán Dunne, poet
* Fiona Glascott
* Dorothea Jordan (1761–1816), actress; mistress of King William IV of the United Kingdom
* Charles Kean, Shakespearean actor
* Anna Manahan (1924–2009), actress
* Gerardine Meaney (born 1962), feminist critic
* Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter
* Patrick C. Power, writer and historian
* Hal Roach, comedian
* Frank Ryan (1900–1965), tenor
* William Vincent Wallace (1814–1865), opera composer

## General

* Eugene Byrne (born 1959), author, journalist
* Risteard De Hindeberg (1863–1916), priest, Irish language activist, author, musician
* Grattan Flood (1857–1928), musicologist and historian
* Valentine Greatrakes (1628–1682), 17th-century healer
* John Hogan (1800–1858), sculptor
* Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara (1715–1810), teacher, poet
* Ellen Organ (1903–1908), saintly child known as "Little Nellie of Holy God"
* Thomas Sautelle Roberts (c. 1749–1778), landscape artist
* Mary Strangman (1872–1943), doctor, public health advocate and women's suffragist.