page_title: Irish Americans
section_title: Entertainment
hierarchical_section_title: Irish Americans / Social history in the United States / Contributions to American culture / Entertainment
caption_attribution_description: English: Tom Cruise speaking at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.
context_page_description: Irish Americans are Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland. About 33 million Americans — 10.1% of the total population — identified as being Irish in the 2017 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.5 million people on the island of Ireland.
context_section_description: Irish Americans have been prominent in comedy. Notable comedians of Irish descent include Jackie Gleason, George Carlin, Bill Burr, Bill Murray, Will Ferrell, Bryan Callen, Pete Holmes, Joe Rogan, Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, Stephen Colbert, Conan O'Brien, Denis Leary (holds dual American and Irish citizenship), Colin Quinn, Charles Nelson Reilly, Bill Maher, Molly Shannon, John Mulaney, Kathleen Madigan, Jimmy Fallon, Des Bishop, and Jim Gaffigan, among others. Musicians of Irish descent include Christina Aguilera, Kelly Clarkson, Kurt Cobain, Bing Crosby, Tori Kelly, Tim McGraw, Mandy Moore, Hilary Duff, Fergie, Judy Garland, Katy Perry, Tom Petty, Pink, Elvis Presley, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Gwen Stefani, Taylor Swift, Justin Timberlake, Prodigy, Post Malone Trippie Redd and others.
  Fictional Irish Americans:
  In the Comic Strips:
  Maggie and Jiggs of Bringing Up Father
  Police Chief Pat Patton of Dick Tracy
  Beetle Bailey and his sister Lous {Bailey} Flagston of Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois
caption: Actor Tom Cruise descends from paternal Irish ("Cruise" and "O'Mara") lineage around County Dublin.[290][291]
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