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The following is a list of people from
Waterford, Ireland.
Ecclesiastics
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Richard Chenevix (1697–1779), Church of Ireland bishop
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Charles Joseph Henderson (1924–2006), Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (UK) and Bishop of Tricala
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Tobias Kirby (1804–1895), Rector of the Irish College Rome 1850–1891; archbishop of Ephesus 1885
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Michael O'Hickey (1860–1916), priest, Professor of Irish at Maynooth University
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Nicholas Quemerford (c. 1554–1599), Irish
Jesuit priest
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Edmund Ignatius Rice (1762–1844), religious founder
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Michael Sheehan (1870–1945), Archbishop of Germia; author, professor
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Luke Wadding (1588–1657), theologian, historian, patriot
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Michael Wadding (1591–1644),Jesuit priest and missionary to New Spain
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Nicholas Wiseman (1802–1865), cardinal
Sport
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Jim Beglin (born 1963), soccer player
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Craig Breen (born 1990), rally driver
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Niamh Briggs (born 1984), Irish international rugby player
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Locky Byrne (1913–1941), hurler
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Tom Cheasty (1934–2007), hurler
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Paddy Coad (1920–1992), soccer player
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Tom Cunningham (1931–2022), hurler
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Pat Fanning (1918–2010), hurler, GAA President
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Mick Flannelly (1930–2021), hurler
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Andy Fleming (1916–2011), hurler
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Austin Flynn (1933–2021), hurler
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Philly Grimes (1929–1989), hurler
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Larry Guinan (born 1938), hurler
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Alfie Hale (born 1939), soccer player
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Noel Hunt (born 1982), Irish international soccer player
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Stephen Hunt (born 1981), Irish international soccer player
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John Keane (1917–1975), hurler
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Sean Kelly (born 1956), Ireland's most successful racing cyclist, one of the top eight cyclists of all time
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Martin Óg Morrissey (born 1934), hurler
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Christy Moylan (1916–1996), hurler
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Daryl Murphy (born 1983), Irish international soccer player
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Johnny O'Connor (1928–2010), hurler
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Peter O'Connor (1872–1957), athlete, Olympic champion
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John O'Shea (born 1981), Irish international soccer player
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Ciarán Power (born 1976), Olympic Games cyclist 2000, 2004
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Ned Power (1929–2007), hurler
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Seamus Power (1929–2016), hurler
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Susan Smith-Walsh (born 1971), Olympic athlete
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John Treacy (born 1957), Olympic athlete, world champion
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Frankie Walsh (1936–2012), hurler
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Patricia Walsh (born 1960), Olympic athlete
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Charlie Ware (1933–2013), hurler
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Jim Ware (1908–1983), hurler
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Thomas Barr (born 1992), Olympic athlete
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Jessie Barr (born 1989), Olympic athlete
Politics and military
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Mary Butler (born 1966), politician
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William Charles Bonaparte-Wyse (1826–1892), soldier
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Denis Cashman (1843–1897), Fenian, patriot
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Hugh Collender, Young Irelander, businessman
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Ciara Conway (born 1980), former
Labour Party politician
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Paudie Coffey (born 1969), Minister of State for Housing and planning from 2014 to 2016
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Edward Collins (1941–2019), Irish
Fine Gael politician
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Maurice Cummins (b. 1953), Irish Fine Gael politician
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David Cullinane
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Lorraine Clifford-Lee
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John Condon, boy soldier, youngest Allied soldier to die in
First World War
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Martin Cullen (born 1954), former
Fianna Fail politician
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John Deasy
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Austin Deasy
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Frank Edwards, left wing activist, Spanish Civil War fighter
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Francis Hearn, patriot
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John Hearne, orator, lawyer and architect of the 1937 Irish Constitution, or Bunracht na hÉireann
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William Hobson, first Governor of New Zealand
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Brendan Kenneally
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Billy Kenneally (1925-2009), Fianna Fail politician, twice Mayor of Waterford
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Thomas Kyne (1905-1981),
Labour Party politician
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George Lennon (1900-1991), vice commanding officer, West Waterford I.R.A. (1919–1922)
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Patrick Little (1884-1963), Fianna Fail politician,
Minister for Posts and Telegraphs
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Thaddeus Lynch (1901-1966), Fine Gael politician
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Thomas Francis Meagher (1823-1867), patriot, conceived the Irish tricolour
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Thomas Meagher (1796–1874), Irish politician and businessman
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Richard Mulcahy, (1886–1971), Irish Army C.O.C.,
Fine Gael politician
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Ann Ormonde (born 1935), former Irish
Fianna Fail politician
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William Palliser (1830–1882), politician, inventor
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John Paul Phelan (born 1978), politician
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John Redmond (1856–1918), leader of the Irish Party in Westminster
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Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), British Army C.O.C.
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Thomas Sexton (1848–1932), journalist, financial expert, nationalist politician and Member of Parliament
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Richard Lalor Shiel (1791–1851), Orator, M.P
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Alfred Webb (1834–1908), President of the 1894 Indian National Congress and MP for West Waterford
Science
Arts, theatre and entertainment
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Keith Barry (born 1976), magician, mentalist, illusionist
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Carrie Crowley, TV personality
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Teresa Deevy, playwright
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Val Doonican, entertainer
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Seán Dunne, poet
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Fiona Glascott
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Dorothea Jordan (1761-1816), actress; mistress of King
William IV of the United Kingdom
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Charles Kean, Shakespearean actor
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Anna Manahan (1924–2009), actress
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Gerardine Meaney (born 1962), feminist critic
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Gilbert O'Sullivan, singer-songwriter
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Patrick C. Power, writer and historian
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Hal Roach, comedian
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Frank Ryan (1900–1965), tenor
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William Vincent Wallace (1814–1865), opera composer
General
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Eugene Byrne (born 1959), author, journalist
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Risteard De Hindeberg (1863–1916), priest, Irish language activist, author, musician
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Grattan Flood (1857–1928), musicologist and historian
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Valentine Greatrakes, 17th-century healer
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John Hogan (1800–1858), sculptor
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Donnchadh Ruadh Mac Conmara (1715–1810), teacher, poet
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Ellen Organ (1903–1908), saintly child known as "Little Nellie of Holy God"
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Thomas Sautelle Roberts (c. 1749–1778), landscape artist
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