List of Sligo people

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Sligo is a town in the North West of the Republic of Ireland and the county town of County Sligo, and has produced several noted artists, entertainers, politicians and business-people.

Music

Thomas Connellan, Harper/Composer
William Connellan, Harper/Composer
Naisse Mac Cithruadh, musician
James Morrison,
Paddy Killoran
Michael Coleman
Joe O' Dowd
Mary O'Hara, singer and harpist
Seamie O'Dowd, multi-instrumentalist and former member of Dervish
Tabby Callaghan, musician, The X Factor finalist
Kian Egan, member of Westlife
Mark Feehily, member of Westlife
Shane Filan, member of Westlife
Carmel Gunning, traditional Irish musician and singer
Liam Kelly, flute player and founding member of Dervish
Perry Blake, singer and songwriter
Sandy Kelly, Country & Western singer

Arts and literature

Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh, Ollamh of poetry at Lissadell and crusader
Giolla Íosa Mór Mac Fir Bhisigh, historian, scribe compiler of the Yellow Book of Lecan, Great Book of Lecan
Solamh Ó Droma, scribe who worked on the Book of Ballymote
Tomaltach MacDonagh, Lord of Corann, commissioned the Book of Ballymote
Tadhg Dall Ó hUigínn, file/poet, author of many poems in classical Dán Díreach style
Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbisigh, Irish scribe, author of the Great Book of Irish Genealogies
Henry McCarrick, merchant/scholar, transcriber of the Cuimre na nGenealach
Owen Connellan, Scholar, RIA,
Thady Connellan, Scholar, published Irish-English dictionary 1814
Leland Bardwell, poet, novelist and playwright.
Neil Jordan, filmmaker and novelist; won an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for The Crying Game
Brian Leyden, short story writer and novelist
Joe McGowan, author and historian
William Butler Yeats, poet
Jack Butler Yeats, painter and cartoonist

Historical and political figures

Brón Mac Icni, Bishop at Killaspugbrone, Disciple of St. Patrick
Cairbre Mac Néill, Irish king and warrior, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages
Tuathal Mac Cormac Maelgarbh ua Cairbre, King of Ireland?, conqueror of Brega
Nath í of Achad an Rí, 6th century Irish ecclesiastic
Feichín of Fore, Irish ecclesiastic
St. Osnat, Irish ecclesiastic
St. Attracta of Killaraght, Irish ecclesiastic, 5th century.
St. Molaise of Inishmurray, Abbot of Inishmurray, Confessor to St. Columcille after the Battle of the Book at Cooladrumman.
Fearghal Ó Gadhra, Chief of Coolavin, patron of the Annals of the Four Masters
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.
Count Nicholas Taaffe, Soldier, Lieutenant General in Austrian Army
Liam Pilkington, IRA commander, 3rd western division,1921-23. Anti-treaty IRA.
William Partridge, trade unionist, revolutionary, leader of Irish Citizen Army, fought during Easter Rising
Frank Carty, Sligo IRA leader during the War of Independence and Irish Civil War; elected a TD for Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil
Charlotte Matilda Blake Thornley Stoker, Abraham Stokers mother, feminist
Col. William G. Wood-Martin, Antiquarian archaeologist
Francis MacDonagh, Q.C, M.P. for the borough of Sligo
William Bourke Cockran, US congressman
Robert G. Bradshaw, Editor of the Connachtman newspaper, Protestant Anti-Treaty Republican journalist
Luke Duffy, trade unionist and politician
Declan Bree, politician and social campaigner, former Labour TD for Sligo/LeitrimJohn Jinks, politician
Ray MacSharry, former Government Minister and EU Commissioner
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
Ambrosio O'Higgins, Marquis of Osorno, Governor of Chile and Viceroy of Peru during the Spanish domination of the Americas
Bernardo O'Higgins, Liberator of Chile
Brigadier General Michael Corcoran, Union army general, American civil war.
Martin Savage, Irish Republican

Medicine and science

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

Sports

Sean Fallon, former Republic of Ireland and Celtic F.C. footballer
Paul McGee, Sligo Rovers F.C. and Ireland international soccer player
Mark Scanlon, cyclist
Brother Walfrid (aka Andrew Kerins), Marist Brother, and founder of Celtic F.C. in Glasgow
Mickey Kearns GAA
Barnes Murphy GAA
Eamon O'Hara GAA
Charles Harrison GAA

Film and entertainment

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

Business

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