- Mary Aikenhead, catholic nun and founder of the irish sisters of charity
- Richard Dawson Bates, first baronet, lawyer and politician
- William Carleton, novelist
- Edward Carson, lawyer, unionist politician, party leader, cabinet minister
- Michael Collins, revolutionary & chairman of provisional government
- James Connolly, socialist, trade union leader, writer
- William T. Cosgrave, politician and president of the executive council of the irish free state
- James Craig, politican and prime minister of northern ireland
- Paul Cullen, archbishop & cardinal
- William Dargan, engineer, railway contractor, and entrepreneur
- Thomas Davis, nationalist, journalist
- Michael Davitt, revolutionary, politician, journalist
- Henry Grattan, patriot and politician
- Arthur Griffith, journalist and politician
- Eva Sydney Hone, artist & craftswoman
- Douglas Hyde, scholar, author, president of ireland
- Charles Kickham, author and fenian leader
- James Larkin, socialist, trade union leader, politician
- Charles Lucas, politician and physician
- James J. MacElligott, civil-servant
- Joseph MacRory, cardinal of the roman catholic church
- Countess Constance Markievicz, revolutionary & politician
- Asenath Nicholson, missionary, philanthropist and traveller
- Daniel O’Connell, lawyer & politician
- Kevin O’Higgins, politician and social reformer
- Charles Stewart Parnell, political leader
- Patrick Henry Pearse, republican & writer
- John Redmond, politician, party leader
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, suffragist, nationalist, republican
- James Stephens, railway engineer, republican nationalist, and founder of the fenians
- Isabella Tod, suffragist, philanthropist, educationalist, reformer
- Charles Edward Trevelyan, british civil servant
- Éamon de Valera, taoiseach & president of ireland
- William Butler Yeats, poet & dramatist
