County Mayo is a county in Ireland, it is the third-largest in Ireland and the second-largest in the province of Connacht. Mayo has produced many noted artists, entertainers, politicians and businesspeople. Also included are people affiliated with Mayo before the creation of the Republic of Ireland.
List of people from County Mayo
Writers, composers and philosophers
Ulick Bourke (1829–1887) – Scholar and founder of the Gaelic Union
Louis Brennan (1852–1932) – Invented the brennan torpedo
Richard Douthwaite (1942–2011) – Economist, ecologist, campaigner and writer
Paul Durcan (born 1944) – Poet
Áine Greaney (born circa 1962) – Writer and editor
George A. Birmingham (1865–1950) – Author (The Seething Pot 1905), (Hyacinth, 1906) John Healy (1930–1991) – Author and journalist Bernard O'Hara (born circa 1945) – Historian and author Sally Rooney (born 1991) – Author, screenwriter, Conversations with Friends (2017) and Normal People (2018)
Entertainers
Karen Koster (b. 1981), presenter for Virgin Media Television. Joseph Maher (1933–1998), character actor, playwright and director Margaret Burke Sheridan (1889–1958), opera singer. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin (b, 1983), winner of the 2005 Rose of Tralee contest. She is first Rose from County Mayo. Louis Walsh (b. 1952), entertainment manager and judge on British television talent show The X Factor and Ireland's Got Talent.
Politicians and leaders
Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822–1872) – Viceroy of India (1869–1872). Dara Calleary – Fianna Fáil politician Seán Calleary (1931–2018) – Fianna Fáil politician Lucinda Creighton – former politician, leader and founder of Renua Ireland (2015–2016). Lisa Chambers – Fianna Fáil politician. Rose Conway-Walsh Jerry Cowley – barrister, medical doctor and politician. Michael Davitt (1846–1906) – Irish republican, agrarian campaigner, labour leader, Home Rule politician and Member of Parliament (MP) who founded the Irish National Land League. The bridge to Achill is named after him as well as one of Castlebar's local secondary schools, (Davitt College). Bernard Durkan Seán Flanagan (1922–1993) – Fianna Fáil politician and Gaelic footballer. Served as Minister for Health (1966–1969) and Minister for Lands (1969–1973). Pádraig Flynn – former Fianna Fáil politician and Minister. Beverley Flynn – former Fianna Fáil politician Denis Gallagher Charles Haughey (1925–2006) – former Taoiseach of Ireland. Jim Higgins (born 1945) - former Fine Gael politician Enda Kenny – politician, leader of Fine Gael (2002–2017), and Taoiseach (2011–2017). Tom Maguire - Veteran of the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War. TD for South Mayo in the 1920s, Vice President of Sinn Féin in the 1930s. Michelle Mulherin Catherine Noone William O'Dwyer (1890– 1964) – 100th mayor of New York City (1946–1950). Paul O'Dwyer (1907–1998) – President of New York City Council, prominent New York City human rights attorney, supporter of Irish nationalism, and defender of several Irishmen from deportation, including "The Fort Worth Five" and Vincent Conlon. John O'Mahony Marie-Louise O'Donnell Pat Rabbitte – former leader of the Labour Party. Michael Ring – Fine Gael politician, inaugural Minister for Rural and Community Development (2017–2020). Mary Robinson – first female President of Ireland (1990–1997), and United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights. P. J. Ruttledge - Founding Member of Fianna Fáil, Minister for Justice during the 1930s. William Joyce Sewell – Unionist colonel during American Civil War and US senator for New Jersey. John Solon (d.1921) – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly. Emmet Stagg Myles Staunton Thomas Thornton – member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.