County Carlow - Famous People

Republic of Ireland

Image right - John Tyndall FRS (1820 – 1893) - prominent 19th century physicist.

Related Projects on Geni

• County Carlow - Main Page
• Historical County Carlow (To follow)
• People Connected to County Carlow

Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown!

Please add information about people of renown connected to County Carlow, Ireland. If the person has a profile on Geni please add their profile to the project and add the link in bold.

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• Lisa Burke - weather forecaster on Sky News.
• Pierce Butler - soldier, planter, and statesman, recognized as one of United States' Founding Fathers. He represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress and the United States Senate.

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• William Dargan - engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways.

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• Samuel Haughton - polymath, in 1866 published a formula for calculating the drop needed to cause instantaneous death at hangings.

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• Richie Kavanagh - comic songwriter, from Raheenwood, Fenagh, Co. Carlow.
• Myles Keogh - American Civil War military officer and later Captain of Company I, U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment - Fought in Indian Wars and was killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. He was born in Orchard, Leighlinbridge in 1840.

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• Bill MacNevin (Val Vousden) - Actor, Poet and Playwright.
• Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran - Archbishop of Sydney
• Peter Murphy - radio and television broadcaster, presented RTÉ's Cross Country Quiz, was born in Carlow

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• Saoirse Ronan - Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actress.
• Derek Ryan - Country music singer & former member of Pop band D-side

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• Kathryn Thomas - RTÉ presenter.
• John Tyndall FRS - the 19th century scientist who was the first to explain why the sky is blue. Born Leighlinbridge, County Carlow

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