From: List of Irish people

• Alan Dukes (b.1945), Fine Gael leader (1987-1990)
• Alan Shatter (b.1951), Former Fine Gael TD
• Albert Reynolds (b.1932), Taoiseach (1992-1994)
• Arthur Griffith - President of Dáil Éireann (Jan-Aug 1922) & 1921 Treaty delegation leader
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington - member of Irish House of Commons, military leader and British Prime Minister
• Austin Currie (b.1939), Candidate in Irish presidential election, 1990
• Austin Deasy (b.1936), Minister for Agriculture (1982-1987)
• Barry Desmond (b.1935), Minister for Social Welfare (1982-1987)
• Bertie Ahern, prime minister (the Taoiseach) and leader of Fianna Fáil
• Beverley Flynn, former Fianna Fáil TD (daughter of P. Flynn)
• Bob Briscoe (1894-1969), Fianna Fáil TD (1927-1965)
• Bobby Molloy (b.1936), Minister for Defence (1977-1979)
• Boyle Roche - eighteenth century politician and member of the Irish House of Commons
• Brendan Corish (1918-1990), Tánaiste (1973-1977)
• Brendan Daly (b.1940), Minister for the Marine (1987-1989)
• Brendan Howlin Minister for the Environment (1994-1997)
• Brian Boru - High King of Ireland
• Brian Cowen (b.1960), Minister for Foreign Affairs (2000-present)
• Brian Lenihan - Minister, Tánaiste & defeated presidential candidate
• Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin - Sinn Féin TD
• Cathal Brugha (1874-1922), Minister for Defence in the 1st Dáil
• Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911-1978), Fifth President of Ireland (1974-1976)
• Charles Haughey - politician and Taoiseach (1979-81; 1982; 1987-92)
• Charles Stewart Parnell - politician and leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
• Charlie McCreevy (b.1949), Minister for Finance (2002-present)
• Conor Cruise O'Brien (b.1917), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1973-1977)
• Countess Markiewicz - politician
• Dana, Rosemary Scallon (b.1951), MEP for Connacht/Ulster (1999-present)
• Daniel O'Connell - The Liberator - leader of campaign for Catholic Emancipation
• David Andrews (b.1936), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1998-2000)
• David Norris - senator, Joycean scholar and gay rights campaigner
• David Trimble - former First Minister of Northern Ireland and leader of the Ulster Unionist Party
• Denis Gallagher Fianna Fáil Minister
• Derek Nally (b.1936), Candidate in the Irish presidential election, 1997
• Dermot Ahern (b.1955), Minister for Communications & the Marine (2002-present)
• Dermot McMurrough - King of Leinster
• Desmond FitzGerald (1888-1947), Minister for External Affairs (1923-1927)
• Desmond O'Malley (b.1936), Leader of Progressive Democrats (1985-1993)
• Dick Spring (b.1950), Tánaiste (1982-1987 & 1992-1997)
• Domhnall Ua Buachalla Fianna Fáil TD turned Governor-General (1932-36/7)
• Donagh O'Malley (1921-1968), Minister for Education
• Douglas Hyde - founder of the Gaelic League, first President of Ireland (1938-1945)
• Eamon de Valera (born in USA) Taoiseach (1932-1948; 1951-54; 1957-1959) President of Ireland (1959-1973)
• Eamon Ryan Green Party, Prospective Presidental Candidate 2004
• Éamon Ó Cuív, Minister for Culture, Gaeltacht & Rural Affairs (2002-present)
• Eamonn Ceannt, signatory of 1916 Proclamation
• Edmund Burke, politician, statesman
• Edward Martyn, 1859-1923.
• Eileen Desmond (b.1932), Minister for Health & Social Welfare (1981-1982)
• Enda Kenny (b.1951), Leader of Fine Gael (2002-present)
• Eoin MacNeill (1867-1945), Minister for Education (1923-1925)
• Eoin O'Duffy (1892-1944), Leader of the Blueshirts
• Ernest Blythe (1889-1975), Minister for Finance (1923-1932)
• Erskine Childers (1905-1974), Fourth President of Ireland (1973-1974)
• Fiona O'Malley, TD (2002-present) {daughter of Des O'Malley}
• Frank Aiken (1896-1983), Tánaiste (1965-1969)
• Frank Cluskey (1930-1989), Irish Labour Party leader (1977-1981)
• Frank Fahey (b.1951), Minister for the Marine & Natural Resources (2000-2002)
• Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford Irish-born UK politician, cabinet minister and author.
• Frederick Boland - Diplomat and Irish delegate to UN
• Garret FitzGerald - politician and Taoiseach (1981-2, 1982-87)
• Garret Fitzgerald - the Great Earl of Kildare
• Gemma Hussey - Fine Gael Minister
• George Colley (1926-1983), Tánaiste (1977-1981)
• George Noble Plunkett Sinn Féin MP
• Gerald Bartley Fianna Fail Minister
• Gerald Boland (1885-1973), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs
• Gerard Collins (b.1938), Minister for Foreign Affairs
• Gerard Sweetman (1908-1970), Minister for Finance (1954-1957)
• Gerry Adams - politician & leader of Sinn Féin
• Gerry Fitt - politician & first leader of the SDLP
• Henry Grattan- 18th century defender of Irish parliamentary independence and opponent of the Act of Union
• Henry Joy McCracken - Ulster leader of 1798 rebellion
• Ian Paisley MP, MEP, MLA - politician and leader of the Democratic Unionist Party
• Isaac Butt - Home Rule leader
• Ivan Yates (b.1959), Minister for Agriculture, Food & Forestry (1994-1997)
• Jack Lynch (1917-1999), Taoiseach (1966-1973 & 1977-1979)
• James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormonde, 12th Earl of Ormonde , 1610-1688.
• James Connolly - Scottish-born socialist, founder of the Labour Party and Easter Rising participant
• James Dillon (1902-1986), Fine Gael leader (1959-1965)
• James Dooge (b.1922), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1981-1982)
• James MacNeill (1869-1938), Second Governor-General of the Irish Free State
• James Ryan (1891-1970), Minister for Finance (1961-1965)
• James Tully (b.1915), Minister for Local Government (1973-1977)
• Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa - veteran Fenian leader (d. 1915)
• Jim Gibbons (1924-1997), Minister for Defence (1969-1970)
• Jim Kemmy (1936-1997), founder of the Democratic Socialist Party
• Jim Larkin (1876-1947), Irish Labour leader
• Jim McDaid (b.1949), Minister for Tourism & Sport (1997-2002)
• Jim Mitchell (1946-2002), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1982-1987)
• Jim Tunney (1923-2002), Former Fianna Fáil Minister of State
• Joe Higgins Independent TD
• Joe Walsh (b.1943), Minister for Agriculture
• John A. Costello (1891-1976), Taoiseach (1948-1951 & 1954-1957)
• John Bruton (b.1947), Taoiseach (1994-1997)
• John Deasy, Fine Gael TD.
• John Hume (b.1937), Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (1979-2001)
• John O'Donoghue (b.1956), Minister for Arts, Tourism and Sport (2002-present)
• John Redmond - Home Rule leader
• John Wilson, Tánaiste (1990-1992)
• Joseph Mary Plunkett - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
• Justin Keating (b.1930), Minister for Industry & Commerce (1973-1977)
• Kathleen Clarke (1879-1972), first female Lord-Mayor of Dublin (1939)
• Kathy Sinnott (Disability rights campaigner, MEP)
• Kevin Boland (1917-2001), Minister for Local Government
• Kevin O'Higgins (1892-1927), Minister for Home Affairs (1923-1927)
• Liam Cosgrave (b.1920), Taoiseach (1973-1977)
• Liam Kavanagh (b.1935), Minister for the Environment (1983-1986)
• Liam Lawlor (b.1945), Disgraced former Fianna Fáil TD
• Lorcan Ua Tuathail/St. Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of Dublin, 1128-80.
• Lord Edward FitzGerald - eighteenth century aristocratic revolutionary
• Marian Harkin - Independent TD (2002-2004/present?) MEP (2004-present)
• Máire Geoghegan-Quinn (b.1950), Minister for Justice (1993-1994)
• Mark Durkan (b1960), leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Martin Cullen, Minister for the Environment & Local Government (2002-present)
• Martin Ferris, Sinn Féin TD for Kerry North (2002-present)
• Martin McGuinness (b.1950), Sinn Féin Chief-Negotiator
• Martin O'Donoghue (b.1933), Minister for Economic Planning & Development (1977-1979)
• Mary Banotti (b.1939), Candidate in the Irish presidential election, 1997
• Mary Coughlan, Minister for Social & Family Affairs (2002-present)
• Mary Harney, deputy Prime Minister (Tánaiste) & leader of the Progressive Democrats
• Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin MEP (2004-present)
• Mary McAleese (b.1951), Eighth President of Ireland (1997-present)
• Mary O'Rourke (b.1937), Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann
• Mary Robinson (b.1944), Seventh President of Ireland (1990-1997)
• Mervyn Taylor (b.1931), Minister for Equality & Law Reform (1993-1997)
• Michael Collins - assassinated Chairman of the Provisional Government
• Michael D. Higgins (b.1941), Minister for Arts, Culture & the Gaeltacht (1994-1997)
• Michael Davitt (1846-1906) - founder of the Land League
• Michael Hayes (1889-1976), Ceann Comhairle (1922-1932)
• Michael Hilliard Fianna Fáil TD, Minister, MEP
• Michael Lowry, Minister for Communications (1994-1996)
• Michael McDowell, Minister for Justice, Equality & Law Reform
• Michael J. Noonan, Fianna Fáil Minister
• Michael Noonan (b.1943), Fine Gael leader (2001-2002)
• Michael O'Leary (b.1936), Irish Labour Party leader (1981-1982)
• Michael O'Kennedy (b.1936), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1977-1979)
• Michael Smith (b.1943), Minister for Defence (1997-present)
• Michael Woods (b.1935), Minister for Education & Science (200-2002)
• Micheál Martin (b.1960), Minister for Health & Children (2002-present)
• Micheál Ó Moráin Fianna Fail Minister
• Neil Blaney (1922-1995), Minister for Agriculture (1966-1970)
• Niamh Bhreathnach (b.1945), Minister for Education (1993-1997)
• Noel Browne - controversial Health Minister (1948-51)
• Noel Davern (b.1945), Minister for Education (1991-1992)
• Noel Dempsey (b.1953), Minister for Education & Science (2002-present)
• Nora Owen (b.1945), Minister for Justice (1994-1997)
• Oliver J. Flanagan (1920-1987), Minister for Defence (1976-1977)
• Oscar Traynor (1886-1963), Minister for Posts & Telegraphs (1936)
• Paddy Donegan (1923-2000), Minister for Defence (1973-1977)
• Paddy O'Toole Fine Gael Minister
• Padraic Pearse - poet, teacher and leader of the Easter Rising
• Pádraig Flynn (b.1939), Minister for the Environment (1987-1991)
• Pat Cox - Former President of the European Parliament
• Pat Rabbitte (b.1949), Irish Labour Party leader (2002-present)
• Patrick Darcy (1598-1668), active during Irish Confederate Wars
• Patrick Hillery (b.1922), Sixth President of Ireland (1976-1990)
• Patrick Hogan (1886-1969), Ceann Comhairle (1951-1967)
• Patrick Lalor Fianna Fail Minister, MEP
• Patrick McGilligan (1889-1979), Minister for Industry & Commerce (1924-1932)
• Patrick O'Donnell Fine Gael TD, Minister
• Patrick Sarsfield - Earl of Lucan - military leader
• Paddy Smith Fianna Fail Minister
• Peter Barry (b1928), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1982-1987)
• Proinsias De Rossa (b.1940), Former leader of the Democratic Left
• Ray Burke (b.1943), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1997)
• Ray MacSharry (b.1938), Tánaiste (1981-1982)
• Richard Bruton (b.1953), DEputy-Leader of Fine Gael
• Richard Burke Fine Gael Minister and European Commissooner (1977-1980)
• Richard Martin, (1754-1834), supporter of Irish Catholic Emancipation, co-founder RSPCA.
• Richard Martin fitz Oliver, (c.1602-1648), leader during Irish Confederate Wars
• Richard Mulcahy (1886-1971), Fine Gael leader (1944-1959)
• Richie Ryan Fine Gael TD, Minister, MEP
• Robert Emmet - leader of 1803 rebellion
• Roger Casement - human rights campaigner turned revolutionary
• Rory O'Connor - High King of Ireland
• Rory O'Hanlon (b.1934), Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann
• Ruairí Ó Brádaigh (b.1932), former leader of Sinn Féin
• Ruairí Quinn (b.1946), Irish Labour Party leader (1997-2002)
• Séamus Brennan (b.1948), Minister for Transport (2002-present)
• Seamus Mallon (b.1936), Former deputy-leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
• Séamus Pattison (b.1936), Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann (1997-2002)
• Seán Barrett (b.1944), Minister for Defence (1995-1997)
• Seán Doherty (b.1944), Minister for Justice (1982)
• Seán Flanagan Fianna Fail Minister, MEP
• Sean Lemass (1899-1971), Taoiseach (1959-1966)
• Seán Lester (1888-1959), Secretary-General of the League of Nations
• Seán Mac Diarmada - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
• Seán MacBride - IRA chief, minister (1948-51),lawyer and founder member of Amnesty International
• Seán MacEntee (1889-1984), Tánaiste (1959-1965)
• Seán MacEoin (1893-1973), Candidate in Irish presidential election, 1959.
• Seán T. O'Kelly (1882-1966), Second President of Ireland (1945-1959)
• Síle de Valera (b.1954), Minister for Arts, Heritage & Gaeltacht (1997-2002)
• Sylvester Barret Fianna Fail Minister
• T.K. Whitaker - architect of post-war economic development
• Terence MacSwiney - Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)
• The O'Rahilly - 1916 leader
• Thomas D'Arcy McGee, promoter of a federal union for the Canadian provinces
• Thomas F. O'Higgins, Minister for Health (1948-1951)
• Thomas J. Clarke - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
• Thomas Johnson (1872-1963), first leader of the Irish Labour Party
• Thomas MacDonagh - signatory of 1916 Proclamation
• Tim Healy (1885-1931), First Governor-General of the Irish Free State
• Tom FitzPatrick - Fine Gael Minister, Ceann Comhairle
• Tom O'Donnell Fine Gael Minister (73-77), TD (1961-1987)
• Tom O'Higgins (1916-2003), Candidate in Irish presidential election, 1966 & Irish presidential election, 1973
• Tomás MacCurtain - Lord Mayor of Cork (d. 1920)
• Tomás MacGiolla (b.1924), Former leader of The Workers Party (Ireland)
• Tomás Ó Deirg (1897-1956), Minister for Education (1932-1939)
• Tony Gregory (b.1947), Supporter of Fianna Fáil government (1982)
• Trevor Sargent Green party leader
• Ulick Burke, 5th Earl of Clanricarde , d. 1657.
• Vivion de Valera (1910-1982), Fianna Fáil TD
• W.T. Cosgrave (1880-1965), President of the Executive Council (1923-1932)
• Willam Joyce - Lord Haw Haw - Nazi propagandist
• William Norton (1900-1960), Tánaiste (1948-1951 & 1954-1957)
• Wolfe Tone - nationalist leader