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Anne Lee Guinness
Anne Lee Plunket, Baroness Plunket was an Irish philanthropist.
Patrick Pearse
Irish revolutionary, shot by the British Army in 1916
Feargus O'Connor
Irish politician (1794-1855)
Charles Gavan Duffy
Irish nationalist, journalist, poet and Australian politician (1816-1903)
John Mitchel
Irish politician (1815-1875)
James Gamble
British co-founder of Procter & Gamble
John Conness
American politician (1821-1909)
Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Irish politician (1827–1914)
Thomas Davis
Irish writer and activist (1814-1845)
Benjamin Guinness
Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness, 1st Baronet, was an Anglo-Irish brewer and philanthropist.
William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
Irish physician and polymath (1809–1889)
Ellen (Nellie) Cashman
miner (1845–1925)
Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh
Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh,, known between May 1885 and January 1891 as Sir Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Baronet, was an Anglo-Irish businessman and philanthropist. A member of the prominent Guinness family, he was the head of the family's eponymous brewing business, making him the richest person in Ireland. A prominent philanthropist, he is best remembered for his provision of affordable housing in London and Dublin through charitable trusts.
Timothy Eaton
Irish-Canadian businessman (1834-1907)
William Martin Murphy
Irish politician and businessman (1844-1919)
William Thomas Mulvany
Irish entrepreneur in Germany
Mary Ann McCracken
Presbyterian Irish social reformer (1770-1866)
John Blake Dillon
British politician (1814–1866)
Arthur Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun
Arthur Edward Guinness, 1st Baron Ardilaun,, styled Sir Arthur Guinness, Bt, between 1868 and 1880, was an Anglo-Irish businessman, politician and philanthropist. He is perhaps best known for giving St Stephen's Green to the Dublin Corporation for public use.
Arthur Guinness II
Arthur Guinness was an Anglo-Irish brewer, banker, politician and flour miller active in Dublin, Ireland. To avoid confusion with his father, also Arthur Guinness (1725–1803), he is often known as "the second Arthur Guinness" or as Arthur Guinness II or Arthur II Guinness.
John Gray
Irish physician, surgeon, newspaper proprietor, journalist and politician (1815-1875)
Aeneas Coffey
Irish inventor
Charles Bianconi
Founder of public transportation in Ireland
Edmund O'Donovan
Irish war correspondent (1844-1883)
Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet
British politician (1844-1907)
Henry Archer
Irish landowner
D. P. Moran
Irish journalist and activist (1869-1936)
Alexander Martin Sullivan
Irish nationalist politician, lawyer and journalist (1830–1884)