This is a list of notable Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American.

List Actors

Arts

Mathew Brady – photographer Jean Butler – dancer; mother is from County Mayo Kurt Cobain – songwriter and musician, lead singer of Nirvana Jerome Connor – sculptor Auliʻi Cravalho – singer and actress Thomas Crawford – sculptor Colleen Doran – cartoonist, illustrator, writer Michael Flatley – dancerhttp://www.slate.com/id/2127055/fr/rss "The important thing to know about Michael Flatley is that he's Irish-American... His success comes from his ability to join unlikely elements together—Irish and Americans, step dancing and flamenco, pretension and frivolity." William Harnett – painter, Irish immigrant best known for trompe-l'œil renderings of still lifehttp://www.albrightknox.org/ArtStart/sHarnett.html "William Harnett American, born Ireland, 1848(?)-1892" George Peter Alexander Healy – portrait painter Thomas Hovenden – painter Carrie Ann Inaba – dancer, actress; mother of Chinese and Irish descent Gene Kelly – dancer, actor, singer, director, choreographer James E. Kelly – sculptor and illustrator Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt – artist, activist Edward McCartan – sculptor Nancy Jewel McDonie – singer, dancer, member of the South Korean group Momoland; mother is Korean and father is of Irish ancestry Dorothy Miner – art historian and curator Samuel Murray – sculptor Jim Morrison – singer, frontman of the Doors John Neagle – painter William Rudolf O'Donovan – sculptor Georgia O'Keeffe – painterhttp://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/okee-geox.htm "Of Irish and Hungarian ancestry, Georgia O'Keeffe was born on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wis...." Eileen O'Meara – animator, artist; of Irish and Italian ancestry Timothy H. O'Sullivan – photographer Maurice J. Power – sculptor, politician, foundry owner John Ramage – miniaturist George Reynolds – painter, student of Eakins, Civil War Medal of Honor Christopher Ross – sculptor and designer; grandfather is from Dublin Augustus Saint-Gaudens – sculptor; Irish motherhttp://ncartmuseum.org/exhibitions/exhibitions/gaudens/gaudens.shtml "Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848 to an Irish mother and a French father." Louis Saint-Gaudens – sculptor, brother of Augustus Saint-Gaudens John Talbott Donoghue – sculptor

Astronauts

Eileen Collins – commander for STS-93 and STS-114; pilot for STS-63 and STS-84 Michael Collins – Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11, 1969 James Irwin – Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 15 Mark Kelly – commander for STS-124 and STS-134; pilot for STS-121 and STS-108 Scott Kelly – NASA astronaut; he and his brother Mark are the only twins and the only siblings who have both traveled in space Joseph P. Kerwin – Science Pilot for Skylab 2 James A. McDivitt - American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs.

Business Diamond Jim Brady – financier and philanthropist "Born in 1856 into an Irish immigrant family who ran a saloon on the Lower East Side..." George Bryan – judge of Pennsylvania Supreme Court, abolitionist Mortimer J. Buckley - President and CEO of The Vanguard Group Dan and Frank Carney – founder of pizza Hut Ron Conway - American venture capitalist and philanthropist. He has been described as one of Silicon Valley's "super angels". Edward Creighton – Omaha businessman and philanthropist John A. Creighton (1831–1907) – Omaha businessman and philanthropist George Croghan – fur trader Michael J. Cullen – founder of King Kullen, inventor of the supermarket Marcus Daly (1841–1900) – A "Copper King" of Butte, Montana, United States Charles Stark Draper – Anglo-Irish Dawn Fitzpatrick – Global Head of Equities, Multi-Asset and O'Connor at UBS Asset Management John L. Flannery – former CEO of General Electric Henry Ford – founder of Ford Motor Company; Anglo-Irishhttp://www.ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/Henry_Ford "Ford was born on 30 July 1863 in Dearborn, Michigan, the son of Irish immigrants (of English ancestry) who fled the potato famine in the 1840s." Mark Gallogly - American private equity investor who co-founded and served as Managing Principal of the private investment firm Centerbridge Partners until his retirement in 2020 Paul Galvin – inventor of the car radio; founder of Motorola James P. Gorman - chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley Franklin B. Gowen – lawyer, president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, prosecuted the trial against the Molly Maguireshttp://www.spartacus-educational.com/USAgowenF.htm "Franklin Gowen, the fifth son of an Irish immigrant, was born in Philadelphia in 1836..." William Russell Grace (1832–1904) – mayor of New York City and founder of W. R. Grace and Company Herb Kelleher – Southwest Airlines chairmanhttp://www.irishabroad.com/irishworld/irishamericamag/decjan/top100/100.asp "www.irishboard.com" Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. – SEC chairman, former ambassador to the UK and father of President JFK. John Leahy – COO of Airbus; commercial pilot John C. Malone – American billionaire businessman, landowner, and philanthropist Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's Mike McGrath – Chief Justice of Montana Supreme Court Edmund McIlhenny – inventor of hot sauce Shane McMahon – minority owner of WWE Stephanie McMahon – CBO of WWE Vince McMahon – CEO of WWE Robert McNamara - President of Ford Motor Company. Known for using 1950s computer spreadsheets featuring graphs, a new idea Thomas Mellon – founder of Mellon Bank Tom Monaghan – founder of Domino's Pizzahttp://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2000/feb2000p13_21.html "On his father's side there was the Irish connection, his grandfather coming from Tipperary and his paternal grandmother from Cork..." Brian Moynihan - chairman and CEO of Bank of America Pat Powers – businessman and film producer Bill Rancic – entrepreneurhttp://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bill_rancic/index.shtml "grew up in the suburb Orland Park, to a Croatian-Irish family..." Joseph F. Sinnott – owner of Moore and Sinnott, the largest rye whiskey distillery in the United States before Prohibition Louis Sullivan – inventor of the skyscraper Jack Welch – former CEO of General Electric "The Irish-Catholic kid who learned to play golf as a 12-year-old caddy beat a champion..." Mary Callahan Erdoes - CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management, a division of JPMorgan Chase Anne Finucane - Vice chair of Bank of America and chair of the board of Bank of America Europe. Edward F. Crawford (businessman) - American businessman and entrepreneur Cathie Wood - American investor and founder, CEO and CIO of ARK Invest, an investment management firm William S. O'Brien - American businessman who dealt in mining stocks and operated silver mines. Peter McCarthy (industrialist) - Manufacturer, businessman and philanthropist Art Rooney - Founding owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers James E. Casey - Founder of UPS Chuck Feeney - Businessman and philanthropist who made his fortune as a co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers Group, the travel retailer of luxury products based in Hong Kong. He was the founder of the Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest private charitable foundations in the world.

Educators Mary Harris Jones – "Mother Jones", educator and labor organizer Joseph S. Murphy (1933–1998) – president of Queens College, president of Bennington College, and chancellor of the City University of New York Victoria Leigh Soto – educator who was killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting; hid students and died trying to protect them

Film directors, producers and scriptwriters Rafael Casal (1985–) – American writer, actor, producer, and showrunner. He is of Irish, Spanish, and Cuban descent. Roy E. Disney (1930–2009) – senior executive for The Walt Disney Company and son of Roy O. Disney Roy O. Disney (1893–1971) – Walt Disney's brother Walt Disney (1901–1966) "his father, Elias Disney, an Irish-Canadian, and his mother, Flora Call Disney, who was of German-English descent." Thom Fitzgerald – known for independent films like The Hanging Garden; born in New York; his grandparents were immigrants from County Kerry and County Cavan, Ireland John Ford (1894–1973) – director, best known for stylish Westerns and the film classic The Quiet Man Mel Gibson (1956–) – known for both writing and directing the highest grossing rated R film of all time ($370,782,930), The Passion of the Christ Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/05/hitchcock.html "He was the youngest child of an East End family whose father ran a poulterer's and greengrocer's business and whose mother came of Irish stock. The family was Catholic." "In 1955, he became an American citizen." John Huston (1906–1987) Rex Ingram (1892–1950) Leo McCarey (1898–1969)http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/02/mccarey.html "Leo McCarey was the first son of Irish-Catholic Thomas McCarey, a well-known boxing promoter, and French-born Leona [Mistrol] McCarey, for whom he is named." Michael Moore (1954–) John Sayles (1950–) – independent film director and writer, frequently takes a small part in his own and other indie filmshttp://www.talkingpix.co.uk/Interview_John%20Sayles.html "Both of my parents are half Irish" Mack Sennett (1880–1960) Quentin Tarantino (1963–) William Desmond Taylor (1872–1922) Raoul Walsh (1887–1980) William A. Wellman (1896–1975) Shannen Doherty Pat Powers (businessman)

Gangsters and mobsters

Journalists, media

Mike Barnicle Nellie Bly Jimmy Breslin William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925–2008) Howie Carr Ann CoulterSmolenyak, Megan. John Devoy (1842–1928) – editor of the Gaelic American 1903–1928 Phil Donahue Maureen Dowd "...her Irish sensibilities" Roger Ebert Jimmy Fallon Austin E. Ford (1857–1896) – editor of the New York Freeman Patrick Ford (1837–1913) – founded the Irish World in New York Pete Hamill Sean Hannity Greg Kelly Mary McGrory – Washington political reporter and columnist James McMaster (1820–1886) – editor of Freeman's Journal (New York) Chris Matthews John Mitchel (1815–1875) – editor of leading Confederate newspaper Peggy Noonan (1950– ) – author, political analyst and columnist Conan O'Brien Soledad O'Brien – journalist and producer Norah O'Donnell John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) – editor of Boston Pilot Bill O'Reilly John L. O'Sullivan Dennis Roddy Mark Shields (1937–2022) Ed Sullivan Elizabeth Vargas – ABC News anchor Brian Williams – NBC News anchor Ellen DeGeneres – talk show host Ben Bradlee Ben Bradlee, Jr. Tom Kenny Billy West Loretta Lynn Dennis Quaid Randy Quaid Karen Allen Jim Acosta Mike Barnicle Bob Costas Greta Van Susteren Nellie Blyhttp://www.webstationone.com/fecha/cal-may/may5.htm "the daughter of Irish immigrants." Joseph I. Breen Jimmy Breslinhttp://southerncrossreview.org/37/breslin.htm "His book has been criticized for its intemperate remarks about the Irish and their American great-grandchildren, but if Jimmy Breslin is not qualified to make those judgments... who is?" Howie Carr – author, Boston newspaper columnist and New England radio talk-show host; has claimed family "two-boater" Irish ancestry (i.e., Ireland-to-Canada, then Canada-to-Maine) on his father's side Neil Cavutohttp://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/neilcavuto/2004/01/17/10459.html "Look, I'm half-Italian and half-Irish..." Carson Daly Phil Donahuehttp://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2002/07/18/donahue/index.html "When he and Buchanan squared off on camera to debate the recent Pledge of Allegiance court ruling, they were just another pair of wealthy, middle-aged, white Irish Catholic men pontificating."