- Coolmore Stud
Coolmore Stud, established in 1975, is the world's largest breeding operation of thoroughbred racehorses, based in Fethard, County Tipperary in the Republic of Ireland. It was originally a relatively small farm dedicated to general agriculture, but came into the Vigors family in 1945 when a training operation was established there. It was inherited by Tim Vigors, famous fighter pilot in the Battle of Britain and in the Far East.
- Aidan O'Brien
Aidan P. O'Brien (born October 16, 1969 in County Wexford, Ireland), is an Irish horse racing trainer. He is the private trainer for John Magnier and his associates at Coolmore Stud and heads up the training operation at Ballydoyle Stables in County Tipperary. Despite his relatively young age (early 30s), Aidan O'Brien has already rewritten the trainers' record books.
- John Ryan
John Ryan (1839 - 29 December, 1863) was born in Barnsleigh, County Tipperary and was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
- John Magnier
John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside of the horsebreeding industry. He has been a senator in the Irish Parliament, Seanad Éireann. He is based at Coolmore Stud at Fethard in County Tipperary which is now regarded as the World's pre-eminent stallion station and nursery of thoroughbreds.
- William Smith O'Brien
William Smith O'Brien was an Irish Nationalist and Member of Parliament (MP) and leader of the Young Ireland movement. He claimed to be able to trace his ancestry back to the eleventh century Ard Rí (High King of Ireland), Brian Boru. Born in Dromoland, Co. Clare, he was the second son of Sir Edward O' Brien, fourth baronet of Dromoland Castle. William took the additional surname "Smith", his mother's maiden name, upon inheriting property through her.
- John Doyle
John Doyle (born 1957) is one of the two television critics (along with Andrew Ryan) with Canada's "The Globe and Mail" newspaper. Doyle also covers major football events for the paper. He was born in Nenagh, County Tipperary in Ireland. As a teenager he moved to Dublin before immigrating to Canada in the 1980s. A writer he has written a number of books about his early life in deeply conservative rural Ireland.
- John Doyle
John Doyle (born February, 1930) is a former Irish sportsperson who played hurling with Tipperary from 1949 until 1967. He has gained iconic status in the sport and is regarded as one of the greatest players of all-time. An Irish postage stamp was issued in his honour in 2000.
- John Neill
The Most Reverend John Robert Winder Neill (born December 17 1945) is Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Glendalough, Primate of Ireland, and Metropolitan. The fourth generation of his family to become a clergyman, John Neill was educated at Avoca School, Blackrock, County Dublin, Sandford Park School, Ranelagh, Dublin, University of Dublin, Jesus College and Ridley Hall, Cambridge, England. He became a deacon in 1969; a priest in 1970 and a bishop in 1986.
- Patrick Ryan
Patrick James "Paddy" Ryan (January 4, 1883 - February 13, 1964) was an Irish-American athlete who competed mainly in the throws. Ryan grw up in County Tipperary, Ireland and emigrated to the U.S. He competed for the United States in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium in the hammer throw where he won the gold medal. He also competed in the 56 lb weight throw where he won the silver medal, the only time this event was held at Olympic level.
- Dan Breen
Daniel Breen was an Irish republican fighter and a Fianna Fáil politician. Dan Breen was born into a farming family in Grange, Donohill, County Tipperary. He was educated locally before becoming a plasterer, and later a linesman on the Great Southern Railway. Breen joined the Irish Volunteers in 1914. On January 21, 1919, the day the First Dáil met in Dublin, Breen took part in an ambush at Soloheadbeg.
- Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy (Cahir, County Tipperary 1831-09-05 - Darlington 1893-04-04) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Murphy was born to John Murphy and Hanora Sheehan, and had at least one sibling, a younger sister named Mary. Little is known about his early life until 1854, when he married Mary Anne Walsh in Cahir.
- John Carroll
John Carroll (born 16 January, 1978) is an Irish sportsman. He plays hurling with his local club Roscrea and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team. He usually plays in the half-forward line.
- Michael Smith
Michael Smith is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for Tipperary North on several occasions since 1969. He has previously served in Seanad Éireann (1982-1987), as Minister for Energy (1988-1989), Minister for the Environment (1992-1994), Minister for Education (1994) and Minister for Defence (1997-2004). Michael Smith was born in Roscrea, County Tipperary in 1940. He was educated at CBS Templemore in County Tipperary.
- Thomas Macdonagh
Thomas MacDonagh (1 February, 1878 - 3 May, 1916) was an Irish nationalist, poet, playwright, and a leader of the 1916 Easter Rising. MacDonagh was born in Cloughjordan, County Tipperary. Throughout his life he had a keen interest in Irish heritage and the Irish language. He moved to Dublin where he joined the Gaelic League, soon establishing strong friendships with such men as Eoin MacNeill and Patrick Pearse.
- Charles Bianconi
Charles Bianconi (born Carlo Bianconi), a native of Costa Masnaga (Italy), was born on September 24 1786. He moved to Ireland in 1802, and is famous for his innovations while living there. He was twice mayor of Clonmel, in County Tipperary. He was the founder of public transportation in Ireland, at a time preceding railways. He established regular horse-drawn carriage services on various routes from about 1815 onwards. These were known as 'Bianconi coaches'.
- Eoin Kelly
Eoin Kelly (born 6 January, 1982) is an Irish sportsman. He plays hurling with his local club Mullinahone and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team. Kelly usually plays in the right corner-forward position and is regarded as one of the best players in the current game.
- John Dillon
John Dillon was an nationalist politician in Ireland. The son of John Blake Dillon (1816-1866), a former "Young Irelander", he was educated at Catholic University School, Trinity College, Dublin and at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium, and afterwards studied medicine. Dillon entered the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1880 as a member for County Tipperary, and was at first an ardent supporter of Charles Stewart Parnell.
- John Quinn
John Quinn of New York, born in County Tipperary, Ireland, was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1889 to 1891.
- Mary Hanafin
Mary Hanafin is an Irish politician. She was last re-elected in May 24 2007, as a Fianna Fáil TD for Dún Laoghaire after which she was renominated (May 2007) Minister for Education & Science.
- Michael Lowry
Michael Lowry is an Irish politician. Michael Lowry was born in County Tipperary. He was educated in Thurles CBS and was elected to Tipperary North Riding County Council in 1979. In 1987 he was first elected to Dáil Éireann as a TD for Fine Gael.
- Babs Keating
Michael "Babs" Keating (born 17 April, 1944) is a famous Irish sportsperson who played hurling for Tipperary in the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently the manager of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Team. Michael Keating was born in Ardfinnan, County Tipperary in 1944. The youngest of the family he received the nickname "Babs" when he went to school where he was the youngest of the three Michael Keatings in the school, …
- Geoffrey Keating
Seathrún Céitinn, known in English as Geoffrey Keating, was a 17th century Irish clergyman, poet and historian. He was born in Burgess, Ballylooby, just outside Cahir in County Tipperary in ca. 1569, and died ca. 1644. He is buried in Tubrid Graveyard in the parish of Ballylooby-Duhill. In November 1603, he was one of forty students who sailed for Bordeaux under the charge of the Rev.
- Áine Minogue
Áine Minogue is a harpist born in Borrisokane, County Tipperary, Ireland, now living in New England in the U.S.A. She began playing the harp at age twelve.
- Charles Kickham
Charles Joseph Kickham was an Irish patriot, novelist and poet. Kickham was born and educated at Mullinahone, County Tipperary. At thirteen he was involved in a gunpowder accident which permanently injured his sight and hearing. Soon after he founded the Mullinahone Young Ireland Confederate Club.
- Frank Patterson
Frank Patterson (October 51938 - June 102000) was a world-famous Irish tenor. He was known as "Ireland's Golden Tenor." His albums include the following: Ireland in Song; Ireland's Best Loved Ballads; I Can Almost See Ireland From Here; God Bless America: An Irish Salute; and, Sings Sacred Songs of Ireland. He sang hymns, ballads, and traditional songs, as well as a few popular songs such as My Heart Will Go On (Titanic), and The Wind Beneath My Wings.
- Shane Long
Shane Patrick Long (born 22 January 1987) is a professional footballer with Reading. Before concentrating on football, Long was an Under-18 hurler with Tipperary.
- Brendan Cummins
Brendan Cummins (born 11 May, 1975) is an Irish sportsperson. He plays hurling with his local club Ballybacon-Grange and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team. He is the current goalkeeper on both teams and is widely regarded as one of the best in the current game
- Charlie Swan
Charlie Swan (born January 20 1968) was a former top National Hunt jockey in Ireland in the 1990s. He will always be associated with the great Istabraq, on whom he won 3 Champion Hurdles. He was twice top jockey at the Cheltenham Festival and was champion National Hunt jockey in Ireland for 10 consecutive years. He is now a trainer, based in his home village of Cloughjordan, Co. Tipperary. First and only son to Donald Swan, a former British Army Captain, …
- Martin Mansergh
Martin Mansergh is an Irish politician and historian. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for Tipperary South. He was previously a senator from 2002 to 2007. He has played a leading role in formulating Fianna Fáil policy on Northern Ireland. Unusually among current prominent Irish nationalists, Mansergh is an Anglican born and raised in England. Mansergh was born in 1946, the son of the County Tipperary-born historian Nicholas Mansergh.
- Seán Kelly
Seán Kelly is a former professional road bicycle racer. Kelly was one of the most successful road cyclists of the 1980s, and one of the finest Classics riders of all time. His victories include a Grand Tour win, nine Monument victories and a record seven successive wins in the Paris-Nice stage race.
- Fergus O'Dowd
Fergus O'Dowd is an Irish Fine Gael politician. He is currently a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth and Fine Gael Spokesperson for the Environment, Heritage & Local Government. Fergus O'Dowd was born in Thurles, County Tipperary. He was educated by the Christian Brothers in Drogheda, County Louth. He currently resides in the town. He served three terms as Mayor of Drogheda 1977-1978, 1981-1982 and 1994-1995. He served on Louth County Council between 1979 and 2003.
- Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly (born 14 December, 1979) is an Irish sportsman. He plays hurling with his local club Mullinahone and with the Tipperary senior inter-county team. He usually plays in the midfield position.
- Nicky English
Nicholas 'Nicky' English is a former Irish sportsperson. He played senior hurling for Tipperary from 1982 until 1996. He is regarded as one of Tipperary’s greatest-ever players.
- Lar Corbett
(Laurence) Lar Corbett (born 16 March, 1981) is an Irish sportsman. He plays in the full-forward position on the Tipperary senior hurling team.
- Gemma Hayes
Gemma Hayes is a singer-songwriter born on August 11 1977 in Ballyporeen, Tipperary, Ireland.
- Tom Clancy
Tom Clancy (October 29, 1924 - November 7, 1990) was a member of the Irish folk singing group The Clancy Brothers. Some may say he had the most powerful voice of the three brothers, a voice he initially used in his earlier career as an actor, appearing in numerous stage productions, including an appearance with Orson Welles in "King Lear". Much of his earlier life was entwined with that of his older brother Patrick Clancy; both men were born in Carrick-on-Suir, …
- Michael Kinane
Michael Kinane (born June 22, 1959 at Killenaule in County Tipperary, Ireland) is a flat racing jockey. His father, Tommy Kinane was a leading National Hunt jockey who won the Champion Hurdle on Monksfield. A prolific winner of the Irish, English and French Classic races over two decades, Kinane has ridden winners in the 2,000 Guineas three times, the Epsom Derby twice, and, in the United States, the Belmont Stakes once. Kinane also has wins in three Breeders' Cup races.
- Jamie Spencer
Jamie Spencer (born 8 June 1980) is an Irish flat racing jockey who is considered one of the best jockeys currently riding in Britain and Ireland. He has won many of the classic races his first being the 1998 Irish 1000 Guineas when he partnered Tarascon to victory. In 2005 Spencer was British Champion Jockey. Spencer was formerly stable jockey for Aidan O'Brien at Ballydoyle until they parted company in 2005 after a difficult 2004.
- Michael Cusack
Michael Cusack (1847 - 1906) was an Irish teacher and founder of the Gaelic Athletic Association. He was born in the parish of Carron on the eastern fringe of the Burren, County Clare, in 1847 during the famine. Cusack became a teacher. He traveled throughout Ireland teaching in Enniscorthy,St Colman's College, Corofin, Lough Cutra, Newry, Blackrock College, Clongowes Wood and Kilkenny College before eventually settling in Dublin.
- Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill is an Irish poet. Born in Lancashire in 1952, of Irish parents, she moved to Ireland at the age of 5, and was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, County Tipperary. She studied English and Irish at UCC in 1969 and became part of the 'Innti' school of poets. In 1973, she married Turkish geologist Dogan Leflef and lived abroad in Turkey and Holland for seven years. One year after her return to County Kerry in 1980, …