- John Armstrong
John Armstrong (October 13, 1717 - March 9, 1795) was an American civil engineer and soldier who served as a major general in the Revolutionary War. He was a delegate to the Continental Congress for Pennsylvania.
- Kyle Lafferty
Kyle Lafferty (born 16 September 1987 in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland) is a professional footballer who currently plays for Burnley Football Club in the English Football League Championship. The Northern Ireland youngster, who plays as a striker, started his career with Fermanagh side NFC Kesh before signing a YTS contract in 2004 for the Lancashire outfit.
- Mick Hoy
Mick Hoy, singer, fiddler and storyteller, was born in Monea in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He has lived most of his life in Blaney and played mainly in Derrygonnelly. His family are all musical but Mick had a huge repertoire of tunes and songs. His singing style is subtle with beautiful use of glottal stops and variations in phrasing. One of the finest fiddlers of his generation, his powerful style is an interesting blend of Northern and Southern elements.
- Eddie Duffy
Eddie Duffy, was a traditional Irish musician. He was renowned for his slow airs on the flute, which he accomplishes by playing in exactly the same style as he sings, with memorable effect. Many of his songs and tunes come from his mother who played the accordion. In his youth he hired at Derrygonnelly Fair with a farmer who played the flute so that he could learn the instrument. Played in the 1930s and 1940s with local Céilí bands, the Sillees and the Knockmore.
- Roy Carroll
Roy Eric Carroll (born September 30 1977 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh) is a Northern Irish footballer currently playing for Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.
- Harry West
Harry William West (March 27 1917 - February 5 2004) was a politician in Northern Ireland who served as leader of the Ulster Unionist Party from 1974 until 1979. West was born in County Fermanagh and educated at Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. He worked as a farmer, taking an interest in local government, but it was not until 1954 that he entered Stormont as member for the Enniskillen seat, succeeding Thomas Charles Nelson.
- Tom Elliott
Tom Elliott MLA (born 11 December 1963) is a Northern Ireland Ulster Unionist MLA
- Adrian Dunbar
Adrian Dunbar (born 1 August, 1958), is a Northern Irish actor best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, "Hear My Song", nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards. Dunbar was born and brought up in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, the eldest of seven siblings. He was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers before attending the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
- Arlene Foster
Cllr Arlene Isabel Foster (née Kelly is a Northern Irish unionist politician. She is one of two Democratic Unionist Party MLAs representing the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly alongside Maurice Morrow. In addition, she is a member of the Northern Ireland Policing Board and a councillor on Fermanagh District Council representing Enniskillen. A solicitor by profession, she currently practices in Portadown, …
- Bobby Kerr
Robert "Bobby" Kerr (June 9, 1882 - May 12, 1963) was an Irish-Canadian sprinter. He won the gold medal in the 200 metres and the bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics.
- Denis Parsons Burkitt
Denis Parsons Burkitt, surgeon, was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Ireland. He was the son of James Parsons Burkitt. Aged eleven he lost his right eye in an accident. He attended Portora Royal School in Enniskillen and schools in England and Wales. In 1929 Burkitt entered Trinity College, Dublin, to study engineering but believing his evangelical calling was to be a doctor he transferred to medicine.
- Basil Brooke 1st Viscount Brookeborough
Basil Stanlake Brooke, 1st Viscount Brookeborough, Bt, KG, CBE, MC, PC (June 9 1888 - August 18 1973) was a British Ulster Unionist politician. He held several ministerial positions in the Government of Northern Ireland. He became the third Prime Minister of Northern Ireland in 1943 and held office until 1963. Basil Stanlake Brooke was born on June 9 1888 in Colebrooke, Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, the eldest son of Sir Arthur Douglas Brooke, 4th Baronet, …
- Sean McAloon
Sean McAloon ([923-1998) was a piper and pipe maker from Ireland. Originally from the Rosslea area of County Fermanagh, McAloon's first instrument was the fiddle. However, he is best known as a master of the Uilleann pipes. He emigrated to the United States in 1964, but after a year he returned to Ireland. He spent eight months working as a builder's laborer in Dublin, but moved to Belfast in 1966 to be closer to his family.
- James Gunn
James Gunn (March 6, 1843 - November 5, 1911) was a U. S. Congressman from the state of Idaho. Gunn was born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, and emigrated to America with his parents. The family settled in Wisconsin where he attended the common schools. James later attended the Notre Dame Academy in Indiana and taught school briefly before the Civil War. In 1862, Gunn enlisted in the 27th Wisconsin Infantry, and served with them for the remainder of the war.
- Sinéad Quinn
Sinéad Quinn was a contestant in the first series of the UK BBC TV series "Fame Academy" in 2002. She later went on to sign a record deal, release an album, and have a #2 UK single. She currently lives in London with partner Paul Stewart, drummer with The Feeling.
- Frank McManus
Frank McManus (born 16 August 1942) is an Irish nationalist activist and former Member of the British House of Commons. Born in Lisnaskea, he received his secondary education at St. Michael's College, Enniskillen; he later attended Queen's University, Belfast before becoming a solicitor. In the late 1960s, he became the chair of the Fermanagh Civil Rights Association. McManus was elected in the 1970 general election, as the Unity candidate for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, …
- William Gamble
William Gamble (January 1, 1818 - December 20, 1866) was a civil engineer and a Union cavalry officer in the American Civil War.
- Max Adrian
Max Adrian (1 November 1903-19 January 1973) was a British stage, film and television actor. He was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born simply Max Bor, and is sometimes credited as Max Cavendish. He was educated at the Portora Royal School, Enniskillen, whose past pupils also included Oscar Wilde and Samuel Beckett. Firstly a stage actor, he began his career as a chorus boy at a silent moving-picture house, …
- Frank Ormsby
Frank Ormsby (born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland in 1947) is an Northern Irish poet. He was educated at St Michael's College, Enniskillen and Queen's University Belfast. He was editor of The Honest Ulsterman from 1969 to 1989, and has also edited the Poetry Ireland Review. Since 1976 he has been Head of English at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. In 1992 he received the Cultural Traditions Award, given in memory of John Hewitt, …
- George Edward Nurse
George Edward Nurse (April 14, 1873 -November 25, 1945) was born in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was educated in the Channel Islands where both his parents had been born. He 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.
- William Irvine
William Irvine (November 3, 1741 - July 29, 1804) was an Irish-American physician, soldier, and statesman from Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He served as a brigadier general in the Continental Army and represented Pennsylvania in both the Continental Congress (1787-88) and the United States House of Representatives (1793-1795). Irvine was born near Enniskillen, County Fermanagh in Ireland. He lies buried at Gloria Dei Church cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Andrew Graham
Andrew Graham, born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, was an Irish astronomer/computer. He discovered the asteroid 9 Metis in 1848 whilst employed at Markree Observatory in County Sligo, Ireland. He later worked on the Markree Catalogue, which consists of observations of about 60,000 stars along the ecliptic taken between August 8 1848 and 27 March 1856 and was published in four Volumes over the years 1851, 1853, 1854, 1856 respectively.
- Seán Quinn
Dr.Seán Quinn is an Irish billionaire entrepreneur from Derrylin, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. He was born 5 December 1947, the son of a small farmer, and left school at 14 years of age. The Sunday Times Rich List 2007 estimates his personal worth (at the start of January 2007) to be €4.621 billion or £3.05 billion, thereby making him the richest man in Ireland. He is ranked second only to Hilary Weston (who qualifies through marriage to Galen Weston, …
- Ciarán McMenamin
Ciarán McMenamin is a Northern Ireland-born actor, who has appeared on various BBC and ITV programmes, including as Cedric Crackenthorpe in "What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw", an episode of "Marple" (starring Geraldine McEwan), and in the Channel 4 comedy series "The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star". He also co-starred in the 2005 ITV series "The Golden Hour" as a paramedic. He co-starred in the 2001 movie "To End All Wars".
- Ivan Foster
Ivan Foster is a senior minister in the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and a former Democratic Unionist Party politician. He is a lifelong friend and associate of the Democratic Unionist politician and Free Presbyterian Church leader Ian Paisley.
- W. M. Gorman
William "Terence" Moore Gorman (17 June 1923 - 12 January 2003) was an Irish economist and academic. He was predominantly a theorist and is most famous for his work on aggregation and separability of goods, and in this context he developed his famous Gorman polar form. Gorman's career saw him a professor at such schools as Oxford, London School of Economics, Johns Hopkins, and Stanford, and he was honored with the Presidency of the Econometric Society in 1972.
- Barry Owens
Barry Owens is an inter-county Gaelic football player for Fermanagh and Teemore.
- Peter McGinnity
Peter McGinnity, is a former Gaelic footballer and manager who hails from from Roslea in County Fermanagh. He played for Fermanagh for the best part of twenty years. Peter first played for Ulster in 1973 and played right through until ’87, missing only two Railway Cup campaigns in that time. Of the 13 campaigns he took part in, he won four Railway Cup medals (1979, ’80, ’83 and ’84), captaining Ulster to glory in 1980 and ’83.
- Heber MacMahon
The Most Reverend Heber MacMahon was born on 1600 on the island of Inniskeen in County Monaghan. He went to the Irish College at Douai in 1617 and later to Leuven. He received his education at the Franciscan Monastery in Kiltybegs, the in Louvain. He was ordained a priest in 1625 and appointed to the Bishop of Down and Connor in 1641. He played a prominent part in the Irish Catholic Federation in Kilkenny. He was appointed Bishop of Clogher in 1643.
- Charles Lawson
Charles Devenish (Charlie) Lawson (born September 17, 1959 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) is a television actor. Lawson was educated at Campbell College in Belfast, where he developed a love of acting. He then went to Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Lawson is probably most well known for the role of Jim McDonald (who was from Belfast) in "Coronation Street". He appeared in the 1988 film The Firm.
- Arthur Dixon
Arthur Dixon (1837-1917) of Chicago, born in Fermanagh, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), was an alderman in the Chicago city council from 1867 to 1875 and from 1879 to 1891.
- Edward Daly
Edward Daly (b. December 5 1933, Belleek, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) was the Catholic bishop of Derry from 1974 to 1993. He was a boarder at St. Columb's College in Derry. He studied for the priesthood in the Irish College in Rome. Before taking on the role of bishop he was a curate in the parish of St. Eugene's Cathedral, which incorporated the Bogside area of the city, where he experienced the Troubles in Northern Ireland face-on.
- James Beatty
James Beatty (1820 - 11 March 1856) was a railway engineer. The son of a doctor from Enniskillen, Beatty was first employed in 1842 at the age of 22 by Peto and Betts on building the Norwich and Lowestoft line. In 1853 he was in Nova Scotia surveying the European and North American Railway and despite adverse weather conditions, the line was staked out in good time. Towards the end of 1854 he was appointed by Peto, …
- William Magee
William Magee (1766 - 18 August 1831), Anglican Archbishop of Dublin, was born at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he was elected fellow in 1788. He was ordained in 1790. Two sermons, preached in the college chapel in 1798 and 1799, form the basis of his "Discourses on the Scriptural Doctrines of Atonement and Sacrifice" (1801), a polemic against Unitarian theology, which was answered by Lant Carpenter.
- David Robinson
David Robinson (born December 31, 1973) is a British photographer and publisher.
- Gary Beckett
Gary Beckett (born on July 24, 1973 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland) is an Irish footballer who currently plays with League of Ireland club Derry City.
- Michael McGovern
Michael McGovern (born 12 July, 1984 in Enniskillen) is a Northern Ireland U-21 international goalkeeper, currently playing for Celtic. He made his first-team debut for Celtic as a substitute in Henrik Larsson's farewell testimonial match. McGovern began his career at his local club, Enniskillen Town United, where he came up through the youth ranks to eventually become first-choice keeper for the first team at a young age.
- Stephen Moutray
Alderman Stephen Moutray MLA (born 25 February 1959) is a Unionist politician from Northern Ireland. He was educated at Lurgan Junior High School and Lurgan College. Moutray was elected to Craigavon Borough Council in 2001. He is member of all the major committees and is vice-chairman of Environmental Health Committee. He was elected as MLA for Upper Bann in 2003 for the Democratic Unionist Party and returned in 2007.
- Michael Barrett
Michael Barrett (died 26 May 1868) was a County Fermanagh-born member of the Fenians. He came originally from the townland of Drumnagreshial in the Ederney area of County Fermanagh. He was the last man to be publicly hanged in Great Britain for his part in the Clerkenwell bombing. The bombing killed a dozen bystanders. Many people were severely injured in the blast. Newspaper reports recounted the grievous injuries of those mutilated for weeks afterwards.
- Terence MacManus
Terence Bellew MacManus (born at Tempo, County Fermanagh, Ireland circa 1811; died in San Francisco, California on January 15, 1861) was a radical Irish rebel.