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American people of Irish descent

  • F. Scott FitzgeraldFrancis Scott Key Fitzgerald arrived in the world on the 24th of September 1896. He was born into a middle-class Catholic family in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
  • Ronald ReaganRonald Wilson Reagan was born on the 6th of February 1911, in an apartment located in Tampico, Illinois. His mother Nelle Clyde Wilson led prayer meetings at…
  • Barack ObamaBarack Obama was born on the 4th of August 1961, at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii.
  • Rupert MurdochKeith Rupert Murdoch arrived in the world on the 11th of March 1931 within the city of Melbourne, Victoria. He was the second child born to Sir Keith Arthur…
  • Henry JamesHenry James was born at 21 Washington Place in Manhattan on the 15th of April 1843. His father Henry James Sr. inherited a fortune from his own father…
  • Jim LovellJames Arthur Lovell Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on the 25th of March 1928. His father James Lovell Sr., a furnace salesman from Toronto, Canada, died in…
  • Meryl StreepMary Louise Streep was born on the 22nd of June 1949 in Summit, New Jersey. Her mother Mary Wilkinson Streep worked as an artist while her father Harry…
  • John SteinbeckJohn Steinbeck was born on the 27th of February 1902 in Salinas, California. He grew up in a small rural valley set about 25 miles from the Pacific Coast.
  • Marlon BrandoMarlon Brando Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of April 1924 in Omaha Nebraska as the only son of Marlon Brando Sr and Dorothy Pennebaker.
  • James McDivittJames Alton McDivitt Jr. was born on the 10th of June 1929, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where he earned the rank of Tenderfoot…
  • Harrison FordHarrison Ford was born on the 13th of July 1942 at the Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago. His father worked as an advertising executive and his mother had…
  • Joan CrawfordLucille Fay LeSueur was born in San Antonio, Texas, on the 23rd of March 1904. Her father Thomas E. LeSueur abandoned the family when she was only ten months…
  • Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
  • Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler arrived in Chicago on the 23rd of July 1888. His mother Florence Dart was originally from Ireland, and his father Maurice Benjamin…
  • Gwyneth PaltrowGwyneth Kate Paltrow entered the world on the 27th of September 1972 in Los Angeles. Her father Bruce Paltrow worked as a film producer and director while…
  • Jack NicholsonJohn Joseph Nicholson entered the world on the 22nd of April 1937 in Neptune City, New Jersey. His mother June Frances Nicholson was a showgirl who performed…
  • Judy GarlandFrances Ethel Gumm stood on the stage of her father's movie theater in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, at the age of two. She sang a chorus of Jingle Bells…
  • Roger EbertRoger Joseph Ebert was born on the 18th of June 1942 in Urbana, Illinois. He grew up as the only child of Annabel and Walter Harry Ebert.
  • Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
  • John WayneMarion Robert Morrison entered the world on the 26th of May 1907 at 224 South Second Street in Winterset, Iowa. The local newspaper reported his birth weight…
  • Larry BirdLarry Joe Bird was born on the 7th of December 1956 in West Baden Springs, Indiana. His father worked as a veteran of World War II and the Korean War before…
  • Jim MorrisonJames Douglas Morrison was born on the 8th of December 1943, in Melbourne, Florida. His father served as a lieutenant commander in the United States Navy and…
  • Michael DouglasMichael Kirk Douglas entered the world on the 25th of September 1944 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was the first child of actors Kirk Douglas and Diana…
  • Bing CrosbyHarry Lillis Crosby Jr. entered the world on the 3rd of May 1903, in Tacoma, Washington. He grew up at a house his father built at 1112 North J Street before…
  • Lucille BallLucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, the 6th of August 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York. Her father Henry Durrell Ball worked as a…
  • Tom BradyThomas Edward Patrick Brady Jr. was born on the 3rd of August 1977, in San Mateo, California. He grew up as a fan of the San Francisco 49ers and attended…
  • Eugene O'NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill was born on the 16th of October 1888, inside the Barrett House hotel located at Longacre Square in New York City.
  • Muhammad AliOn the 17th of January 1942, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Odessa Grady Clay and Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.
  • Mariah CareyMariah Carey was born on the 27th of March 1969, in Huntington, New York. Her name came from the song They Call the Wind Maria, which appeared in the 1951…
  • Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson was born in a two-room shack in Raleigh, North Carolina, on the 29th of December 1808. His parents Jacob and Mary were illiterate tavern…
  • Brian WilsonBrian Douglas Wilson was born on the 20th of June 1942, at Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, California. His father Murry Wilson worked as a…
  • John Francis HylanJohn Francis Hylan was born on the 20th of April 1868 in Hunter, New York. His family owned a 60-acre farm in the undeveloped mountains of the Catskills.
  • Neil ArmstrongNeil Alden Armstrong was born on the 5th of August 1930 in rural Washington Township, Auglaize County, Ohio. His father worked as an auditor for the state…
  • Alex JonesAlexander Emerick Jones was born on the 11th of February 1974, in Dallas, Texas. He grew up in Rockwall, a town located twenty-five miles east of the city.
  • Bradley CooperBradley Charles Cooper was born on the 5th of January 1975, in Abington Township, Pennsylvania. He grew up near Philadelphia in the communities of Jenkintown…
  • Robert Downey Jr.Robert John Downey Jr. was born in Manhattan, New York City, on the 4th of April 1965. His father Robert Downey Sr. worked as a filmmaker while his mother…
  • Walt DisneyWalter Elias Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901 at 1249 Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri…
  • Margaret MitchellMargaret Mitchell was born on the 8th of November 1900 into a wealthy family in Atlanta. Her father Eugene Muse Mitchell worked as an attorney while her…
  • Ron HowardRonald William Howard entered the world on the 1st of March 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father Rance Howard served three years in the United States Air…
  • Joseph CampbellIn 1929, Joseph Campbell moved into a rented shack in Woodstock, New York. The structure lacked running water and relied on scattered wells for its supply.
  • Tony GilroyAnthony Joseph Gilroy entered the world on the 11th of September 1956, inside a Manhattan hospital. His father Frank D. Gilroy worked as an award-winning…
  • John StocktonJohn Houston Stockton was born on the 26th of March 1962 in Spokane, Washington. He grew up as the grandson of Hust Stockton, who played professional…
  • Steve BannonStephen Kevin Bannon was born on the 27th of November 1953 in Norfolk, Virginia. His father worked as an AT&T telephone lineman and a middle manager while…
  • Mathew BradyMathew B. Brady was born between 1822 and 1824 in Warren County, New York, near Lake George. He was the youngest of three children to Irish immigrant parents…
  • George Peter Alexander HealyGeorge Peter Alexander Healy was born on the 15th of July 1813 in Boston, Massachusetts. His father served as an Irish captain in the merchant marine before…
  • Joseph Francis SheaJoseph Francis Shea was born on the 5th of September, 1925, in the Bronx borough of New York City. He grew up as the eldest son in a working-class Irish…
  • James IrwinJames Benson Irwin was born on the 17th of March 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His parents were James William Irwin and Elsa Mathilda Irwin.
  • Timothy LearyTimothy Francis Leary was born on the 22nd of October 1920 in Springfield, Massachusetts. He grew up as an only child in a strict Irish Catholic household.
  • Jimmy WalkerJames John Walker was born on the 19th of June 1881 in New York City. His father William H. Walker owned a lumberyard and served as a Democratic assemblyman…
  • Landon DonovanLandon Timothy Donovan was born on the 4th of March 1982 in Ontario, California. His mother Donna Kenney-Cash worked as a special education teacher while his…