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Famous Irish Americans
(a very incomplete list)
Nellie Bly (1864-1922) Journalist and adventuress



Matthew Brady (1823-1896) Civil War photographer



William J. Brennan, Jr (1906-1997) U.S. Supreme Court Justice



James Cagney (1904-1986) Oscar-winning actor



Buffalo Bill Cody (1846-1917) Western scout and rodeo showman



George M. Cohan (1872-1942) Composer of musical comedy



Davy Crockett (1786-1836) Frontiersman and congressman



Bing Crosby (1904-1977) Singer and Oscar winning actor (Going My Way)



Richard J. Daley (1902-1976) Mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death



F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) Novelist (The Great Gatsby)



John Ford (1895-1973) Oscar winning film director (The Grapes of Wrath)



Henry Ford (1863-1947) Pioneering automobile manufacturer



Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) Actor (Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners)



Helen Hayes (1900-1993) The "first lady of American theater"



William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) Editor and newspaper publisher



Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) 7th President of the United States



Buster Keaton (1895-1966) Vaudevillian and early film star



Gene Kelly (1912-1996) Dancer/actor (Singin' in the Rain)



Grace Kelly (1928-1982) Oscar winning actress (The Country Girl) - Princess Grace of Monaco.



John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th President of the United States



Sandra Day O'Connor (1930- ) First female Supreme Court justice



Georgia O'Keefe (1887-1986) Painter



Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) First American playwright to win the Nobel Prize for Literature



Gregory Peck (1916- ) Osar winning actor (To Kill a Mockingbird)



Margaret Sanger (1879-1966) Pioneering birth-control advocate.



Ed Sullivan (1902-1974) Entertainer and television producer (Ed Sullivan Show)



John L. Sullivan (1858-1918) World champion boxer


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