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There’s no question that being attached to a celebrity—of the past or of the present—sprinkles a certain stardust on a name, and in this celebrity-driven culture this has become a more and more influential element in baby naming. Some celebrity names are inspiring thousands of namesakes across various cultures—the glamorous Ava, for example, is now seen on popularity lists from Scotland to Scandinavia.

The following lists include inspirational Irish-named celebrities, mostly drawn from the worlds of entertainment and literature:

AIDAN QUINN

AISLING O’SULLIVAN

ARDAL O’HANLON

BONO (b. Paul Hewson)

BRID BRENNAN

BRONAGH GALLAGHER

CATHAL COUGHLAN

CIARÁN HINDS

CILLIAN MURPHY

CLODAGH ROGERS

COLIN FARRELL

COLM MEANEY

CONAN O’BRIEN

COLUM McCANN

CORMAC McCARTHY

DAIRE BREHAN

DARAGH O’MALLEY

DERVLA KIRWAN

DEVON MICHAEL MURRAY

EAMONN CAMPBELL (The Dubliners)

EAVAN AISLING BOLAND

ELVIS (b. Declan) COSTELLO

EMER MARTIN

ENYA (b. Eithne)

EOIN COLFER

FEARGAL LAWLER (The Cranberries)

FEARGAL (b. Sean) SHARKEY

FERDIA MACANNA

FINTAN MCKEOWN

FIONA SHAW

FIONNULA FLANAGAN

GAY (b. Gabriel, nickname Gaybo) BYRNE

LAOISE KELLY

LIAM NEESON

MAEVE BINCHY

MÁIRE NÍ BHRAOÁIN

MALACHI CUSH

MALACHY McCOURT

MILO O’SHEA

NIALL TOIBIN

NIAMH CUSACK

NOLAN RYAN

ORLA FITZGERALD

PADDY CASEY

PÁDRAIC BREATHNACH

PÁDRAIC DELANEY

PHELIM DREW

PIERCE BROSNAN

REDMOND O’HANLON

RODEN NOEL

RÓISÍN MURPHY

ROMA DOWNEY

RORY GALLAGHER

RÚAIDHRI CONROY

SAOIRSE RONAN

SEAMUS HEANEY

SINÉAD O’CONNOR

SIOBHAN MCCARTHY

SLAINE KELLY

SORCHA CUSACK

VAN MORRISON

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