This is a list of Americans of Irish descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American-born descendants. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American. List Actors Arts Jean Butler – dancer; mother is from County Mayo Kurt Cobain – songwriter and musician, lead singer of Nirvana Auliʻi Cravalho – singer and actress Colleen Doran – cartoonist, illustrator, writer Michael Flatley – dancer, musician, businessman, William Harnett – painter, Irish immigrant best known for trompe-l'œil renderings of still life Carrie Ann Inaba – dancer, actress; mother of Chinese and Irish descent Gene Kelly – dancer, actor, singer, director, choreographer Nancy Jewel McDonie – singer, dancer, member of the South Korean group Momoland; mother is Korean and father is of Irish ancestry Dorothy Miner – art historian and curator Georgia O'Keeffe – painter; of Irish and Hungarian ancestry Eileen O'Meara – animator, artist; of Irish and Italian ancestry Augustus Saint-Gaudens – sculptor; Irish mother Astronauts Neil Armstrong – first man on the moon Eileen Collins – commander for STS-93 and STS-114; pilot for STS-63 and STS-84 Michael Collins – Command Module Pilot for Apollo 11, 1969 James Irwin – Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 15 Mark Kelly – commander for STS-124 and STS-134; pilot for STS-121 and STS-108 Scott Kelly – NASA astronaut; he and his brother Mark are the only twins and the only siblings who have both traveled in space Business Diamond Jim Brady – financier and philanthropist Edward Creighton – Omaha businessman and philanthropist John A. Creighton (1831–1907) – Omaha businessman and philanthropist Marcus Daly (1841–1900) – A "Copper King" of Butte, Montana, United States Henry Ford – founder of Ford Motor Company; Anglo-Irish Paul Galvin – inventor of the car radio; founder of Motorola Franklin B. Gowen – lawyer; president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad; prosecuted the trial against the Molly Maguires William Russell Grace (1832–1904) – mayor of New York City and founder of W. R. Grace and Company Herb Kelleher – Southwest Airlines chairman Joseph P. Kennedy Sr – SEC Chairman, US Ambassador to the UK, bootlegger John Leahy – COO of Airbus; commercial pilot Richard and Maurice McDonald – founders of McDonald's Tom Monaghan – founder of Domino's Pizza Bill Rancic – entrepreneur Vinny Smith – software executive, billionaire, and philanthropist Jack Welch – former CEO