up in Kinsale Finbar Wright (b.1957), tenor; born near Kinsale Gervais Parker (1695–1750), British Army officer; Governor of Kinsale Jack Barrett (1910–1979), All-Ireland winning hurler; born in Kinsale James Dennis, 1st Baron Tracton (1721–1782), Irish judge and politician; born near Kinsale John Duncan Craig (1830–1909), poet and Church of Ireland clergyman; lived in Kinsale John Fergus O'Hea (c. 1838–1922); political cartoonist AKA "Spex"; born in Kinsale John Folliot (1691–1762), British Army officer; Lieutenant-Governor of Kinsale John Handcock (1755–1786), British Army officer; Lieutenant-Governor of Kinsale John Sullivan (1830–1884), recipient of the Victoria Cross John William Fenton (1828–1890), musician; born in Kinsale Joseph Ward (1832–1872), British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross; born in Kinsale Keith Floyd (1943–2009), chef; lived near Kinsale Lennox Robinson (1886–1958), poet and dramatist; lived in Kinsale Mother Mary Francis (1813–1888), born as Joanna Bridgeman, nun and nursing pioneer; lived in Kinsale Moira Deady (1922–2010), actress; lived in Kinsale Mortimer McCarthy (1882–1967), sailor and Antarctic explorer on Scott's Terra Nova Expedition; born in Kinsale Paddy Collins (1903–1995), All-Ireland winning hurler; born in Kinsale Padraic Fallon (1905–1974), poet; lived in Kinsale Patrick Cotter O'Brien (1760–1806), first man verified to have reached over 8 feet in height; born in Kinsale Peter McDermott (1918–2011), All-Ireland winning footballer for County Meath; born near Kinsale Ray Cummins (b.1948), All-Ireland winning Hurler; lives in Kinsale Rev. Patrick MacSwiney (1885–1940), priest, scholar, antiquarian, historian and founder of the Kinsale Regional Museum Robert Gibbings (1889–1958), artist and author; lived in Kinsale Ron Holland (b.1947), yacht designer; lives in Kinsale SEARLS (b. 1991), songwriter and West End performer; born in Kinsale Sir Robert Southwell (1635–1702), diplomat, Secretary of State for Ireland and president of the Royal Society; born near Kinsale Thomas Johnson (1872–1963), first leader of the Irish Labour Party in Dáil Éireann; lived in Kinsale Timothy McCarthy (1888–1917), sailor and explorer on Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition; born in Kinsale Timothy O'Keeffe (1926–1994), publisher who worked with Flann O'Brien; born in Kinsale Tony Scannell (1945–2020), actor; born in Kinsale William Penn (1644–1718), founder of the State of Pennsylvania; was Clerk of the Admiralty Court in Kinsale Henry Bathurst (1623-1676), Recorder of Cork, was also Recorder of Kinsale and lived at Castlepark in Kinsale See also List of towns and villages in Ireland List of RNLI stations Market Houses in Ireland Kinsale (Parliament of Ireland constituency) References External links Kinsale Chamber of Tourism & Business –