List of Famous people born in County Meath, Ireland

Angela Scanlon

First Name Angela
Last Name Scanlon
Born on December 29, 1983 (age 40)
Height 168 cm | 5'6

Angela Marie Scanlon is an Irish television presenter and broadcaster for RTÉ and the BBC. She initially broadcast on Irish television, presenting a number of programmes on RTÉ including the documentary Oi Ginger! in 2014.

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Dylan Moran

Dylan William Moran
First Name Dylan
Last Name Moran
Born on November 3, 1971 (age 52)
Height 182 cm | 6'0

Dylan William Moran is an Irish comedian, writer, actor, artist and poet. He is best known for his observational comedy, the comedy series Black Books, and his work with Simon Pegg in films such as Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. He was also one of two lead characters in the Irish black comedy film A Film with Me in It.

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Keane Barry

First Name Keane
Last Name Barry
Born on June 25, 2002 (age 21)

Keane Neill Barry is an Irish professional darts player who plays in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) and Youth Development Tour events. He also plays in British Darts Organisation (BDO) Youth Tour events, and is the current World Masters Youth Champion and BDO World Youth Champion.

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Helen McEntee

First Name Helen
Last Name McEntee
Born on June 8, 1986 (age 37)

Helen McEntee is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Justice since June 2020. She has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath East constituency since 2013. She previously served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 2017 to 2020 and Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People from 2016 to 2017.

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Seán Boylan

First Name Seán
Last Name Boylan
Born on December 12, 1949 (age 74)

Seán Boylan is an Irish former Gaelic football manager from Dunboyne, County Meath. He retired from his position as manager of the senior Meath county team on the evening of 31 August 2005 after twenty-three years in charge. During his time with Meath, he managed the team to four All-Ireland Senior Football Championships, three National Football League titles, and eight Leinster Senior Football Championships.

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Columbanus

Died on November 23, 0615
Born in Ireland

Columbanus was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.

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Francis Beaufort

First Name Francis
Last Name Beaufort
Born on May 27, 1774
Died on December 17, 1857 (aged 83)

Sir Francis Beaufort was an Irish hydrographer, rear admiral of the Royal Navy, and creator of the Beaufort cipher and the Beaufort scale.

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Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham

First Name Frederick
Last Name Conyngham
Born on March 13, 1924
Died on March 3, 2009 (aged 84)

Frederick William Henry Francis Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, known among friends and family as "Mount", was an Irish nobleman, landowner and soldier, who was styled Earl of Mount Charles until 1974.

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John Fowler

First Name John
Last Name Fowler
Born on July 29, 1864
Died on September 20, 1939 (aged 75)

Lieutenant General Sir John Sharman Fowler, was a British Army engineer officer who specialised on telegraph on signals, and who was later Commander of British Forces in China.

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Nicholas Plunkett

First Name Nicholas
Last Name Plunkett
Born on January 1, 1602
Died on January 1, 1680 (aged 78)

Sir Nicholas Plunkett (1602–1680) was an Anglo-Irish lawyer and politician. The son of Christopher Plunkett, 9th Baron Killeen and Jane Dillon, daughter of Sir Lucas Dillon, his brother Luke was created Earl of Fingall in 1628. At the age of twenty Plunkett traveled to London to receive training as a lawyer at Gray's Inn in London, and later trained at King's Inn in Dublin. By the 1630s he had established a thriving legal practice: the attempts by Thomas Wentworth, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to confiscate as much Irish land as possible to the Crown, ensured that his services were in high demand. At this time he also became an MP in the Irish House of Commons, sitting for Meath.

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