1. Sir John Benson (1812-1874), architect of international repute.
2. William Bourke Cochran (1854-1923), US orator and statesman; have seen his name appear also has Cockran.
3. Mary Colum (1884-1957), literary critic and author.
4. General Michael Corcoran (1827-1863), US Civil War hero.
5. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926), poetess and pioneer suffragette.
6. Dr. Thomas Henn (1901-74), Fellow of St. Catherine's Cambridge and Yeats scholar.
7. Hugh Hyacinth MacDermot (1834-1904), Victorian Attorney-General for Ireland.
8. Dr. Charles A. MacMunn (1852-1911), physician and scientist.
9. Don Patricio Milmo (1824-1899), Mexican millionaire.
10. Charles O'Conor (1710-1791), scholar and historian.
11. Fergal O'Gara (1599-1650), patron of the Four Masters.
12. Bernard and Michael O'Gara, Archbishops of Tuam in the 18th century.
13. Gaelic poet, Sean O'Gadhra (1650-1720) of Cnoc Teamhair, Co. Sligo, a kinsman of the O'Gara Coolavin family.
14. Kean O'Hara (1712-1782), burlesque writer born in Templehouse, also gifted artist, died in Dublin.
15. Anthony Maria O'Hara (1751-1820), Russian diplomat, grandson of Roderick of Ballyhara, he quickly rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Regiment of Belloserky in the service of the Empress of Russia. He was a Knight of the Order of Malta and of the Imperial Order of St. Vladimir.
16. Ambrose O'Higgins (1720-180l), Governor of Chile and Viceroy of Peru.
17. Tadhg Dall O'Huiginn (1550-1591), bardic poet.
18. Charles Phillips (1786-1859), noted orator, lawyer and writer.
19. Sir George Gabriel Stokes (1819-1903), mathematician and scientist.
20. Count Nicholas Taaffe (1677-1769), Baron of Ballymote and Chamberlain to the Emperor of Austria.
21. Countess Constance Gore-Booth Markiewicz (1868-1927), sister of Eva Gore-Booth above, "rebel and Irish patriot; have seen her name spelled Markievicz.
22. John O'Dowd, from 1900 until 1918 Nationalist Member of Parliament for Sligo and chairman of Sligo Co. Council for a number of years, also noted ballad writer and contributor to the "Sligo Champion" and T.D. Sullivan's "Weekly News." Gills of Dublin published a collection of his poems in 1888, "Lays of South Sligo."
23. The Gore-Booths were a distinguished Anglo-Irish family and Lissadell was built in 1830 and is open to the public during the summer months. In the massive kitchen is the old-fashioned range, the dumb-waiter (a marvelous contraption for sending dishes upstairs), and in an alcove are great hooks to hang smoked bacon and fish. Twenty-four tons of coal were burned each year to heat the fortress-like mansion. The mural portraits of the family members and servants, and the family dog, in the dining room, were the work of Count Markiewicz.
24. Poet William Butler Yeats, a life-long admirer of aristocratic values (and a bit of a snob) loved the big houses of the gentry and visited Lissadell on at least one occasion as a houseguest. It was Yeats grandfather who had been Rector of the church of St. Columba at Drumcliff. The beautiful swan handles on the the porch doors of the church are a gift from the Yeats Society of Western Australia.
25. Yeats immortalized Lissadell, Eva and Constance, "Two girls in silk kimonos, both Beautiful, one a gazelle," in his poem, "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz." Yeats is said to have taken a dim view of what had become of Countess Constance Markiewicz, however, who fought in the Easter Rising and was captured by the British as noted in the lines, "The older is condemned to death, Pardoned, drags out lonely years Conspiring among the ignorant."
26. Sir David Gore-Booth recently resigned as British High Commissioner to India, a post his late father also held.
27. Sir Edward Aloysius McTiernan (1892-1990) Attorney General of New South Wales. His father (Patrick) was born in Heapstown Co. Sligo. Contributed by Eoghan McTiernan.