Notable O’Dubhdas Landing
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Notable O’Dubhdas
A LIVING DIRECTORY
The O’Dubhda surname has scattered across centuries and oceans, surfacing now as Dowd, O’Dowd, O’Dowda, Doody, Duddy, Dowdy, and more. The directory below gathers cousins who carry one of those spellings and have left a verifiable public record — a Wikipedia article, a Wikidata entity, or an editorial seat in the clan itself.
No subjective judgements: the rankings are computed from public signals (Wikipedia readership, Wikidata sitelinks, social-media reach for living people) and refreshed weekly. The internet decides who is notable; we just gather them under the family name they share.
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Boy George
Culture Club frontman — Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Chris O’Dowd
Actor, comedian, writer (The IT Crowd, Moone Boy, Bridesmaids)
Alison Doody
Alison Doody (born 9 March 1966) is an Irish actress and former model who became one of the most internationally recognised Irish performers of the late 1980s through her early roles in two of the period's biggest film franchises.
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the O'Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
Gia Duddy
TikTok and Instagram lifestyle creator (650K+ TikTok, 320K+ Instagram)
Matt O’Dowd
Matt O'Dowd is an Australian-born astrophysicist who is Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History.
Cathy O’Dowd
Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African mountaineer who, on 29 May 1999, became the first woman in history to summit Mount Everest from both its south side (Nepal, 25 May 1996, with the First South African Everest Expedition) and its no
Ann Dowd
Emmy-winning actress (Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers, Hereditary)
Cathie Wood
Founder and CEO of ARK Invest; thematic-innovation fund manager
Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Nic Dowd
NHL center (Washington Capitals); rare Alabama-born NHLer
Jim Dowd
NHL center, 1995 Stanley Cup champion (New Jersey Devils)
Peter Dowd
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Callum O’Dowda
Callum O'Dowda (born 23 April 1995) is an Irish-English professional footballer who plays as a left winger and left back for Ferencváros in the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I and the Republic of Ireland national team.
Nancy Dowd
Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Home, Slap Shot)
Jeff Dowd
Jeff Dowd (born 1949) is an American film producer, publicist and political activist who is best known to the wider public as the principal real-life inspiration for the character of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the Coen Brothers' *The Bi
Ned Dowd
Ned Dowd (born 1950) is an American actor, line producer and former minor-league professional hockey player whose hockey experiences directly inspired his sister Nancy Dowd's screenplay for the cult sports comedy *Slap Shot* (1977).
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
John O’Dowd
Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann; NI Finance Minister
Phil Dowd
Phil Dowd (born 4 July 1963) is a retired English professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League across fifteen seasons of top-flight refereeing.
John M. Dowd
John M.
Johnny Dowd
Johnny Dowd (born John David Dowd; 29 March 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American alternative country musician based in Ithaca, New York whose songs are notable for their experimental noisy breaks and strong gothic — dark, gloomy, often
Wayne Dowdy
Charles Wayne Dowdy (born 27 July 1943) is an American politician, lawyer and jurist who represented Mississippi's 4th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989.
John Duddy
Boxer-actor; "Derry Destroyer" middleweight, then Hands of Stone (2016)
Thomas Dowd
Thomas Edward Dowd (born 11 September 1970) is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario since 22 October 2020.
Jim Dowd
Jim Dowd (born 5 March 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Lewisham West from 1992 to 2017.
Jade O’Dowda
Jade O'Dowda (born 9 September 1999) is an Irish-English international heptathlete who won the bronze medal in the women's heptathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, representing England.
Margaret Doody
Margaret Anne Doody (born 1939) is a Canadian novelist and literary scholar — Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame, where she helped found the PhD in Literature programme and served as its Director from 2001 to 2007 — bes
Fergus O’Dowd
Fine Gael TD for Louth (2002–2024); ex–Minister of State, NewEra
Niall O’Dowd
Founder of Irish America, Irish Voice, IrishCentral; NI peace process
Patrick Duddy
Patrick Dennis Duddy is an American career diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Venezuela through one of the most dramatic stretches of US-Venezuelan relations under Hugo Chávez.
John Dowd
John Dowd (born 1965) is an American professional motocross and supercross racer from New England — celebrated within the AMA scene as one of the great sand-track specialists, a particular mastery suited to the strength-sapping, deep-sand c
Robert Dowds
Robert Dowds (born 11 May 1953) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2011 to 2016, the term of the Fine Gael–Labour coalition government that managed Ireland's pos
John Dowd
John Robert Arthur Dowd AO KC (born 12 November 1940) is a former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales and a former Attorney-General of New South Wales.
Nick Doody
Nick Doody (born 1972 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British stand-up comedian and comedy writer who came up through the late-1990s circuit and has spent two decades writing for some of the most prominent BBC and Channel Four comedy series
Seamie O’Dowd
Seamie O'Dowd is an Irish folk and traditional musician from County Sligo — a multi-instrumentalist whose principal instrument is guitar but who plays fiddle, harmonica, mandolin and a number of others, and who sings and writes his own mate
Graham Dowd
Graham William Dowd (born 17 December 1963) is a former All Blacks rugby union player who, despite being widely rated the second-best hooker in New Zealand at the height of his career, made just a single Test appearance in his All Blacks ca
Tommy Dowd
Meath GAA captain, 1996 All-Ireland; four All-Stars
Linda Dowds
Linda Dowds is a Canadian-British makeup department head whose long collaboration with the actress Jessica Chastain culminated in the 2022 Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2021), shared with Stepha
Hugh Dowd
Hugh Dowd (born 19 May 1951) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer, an accomplished centre-half who began his career at his hometown Glenavon in Lurgan, County Armagh and went on to captain the Northern Ireland Amateur side.
David O’Dowd
Sir David Joseph O'Dowd (born 20 February 1942) is a retired British senior police officer who served as His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales from 1996 to 2001.
Nancy M. Dowdy
Nancy M.
Rachel Doody
Rachel Doody (born 11 November 1984) is a former New Zealand association footballer who represented the Football Ferns at international level in 2003, appearing in two senior matches without scoring.
Donald O’Dowd
Donald Davy O'Dowd (born 23 January 1927) is an American academic and university administrator.
Colin O’Dowd
Colin Dermot O'Dowd is an Irish physicist and atmospheric scientist whose research on aerosols, air-sea exchange and the role of biogenic and marine aerosol in cloud formation has made him one of the most highly-cited atmospheric researcher
Marion Dowd
Irish cave archaeologist; The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015)
Michael Doody
Michael J.
Jennifer Dowds
Jennifer Dowds (born 1959) is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler who won the bronze medal in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Terrence Doody
Terrence Doody (born 1943) is an American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas, known for his work on the novel — particularly the relationship between voice, narrator and form in twentieth-century Am
David O’Dowda
Songwriter and composer; sync placements in Dark, Ginny & Georgia, Homeland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Queer Eye, The Walking Dead
Max O’Dowd
New Zealand-born Dutch international cricketer (right-handed opening batsman, 3 ICC Men's T20 World Cups)
Sarah Doody
UX & Tech career coach; founder of Career Strategy Lab; 34K+ YouTube subscribers, 20K+ Instagram followers
Tom Dowd
Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British-Irish children's-fiction writer and human-rights activist whose four young-adult novels — three published in her lifetime, one posthumously — won her substantial international re
Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd (19 November 1958 – 7 October 2023) was an American author, ordained minister (United Church of Christ and Universal Life Church) and lecturer who became known as America's "evolutionary evangelist" for his project of integrati
John Dowdy
John Vernard Dowdy (11 February 1912 – 12 April 1995) was an American Democratic politician and lawyer who represented Texas in the US House of Representatives for two decades.
Harry Dowd
Harry Dowd (4 July 1938 – 2015) was an English goalkeeper who played for Manchester City, Stoke City and Oldham Athletic in a long Football League career; he was Manchester City's first-choice goalkeeper for the 1969 FA Cup Final, a 1–0 win
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
Bernard O’Dowd
Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (11 April 1866 – 1 September 1953) was an Australian poet, lawyer, journalist and socialist activist whose career bridged the late-Victorian colonial Victorian and the Federation-era Australian Labor traditions.
John Dowd
John Leo Dowd (3 January 1891 – 31 January 1981) was an American Major League Baseball shortstop who played a brief stint for the New York Highlanders in 1912 — one season at the very end of the franchise's pre-Yankees era — before falling
Brendan O’Dowda
Irish tenor; foremost interpreter and biographer of Percy French
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (7 December 1919 – 8 September 2017) was an American Marxist political economist, economic historian and lifelong civil rights and anti-war activist who taught economics at Cornell University, the University of Calif
Charles F. Dowd
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
Brendan Duddy
Brendan Duddy (10 June 1936 – 12 May 2017) was a Derry businessman who, for two decades, served as the secret back-channel between the British government and the leadership of the Provisional IRA — known to MI6 only as "the Contact" — and w
Bill Dowdy
Bill Dowdy (15 August 1932 – 12 May 2017) was an American jazz drummer and music teacher who, with pianist Gene Harris and bassist Andrew Simpkins, formed The Three Sounds — one of the most commercially successful piano trios of the late-19
Alice Mary Dowd
Alice Mary Dowd (16 December 1855 – 2 July 1943) was an American educator, poet and author whose career, beginning at age seventeen, spanned more than three decades of American teaching across district school, evening school, private school
Tommy Dowd
Tommy Dowd (20 April 1869 – 2 July 1933), nicknamed "Buttermilk Tommy," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and second baseman from Holyoke, Massachusetts who played ten seasons in the majors between 1891 and 1901.
William Dowd
William Richmond Dowd (28 February 1922 – 25 November 2008) was an American harpsichord maker and one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century revival of historical-principles instrument building.
Christopher O’Dowd
Christopher O'Dowd MM (6 September 1920 – 6 October 1943) was an Irish founding member of the British Army's Special Air Service, killed in action in southern Italy during the Second World War.
Robert Dowd
Robert Dowd (1936–1996) was an American Pop-art painter and sculptor whose currency and postage-stamp paintings were among the founding works of the American Pop movement and who in 1962 hung in the Pasadena Art Museum's *New Painting of Co
Clement Dowd
Clement Dowd (27 August 1832 – 15 April 1898) was a North Carolina lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Charlotte from 1869 to 1871, as a US Representative for North Carolina's 6th District from 1881 to 1885, and as Feder
Bernard J. Dowd
Bernard J.
Harry Dowda
Harry Dowda (1922 – 2002) was an American professional football player who played for the Washington Redskins from 1949 to 1953 and the Philadelphia Eagles from 1954 to 1955.
Cecil Dowdy
Cecil Dowdy (1945–2002) was an American college football offensive tackle who was an All-American at the University of Alabama under Bear Bryant.
Pat Doody
Pat Doody (11 November 1938 – 28 February 1990) was a British radio and television broadcaster best known for presenting *Night Ride* on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 — the station's late-night easy-listening programme that ran for many years and
Edward Doody
Edward Doody (15 December 1903 – 1968) was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Armidale, in northern New South Wales, from 1948 until his death in 1968.
Peter Dowds
Peter Dowds (24 August 1871 – 2 September 1895) was a Scottish footballer who played in the inaugural Scottish Football League with Celtic and then in the Football League with Aston Villa and Stoke.
C. William Doody
C.
Samuel Doody
Samuel Doody (28 May 1656 – November 1706) was an early English botanist and apothecary whose work as keeper of the Chelsea Physic Garden and pioneering studies of cryptogams placed him among the foremost natural historians of late-seventee
Peadar O’Dowd
Peadar O'Dowd (died 3 January 2024) was an Irish local historian and author whose dozen or so books on the streets, families, churches, traders and dispossessed communities of Galway city and county made him one of the most prolific public
Patrick H. Doody
Patrick H.
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
Peter Dowd
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
John O’Dowd
Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann; NI Finance Minister
John M. Dowd
John M.
Wayne Dowdy
Charles Wayne Dowdy (born 27 July 1943) is an American politician, lawyer and jurist who represented Mississippi's 4th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives from 1981 to 1989.
Thomas Dowd
Thomas Edward Dowd (born 11 September 1970) is a Canadian Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Sault Ste Marie, Ontario since 22 October 2020.
Jim Dowd
Jim Dowd (born 5 March 1951) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Member of Parliament for Lewisham West from 1992 to 2017.
Fergus O’Dowd
Fine Gael TD for Louth (2002–2024); ex–Minister of State, NewEra
Patrick Duddy
Patrick Dennis Duddy is an American career diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Venezuela through one of the most dramatic stretches of US-Venezuelan relations under Hugo Chávez.
Robert Dowds
Robert Dowds (born 11 May 1953) is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2011 to 2016, the term of the Fine Gael–Labour coalition government that managed Ireland's pos
John Dowd
John Robert Arthur Dowd AO KC (born 12 November 1940) is a former leader of the Liberal Party of Australia in New South Wales and a former Attorney-General of New South Wales.
David O’Dowd
Sir David Joseph O'Dowd (born 20 February 1942) is a retired British senior police officer who served as His Majesty's Chief Inspector of Constabulary for England and Wales from 1996 to 2001.
Michael Doody
Michael J.
David O’Dowda
Songwriter and composer; sync placements in Dark, Ginny & Georgia, Homeland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Queer Eye, The Walking Dead
John Dowdy
John Vernard Dowdy (11 February 1912 – 12 April 1995) was an American Democratic politician and lawyer who represented Texas in the US House of Representatives for two decades.
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
Christopher O’Dowd
Christopher O'Dowd MM (6 September 1920 – 6 October 1943) was an Irish founding member of the British Army's Special Air Service, killed in action in southern Italy during the Second World War.
Clement Dowd
Clement Dowd (27 August 1832 – 15 April 1898) was a North Carolina lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Charlotte from 1869 to 1871, as a US Representative for North Carolina's 6th District from 1881 to 1885, and as Feder
Bernard J. Dowd
Bernard J.
Edward Doody
Edward Doody (15 December 1903 – 1968) was an Australian Roman Catholic bishop who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Armidale, in northern New South Wales, from 1948 until his death in 1968.
C. William Doody
C.
Patrick H. Doody
Patrick H.
Cathy O’Dowd
Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African mountaineer who, on 29 May 1999, became the first woman in history to summit Mount Everest from both its south side (Nepal, 25 May 1996, with the First South African Everest Expedition) and its no
Nic Dowd
NHL center (Washington Capitals); rare Alabama-born NHLer
Jim Dowd
NHL center, 1995 Stanley Cup champion (New Jersey Devils)
Callum O’Dowda
Callum O'Dowda (born 23 April 1995) is an Irish-English professional footballer who plays as a left winger and left back for Ferencváros in the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I and the Republic of Ireland national team.
Phil Dowd
Phil Dowd (born 4 July 1963) is a retired English professional football referee who officiated primarily in the Premier League across fifteen seasons of top-flight refereeing.
John Duddy
Boxer-actor; "Derry Destroyer" middleweight, then Hands of Stone (2016)
Jade O’Dowda
Jade O'Dowda (born 9 September 1999) is an Irish-English international heptathlete who won the bronze medal in the women's heptathlon at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, representing England.
John Dowd
John Dowd (born 1965) is an American professional motocross and supercross racer from New England — celebrated within the AMA scene as one of the great sand-track specialists, a particular mastery suited to the strength-sapping, deep-sand c
Graham Dowd
Graham William Dowd (born 17 December 1963) is a former All Blacks rugby union player who, despite being widely rated the second-best hooker in New Zealand at the height of his career, made just a single Test appearance in his All Blacks ca
Tommy Dowd
Meath GAA captain, 1996 All-Ireland; four All-Stars
Hugh Dowd
Hugh Dowd (born 19 May 1951) is a Northern Irish former professional footballer, an accomplished centre-half who began his career at his hometown Glenavon in Lurgan, County Armagh and went on to captain the Northern Ireland Amateur side.
Rachel Doody
Rachel Doody (born 11 November 1984) is a former New Zealand association footballer who represented the Football Ferns at international level in 2003, appearing in two senior matches without scoring.
Jennifer Dowds
Jennifer Dowds (born 1959) is a Northern Irish international lawn bowler who won the bronze medal in the fours at the 2008 World Outdoor Bowls Championship in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Max O’Dowd
New Zealand-born Dutch international cricketer (right-handed opening batsman, 3 ICC Men's T20 World Cups)
Harry Dowd
Harry Dowd (4 July 1938 – 2015) was an English goalkeeper who played for Manchester City, Stoke City and Oldham Athletic in a long Football League career; he was Manchester City's first-choice goalkeeper for the 1969 FA Cup Final, a 1–0 win
John Dowd
John Leo Dowd (3 January 1891 – 31 January 1981) was an American Major League Baseball shortstop who played a brief stint for the New York Highlanders in 1912 — one season at the very end of the franchise's pre-Yankees era — before falling
Tommy Dowd
Tommy Dowd (20 April 1869 – 2 July 1933), nicknamed "Buttermilk Tommy," was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and second baseman from Holyoke, Massachusetts who played ten seasons in the majors between 1891 and 1901.
Harry Dowda
Harry Dowda (1922 – 2002) was an American professional football player who played for the Washington Redskins from 1949 to 1953 and the Philadelphia Eagles from 1954 to 1955.
Cecil Dowdy
Cecil Dowdy (1945–2002) was an American college football offensive tackle who was an All-American at the University of Alabama under Bear Bryant.
Peter Dowds
Peter Dowds (24 August 1871 – 2 September 1895) was a Scottish footballer who played in the inaugural Scottish Football League with Celtic and then in the Football League with Aston Villa and Stoke.
Boy George
Culture Club frontman — Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Chris O’Dowd
Actor, comedian, writer (The IT Crowd, Moone Boy, Bridesmaids)
Alison Doody
Alison Doody (born 9 March 1966) is an Irish actress and former model who became one of the most internationally recognised Irish performers of the late 1980s through her early roles in two of the period's biggest film franchises.
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the O'Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
Gia Duddy
TikTok and Instagram lifestyle creator (650K+ TikTok, 320K+ Instagram)
Matt O’Dowd
Matt O'Dowd is an Australian-born astrophysicist who is Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History.
Cathy O’Dowd
Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) is a South African mountaineer who, on 29 May 1999, became the first woman in history to summit Mount Everest from both its south side (Nepal, 25 May 1996, with the First South African Everest Expedition) and its no
Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Peter Dowd
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
Callum O’Dowda
Callum O'Dowda (born 23 April 1995) is an Irish-English professional footballer who plays as a left winger and left back for Ferencváros in the Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság I and the Republic of Ireland national team.
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
John O’Dowd
Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann; NI Finance Minister
Johnny Dowd
Johnny Dowd (born John David Dowd; 29 March 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American alternative country musician based in Ithaca, New York whose songs are notable for their experimental noisy breaks and strong gothic — dark, gloomy, often
Fergus O’Dowd
Fine Gael TD for Louth (2002–2024); ex–Minister of State, NewEra
Niall O’Dowd
Founder of Irish America, Irish Voice, IrishCentral; NI peace process
Sarah Doody
UX & Tech career coach; founder of Career Strategy Lab; 34K+ YouTube subscribers, 20K+ Instagram followers
Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Nancy Dowd
Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Home, Slap Shot)
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
Margaret Doody
Margaret Anne Doody (born 1939) is a Canadian novelist and literary scholar — Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame, where she helped found the PhD in Literature programme and served as its Director from 2001 to 2007 — bes
Niall O’Dowd
Founder of Irish America, Irish Voice, IrishCentral; NI peace process
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British-Irish children's-fiction writer and human-rights activist whose four young-adult novels — three published in her lifetime, one posthumously — won her substantial international re
Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd (19 November 1958 – 7 October 2023) was an American author, ordained minister (United Church of Christ and Universal Life Church) and lecturer who became known as America's "evolutionary evangelist" for his project of integrati
Bernard O’Dowd
Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (11 April 1866 – 1 September 1953) was an Australian poet, lawyer, journalist and socialist activist whose career bridged the late-Victorian colonial Victorian and the Federation-era Australian Labor traditions.
Alice Mary Dowd
Alice Mary Dowd (16 December 1855 – 2 July 1943) was an American educator, poet and author whose career, beginning at age seventeen, spanned more than three decades of American teaching across district school, evening school, private school
Pat Doody
Pat Doody (11 November 1938 – 28 February 1990) was a British radio and television broadcaster best known for presenting *Night Ride* on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 — the station's late-night easy-listening programme that ran for many years and
Peadar O’Dowd
Peadar O'Dowd (died 3 January 2024) was an Irish local historian and author whose dozen or so books on the streets, families, churches, traders and dispossessed communities of Galway city and county made him one of the most prolific public
Matt O’Dowd
Matt O'Dowd is an Australian-born astrophysicist who is Associate Professor in the Physics and Astronomy Department at Lehman College of the City University of New York and Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History.
Cathie Wood
Founder and CEO of ARK Invest; thematic-innovation fund manager
Nancy M. Dowdy
Nancy M.
Colin O’Dowd
Colin Dermot O'Dowd is an Irish physicist and atmospheric scientist whose research on aerosols, air-sea exchange and the role of biogenic and marine aerosol in cloud formation has made him one of the most highly-cited atmospheric researcher
Marion Dowd
Irish cave archaeologist; The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015)
Tom Dowd
Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
Charles F. Dowd
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
William Dowd
William Richmond Dowd (28 February 1922 – 25 November 2008) was an American harpsichord maker and one of the most important figures in the twentieth-century revival of historical-principles instrument building.
Samuel Doody
Samuel Doody (28 May 1656 – November 1706) was an early English botanist and apothecary whose work as keeper of the Chelsea Physic Garden and pioneering studies of cryptogams placed him among the foremost natural historians of late-seventee
Chris O’Dowd
Actor, comedian, writer (The IT Crowd, Moone Boy, Bridesmaids)
Alison Doody
Alison Doody (born 9 March 1966) is an Irish actress and former model who became one of the most internationally recognised Irish performers of the late 1980s through her early roles in two of the period's biggest film franchises.
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
Ann Dowd
Emmy-winning actress (Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers, Hereditary)
Jeff Dowd
Jeff Dowd (born 1949) is an American film producer, publicist and political activist who is best known to the wider public as the principal real-life inspiration for the character of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the Coen Brothers' *The Bi
Ned Dowd
Ned Dowd (born 1950) is an American actor, line producer and former minor-league professional hockey player whose hockey experiences directly inspired his sister Nancy Dowd's screenplay for the cult sports comedy *Slap Shot* (1977).
John Duddy
Boxer-actor; "Derry Destroyer" middleweight, then Hands of Stone (2016)
Nick Doody
Nick Doody (born 1972 in Morley, West Yorkshire) is a British stand-up comedian and comedy writer who came up through the late-1990s circuit and has spent two decades writing for some of the most prominent BBC and Channel Four comedy series
Linda Dowds
Linda Dowds is a Canadian-British makeup department head whose long collaboration with the actress Jessica Chastain culminated in the 2022 Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for *The Eyes of Tammy Faye* (2021), shared with Stepha
Boy George
Culture Club frontman — Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the O'Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
Johnny Dowd
Johnny Dowd (born John David Dowd; 29 March 1948 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American alternative country musician based in Ithaca, New York whose songs are notable for their experimental noisy breaks and strong gothic — dark, gloomy, often
Seamie O’Dowd
Seamie O'Dowd is an Irish folk and traditional musician from County Sligo — a multi-instrumentalist whose principal instrument is guitar but who plays fiddle, harmonica, mandolin and a number of others, and who sings and writes his own mate
Tom Dowd
Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
Brendan O’Dowda
Irish tenor; foremost interpreter and biographer of Percy French
Bill Dowdy
Bill Dowdy (15 August 1932 – 12 May 2017) was an American jazz drummer and music teacher who, with pianist Gene Harris and bassist Andrew Simpkins, formed The Three Sounds — one of the most commercially successful piano trios of the late-19
Margaret Doody
Margaret Anne Doody (born 1939) is a Canadian novelist and literary scholar — Professor of Literature at the University of Notre Dame, where she helped found the PhD in Literature programme and served as its Director from 2001 to 2007 — bes
Donald O’Dowd
Donald Davy O'Dowd (born 23 January 1927) is an American academic and university administrator.
Colin O’Dowd
Colin Dermot O'Dowd is an Irish physicist and atmospheric scientist whose research on aerosols, air-sea exchange and the role of biogenic and marine aerosol in cloud formation has made him one of the most highly-cited atmospheric researcher
Marion Dowd
Irish cave archaeologist; The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015)
Terrence Doody
Terrence Doody (born 1943) is an American literary scholar and Professor Emeritus at Rice University in Houston, Texas, known for his work on the novel — particularly the relationship between voice, narrator and form in twentieth-century Am
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (7 December 1919 – 8 September 2017) was an American Marxist political economist, economic historian and lifelong civil rights and anti-war activist who taught economics at Cornell University, the University of Calif
Charles F. Dowd
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
Peadar O’Dowd
Peadar O'Dowd (died 3 January 2024) was an Irish local historian and author whose dozen or so books on the streets, families, churches, traders and dispossessed communities of Galway city and county made him one of the most prolific public
Cathy O’Dowd
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Jeff Dowd
Jeff Dowd (born 1949) is an American film producer, publicist and political activist who is best known to the wider public as the principal real-life inspiration for the character of Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski in the Coen Brothers' *The Bi
Siobhan Dowd
Siobhan Dowd (4 February 1960 – 21 August 2007) was a British-Irish children's-fiction writer and human-rights activist whose four young-adult novels — three published in her lifetime, one posthumously — won her substantial international re
Michael Dowd
Michael Dowd (19 November 1958 – 7 October 2023) was an American author, ordained minister (United Church of Christ and Universal Life Church) and lecturer who became known as America's "evolutionary evangelist" for his project of integrati
Bernard O’Dowd
Bernard Patrick O'Dowd (11 April 1866 – 1 September 1953) was an Australian poet, lawyer, journalist and socialist activist whose career bridged the late-Victorian colonial Victorian and the Federation-era Australian Labor traditions.
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd
Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd (7 December 1919 – 8 September 2017) was an American Marxist political economist, economic historian and lifelong civil rights and anti-war activist who taught economics at Cornell University, the University of Calif
Brendan Duddy
Brendan Duddy (10 June 1936 – 12 May 2017) was a Derry businessman who, for two decades, served as the secret back-channel between the British government and the leadership of the Provisional IRA — known to MI6 only as "the Contact" — and w
Brendan Duddy
Brendan Duddy (10 June 1936 – 12 May 2017) was a Derry businessman who, for two decades, served as the secret back-channel between the British government and the leadership of the Provisional IRA — known to MI6 only as "the Contact" — and w
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
Robert Dowd
Robert Dowd (1936–1996) was an American Pop-art painter and sculptor whose currency and postage-stamp paintings were among the founding works of the American Pop movement and who in 1962 hung in the Pasadena Art Museum's *New Painting of Co
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
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