Notable Ó Dubhdas
A LIVING DIRECTORY
The Ó 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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Leo Joseph Dowd
Founder of Dowd Oil, Dowd Grain, Dowd & Stolz Transfer, Dowd & Schutt Gravel, Dowd Industries, and O'Neill Farms; long-serving president of the Omaha Archdiocesan Educational Foundation
Dan O’Dowd
Uilleann piper and pipe-maker; co-founder of Na Píobairí Uilleann (1968); top exponent of the fonn mall (slow air).
Brendan O’Dowda
Irish tenor; foremost interpreter and biographer of Percy French
Tom Dowd
Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
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
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
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.
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
Charles F. Dowd
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
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
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
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.
Kip Dowd
James Joseph Dowd was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the 1910 Pittsburgh Pirates in one game o.
Mike O’Dowd
American boxer; World Middleweight Champion 1917-1920; only active boxing champion to fight at the front during World War I.
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
Bernard J. Dowd
Bernard J.
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
C. William Doody
C.
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.
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
David W. Dowd
David William Dowd was an American Republican Party politician and minor league baseball player with the New York Yankee.
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.
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.
James Henry Dowd
James Henry Dowd, also known as J.
James Thomas O’Dowd
American Catholic prelate; auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Francisco (1948-1950); namesake of Bishop O'Dowd High School in Oakland.
John O’Dowd
John O'Dowd was an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Sligo, March–September 1900, and for South Sligo, 19.
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
Patrick O’Dowd
Irish politician and medical practitioner; Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon (5th, 6th and 8th Dáils); medical officer with the IRA during the War of Independence.
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.
Peter O’Dowd
English professional footballer; central defender; capped three times by the England national football team.
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
Ross Dowd
Ross Dowd was an American set decorator.
Sammy Duddy
Andrew Samuel Duddy, known as Sammy, was a Northern Irish actor, having joined the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) shor.
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
Timothy Joseph Dowd
Timothy Joseph Dowd (1915–2014) was the deputy chief of New York City Police Department (1940–1978) who led the manhunt.
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.
Wayne Dowd
American Democratic politician and lawyer; Arkansas State Senator (1978-2000); practised law in Texarkana for over four decades.
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.
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
David Astor Dowdy Jr.
Dinny Dowd
Denis Austin Dowd was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, South Melbourne and North Melbourne in the.
Greg Dowd
Australian rules footballer; played senior football for Footscray in the VFL.
James O’Dowd
Sir James Cornelius O'Dowd was deputy Judge Advocate General (1869-1899).
Joseph J. Dowd
Joseph J.
Nace O’Dowd
Ignatius "Nace" O'Dowd was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Sligo county team in the 1950s and was a member.
Patrick H. Doody
Patrick H.
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
Sir James Cornelius O’Dowd
Mayo-born British military lawyer; Deputy Judge Advocate General of the British Army (1869-1899); knighted at Windsor Castle in 1900; author of a standard treatise on Court Martial.
Thomas Butler Dowda
American Democratic politician; member of the Florida House of Representatives 1941-1953.
William F. Dowd
William F.
Shay O’Dowd
Glasgow singer-songwriter; Scottish Music Awards 2025 Breakthrough Award winner
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Boy George
Culture Club frontman — Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
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.
Gia Duddy
TikTok and Instagram lifestyle creator (650K+ TikTok, 320K+ Instagram)
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
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
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.
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
Ann Dowd
Emmy-winning actress (Handmaid's Tale, The Leftovers, Hereditary)
Cathie Wood
Founder and CEO of ARK Invest; thematic-innovation fund manager
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
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.
Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Michael Dowd
Former NYPD officer convicted of racketeering and narcotics conspiracy in 1992; subject of the 2014 documentary film The Seven Five; case central to the Mollen Commission inquiry into NYPD corruption.
Nic Dowd
NHL center (Washington Capitals); rare Alabama-born NHLer
Peter Dowd
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
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
Jim Dowd
NHL center, 1995 Stanley Cup champion (New Jersey Devils)
John M. Dowd
American attorney best known for leading Major League Baseball's 1989 investigation of Pete Rose (the "Dowd Report") and for serving as Donald Trump's lead personal attorney in the Mueller Special Counsel investigation from 2017 to 2018.
John O’Dowd
Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann; NI Finance Minister
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
Nancy Dowd
Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Home, Slap Shot)
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).
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.
Robert Alfred Dowd
American Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; 18th president of the University of Notre Dame since 2024; political scientist of religion and democracy in Africa.
Robert Dowd
English professional ice hockey player; captain of the Sheffield Steelers; the EIHL's all-time leading point-scorer; six-time EIHL champion; Great Britain national-team captain.
Dan O’Dowd
American baseball executive; general manager of the Colorado Rockies (1999-2014).
Fergus O’Dowd
Fine Gael TD for Louth (2002–2024); ex–Minister of State, NewEra
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.
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.
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
John Duddy
Boxer-actor; "Derry Destroyer" middleweight, then Hands of Stone (2016)
Ken O’Dowd
Australian politician; Liberal National Party member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Flynn (2010-2022).
Kevin Dowd
British economist; Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School; leading academic exponent of free banking and private money.
Kris O’Dowd
American college football center for the USC Trojans; first true freshman in USC history to start a game at centre; Parade All-American and First-team All-Pac-10.
Kyle Dowdy
American former professional baseball pitcher; appeared in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians.
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
Patrick Doody
American retired professional soccer player; Chicago Fire homegrown signing; Indiana University College Cup winner 2012.
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.
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.
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.
Adam Dowdy
American former professional baseball umpire; worked more than 400 games as a Major League Baseball reserve umpire between 2002 and 2007.
Alex O’Dowd
New Zealand rugby union coach and former first-class cricketer; coached the Netherlands national rugby side; father of Dutch international cricketer Max O'Dowd.
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
Dakoda Dowd
Dakoda Flowie Dowd, also known as "Koda", is an American amateur golfer.
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.
Donald O’Dowd
Donald Davy O'Dowd (born 23 January 1927) is an American academic and university administrator.
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
Hayley Dowd
Hayley Dowd is an American professional soccer player who played as a striker for AS Saint-Étienne.
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.
J. Steven Dowd
American businessman and federal appointee; United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) confirmed 2020; previously US Director of the African Development Bank.
Jennifer Beam Dowd
American social scientist; Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford; founding member of public-health collective Dear Pandemic.
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.
John Doody
American politician and judge; Republican Illinois state legislator (1995-1997) and later a judge of the Cook County Circuit Court.
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 Dudley Dowd Jr.
David Dudley Dowd Jr.
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.
Bernard J. Dowd
Bernard J.
C. William Doody
C.
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
David W. Dowd
David William Dowd was an American Republican Party politician and minor league baseball player with the New York Yankee.
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.
John O’Dowd
John O'Dowd was an Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Sligo, March–September 1900, and for South Sligo, 19.
Patrick O’Dowd
Irish politician and medical practitioner; Fianna Fáil TD for Roscommon (5th, 6th and 8th Dáils); medical officer with the IRA during the War of Independence.
Sammy Duddy
Andrew Samuel Duddy, known as Sammy, was a Northern Irish actor, having joined the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) shor.
Timothy Joseph Dowd
Timothy Joseph Dowd (1915–2014) was the deputy chief of New York City Police Department (1940–1978) who led the manhunt.
Wayne Dowd
American Democratic politician and lawyer; Arkansas State Senator (1978-2000); practised law in Texarkana for over four decades.
James O’Dowd
Sir James Cornelius O'Dowd was deputy Judge Advocate General (1869-1899).
Joseph J. Dowd
Joseph J.
Nace O’Dowd
Ignatius "Nace" O'Dowd was an Irish Gaelic footballer who played for the Sligo county team in the 1950s and was a member.
Patrick H. Doody
Patrick H.
Sir James Cornelius O’Dowd
Mayo-born British military lawyer; Deputy Judge Advocate General of the British Army (1869-1899); knighted at Windsor Castle in 1900; author of a standard treatise on Court Martial.
Thomas Butler Dowda
American Democratic politician; member of the Florida House of Representatives 1941-1953.
William F. Dowd
William F.
Michael Dowd
Former NYPD officer convicted of racketeering and narcotics conspiracy in 1992; subject of the 2014 documentary film The Seven Five; case central to the Mollen Commission inquiry into NYPD corruption.
Peter Dowd
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
John M. Dowd
American attorney best known for leading Major League Baseball's 1989 investigation of Pete Rose (the "Dowd Report") and for serving as Donald Trump's lead personal attorney in the Mueller Special Counsel investigation from 2017 to 2018.
John O’Dowd
Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann; NI Finance Minister
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
Fergus O’Dowd
Fine Gael TD for Louth (2002–2024); ex–Minister of State, NewEra
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.
Ken O’Dowd
Australian politician; Liberal National Party member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Flynn (2010-2022).
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.
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.
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.
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.
J. Steven Dowd
American businessman and federal appointee; United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) confirmed 2020; previously US Director of the African Development Bank.
John Doody
American politician and judge; Republican Illinois state legislator (1995-1997) and later a judge of the Cook County Circuit Court.
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.
Kevin O’Dowd
Kevin O'Dowd is a New Jersey public servant and political figure who served as Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Jer.
Michael Doody
Michael J.
Nora Dowd Eisenhower
Nora Anne Dowd Eisenhower, daughter to Thomas F.
Patrick Dowd
American Democratic politician and historian; member of Pittsburgh City Council 2008-2013; previously elected to the Pittsburgh Board of Education in 2003.
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
Terry Rochford
Current Tánaiste of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2025–2028) and Taoiseach-elect; retired Illinois State Trooper and former Chief of Police.
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
Kip Dowd
James Joseph Dowd was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the 1910 Pittsburgh Pirates in one game o.
Mike O’Dowd
American boxer; World Middleweight Champion 1917-1920; only active boxing champion to fight at the front during World War I.
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.
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.
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.
Peter O’Dowd
English professional footballer; central defender; capped three times by the England national football team.
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.
Dinny Dowd
Denis Austin Dowd was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy, South Melbourne and North Melbourne in the.
Greg Dowd
Australian rules footballer; played senior football for Footscray in the VFL.
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
Max O’Dowd
New Zealand-born Dutch international cricketer (right-handed opening batsman, 3 ICC Men's T20 World Cups)
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.
Nic Dowd
NHL center (Washington Capitals); rare Alabama-born NHLer
Jim Dowd
NHL center, 1995 Stanley Cup champion (New Jersey Devils)
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.
Robert Dowd
English professional ice hockey player; captain of the Sheffield Steelers; the EIHL's all-time leading point-scorer; six-time EIHL champion; Great Britain national-team captain.
Dan O’Dowd
American baseball executive; general manager of the Colorado Rockies (1999-2014).
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
John Duddy
Boxer-actor; "Derry Destroyer" middleweight, then Hands of Stone (2016)
Kris O’Dowd
American college football center for the USC Trojans; first true freshman in USC history to start a game at centre; Parade All-American and First-team All-Pac-10.
Kyle Dowdy
American former professional baseball pitcher; appeared in Major League Baseball for the Texas Rangers and Cleveland Indians.
Patrick Doody
American retired professional soccer player; Chicago Fire homegrown signing; Indiana University College Cup winner 2012.
Adam Dowdy
American former professional baseball umpire; worked more than 400 games as a Major League Baseball reserve umpire between 2002 and 2007.
Alex O’Dowd
New Zealand rugby union coach and former first-class cricketer; coached the Netherlands national rugby side; father of Dutch international cricketer Max O'Dowd.
Dakoda Dowd
Dakoda Flowie Dowd, also known as "Koda", is an American amateur golfer.
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
Hayley Dowd
Hayley Dowd is an American professional soccer player who played as a striker for AS Saint-Étienne.
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.
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.
Mick O’Dowd
Mick O'Dowd is a former Gaelic footballer and who was once manager of the Meath senior team.
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.
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams née Doody is a former international badminton player from Wales who competed at two Commonwealth Games an.
Timmy O’Dowd
Tralee-born Kerry Gaelic footballer; three-time All-Ireland Senior Championship winner (1984-1986); also an All-Ireland Minor medallist 1980.
Tommy Dowd
Meath GAA captain, 1996 All-Ireland; four All-Stars
Tony O’Dowd
Tony O'Dowd is an Irish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Amanda Dowdy
American volleyball player; biographical record carried on the German-language Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Lindsay Dowd
American volleyball player; biographical record carried on the German- and Italian-language Wikipedias and Wikidata.
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Boy George
Culture Club frontman — Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
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.
Gia Duddy
TikTok and Instagram lifestyle creator (650K+ TikTok, 320K+ Instagram)
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
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
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.
Sarah Doody
UX & Tech career coach; founder of Career Strategy Lab; 34K+ YouTube subscribers, 20K+ Instagram followers
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.
Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Peter Dowd
Labour MP for Bootle (2015–); ex-Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury
John O’Dowd
Sinn Féin MLA for Upper Bann; NI Finance Minister
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
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
Matthew O’Dowd
Matthew O'Dowd is a former long-distance runner who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
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
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
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
James Henry Dowd
James Henry Dowd, also known as J.
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
Sammy Duddy
Andrew Samuel Duddy, known as Sammy, was a Northern Irish actor, having joined the Ulster Defence Association (UDA) shor.
James O’Dowd
Sir James Cornelius O'Dowd was deputy Judge Advocate General (1869-1899).
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
Maureen Dowd
Pulitzer-winning New York Times Op-Ed columnist
Matthew Dowd
Matthew J.
Nancy Dowd
Oscar-winning screenwriter (Coming Home, Slap Shot)
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
Lisa Dowd
Lisa Dowd is a British news reporter for Sky News.
Tom Dowd
American game designer; principal author of Shadowrun 2nd Edition (FASA) and contributor to numerous tabletop role-playing systems.
Jean-François Dowd
Canadian writer; biographical record carried on the French-language Wikipedia and Wikidata.
Charles F. Dowd
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
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
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
Robert Alfred Dowd
American Catholic priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross; 18th president of the University of Notre Dame since 2024; political scientist of religion and democracy in Africa.
Kevin Dowd
British economist; Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School; leading academic exponent of free banking and private money.
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
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
Donald O’Dowd
Donald Davy O'Dowd (born 23 January 1927) is an American academic and university administrator.
Jennifer Beam Dowd
American social scientist; Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford; founding member of public-health collective Dear Pandemic.
Marion Dowd
Irish cave archaeologist; The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015)
Peter A. Dowd
Peter Alan Dowd is an Australian scientist who is Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide.
Rachelle Doody
Rachelle Smith Doody is an American neurologist and neuroscientist.
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
Dan O’Dowd
Uilleann piper and pipe-maker; co-founder of Na Píobairí Uilleann (1968); top exponent of the fonn mall (slow air).
Brendan O’Dowda
Irish tenor; foremost interpreter and biographer of Percy French
Tom Dowd
Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
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
Shay O’Dowd
Glasgow singer-songwriter; Scottish Music Awards 2025 Breakthrough Award winner
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Boy George
Culture Club frontman — Karma Chameleon, Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
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
David O’Dowda
Songwriter and composer; sync placements in Dark, Ginny & Georgia, Homeland, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Queer Eye, The Walking Dead
Doody
Bedfordshire-based electronic / dance vocalist; featured on HotLap's 'Set You Free' (5M+ streams)
Louise Bernadette Dowd
British composer (Married at First Sight theme); PRS 100 Women Changing Music 2020; 2x ASCAP London Music Award winner
Tom Dowd
Pioneer recording engineer at Atlantic Records
Charles F. Dowd
Proposed the four-time-zone railway system (1869); time-zones pioneer
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
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.
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
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
Jennifer Beam Dowd
American social scientist; Professor of Demography and Population Health and deputy director of the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University of Oxford; founding member of public-health collective Dear Pandemic.
Marion Dowd
Irish cave archaeologist; The Archaeology of Caves in Ireland (2015)
Matthew O’Dowd
Matthew O'Dowd is a former long-distance runner who competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Nancy M. Dowdy
Nancy M.
Peter A. Dowd
Peter Alan Dowd is an Australian scientist who is Professor of Mining Engineering at the University of Adelaide.
Rachelle Doody
Rachelle Smith Doody is an American neurologist and neuroscientist.
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Andrew Dowds
Sixth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2015–2018); curator of the W. B. Yeats and 1798 Rising self-guided tours.
Brendan J O’Dowd
Fifth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2012–2015); first Irish-born Taoiseach of Tireragh since Tadhg Buidhe in 1595.
Colum O’Dowd
Eighth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2022–2025); opened the 2022 rally with his “Back to Adam” genealogy lecture; oversaw the rebuilding of the clan's website.
Dr Richard F “Dick” Dowd
Second modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2003–2006); inaugurated at Enniscrone Castle.
Edward P “Ed” O’Dowd
Third modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2006–2009); collector of variant spellings and architect of the clan's travelling exhibition.
Kieran O’Dowd
Seventh modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2018–2022); first woman Chief of the Name in the clan's recorded history; oversaw the adoption of a written Clan Constitution.
Mícheál Ó Dubhda (Mike Dowd)
Fourth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2009–2012); deepened the clan's ties with the Australian branch.
Terry Rochford
Current Tánaiste of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2025–2028) and Taoiseach-elect; retired Illinois State Trooper and former Chief of Police.
Thomas J “Tom” Dowds
First modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan (2000–2003); architect of the modern council structure and chronicler of the Gatherings.
Cameron Duddy
Music video director (Uptown Funk, 24K Magic); bassist of Midland
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.
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)
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
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
Leo Joseph Dowd
Founder of Dowd Oil, Dowd Grain, Dowd & Stolz Transfer, Dowd & Schutt Gravel, Dowd Industries, and O'Neill Farms; long-serving president of the Omaha Archdiocesan Educational Foundation
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.
Sean O’Dowda Stephens
Ninth modern Taoiseach of the Ó Dubhda Clan; CEO and entrepreneur (Treefrog Inc.); singer-songwriter and guitarist
Cathie Wood
Founder and CEO of ARK Invest; thematic-innovation fund manager
J. Steven Dowd
American businessman and federal appointee; United States Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) confirmed 2020; previously US Director of the African Development Bank.
Nora Dowd Eisenhower
Nora Anne Dowd Eisenhower, daughter to Thomas F.
Terry Duddy
British retail executive; chief executive of Argos and Home Retail Group from 1998 to 2014.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Sir James Cornelius O’Dowd
Mayo-born British military lawyer; Deputy Judge Advocate General of the British Army (1869-1899); knighted at Windsor Castle in 1900; author of a standard treatise on Court Martial.
James Henry Dowd
James Henry Dowd, also known as J.
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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