Editing Howth (section)

==Notable residents==
[[File:Howth head.jpg|thumb|right|The Baily Lighthouse, on the eastern side of Howth Head viewed from the south-west]]
[[File:Ireland Victor Grigas 2011-9.jpg|thumb|right|The Baily Lighthouse on the eastern side of Howth Head viewed from the north-west]]
[[File:Howth View.jpg|thumb|Howth View by plane]]
Among Howth's better-known residents are or have been: 
* Peter Aiken of [[Aiken Promotions]], son of [[Jim Aiken]] 
* [[Robin Allshire]], geneticist, was born in Howth in 1960
* [[Booker Prize]]-winning novelist [[John Banville]]
* [[Borough baronets|Sir Edward Richard Borough, 2nd Baronet]], lived at Glenaveena House, later occupied by [[John O'Hagan]]; the property was still later turned into the Stella Maris convent
* Composer [[Brian Boydell]], born in Howth in 1917 
* [[James Bayley Butler]], botanist and biologist, father of [[Katherine Butler]]; built a house called Glenlion in the Baily area of Howth
* Broadcaster [[Gay Byrne]] and his wife, musician and author [[Kathleen Watkins]], who lived in the Baily region of Howth for decades, and later passed their home to one of their daughters
* Writer [[Michael Feeney Callan]] 
* Actor writer and comedian [[Gary Cooke]] who lived on the Claremont Road Howth in the 1970s and 1980s
* Eminent judge [[Gerald FitzGibbon (Irish lawyer)|Gerald FitzGibbon]] who lived here for many years until his death in 1909; his house, Kilrock, was one of the centres of Dublin social life from the 1870s onwards<ref>Ball, F. Elrington  ''The Judges in Ireland 1221–1921''  London John Murray 1926 Vol. 2 p.322</ref>
* High Court Judge [[Feargus Flood]] of the eponymous tribunal
* [[Gerry Gannon]], builder and property developer
* Actor and producer [[Brendan Gleeson]], who moved to the Baily region of Howth
* [[Bill Graham (author)|Bill Graham]], journalist and author, who lived in Howth until his death in 1996 
* [[Kevin Grogan]], former Manchester United and Ireland professional soccer player
* [[Patrick Hillery]], former TD and President of Ireland
* [[Johnny Logan (singer)]], winner of the [[Eurovision song contest|Eurovision]] multiple times, lived here for many years, along with his father, tenor [[Patrick O'Hagan]]
* [[Sir John Lumsden]], physician
* John McColgan and wife [[Moya Doherty]], founders of [[Riverdance]], resident in Howth for many years
* [[Barney McKenna]] of [[The Dubliners]] (died 5 April 2012)
* Brian McKiernan, CEO and majority shareholder in [[Davy Stockbrokers]]
* Broadcaster [[Seán Moncrieff]], resident
* [[U2]] drummer [[Larry Mullen]], who lives overlooking Burrow Beach
* The late politician and writer [[Conor Cruise O'Brien]] and his wife, the Irish poet [[Máire Mhac an tSaoi]], who lived here for many years
* [[Rosie O'Donnell]], comedian and actress
* [[Ruairi O'Connor]], known for his role as Prince Harry (later Henry VIII) in ''[[The Spanish Princess]]'' (2019–present) and Michael in the TV series ''[[Delicious (TV series)|Delicious]]''.
* European Ombudsman [[Emily O'Reilly]] Ryan
* [[Dolores O'Riordan]] (1971–2018) of [[The Cranberries]]
* [[John Pentland Mahaffy]]
* Senator and retail pioneer [[Feargal Quinn]] (died 2019) and members of his family
* [[Lobsang Rampa]], English author, lived at Ben Eadair, Balscadden Road, in the late 1950s, as described in his book ''The Rampa Story'' (1960)
* [[Lynn Redgrave]] and husband [[John Clark (English actor)|John Clark]]; raised their family there in the early 1970s
* [[David Robinson (horticulturist)|David Robinson]], horticulturalist
* [[Saoirse Ronan]], actress, moved from Carlow to Howth with her family and later bought a house in the Thormanby part of Howth<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/teen-star-saoirse-forks-out-334k-for-howth-home-29582647.html | title=Teen star Saoirse forks out €334k for Howth home | access-date=6 November 2017 | archive-date=7 November 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107060438/https://www.independent.ie/woman/celeb-news/teen-star-saoirse-forks-out-334k-for-howth-home-29582647.html | url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[John Sheahan]] of [[The Dubliners]]
* The Stokes family including [[Margaret Stokes|Margeret]], [[Whitley Stokes (Celtic scholar)|Whitley (junior)]], [[William Stokes (surgeon)|William (junior)]] and father [[William Stokes (physician)|Dr. William Stokes]] lived at The Tansey on Ceanchor Road and at Carrrickbrack House
* Actor [[Stuart Townsend]], born and raised in Howth
* [[Ella Webb]] {{postnominals|country=GBR|MBE}}
* [[Vogue Williams]] formerly of Ceannchor Road, Baily; currently owns an apartment in St. Lawrences with her husband [[Spencer Matthews]]
* [[William Butler Yeats]]
* [[Scott Young (writer)|Scott Young]] who was a Canadian journalist, sportswriter and novelist, and the father of musicians [[Neil Young]] and [[Astrid Young]]; lived in Howth in the late 1980s