Editing Spiddal (section)

== Notable people ==
{{See also|Category:People from Spiddal}}
* [[Mary Bergin]], musician
* [[Ronan Browne]], musician
* [[Thom McGinty]], actor and stillness artist
* [[Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin]], journalist and the sixth [[Presidents of the International Olympic Committee|president of the International Olympic Committee]], had family connections to the area.<ref>{{cite magazine |url = https://www.historyireland.com/lord-killaninthe-renaissance-man-of-the-olympic-movement/ | magazine = History Ireland | title = Lord Killanin:the Renaissance man of the Olympic movement | issue = 4 | date = July 2012 | volume = 20 | accessdate = 3 April 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Máirtín Ó Cadhain]], writer of [[modern literature in Irish]], and author of the [[comic literature|comic]] and [[modernist literature|modernist]] work ''[[Cré na Cille]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.dib.ie/biography/o-cadhain-mairtin-a6285| publisher = Royal Irish Academy | work = Dictionary of Irish Biography | title = Ó Cadhain, Máirtín | date = October 2009 | accessdate = 3 April 2024 | doi = 10.3318/dib.006285.v1 }}</ref>
* [[Dónall Ó Héalai]], actor{{fact|date=April 2024}}
* [[Seán Ó Neachtain (politician)|Seán Ó Neachtain]], former [[Member of the European Parliament]] and [[Fianna Fáil]] party politician{{fact|date=April 2024}}
* [[Eimear Ní Chonaola]], journalist and broadcast news presenter{{fact|date=April 2024}}
* [[Máire Ní Thuathail]] (1957–2016), television producer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of TV producer and Tourmakeady native |url=https://www.mayonews.ie/news/28621-death-of-tv-producer-and-tourmakeady-native |work=mayonews.ie | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160928161440/https://www.mayonews.ie/news/28621-death-of-tv-producer-and-tourmakeady-native | archivedate = 28 September 2016 | date = 27 September 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Gráinne Seoige]], television presenter<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40994168.html | title = Culture That Made Me: Gráinne Seoige on dance music and Minority Report | work = Irish Examiner | date = 31 October 2022 | accessdate = 3 April 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Síle Seoige]], television presenter<ref>{{cite web|url = https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/people/arid-40829255.html | title = Síle Seoige: I love the fact that I am nearly 43 | work = Irish Examiner | date = 2 April 2022 | accessdate = 3 April 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Mairtin Thornton|Máirtín Thornton]] (died 1984), heavyweight boxer in the 1940s<ref>{{cite web|url = http://irishboxers.ie/martin_thornton_snr.html | website = irishboxers.ie | title = Boxer Profile - Martin Thornton (Snr) | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110731231448/http://irishboxers.ie/martin_thornton_snr.html | archivedate = 31 July 2011 }}</ref>