Editing Enniskillen (section)

== Notable natives and residents ==
{{See also|Category:People from Enniskillen}}

===Arts and Media===
* [[Samuel Beckett]], playwright, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref name="taking">{{Cite news |date=27 November 2021 |title=Taking a walk on the Wilde (and Beckett) side in Enniskillen |work=The Irish News |url=https://www.irishnews.com/arts/books/2021/11/27/news/taking-a-walk-on-the-wilde-and-beckett-side-in-enniskillen-2518347/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Nathan Carter]], singer<ref name="nathan">{{Cite book |last=Carter |first=Nathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fKNPDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT148 |title=Born for the Road: My Story So Far |publisher=Penguin Books |year=2018 |isbn=978-1-84488-448-3}}</ref>
* [[Charles Duff]], Irish author of books on language learning and other subjects<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 January 2018 |title=Remarkable life of Charles Duff to be marked in Enniskillen |work=Belfast Telegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/archive/people/remarkable-life-of-charles-duff-to-be-marked-in-enniskillen-36518536.html |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Adrian Dunbar]], actor, born and brought up in Enniskillen<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 November 2022 |title=Adrian Dunbar to explore Co Fermanagh roots in two upcoming TV series |work=Belfast Live |url=https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/adrian-dunbar-explore-co-fermanagh-25482673 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Nial Fulton]], film and television producer, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 December 2016 |title=Five awards for Enniskillen man Nial Fulton's hard-hitting TV documentary series |work=The Impartial Reporter |url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/14993064.five-awards-for-enniskillen-man-nial-fultons-hard-hitting-tv-documentary-series/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Neil Hannon]], lead singer/composer of the pop band The Divine Comedy, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=13 September 2021 |title=Neil Hannon reflects on 'charmed life' with new The Divine Comedy album |work=The Impartial Reporter |url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/19570414.neil-hannon-reflects-charmed-life-new-divine-comedy-album/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Charles Lawson]], most notable for playing [[Jim McDonald (Coronation Street)|Jim McDonald]] in ''[[Coronation Street]]''<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 November 2014 |title=Corrie actor Charlie Lawson: I probably did hate Catholics |work=Belfast Telegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/corrie-actor-charlie-lawson-i-probably-did-hate-catholics-30756109.html |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Lisa McHugh]], country music singer; born in Glasgow, Scotland, she moved to Enniskillen as an adult.<ref name=nathan/>
* [[Fearghal McKinney]], journalist, former [[UTV (TV channel)|UTV]] broadcaster and member of the [[Northern Ireland Assembly]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 April 2017 |title=Fearghal McKinney: 'Nothing prepares you for defeat after the amount of hard work put in prior to the election but I'm resilient' |work=Belfast Telegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/life/features/fearghal-mckinney-nothing-prepares-you-for-defeat-after-the-amount-of-hard-work-put-in-prior-to-the-election-but-im-resilient-35608058.html |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Nigel McLoughlin]], poet, editor of ''Iota'' poetry journal and Professor of Creativity and Poetics, University of Gloucestershire<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nigel McLoughlin |url=https://poetryarchive.org/poet/nigel-mcloughlin/ |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=The Poetry Archive}}</ref>
* [[Ciarán McMenamin]], television actor and author<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 November 2021 |title=Hope Street BBC: Enniskillen actor Ciaran McMenamin on first role-playing parent since becoming a dad |work=Belfast Live |url=https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/be/hope-street-bbc-enniskillen-actor-22190364 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Frank Ormsby]], poet<ref>{{Cite web |title=Frank Ormsby |url=https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/frank-ormsby |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=The British Council}}</ref>
* [[David Robinson (photographer)|David Robinson]], photographer and publisher, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 March 2001 |title=The big picture The panoramic shape is closest to the human viewpoint, says the photographer David Robinson. He shares his perspective with Clare Thomson |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/717679/The-big-picture-The-panoramic-shape-is-closest-to-the-human-viewpoint-says-the-photographer-David-Robinson.-He-shares-his-perspective-with-Clare-Thomson.html |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[William Scott (artist)|William Scott]], artist<ref>{{Cite web |title=William Scott |url=https://cnaa.senatehouselibrary.ac.uk/artists/william-scott |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=Senate House Library, University of London}}</ref>
* [[Mick Softley]] singer and songwriter for [[Bob Dylan]] and [[Donovan]], lived in the town at the time of his death<ref>{{Cite web |title=Michael (Mick) Softley |url=https://www.funeraltimes.com/michael-micksoftley394097232 |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=Funeral Times}}</ref>
* [[Joan Trimble]], pianist and composer<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 August 2000 |title=Obituary: Joan Trimble |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1352386/Joan-Trimble.html |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Oscar Wilde]], satirist and playwright, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref name=taking/>
* [[Ron Wilson (newsreader)|Ron Wilson]], a news anchor with Network Ten in Australia<ref>{{Cite news |title=Ron Wilson |publisher=Claxton Speakers |url=http://www.claxtonspeakers.com.au/speakers_profile.php?s_id=278&print_preview=1 |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>

===Business===
* [[James Gamble (industrialist)|James Gamble]], co-founder of Procter & Gamble, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 December 2009 |title=Typhoid Mary and other curiosities in Irish biography |publisher=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8419022.stm#gamble |access-date=11 September 2012}}</ref>

===Medicine and Science===
* [[Denis Parsons Burkitt|Denis Burkitt]], FRS, surgeon and epidemiologist<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Epstein |first1=A. |author-link=Anthony Epstein |last2=Eastwood |first2=M. A. |year=1995 |title=Denis Parsons Burkitt. 28 February 1911 – 23 March 1993 |journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] |volume=41 |pages=88–102 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1995.0006 |pmid=11615366 |s2cid=24411537}}</ref>

===Military===
* [[Eric Norman Frankland Bell|Eric Bell]], recipient of the [[Victoria Cross]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Eric Norman Frankland Bell |url=http://www.vconline.org.uk/eric-n-f-bell-vc/4585969311.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=VC Online}}</ref>
* [[Henry Hartigan]], recipient of the Victoria Cross<ref>{{Cite web |title=Henry Hartigan |url=http://www.vconline.org.uk/henry-hartigan-vc/4586926318.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=VC Online}}</ref>
* [[James McGuire (VC)|James McGuire]], recipient of the Victoria Cross<ref>{{Cite web |title=James McGuire |url=http://www.vconline.org.uk/james-mcguire-vc/4587597033.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=VC Online}}</ref>
* [[George Nurse (VC recipient)|George Nurse]], recipient of the Victoria Cross<ref>{{Cite web |title=George Nurse |url=http://www.vconline.org.uk/george-e-nurse-vc/4587771341.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=VC Online}}</ref>

===Politics===
* [[Gerald Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster]], brought up at the family's estate at Ely Lodge<ref>{{Cite web |date=13 August 2016 |title=The €10bn Duke who wanted only to be a beef farmer back in Fermanagh |url=https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/the-10bn-duke-who-wanted-only-to-be-a-beef-farmer-back-in-fermanagh-34961955.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |newspaper=Irish Independent}}</ref>
* [[Gordon Wilson (peace campaigner)|Gordon Wilson]], Irish senator and peace campaigner, who lived on Cooper Crescent<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 November 2020 |title='Enniskillen peacemaker Gordon Wilson had the UVF in bits': Preacher hails late campaigner |work=Belfast Telegraph|url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/enniskillen-peacemaker-gordon-wilson-had-the-uvf-in-bits-preacher-hails-late-campaigner-39746739.html |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>

===Religion===
* [[Edward Cooney]], evangelist and early leader of the [[Cooneyite]] and [[Two by Twos|Go-Preacher]] sects, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 October 2022 |title=New book looks at the legacy of Enniskillen preacher Edward Cooney |work=The Impartial Reporter |url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/news/23030144.new-book-looks-legacy-enniskillen-preacher-edward-cooney---global-church-no-name/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Edward Kernan]], a Roman Catholic bishop<ref>{{Catholic-hierarchy|bishop|bkern|Bishop Kernan|15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Henry Francis Lyte]], hymn composer, most notably of "[[Abide with Me]]", educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=14 October 2020 |title=Enniskillen parishioner revives Henry Francis Lyte's book 'The Spirit of the Psalms' |url=http://www.churchnewsireland.org/news/irish-uk-news/enniskillen-parishioner-revives-henry-francis-lytes-book-the-spirit-of-the-psalms/ |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=Church News Ireland}}</ref>
* [[John McElroy (Jesuit)|John McElroy]] (1782–1877), Jesuit priest, founder of [[Boston College]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stjohn-frederick.org/stjohncemetery.asp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406054530/http://www.stjohn-frederick.org/stjohncemetery.asp|url-status=dead|title="St. John's Cemetery", St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church. Frederick, Maryland|archive-date=6 April 2012|access-date=25 February 2024}}</ref>

===Sports===
* [[Robert Baloucoune]], rugby union player, was born and grew up in Enniskillen, learned his rugby at Portora Royal School and made his international debut for Ireland in July 2021<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.the42.ie/ireland-usa-4-5491529-Jul2021/ | title=Baloucoune wonder try sparks Ireland to life as they put 71 points on USA | date=10 July 2021 }}</ref>
* [[Declan Burns]], Irish kayaking athlete, three-time Irish Olympic representative and former World Superstars runner-up<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 January 2016 |title=What a show of strength from our Declan! |work=The Fermanagh Herald |url=https://fermanaghherald.com/tag/declan-burns/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Roy Carroll]], goalkeeper who played for a number of professional clubs, most notably [[Manchester United F. C.]] and who was capped 45 times by [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]]<ref>{{Hugman|3153|Roy Carroll |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Timothy Cathcart]], rally driver
* [[Harry Chatton]], football player, from the 1920s and 1930s, who was a dual international for both the IFA and FAI Irish international teams<ref>{{Cite web |title=Harry Chatton |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/38856/James_Harry_Chatton.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=National Football Teams}}</ref>
* [[Jim Cleary (Northern Irish footballer)|Jim Cleary]], former [[Glentoran]] footballer and member of [[Northern Ireland national football team|Northern Ireland]]'s 1982 World Cup squad<ref>{{Cite news |title=Jim Cleary |publisher=World Football |url=https://www.worldfootball.net/player_summary/jim-cleary/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[William Emerson (footballer)|William Emerson]], football player who won 11 caps for Ireland between 1919 and 1923<ref>{{Cite web |title=Billy Emerson |url=https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/38728/Billy_Emerson.html |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=National Football Teams}}</ref>
* [[Gordon Ferris]], Northern Irish former heavyweight boxer who was both Irish and British champion in the early 1980s<ref>{{Cite news |date=25 April 2021 |title=The night an Enniskillen man became the British Heavyweight champion |publisher=The Impartial Reporter |url=https://www.impartialreporter.com/sport/19252349.night-enniskillen-man-became-british-heavyweight-champion/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Casey Howe]], international footballer for the Northern Ireland Women's team
* [[Frank Hoy]], professional wrestler, was born in the town<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Steven |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-6DoPuiRkEC&pg=PA220 |title=Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame: The Heels |last2=Oliver |first2=Greg |publisher=ECW Press |year=2010 |isbn=978-1-55490-284-2 |page=220}}</ref>
* [[Ted Keenan]], record-breaking long-distance swimmer, inducted in 1984 into the Fort Lauderdale International Swimming Hall of Fame<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.ildsa.info/the-legend-ted-keenan-triple-channel-swimmer-1934-2013/ | title=The Legend Ted Keenan – Triple Channel Swimmer (1934 – 2013) | date=3 July 2020 }}</ref>
* [[Robert Kerr (athlete)|Robert Kerr]], Olympic 100m gold medalist in the [[1908 Olympics]] for Canada<ref>{{Cite web |title=Robert Kerr |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66116 |access-date=10 January 2021 |publisher=Olympedia}}</ref>
* [[Kyle Lafferty]], striker, professional football player for a number of clubs, most notably [[Rangers F. C.]], with 89 Northern Ireland international caps<ref>{{Cite web |title=Profile of Kyle Lafferty |url=http://www.irishfa.com/international/squad-profiles/profile/2057/senior/kyle-lafferty-forward/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319221847/http://irishfa.com/international/squad-profiles/profile/2057/senior/kyle-lafferty-forward |archive-date=19 March 2016 |access-date=25 March 2016 |publisher=Irish Football Association}}</ref>
* [[Andrew Little (footballer)|Andrew Little]], former professional football player and Northern Ireland international, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Andrew Little |url=https://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/andrew-little_prs170403/person.shtml |access-date=15 November 2022 |publisher=Eurosport}}</ref>
* [[J. J. McCoy (rugby union)]], from nearby Monea, Jimmy first played rugby for Portora Royal School, Enniskillen<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/gaa-jimmy-was-the-real-mccoy/28194038.html | title=GAA: Jimmy was the real McCoy | newspaper=Belfasttelegraph.co.uk | date=28 March 2004 }}</ref>
* [[Michael McGovern (footballer)|Michael McGovern]], former Northern Ireland international goalkeeper, currently on loan to [[Livingston F. C.]] from parent club [[Heart of Midlothian F. C.]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/articles/ckv4gxdej93o | title=McGovern joins Livi on loan from Hearts | date=19 January 2024 }}</ref>
* [[Kieran McKenna]], football manager, appointed to take charge of [[Ipswich Town FC]] in December 2021<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.itfc.co.uk/news/2021/december/kieran-mckenna-named-ipswich-town-manager/ | title=WELCOME KIERAN McKENNA | date=16 December 2021 }}</ref> 
* Harry Mercer, former player for Enniskillen Corinthians F.C. who, while with [[Linfield F.C.]], won a senior Ireland cap while still an amateur<ref>{{cite web | url=https://nifootball.blogspot.com/2007/12/harold-mercer.html | title=Harry Mercer }}</ref>
* [[Holly Nixon]], former member of Portora Boat Club and World Champion oarswoman<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.fermanaghtrust.org/history-as-holly-nixon-becomes-fermanaghs-first-ever-world-championship-gold-medal-winner | title=History as Holly Nixon becomes Fermanagh }}</ref>
* [[Gavin Noble]], Irish international triathlete, educated at [[Portora Royal School]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 May 2021 |title=Noble to lead Team Ireland at Paris Olympics |work=The Fermanagh Herald |url=https://fermanaghherald.com/2021/05/noble-to-lead-team-ireland-at-paris-olympics/ |access-date=15 November 2022}}</ref>
* [[Dick Rowley]], football player who won six caps for Ireland between 1929 and 1931<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 September 2007 |title=Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats – Dick Rowley |url=http://nifootball.blogspot.com/2007/09/dick-rowley.html |access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref>