Famous People
Famous People with North Tipperary Roots
- Olympians Johnny Hayes, Matt McGrath, Bob Tisdall;
- Australian Prime Minister Ben Chiffley;
- Roger Bannister, the world’s
first sub-four minute miler;
- Kathleen O’Dwyer who became Daisy
Bates, pioneer in the study of the Australian Aborigine;
- Former Australian Governor-General, Sir William P. Deane;
- William Gleason (b. 1836), founder of Gleason Works in Rochester,
NY;
- William M. Gardiner, current Secretary of State, New Hampshire,
USA
- James Dewey Watson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
with two others in 1962 for their discovery of the structure of DNA.
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