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Bernard Matthew Cassidy VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Edward Colquhoun Charlton VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Jack Richardson Chisholm was an English footballer who played as a centre half.

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Joseph "Jack" Doyle, known as "The Gorgeous Gael", was an Irish boxer, actor, and a tenor. He was born Joseph Doyle and known to his friends as Joe but changed it to Jack when starting his professional career. At one time or another, Doyle was a contender for the British Boxing Championship.

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Reginald Dunne was Battalion Commandant of the London Battalion, IRA who was hanged for the murder of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson.

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Charles William David Harvey-Kelly was a British Army soldier, and Colonel of the Irish Guards from 1966–1968. During The Troubles in Northern Ireland he worked to promote closer links with the Catholic and Protestant churches. He was awarded the MBE in 1998 for his work with the ex-service community in Ireland.

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John Patrick Kenneally VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Joseph McLaughlin, known professionally as Josef Locke, was an Irish tenor. He was successful in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s.

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John Moyney was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

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Christopher O'Dowd, was an Irish founding member of the British Army's Special Air Service.

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Major Michael John O'Leary VC was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. O'Leary achieved his award for single-handedly charging and destroying two German barricades defended by machine gun positions near the French village of Cuinchy, in a localised operation on the Western Front during the First World War.