This is a list of notable people from Galway, city in the West of Ireland, in the province of Connacht.

• Thomas Arthur, comte de Lally, Baron de Tollendal (1702-1766)
• Margaret Athy, founder of St. Augustine's Convent, Galway
• Nora Barnacle, wife of James Joyce
• Francis Barrett, professional boxer
• Joseph Henry Blake (1797–1849), 3rd Baron Wallscourt
• Áine Brady
• Brian Brosnan, retired national boxing champion
• Sister Mary Bonaventure Browne, Poor Clares nun and historian
• Ken Bruen, author
• Peadar de Burca, actor, playwright, comedian
• Joe Burke All Ireland accordion champion (1950, 1951)
• Robert Malachy Burke, Christian Socialist development worker
• Ulick Burke
• Ciarán Cannon
• Eamon Casey, ex-Roman Catholic bishop
• J. J. Clancy, MP
• Paul Connaughton Jnr
• Paul Connaughton Snr
• Catherine Connolly
• Nicola Coughlan, actress
• Anthony Daly (Whiteboy) (ex.1820)
• Patrick D'Arcy, lawyer and Confederate Ireland leader
• Patrick Deeley, poet, memoirist and children's writer
• Richard Donovan, long-distance runner
• Anthony Duane (1679–1747)
• Luke Duffy, trade unionist; Senator
• Niamh Fahey, soccer player^[1]
• Jim Fahy, RTÉ reporter
• Elaine Feeney, Irish writer
• Mickey Finn, fiddler
• David Forde, soccer player
• Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
• Pat Gibson, a top prize winner on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• Eamon Gilmore
• Julian Gough, writer and former lead singer of Toasted Heretic
• Noel Grealish
• Lady Gregory (1852–1932)
• James Hardiman
• Frank Harris
• Michael D. Higgins, politician
• Rita Ann Higgins (born 1955)
• Cáit Keane
• Dolores Keane, musician
• Colm Keaveney
• Aifric Keogh, rower, Olympic bronze medalist Tokyo 2020^{[citation needed]}
• Richard Kirwan
• Michael P. Kitt
• Tom Kitt
• Seán Kyne
• Gerard Lally (fl. 1689–1737)
• Graham Lee, jockey
• Tony Lundon (born 1979), pop singer
• Angela Lynch
• Patrick Lynch, Roman Catholic bishop of Charleston, South Carolina
• Patrick Lynch, Irish emigrant to Argentina; ancestor of Che Guevara
• Peirce Lynch (fl. 1485)
• Walter Macken (1915–1967)
• Richard Martin fitz Oliver (1602–1648), father of Richard Martin ("Humanity Dick")
• Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915)
• Edward Martyn (1859–1923)
• Gerard A. Hays McCoy (1911–1975)
• Pádraic McCormack
• Pat McDonagh
• Bishop James McLoughlin
• Pauline McLynn, actress
• Mary Mitchell O'Connor
• Kieran Molloy, professional boxer
• Aoife Mulholland, musical actress
• Rónán Mullen, columnist with the Irish Daily Mail
• Brendan Murray, musician
• Hildegarde Naughton
• Derek Nolan
• Nora-Jane Noone, actress
• Brendan O'Brien, cricketer
• Pádraic Ó Conaire, Irish language author
• Éamon Ó Cuív, Fianna Fáil politician
• Liam O'Flaherty
• Dessie O'Halloran
• William O'Halloran, trade union pioneer
• Gideon Ouseley
• Anne Rabbitte
• Marc Roberts
• Tom Senier, Irish melodeon player
• John Sealy Townsend (1869–1967), mathematical physicist
• Noel Treacy
• Matthew Tullie
• Bríd Uí Murchú, writer (Arron Connolly) footballer
• Alexander Young

• List of Irish people
• List of NUI Galway people