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Notable people and characters with the name include:
People
Sports
- Sinéad Cahalan, camogie player
- Sinead Farrelly (born 1989), American soccer player
- Sinead Jennings (born 1976), rower
- Sinead Kerr (born 1978), ice dancer
- Sinéad Millea, former camogie player
- Sinead Miller (born 1990), cyclist
- Sinéad Russell (born 1993), Olympic swimmer
Music
- Sinéad Harnett (born 1990), singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Lohan (born 1971), singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Madden, singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Mulvey (born 1988), singer, air hostess
- Sinéad O'Carroll (born 1973), singer with Irish pop band B*Witched
- Sinéad O'Connor (1966–2023), singer/songwriter
- Sinéad Quinn (born 1980), recording artist, reality show contestant
Film and television
- Sinéad Cusack (born 1948), actress
- Sinead Desmond (born 1974), TV presenter
- Sinead Keenan (born 1977), actress
- Sinead Matthews, actress
- Sinéad Moynihan (born 1982), model and actress
- Sinéad Noonan (born 1987), model and actress
Other
- Sinead Bovell, Canadian futurist
- Sinéad Burke (born 1990), writer, academic, influencer
- Sinéad de Valera (1878–1975), children's book author and wife of Ireland’s first taoiseach
- Sinéad Donnelly, Irish professor of palliative medicine
- Sinead Farrington, British particle physicist
- Sinéad Gleeson, author and book editor
- Sinéad Griffin (born 1986), Irish physicist
- Sinéad Morrissey (born 1972), poet
- Sinéad Sheppard, dancer
Fictional characters
- Sinead O'Connor, in the TV series Hollyoaks, played by Stephanie Davis
- Sinead Tinker, in the TV series Coronation Street, played by Katie McGlynn
- Sinead Starling, in the series The 39 Clues
See also
- List of Irish-language given names
- Siobhán, feminine Irish-language name ultimately derived from the same Hebrew name
References
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