The Most Famous
PRESENTERS from Ireland
This page contains a list of the greatest Irish Presenters. The pantheon dataset contains 143 Presenters, 1 of which were born in Ireland. This makes Ireland the birth place of the 14th most number of Presenters behind Spain, and Russia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Irish Presenters of all time. This list of famous Irish Presenters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Terry Wogan (1938 - 2016)
With an HPI of 42.93, Terry Wogan is the most famous Irish Presenter. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Sir Michael Terence Wogan (; 3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016) was an Irish-British radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career. Between 1993 and his semi-retirement in December 2009, his BBC Radio 2 weekday breakfast programme Wake Up to Wogan regularly drew an estimated eight million listeners. He was believed to be the most listened-to radio broadcaster in Europe. Wogan was a leading media personality in Ireland and Britain from the late 1960s, and was often referred to as a "national treasure". In addition to his weekday radio show, he was known for his work on television, including the BBC One chat show Wogan, presenting Children in Need, the game show Blankety Blank and Come Dancing. He was the BBC's commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest from 1971 to 2008 (radio: 1971, 1974–1977; television: 1973, 1978, 1980–2008) and the Contest's co-host in 1998. From 2010 to 2015 he presented Weekend Wogan, a two-hour Sunday morning show on BBC Radio 2. In 2005, Wogan acquired British citizenship in addition to his Irish nationality and was awarded a knighthood in the same year and was therefore entitled to use the title "Sir Terry". He died on 31 January 2016, aged 77.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Irish presenters born between 1938 and 1938. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Irish presenters include Terry Wogan.
