Notable
There are a lot of Dowling's with notable elements to their history in my database added over the years, I will add more of them to this page as I come across them again.
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| Name | Lifespan | |
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| Major League Baseball Player for 13 seasons | Michael Joseph Doolan | (7 May 1880 - 1 Nov 1951) |
| Pat Dooley passenger on SS Titanic | Patrick Dooley | (1880 - 15 Apr 1912) |
| Why was our William called 'Wild Bill'? | William Doolin | (1857 - 25 Aug 1896) |
| Reputed occupier of Clonreher Castle in Laois | Dowling | (Abt 1500 - DECEASED) |
| English actress | Alexandra Dowling | (22 May 1990 - ) |
| Environmentalist forester Allen planted 55 milion pine trees! | Allen Dowling | (1 Feb 1913 - 24 Sep 1984) |
| Much honoured Military officer from World War 2 | Ambrose Francis Dowling | (Bet Apr and Jun 1918 - DECEASED) |
| Our own Dame Ann, mechanical engineer - voted one of the 100 most powerful women! | Ann Patricia Dowling | (15 Jul 1952 - ) |
| Irish actress | Bairbre Patricia Dowling | (27 Mar 1953 - 20 Jan 2016) |
| Poet & Author of "The Brigade of Fontenoy" | Bartholomew Dowling | (1823 - 20 Nov 1863) |
| Irish television celebrity; presenter | Brian Patrick Robert Dowling | (13 Jun 1978 - ) |
| What unusual family did our Bridget marry into? | Bridget Elizabeth Dowling | (3 Jul 1891 - Nov 1969) |
| British officer shot dead in Irish War of Independence | Charles Milne Cholmeley Dowling | (Bet Apr and Jun 1891 - 21 Nov 1920) |
| Significant American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. First Bishop of Des Moines, second Archbishop of St Paul and Minneapolis. | Daniel Austin Dowling | (6 Apr 1868 - 29 Nov 1930) |
| Our Denis is the Dowling link into inventor Thomas Edison's family. | Dennis Dowling | (Abt 1776 - 2 Jan 1839) |
| World War 1 - Christmas and our Father Ned | Edward Dowling | (16 Dec 1884 - 7 Jun 1960) |
| Forget the Hollywood 'Great Escape' nonsense - Our Eric was the real World War 2 'Digger'! | Eric Perry Dowling | (22 Jul 1915 - 21 Jul 2008) |
| WW2 Australian pilot heroics. | G L Dowling | ( - DECEASED) |
| Henry was a Ship Steward on board HMS Victory during the Victorian era | Henry Dowling | (Bef 25 Sep 1815 - DECEASED) |
| Sport: American Professional Baseball Pitcher arguably completed a game as a no-hitter | Henry James Peter Dowling | (15 Jul 1876 - 30 Jun 1905) |
| First female mechanical engineer in the British Isles | Irene Eileen Dowling | (14 Jun 1897 - 14 Oct 1974) |
| Sir James Dowling Kt, born in England became Australia's top Judge! | James Dowling | (25 Nov 1787 - 27 Sep 1844) |
| Famous Uileeann Piper after who the "Jim Dowling Uilleann Pipe & Traditional Festival" is names | James Dowling | (1938 - Nov 2008) |
| Died of Covid 19 in the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 | James Keith Dowling | (Bet Oct and Dec 1941 - 18 Apr 2020) |
| Hero dies in air crash | James Patrick Dowling | (30 Dec 1920 - 14 Feb 1956) |
| Dowling Jester from the Old Time Music Hall era | James Sampson Dowling | (Apr 1882 - 1914) |
| Author of The Claddagh Boatman | Jeremiah J Dowling | (Bef 4 Mar 1830 - 1906) |
| Popular English actress of the 40's & 50's who met a tragic end. | Joan V Dowling | (6 Jan 1928 - 31 Mar 1954) |
| RAF hellicopter "Ace" who after daring rescue operations placed the spire on Coventry Cathedral! | John Reginald Dowling | (5 Jul 1923 - 28 Jul 2000) |
| Significant and prolific silent movie actor | Joseph Johnson Dowling | (4 Sep 1850 - 8 Jul 1928) |
| Our Joseph Patrick was one of the last prisoners of the 'Tower of London', what would you have done in his position? | Joseph Patrick Dowling | (18 Mar 1886 - 1 Aug 1932) |
| Tragedy of beautiful Katie treated inappropriately for her health condition - we can all do better than this. | Katharine Mary Dowling | (17 Dec 1989 - 27 Apr 2016) |
| Romance & Drama - Our globetrotting princess from Wellington! | Margaret Dowling | (23 Dec 1884 - 21 Aug 1966) |
| You must visit Mary Yolanda, and remember... | Mary Yolanda Dowling | (22 Jul 1955 - 11 Sep 2001) |
| Matthew part of the legal team for the 1798 Irish Rebellion and himself a prisoner | Matthew Dowling | (1756 - Bef 22 Mar 1805) |
| Don't know much about our Michael but he fought at Waterloo - how notable do you need to be? | Michael Dowling | (1777 - 22 Mar 1876) |
| Brutally murdered on his way home from the fair in 1838 Maryborough | Michael Dowling | (Abt 1813 - 5 Jun 1838) |
| So little known about this Dowling who was a slave | P R Dowling | ( - DECEASED) |
| From Galway, Dick Dowling became a Confederate officer in the US Civil War at the battle of Sabine Pass! | Richard William Dowling | (Bef 14 Jan 1837 - 23 Sep 1867) |
| WW1 Prisoner of War accused of treason after landing on the coast of Ireland from a German submarine. One of the last prisoners in the Tower of London! | Robert J Dowling | ( - DECEASED) |
| Knighted Vice-Admiral of the Royal Australian Navy | Roy Russel Dowling | (28 May 1901 - 15 Apr 1969) |
| Order of the British Empire for Public Service | Samantha Dowling | |
| Significant Laoisman, Annalsit and Grammarian from 1544! | Thady Dowling | (1544 - 1628) |
| Police Officer Killed as a result of active service | Thomas Dowling | (20 Jun 1877 - 4 Jun 1921) |
| Captain Thomas Dowling took on the US Government to fight his claim for Goat Island... they built the Golden Gate on it and didn't pay him a cent! | Thomas Henry Dowling | (1804 - Abt 1870) |
| If you like cat drawings our Victor is your artist! | Victor J Dowling | (21 Apr 1906 - Oct 1963) |
| Supreme Court Judge | Victor James Dowling | (20 Aug 1866 - 23 Mar 1934) |
| Irish hard working actor & director | Vincent Gerald Betrand Dowling | (7 Sep 1929 - 10 May 2013) |
| William Henry Dowling fell at the Battle of Inkerman in 1864 | William Henry Dowling | (4 May 1825 - 5 Nov 1854) |
| William Paul on trial for treason to the Queen as a member of the Chartist movement for reforms we accept today as the norm | William Paul Dowling | (1824 - 3 Aug 1877) |
| Soldier of the 32nd of Foot awared TWO Victoria Crosses for gallantry at the Siege of Lucknow | William Richard Dowling | (1827 - 17 Feb 1887) |
| Possibly the first female alderman / councillor in Bolton with a hospital ward named after her | Anne Elizabeth Entwhistle | (18 Dec 1872 - 15 May 1947) |
| Eddie Dowling was such a superstar on Broadway he's here even though he took his mother's name for a stage name! | Joseph Nelson Goucher | (11 Dec 1889 - 18 Feb 1976) |
| A subset of this haplogroup, T (M184) includes Thomas Jefferson | Haplogroup-T | |
| Died of Covid 19 in the Coronavirus Pandemic of 2020 | Mary Hickey | (1958 - 30 Apr 2021) |
| Actor/singer/social media "star" with 1.7 million daily subscribers and nearly 62 million "likes" on his Tiktok account (ID: "p4perback" ) | Ethan Lepetit | |
| "Artist At Home" Famous American painter of Oregon landscapes | Colista Murray | (1878 - 16 Oct 1968) |
| Hollywood glamour actress, sister of Doris | Constance Smith | (24 Jul 1920 - 28 Oct 1969) |
| Hollywood glamour actress who married musician Artie Shaw, sister of Constance | Doris Smith | (15 May 1923 - 18 Jun 2004) |
| A lovely story for Vera Dowling nee Strodl, a Danish Pilot. | Vera Elsie Strodl | (16 Jul 1918 - 11 Jan 2015) |
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Compiler: Brian Thomas Dowling (1955-)
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