Music
- Bell X1 are from Celbridge, County Kildare
- Blood or Whiskey, punk rock/irish music band originate from Leixlip
- Luka Bloom is from Newbridge
- Joseph Doyle, bassist from Irish band The Frames is from Allenwood
- Graham Hopkins, drummer with The Frames, The Swell Season, and Therapy? is from Clane
- Damien Leith, Australian Idol 2006 winner and singer-songwriter lived in Milltown until he moved to Australia.
- Jack Lukeman, otherwise known as Jack L, is from Athy
- Donal Lunny was raised in Newbridge.
- MayKay, lead singer of Fight Like Apes, is a native of the county
- Miracle Bell, Indie-pop band, hail from Naas.
- Christy Moore, folk musician, was born in Newbridge.
- Paul Quinn, lead singer of the rock band No Sweat, hailed from Kilcock
- Liam O'Flynn from the band Planxty is from Kill
- Damien Rice was born in Celbridge
- Super Extra Bonus Party, Choice Music award winners, are from Newbridge
- Heidi Talbot is from Kill
- Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood owns a home in the area
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“Let us describe the education of our men.... What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.”
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