Mary McAleese

Mary Patricia McAleese is an Irish activist lawyer, academic, author, and former politician who served as the eighth president of Ireland from November 1997 to November 2011. McAleese was first elected as president in 1997, having received the nomination of Fianna Fáil. She succeeded Mary Robinson, making her the second female president of Ireland, and the first woman in the world to succeed another woman as president. She nominated herself for re-election in 2004 and was returned unopposed for a second term. Born in Ardoyne, north Belfast, McAleese is the first president of Ireland to have come from either Northern Ireland or Ulster.

27 June 1951

Born on the same birth date (27 June 1951): Gilson Lavis • Julia Duffy • Ulf Andersson

Born on the same birth day (27 June): Aigars Kalvītis • Christian Kane • Daryle Ward • Dixie Brown • Doc Pomus • Eduard Spranger • Ernst II of Saxony • Gaston Bachelard • Guilhermina Suggia • Jeff Conine • Karthika Nair • Kelee Ringo • Kelly Ayotte • Lorrie Morgan • Maximilian, Prince of Dietrichstein • Napoléon Coste • Norma Kamali • Robert King (conductor) • S. Manikavasagam • Simon Sebag Montefiore • Sunanda Pushkar • Wendy Alexander

Born in the same month (June 1951): Arnold Mühren • Brian Cookson • Craig Sager • Dan Fouts • Gary Gilmour • Gilson Lavis • Humphrey Ocean • James Newton Howard • John Redwood • Leigh Kennedy • Lenore Manderson • Melanie Phillips • Michael Patrick Cronan • Mohammed Al-Sager • Mona-Lisa Pursiainen • Steve Walsh (musician) • Terence Etherton, Baron Etherton • Tony Mundine (boxer) • Yasumasa Morimura