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Adam Plunkett (1903–1992), Scottish footballer •
Catherine Plunkett (born c.1725), eighteenth century Irish violinist •
Charles Peshall Plunkett (1864–1931), US rear admiral •
Elizabeth Gunning (translator) (1769–1823), married name Elizabeth Plunkett, novelist and translator • Elizabeth Plunkett, 1976 victim of serial killers
Geoffrey Evans and John Shaw in Ireland •
George Thomas Plunkett, Bishop of Elphin from 1814 to 1827 •
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924), New York state senator •
Harriette Merrick Plunkett (1826–1906), American sanitary reform leader •
James Plunkett, pen name of James Plunkett Kelly (1920–2003), an Irish writer •
Jim Plunkett, NFL quarterback •
John Plunket (1664–1738), Irish Jacobite •
John Plunkett, (1802–1869), Attorney-General of New South Wales •
Liam Plunkett, English cricketer •
Margaret Louise "Peggy" Plunkett Ph.D. (1906–2000), U.S. diplomat, labor official •
Oliver Plunkett (1884–1971), Chief Justice of Saint Lucia and later a British judge in Palestine and Egypt •
Patrick Joseph Plunkett (1738–1827),
Bishop of Meath •
Paul Edward Plunkett (1935–2018), American judge •
Peg Plunkett (1727–1797), brothel keeper in Dublin •
Richard Plunkett (1788–1832), Beadle or night-constable of Whitechapel, London •
Robert Plunkett (d. 1815), President of Georgetown University •
Roy J. Plunkett (1910–1994), inventor of Teflon •
Sean Plunket, New Zealand broadcast journalist •
Steve Plunkett, singer, guitarist and songwriter for the 1980s band Autograph •
Thomas Plunket, Irish rifleman in the British 95th Regiment of Foot circa 1809 •
Thomas Plunkett (1840–1913), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly •
Thomas Plunkett (1841–1885), United States Army Sergeant, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Fredericksburg •
Thomas Flood "Tom" Plunkett (1878–1957), Member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly •
Walter Plunkett (1902–1982), Academy Award-winning costume designer •
William Plunkett, 18th-century highwayman in England and possibly later a colonel and magistrate in Pennsylvania •
William C. Plunkett (1799–1884), Lieutenant Governor for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1854 to 1855 ==See also==