Phil O'Brien may refer to:

Sportsmen

Phil O'Brien (footballer) Phil O'Brien (31 December 1930 – 13 August 2020) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League The Victorian Football League (VFL) is an Australian rules football competition in Australia ...

(1930–2020), Australian rules forward * Phil O'Brien (motorcyclist), Australian racer in 1969 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season, 500cc race * Phil O'Brien (athlete), English runner in

1983 IAAF World Cross Country Championships – Senior men's race 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

Writers

* Phil O'Brien, pen name, since 1970s, of Irish dramaturge Philomena Muinzer * Phil O'Brien, American journalist, 1993–94 president of

New York Press Club The New York Press Club, sometimes ''NYPC'', is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes journalism in the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan area. It is unaffiliated with any government organization and abstains from ...

* Phil O'Brien, Australian writer, musician and filmmaker who directed 2022 film in

Nhulunbuy Nhulunbuy () is a town and locality in the far north of the Northern Territory of Australia. Founded on the Gove Peninsula in north-east Arnhem Land when a bauxite mine and deep water port were established in the late 1960s, the town's econ ...

, Northern Territory

Others

* Phil O'Brien, New Zealand presenter on

TVNZ Television New Zealand (, "Te Reo Tātaki" meaning "The Leading Voice"), more commonly referred to as TVNZ, is a New Zealand state-owned media company and Crown entity. The company operates a television network, streaming service, and news se ...

and Radio New Zealand since 1970s * Phil O'Brien (entrepreneur), British photographer, founder of

EMPICS EMPICS, a PA Media company, is a UK firm which deals with licensing photographs of people and events for the press and other mass news media. EMPICS is the photo licensing arm of the PA Images division, bringing together the news, sport and ente ...

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