Yvonne Farrell, born in 1951 in Tullamore, Ireland, is a distinguished Irish architect and academic. She co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 with Shelley McNamara, after both graduated from University College Dublin in 1974. Their firm gained international acclaim with projects like the Università Luigi Bocconi in Milan, awarded World Building of the Year in 2008, and the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología in Lima, which won the inaugural RIBA International Prize in 2016. In 2020, Farrell and McNamara were honored with the Pritzker Architecture Prize, recognizing their significant contributions to the field.