Sir Michael Terence "Terry" Wogan, (, 3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016) was an Irish radio and television broadcaster. He began his career on the Irish national broadcaster
RTÉ in the 1960s, but worked for the
BBC in the
United Kingdom for most of his career. Before he retired from his
BBC Radio 2 weekday breakfast programme
Wake Up to Wogan in 2009, it had eight million regular listeners, making him the most listened-to radio broadcaster in Europe.