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Photo: liam murphy · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Fennagh, Co. Carlow
The Irish singer Richie Kavanagh is the one famous person from Fennagh
In 1949, the Irish singer Richie Kavanagh was born. Their birth falls between 1922 and 1969. Readers can find them written up in one language. A short trip away, Carlow (14 km) counts 39 famous people, William Desmond Taylor among them.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Richie Kavanagh
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1949
Richie Kavanagh
Most common field
Music
1 person
The best known
Born in Fennagh
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Carlow: 39.
Questions about famous people from Fennagh
Who is the most famous person from Fennagh?
Richie Kavanagh (Irish singer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Fennagh?
1 people born in Fennagh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Fennagh known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Fennagh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Fennagh’s urban area (the CSO’s 2022 urban area), a hospital or district within it included, whose English Wikipedia article agrees. People who only lived here, adult performers and people known mainly for crimes aren’t listed.
Why is someone missing?
Their Wikidata birthplace may be a county or just “Ireland”, a townland or village we don’t list, another town, or missing, or their article may give no birthplace. We only list people both sources agree on; editing Wikidata or Wikipedia changes this page at the next refresh.
From Wikidata (CC0: birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations, how many Wikipedia and sister-site articles cover each person) and English Wikipedia (each person’s article confirms the birthplace; linked, not quoted). A birthplace is placed in a town by its own Wikidata item, its Logainm place name, or a point inside its CSO 2022 outline; a birth recorded only as one of the five cities stays on the city’s page. Ranked by the number of articles. Fields are read from Wikidata’s description and occupations. “The usual town”: everyone listed across Irish towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (1)
- Frederick Keppel: Frederick Keppel, photographer unknown., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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