MD#1
Business
Marcus Daly
1841–1900American businessman (1841–1900)
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan
From 1841 to 1998, Ballyjamesduff was the birthplace of 5 famous people
The best known is the American businessman Marcus Daly, with articles in 10 languages. Jake Doyle-Hayes and Kathryn Reilly follow. The list’s best known name, Marcus Daly, dates from 1841. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 17.1, close to the 17.1 of the typical Co. Cavan town.
Born here
5
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Marcus Daly
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1841
Marcus Daly
Youngest
1998
Jake Doyle-Hayes
Most common field
Business
1 person
What stands out about Ballyjamesduff’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Ballyjamesduff’s famous people were born
The 1840s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
BusinessSportsPolitics & LawMusicWriting & Arts
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Ballyjamesduff
Marcus Daly, Jake Doyle-Hayes and Kathryn Reilly are written about in 10, 8 and 4 languages.
#2Sports
Jake Doyle-Hayes
born 1998Irish association football player
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Kathryn Reilly
born 1988Irish politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Ballyjamesduff is known for
1 of them work in Business, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ballyjamesduff
The other 2 span the years 1907 to 1954.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, Cavan lists the most people: 25.
Questions about famous people from Ballyjamesduff
Who is the most famous person from Ballyjamesduff?
Marcus Daly (American businessman (1841–1900)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Jake Doyle-Hayes and Kathryn Reilly.
How many famous people were born in Ballyjamesduff?
5 people born in Ballyjamesduff have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ballyjamesduff known for?
Among its famous people, business people: 1 of the 5. That is 20% of the town’s list, against 2% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballyjamesduff?
Marcus Daly, born in 1841. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Ballyjamesduff?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyjamesduff’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 (5)
- Jake Doyle-Hayes: Skippo10, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kathryn Reilly: Mo ainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Pete Briquette: Michael Tutton, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Smith: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Cillian Sheridan: Biso, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Contains Central Statistics Office (CSO) data, Census 2022, and Tailte Éireann boundaries (CSO Urban Areas, Small Areas, local electoral areas, constituencies), under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0).