WH#1
Science & Medicine
William Edward Hearn
1826–1888Irish university professor and politician (1826–1888)
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Eric Jones · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Belturbet, Co. Cavan
Belturbet’s famous people span 115 years: 4 births from 1826 to 1941
Articles in 4 languages make the Irish university professor and politician William Edward Hearn the best known. Behind the leader come Patrick Joseph Morrissey and Frankie Kennedy. The list’s best known name, William Edward Hearn, dates from 1826. The longest list of any town in Co. Cavan belongs to Cavan, with 25.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
William Edward Hearn
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1826
William Edward Hearn
Youngest
1941
Frankie Kennedy
Most common field
Science & Medicine
1 person
The best known
Born in Belturbet
The three are covered in 4, 2 and 1 languages: William Edward Hearn, Patrick Joseph Morrissey and Frankie Kennedy.
PM#2
Politics & Law
Patrick Joseph Morrissey
1936–1985Murdered police officer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
FK#3
Through the years
When Belturbet’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1820s, at 1.
Science & MedicinePolitics & LawSportsMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Belturbet is known for
1 of them work in Science & Medicine, 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 Belturbet
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Cavan’s, at 25 names.
Questions about famous people from Belturbet
Who is the most famous person from Belturbet?
William Edward Hearn (Irish university professor and politician (1826–1888)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Patrick Joseph Morrissey and Frankie Kennedy.
How many famous people were born in Belturbet?
4 people born in Belturbet have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Belturbet known for?
Among its famous people, scientists and doctors: 1 of the 4. That is 25% of the town’s list, against 5% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Belturbet?
William Edward Hearn, born in 1826. The youngest on the list was born in 1941.
Who counts as from Belturbet?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Belturbet’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)
- Brendan Smith: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, 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).