BL#1
Politics & Law
Bill Loughnane
1915–1982Irish Fianna Fáil politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Steve Ford Elliott · CC BY 2.0Famous people · Feakle, Co. Clare
4 famous people were born in Feakle
Bill Loughnane, the Irish Fianna Fáil politician, is the most widely known, written about in 3 languages. The Australian politician Dan Minogue ranks second, ahead of Ger Loughnane. More are leaders than anything else, 2 in all. The first birth on record is Dan Minogue’s, in 1893, and the last Ger Loughnane’s, in 1953.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Bill Loughnane
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1893
Dan Minogue
Youngest
1953
Ger Loughnane
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Feakle
Bill Loughnane, Dan Minogue and Ger Loughnane are written about in 3, 3 and 1 languages.
DM#2
Politics & Law
Dan Minogue
1893–1983Australian politician
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
GL#3
Through the years
When Feakle’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1950s than in any other decade: 2.
Politics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Feakle is known for
2 of them work in Politics & Law, 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 Feakle
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Gort’s, at 14 names.
Questions about famous people from Feakle
Who is the most famous person from Feakle?
Bill Loughnane (Irish Fianna Fáil politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Dan Minogue and Ger Loughnane.
How many famous people were born in Feakle?
4 people born in Feakle have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Feakle known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Feakle?
Dan Minogue, born in 1893. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Feakle?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Feakle’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.
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