PL#1
Politics & Law
Paddy Lane
1934–2012Irish politician (1934-2012)
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Parteen, Co. Clare
A single famous person was born in Parteen: Paddy Lane
In 1934, the Irish politician Paddy Lane was born. That places their birth between 1922 and 1969. Their name appears in articles in 9 languages. Kevin Downes heads the list in Caherdavin, 4 km away, which has 2 names.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paddy Lane
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1934
Paddy Lane
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Parteen
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Caherdavin: 2.
Questions about famous people from Parteen
Who is the most famous person from Parteen?
Paddy Lane (Irish politician (1934-2012)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 9 languages.
How many famous people were born in Parteen?
1 people born in Parteen have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Parteen known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Parteen?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Parteen’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)
- Maurice Quinlivan: Sinn Féin, 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).