GS#1
Sports
Ger Spillane
born 1981Irish Gaelic football player
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Photo: Neil Theasby · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ballygarvan, Co. Cork
2 famous people call Ballygarvan their birthplace
The best known is the Irish Gaelic football player Ger Spillane, with an article in one language. The other is Stephen White, the Irish hurler. A short trip away, Douglas (6 km) counts 20 famous people, Cillian Murphy among them. Over 7 years of births, the list goes from Ger Spillane (1981) to Stephen White (1988).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Ger Spillane
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1981
Ger Spillane
Youngest
1988
Stephen White
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Ballygarvan
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Known for
What Ballygarvan is known for
1 of them work in Sports, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Douglas has the most people on record, 20 of them.
CMDouglas · 6 kmCillian Murphy & 19 moreITBishopstown · 8 kmIan Turner & 14 moreMMTurner's Cross · 7 kmMichael McCarthy & 10 moreGCTogher · 7 kmGer Cunningham & 8 moreFHCarrigaline · 5 kmFrancis Hodder & 6 moreRCBallinlough · 7 kmRay Cummins & 3 moreBOGlasheen · 8 kmBill O'Herlihy & 1 moreJHSouth Gate · 8 kmJohn Horgan
Questions about famous people from Ballygarvan
Who is the most famous person from Ballygarvan?
Ger Spillane (Irish Gaelic football player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Stephen White.
How many famous people were born in Ballygarvan?
2 people born in Ballygarvan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ballygarvan known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballygarvan?
Ger Spillane, born in 1981. The youngest on the list was born in 1988.
Who counts as from Ballygarvan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballygarvan’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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