#1Famous people · Bandon, Co. Cork
31 famous people from Bandon, many of them leaders
Articles in 15 languages make the bishop of Cork Finbarr of Cork the best known. Second and third on the list are L. T. Meade and James Walsh. The oldest name on the list belongs to Finbarr of Cork, born in 550, the newest to Michael Cahalane, born in 1995. For every 10,000 residents there are 37.8 on the list, well above the typical Co. Cork town’s 13.4.
Born here
31
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Finbarr of Cork
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
550
Finbarr of Cork
Youngest
1995
Michael Cahalane
Most common field
Politics & Law
9 people
What stands out about Bandon’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Bandon is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as business people, at 5.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Through the years
When Bandon’s famous people were born
The 1950s alone account for 4 of the births charted here.
Politics & LawSportsNotableFaithScience & MedicineBusinessWriting & ArtsMusic
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Bandon
Finbarr of Cork, L. T. Meade and James Walsh are written about in 15, 14 and 6 languages.
#1
#2Writing & Arts
L. T. Meade
1844–1914Irish writer, editor (1844–1914)
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
James Walsh
1880–1948Irish politician (1880-1948)
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bandon
28 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Clonakilty’s, with 32.
Questions about famous people from Bandon
Who is the most famous person from Bandon?
Finbarr of Cork (bishop of Cork) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 15 languages. Next come L. T. Meade and James Walsh.
How many famous people were born in Bandon?
31 people born in Bandon have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 37 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bandon known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 9 of the 31. That is 29% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bandon?
Finbarr of Cork, born in 550. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Bandon?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bandon’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 (12)
- Finbarr of Cork: Carsten Hemberger, derivate Hic et nunc, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- L. T. Meade: L. T. Meade - no photo credit. Hurst & Company Publishers, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Walsh: Dublin Metropolitan Police (Life time: Unknown. Lifetime of subject: 1880 – 1948), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Cyril Porte: Original uploader was Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) at en.wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: Houses of the Oireachtas from Ireland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sir Richard Cox, 1st Baronet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Reid Davys Bell: BNHS (photographer unknown), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Lloyd Jones: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Scott Howard: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Collins: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Timothy McCarthy: DeFacto, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace de Vere Cole: Believed to be James Lafayette. For further information, see the talk page., Public domain, 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).