CM#1
Film, TV & Stage
Cillian Murphy
born 1976Irish actor (born 1976)
89 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Douglas, Cork
Douglas, birthplace of Cillian Murphy and 19 more famous people
The Irish actor Cillian Murphy is written about in 89 languages. Lennox Robinson, the Irish writer, comes second, with Alan Cadogan third. The largest group, 13, was born since 1970. Athletes are unusually common here: 10, 1.6 times the usual share.
Born here
20
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Cillian Murphy
89 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1831
John Dunlay
Youngest
1999
Brian Turnbull
Most common field
Sports
10 people
What stands out about Douglas’ famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Douglas
Cillian Murphy, Lennox Robinson and Alan Cadogan are written about in 89, 8 and 3 languages.
LR#2
Writing & Arts
Lennox Robinson
1886–1958Irish writer (1886-1958)
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
AC#3
Sports
Alan Cadogan
born 1993Irish hurler and Gaelic football player
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Douglas’s famous people were born
The 1990s saw the most births of any decade: 7.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Douglas is known for
Douglas has 1.6× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Douglas
17 more, 9 of them athletes.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The most names next door are in Mahon: 58.
Questions about famous people from Douglas
Who is the most famous person from Douglas?
Cillian Murphy (Irish actor (born 1976)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 89 languages. Next come Lennox Robinson and Alan Cadogan.
How many famous people were born in Douglas?
20 people born in Douglas have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 23 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Douglas known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 10 of the 20. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Douglas?
John Dunlay, born in 1831. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Douglas?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Douglas’ neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), 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. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.
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)
- Jimmy Crowley: Cqui, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
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