DF#1
Film, TV & Stage
Dee Forbes
born 1967Former Director General of RTÉ
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Gordon Hatton · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Drimoleague, Co. Cork
Drimoleague is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Dee Forbes, the former Director General of RTÉ, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The list has one more: the Irish film director Pat Collins. Go 12 km to Skibbereen and the list grows to 24, with Agnes Mary Clerke at the top. No town in Co. Cork lists more than Cork, with 712.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Dee Forbes
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1967
Dee Forbes
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Drimoleague
PC#2
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Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Skibbereen’s, with 24.
Questions about famous people from Drimoleague
Who is the most famous person from Drimoleague?
Dee Forbes (former Director General of RTÉ) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Pat Collins.
How many famous people were born in Drimoleague?
2 people born in Drimoleague have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Drimoleague known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 2. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Drimoleague?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Drimoleague’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 (2)
- Agnes Mary Clerke: Hayman Selig Mendelssohn (1847–1908), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Timothy Michael Healy: Lafayette, Dublin, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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