CO#1
Sports
Con O'Kelly
1886–1947Olympic wrestler (1886-1947)
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Jonathan Billinger · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Dunmanway, Co. Cork
Athletes stand out among the 15 famous people born in Dunmanway
At the top of the list is the Olympic wrestler Con O'Kelly, covered in 13 languages. Thomas Hovenden and Richard B. Connolly follow. In the Revival and independence years, 7 were born, the most of any period. Over 183 years of births, the list goes from Richard B. Connolly (1810) to Darren Sweetnam (1993).
Born here
15
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Con O'Kelly
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1810
Richard B. Connolly
Youngest
1993
Darren Sweetnam
Most common field
Sports
8 people
What stands out about Dunmanway’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Dunmanway is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.7 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Dunmanway
First, Con O'Kelly (13 languages), then Thomas Hovenden (10) and Richard B. Connolly (4).
TH#2
Writing & Arts
Thomas Hovenden
1840–1895American painter (1840-1895)
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RC#3
Politics & Law
Richard B. Connolly
1810–1880American politician
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Dunmanway’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1880s, at 2.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dunmanway
12 more, 7 of them athletes.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Close by, the fullest list is Clonakilty’s, at 32 names.
Questions about famous people from Dunmanway
Who is the most famous person from Dunmanway?
Con O'Kelly (olympic wrestler (1886-1947)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 13 languages. Next come Thomas Hovenden and Richard B. Connolly.
How many famous people were born in Dunmanway?
15 people born in Dunmanway have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 16 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Dunmanway known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 8 of the 15. That is 53% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dunmanway?
Richard B. Connolly, born in 1810. The youngest on the list was born in 1993.
Who counts as from Dunmanway?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dunmanway’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)
- Michael Collins: Agence de presse Meurisse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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