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Sports
Aidan Dorgan
born 1973Irish Gaelic football player, now manager
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Photo: Jonathan Thacker · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Grenagh, Co. Cork
3 famous people were born in Grenagh
With an article in one language, Aidan Dorgan is the best known so far. Second place goes to the Irish retired Gaelic footballer Paul Coleman, third to Phil Duggan. Mallow, 14 km off, can claim 34 famous people, the best known Paul Kane. Over 40 years of births, the list goes from Phil Duggan (1933) to Aidan Dorgan (1973).
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Aidan Dorgan
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1933
Phil Duggan
Youngest
1973
Aidan Dorgan
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Grenagh
Two of the three are athletes.
PC#2
Sports
Paul Coleman
born 1968Irish retired Gaelic footballer
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
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Known for
What Grenagh is known for
Share of Grenagh’s famous people in each 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
The longest list nearby is Mallow’s, with 34.
Questions about famous people from Grenagh
Who is the most famous person from Grenagh?
Aidan Dorgan (Irish Gaelic football player, now manager) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages. Next come Paul Coleman and Phil Duggan.
How many famous people were born in Grenagh?
3 people born in Grenagh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Grenagh known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 3. That is 67% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Grenagh?
Phil Duggan, born in 1933. The youngest on the list was born in 1973.
Who counts as from Grenagh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Grenagh’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 (4)
- Paul Kane: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Horace de Vere Cole: Believed to be James Lafayette. For further information, see the talk page., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Matt Griffin: Robk23oxf, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ricky Dineen: Ricky Dineen, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).