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Garrett Fitzgerald
1955–2020Irish rugby union player
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Famous people · Knockraha, Co. Cork
Knockraha has one famous person on record
Garrett Fitzgerald, the Irish rugby union player, was born in 1955. That places their birth between 1922 and 1969. Their story is told in one language so far. The neighbour with the longest list is Mahon, 9 km away: 58, led by Susan Williams, Baroness Williams of Trafford.
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Best known
Garrett Fitzgerald
1 Wikipedia or sister-site article
First
1955
Garrett Fitzgerald
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Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Knockraha
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Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Mahon has the most on record: 58.
Questions about famous people from Knockraha
Who is the most famous person from Knockraha?
Garrett Fitzgerald (Irish rugby union player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 1 languages.
How many famous people were born in Knockraha?
1 people born in Knockraha have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Knockraha known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Knockraha?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Knockraha’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).
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- Dara Murphy: European People's Party, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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