#1Writing & Arts
Paul Kane
1810–1871Irish-Canadian painter (1810-1871)
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Mallow, Co. Cork
34 famous people were born in Mallow, more of them clergy and people of faith than in most towns
The best known is the Irish-Canadian painter Paul Kane, with articles in 25 languages. The largest group, 12, was born between the Union and 1870. 8 of them were born since 1970. The first birth on record is Cornelius Curtain’s, in 1660, and the last James Sugrue’s, in 1998.
Born here
34
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Paul Kane
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1660
Cornelius Curtain
Youngest
1998
James Sugrue
Most common field
Writing & Arts
6 people
What stands out about Mallow’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Mallow is known for
The field furthest above the usual share is clergy and people of faith, at 3.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Mallow
By how many languages cover them, Paul Kane comes first (25), then William O'Brien (16) and John Baptist Purcell (12).
#1
#2Writing & Arts
William O'Brien
1852–1928Irish nationalist journalist and politician
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Faith
John Baptist Purcell
1800–1883Roman Catholic archbishop (1800-1883)
12 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Mallow’s famous people were born
No decade has more births than the 1800s, at 4.
Writing & ArtsFaithPolitics & LawSportsNotableScience & MedicineFilm, TV & StageMilitary
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Mallow
A further 31 follow, born between 1660 and 1998.
Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan
1797–1880Irish physician and journalist in Lower Canada
Science & MedicineWikipedia ↗
Cornelius Curtain
1660–1724NotableWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Kanturk has the most people on record, 12 of them.
Questions about famous people from Mallow
Who is the most famous person from Mallow?
Paul Kane (Irish-Canadian painter (1810-1871)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 25 languages. Next come William O'Brien and John Baptist Purcell.
How many famous people were born in Mallow?
34 people born in Mallow have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 44 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Mallow known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 6 of the 34. That is 18% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Mallow?
Cornelius Curtain, born in 1660. The youngest on the list was born in 1998.
Who counts as from Mallow?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Mallow’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 (14)
- Paul Kane: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William O'Brien: Bain News Service, publisher, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Baptist Purcell: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Davis: not identified, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Patrick Augustine Sheehan: not stated, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- James Hickey: Unknown photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hely-Hutchinson: Joshua Reynolds, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Marty Morrissey: Clonroad Ennis Ireland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Hogan: Walter Barlow Stevens, author. S. J. Clarke Publishing Co. (St. Louis), publisher., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Richard Quain: G. Jerrard, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Robert Murphy: John Thomas Woodhouse, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Thomas Mathias Lenihan: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pat O'Callaghan: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, 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).