Photo: David Hawgood · CC BY-SA 2.0No famous person from Tower yet, but Bishopstown next door has 15
In all of Co. Cork, the famous people on record come from 97 towns. The longest list of any town in Co. Cork belongs to Cork, with 712. After Cork, the next longest list in Co. Cork is Mahon’s, with 58. Bishopstown’s list is led by Ian Turner.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Tower’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Tower yet.
Famous people born near Tower
Around it, Bishopstown has the most people on record, 15 of them.
Questions about famous people from Tower
Who counts as from Tower?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Tower’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 (3)
- 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).