MD#1
Film, TV & Stage
Megan Dorman
born 1977Australian actress
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Ballintra, Co. Donegal
Ballintra is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Megan Dorman, the Australian actress, is the most widely known, written about in 4 languages. The other is Leonard Boyle, the Irish and Canadian priest and scholar. Over 54 years of births, the list goes from Leonard Boyle (1923) to Megan Dorman (1977). For more famous names, Donegal is 8 km away: its list has 17, led by Mark Farren.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Megan Dorman
4 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1923
Leonard Boyle
Youngest
1977
Megan Dorman
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Ballintra
LB#2
Faith
Leonard Boyle
1923–1999Irish and Canadian priest and scholar
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Ballintra is known for
Share of Ballintra’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
Close by, Donegal counts 17 famous people, the most of its neighbours.
Questions about famous people from Ballintra
Who is the most famous person from Ballintra?
Megan Dorman (Australian actress) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 4 languages. Next come Leonard Boyle.
How many famous people were born in Ballintra?
2 people born in Ballintra have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ballintra known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballintra?
Leonard Boyle, born in 1923. The youngest on the list was born in 1977.
Who counts as from Ballintra?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballintra’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)
- Mark Farren: Johnfullerton at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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