Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Ballyliffin has no famous person on record yet
Buncrana, 16 km away, has 12 on its list, the best known Frank McGuinness. The longest list in Co. Donegal is Letterkenny’s, with 49 names. After Letterkenny, the next longest list in Co. Donegal is Donegal’s, with 17. Famous people are on record for 33 of the towns in Co. Donegal.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Ballyliffin’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata has nobody with an English article born in Ballyliffin yet.
Famous people born near Ballyliffin
The fullest list close by belongs to Buncrana, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Ballyliffin
Who counts as from Ballyliffin?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyliffin’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)
- Gary Doherty: Nick from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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