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Photo: Joseph Mischyshyn · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Bundoran, Co. Donegal
4 famous people call Bundoran their birthplace
Articles in 6 languages make the Irish bishop Liam MacDaid the best known. Maureen Beattie is second and Brian McEniff third. The list comes to 15.4 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Co. Donegal, at 21.6. The oldest name on the list belongs to Brian McEniff, born in 1942, the newest to Maureen Beattie, born in 1953.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Liam MacDaid
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1942
Brian McEniff
Youngest
1953
Maureen Beattie
Most common field
Sports
2 people
The best known
Born in Bundoran
Liam MacDaid leads with articles in 6 languages, ahead of Maureen Beattie (6) and Brian McEniff (2).
MB#2
Film, TV & Stage
Maureen Beattie
born 1953British actress
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BM#3
Sports
Brian McEniff
born 1942Irish Gaelic football player and manager
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Bundoran’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1940s than in any other decade: 2.
SportsFaithFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Bundoran is known for
Share of Bundoran’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Bundoran
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns nearby, 2 have famous names listed.
Questions about famous people from Bundoran
Who is the most famous person from Bundoran?
Liam MacDaid (Irish bishop) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 6 languages. Next come Maureen Beattie and Brian McEniff.
How many famous people were born in Bundoran?
4 people born in Bundoran have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Bundoran known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Bundoran?
Brian McEniff, born in 1942. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Bundoran?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Bundoran’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.
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