#1Famous people · Carndonagh, Co. Donegal
6 famous people were born in Carndonagh from 1592 to 2000
Most widely known is Gary Doherty, the Irish soccer player, with articles in 16 languages. Births since 1970 account for 2 of the names. Gary Doherty was born in 1980. The biggest group are writers and artists: 2.
Born here
6
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gary Doherty
16 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1592
John Colgan
Youngest
2000
Keith McErlean
Most common field
Writing & Arts
2 people
What stands out about Carndonagh’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Carndonagh’s famous people were born
More of them were born in the 1980s than in any other ten years, 1 in all.
Writing & ArtsSportsFaithFilm, TV & StagePolitics & Law
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Carndonagh
Gary Doherty leads with articles in 16 languages, ahead of John Colgan (7) and John Wallace Crawford (5).
#1
#2Faith
John Colgan
1592–1658Irish Friar Minor and scholar
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Writing & Arts
John Wallace Crawford
1847–1917American scout and poet (1847-1917)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Carndonagh is known for
Writers and artists are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Carndonagh
3 more, from 1808 to 2000.
Honoria Lawrence
1808–1854Lawrence [née Marshall], Honoria, Lady Lawrence (1808–1854), writer
Writing & ArtsWikipedia ↗
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Buncrana’s, with 12.
Questions about famous people from Carndonagh
Who is the most famous person from Carndonagh?
Gary Doherty (Irish soccer player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 16 languages. Next come John Colgan and John Wallace Crawford.
How many famous people were born in Carndonagh?
6 people born in Carndonagh have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Carndonagh known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 2 of the 6. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Carndonagh?
John Colgan, born in 1592. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Carndonagh?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Carndonagh’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 (4)
- Gary Doherty: Nick from Bristol, UK, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- John Colgan: Emmanuel di Como, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John Wallace Crawford: Bennett and Brown photographers, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Honoria Lawrence: 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).