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Philip Deignan
born 1983Irish road bicycle racer
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
49 famous people from Letterkenny, many of them athletes
The best known is the Irish road bicycle racer Philip Deignan, with articles in 20 languages. Mark English and Ciara Grant follow. 34 of them were born since 1970, more than in any other period. Among the 33 towns in Co. Donegal with anyone listed, none has more.
Born here
49
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Philip Deignan
20 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1857
Thomas Peebles
Youngest
1999
Shane Blaney
Most common field
Sports
40 people
What stands out about Letterkenny’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Letterkenny’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 15 births.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Letterkenny is known for
Letterkenny has 2.5× the usual share of athletes.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Letterkenny
The three best known are all athletes.
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Mark English
born 1993Irish middle-distance runner
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Ciara Grant
born 1993Irish footballer (born 1993)
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Everyone
Everyone else born in Letterkenny
46 more, from 1857 to 1999.
Naoise Ó Baoill
born 1997Irish-Japanese Gaelic footballer and Australian rules footballer
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Thomas Peebles
1857–1938First college football head coach for the University of Minnesota in 1883
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Famous people from the towns next door
3 towns around it have someone on record.
Questions about famous people from Letterkenny
Who is the most famous person from Letterkenny?
Philip Deignan (Irish road bicycle racer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 20 languages. Next come Mark English and Ciara Grant.
How many famous people were born in Letterkenny?
49 people born in Letterkenny have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 61 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Letterkenny known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 40 of the 49. That is 82% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Letterkenny?
Thomas Peebles, born in 1857. The youngest on the list was born in 1999.
Who counts as from Letterkenny?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Letterkenny’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 (15)
- Philip Deignan: Balloholic, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Conaghan: The Irish Labour Party, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin McHugh: Johnfullerton at English Wikipedia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Michael Murphy: sinky8, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Niall Blaney: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Odhrán Mac Niallais: MaxPride11, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Devenney: Slizzard98, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Conrad Gallagher: Sam Venter, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- John D Ruddy: John D Ruddy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Coyle: The Office of the President of Ireland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Neil McGee: RealityInReverse, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Eamon McGee: RealityInReverse, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Neil Gallagher: Rowedripe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Redmond Herrity: Me, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Frances Browne: 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).