MB#1
Writing & Arts
Margaret Barrington
1896–1982Irish writer and journalist (1896-1982)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: danny kearney · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Malin, Co. Donegal
Malin is the birthplace of 2 famous people
Margaret Barrington, the Irish writer and journalist, is the most widely known, written about in 5 languages. The only other name is the lord Mayor of London William McArthur. A short trip away, Carndonagh (6 km) counts 6 famous people, Gary Doherty among them. Over 87 years of births, the list goes from William McArthur (1809) to Margaret Barrington (1896).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Margaret Barrington
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1809
William McArthur
Youngest
1896
Margaret Barrington
Most common field
Writing & Arts
1 person
The best known
Born in Malin
WM#2
Politics & Law
William McArthur
1809–1887Lord Mayor of London (1809–1887)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Malin is known for
The field with the most names is Writing & Arts: 1.
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
The most names next door are in Carndonagh: 6.
Questions about famous people from Malin
Who is the most famous person from Malin?
Margaret Barrington (Irish writer and journalist (1896-1982)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come William McArthur.
How many famous people were born in Malin?
2 people born in Malin have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Malin known for?
Among its famous people, writers and artists: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 12% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Malin?
William McArthur, born in 1809. The youngest on the list was born in 1896.
Who counts as from Malin?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Malin’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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