AB#1
Sports
Amber Barrett
born 1996Irish association football player (1996-)
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: P L Chadwick · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Milford, Co. Donegal
2 famous people come from Milford, Amber Barrett the best known
Amber Barrett, the Irish association football player, is the most widely known, written about in 14 languages. The other is William Hay, the northern Ireland politician. For more famous names, Letterkenny is 15 km away: its list has 49, led by Philip Deignan. From William Hay to Amber Barrett, the births on the list run from 1950 to 1996.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Amber Barrett
14 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1950
William Hay
Youngest
1996
Amber Barrett
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Milford
WH#2
Politics & Law
William Hay
born 1950Northern Ireland politician (born 1950)
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Milford is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 1 people.
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 fullest list close by belongs to Letterkenny, with 49.
Questions about famous people from Milford
Who is the most famous person from Milford?
Amber Barrett (Irish association football player (1996-)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 14 languages. Next come William Hay.
How many famous people were born in Milford?
2 people born in Milford have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 4 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Milford known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Milford?
William Hay, born in 1950. The youngest on the list was born in 1996.
Who counts as from Milford?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Milford’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)
- Philip Deignan: Balloholic, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
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