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Photo: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0Famous people · Moville, Co. Donegal
3 famous people were born in Moville from 1809 to 2001
The best known is the Irish actor Art Parkinson, with articles in 17 languages. Close behind are Robert Montgomery and Sheila McClean. For more famous names, Carndonagh is 16 km away: its list has 6, led by Gary Doherty. Art Parkinson, the best known, was born in 2001.
Born here
3
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Art Parkinson
17 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1809
Robert Montgomery
Youngest
2001
Art Parkinson
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
1 person
The best known
Born in Moville
Ranked by languages covered: Art Parkinson with 17, then Robert Montgomery with 7 and Sheila McClean with 2.
RM#2
Politics & Law
Robert Montgomery
1809–1887British colonial administrator in India
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
SM#3
Writing & Arts
Sheila McClean
1932–2016Irish artist (1932-2016)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Moville is known for
Performers are the most numerous, 1 of them.
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
Of the towns nearby, Carndonagh lists the most people: 6.
Questions about famous people from Moville
Who is the most famous person from Moville?
Art Parkinson (Irish actor) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 17 languages. Next come Robert Montgomery and Sheila McClean.
How many famous people were born in Moville?
3 people born in Moville have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Moville known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 1 of the 3. That is 33% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Moville?
Robert Montgomery, born in 1809. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Moville?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Moville’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
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).