Photo: Kenneth Allen · CC BY-SA 2.0Next door to Raphoe, Letterkenny lists 49 famous people
Not one famous person on record comes from Raphoe yet. No town in Co. Donegal lists more than Letterkenny, with 49. After Letterkenny, the next longest list in Co. Donegal is Donegal’s, with 17. The Co. Donegal lists hold names for 33 towns.
Who’s listed here
We list people whose Wikidata birthplace is in Raphoe’s urban area and whose English Wikipedia article agrees they were born here. Wikidata places 1 person here, but their article doesn’t confirm Raphoe as the birthplace yet, so nobody is listed.
Famous people born near Raphoe
The fullest list close by belongs to Letterkenny, with 49.
Questions about famous people from Raphoe
Who counts as from Raphoe?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Raphoe’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 (2)
- Philip Deignan: Balloholic, 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).