DC#1
Famous people · Balbriggan, Co. Dublin
12 famous people come from Balbriggan, Diane Caldwell the best known
Diane Caldwell, the Irish soccer player, is the most widely known, written about in 11 languages. Second and third on the list are Charles W. Jones and Harry Reynolds. Only 11 of the 81 towns in Co. Dublin with anyone on record list more. More are athletes than anything else, 5 in all.
Born here
12
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Diane Caldwell
11 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1819
Jimmy Corcoran
Youngest
2000
Ronan Michael
Most common field
Sports
5 people
What stands out about Balbriggan’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Balbriggan’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1870s, with 3 people born in that decade.
SportsPolitics & LawScience & MedicineWriting & ArtsBusinessFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Balbriggan
By how many languages cover them, Diane Caldwell comes first (11), then Charles W. Jones (9) and Harry Reynolds (9).
CJ#2
Politics & Law
Charles W. Jones
1834–1897American politician (1834–1897)
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Sports
Harry Reynolds
1874–1940Irish racing cyclist (1874–1940)
9 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Balbriggan is known for
No other field is as far above the usual share as leaders, at 1.6 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Balbriggan
Still to come: 9 more, from 1819 to 2000.
Jimmy Corcoran
1819–1900Founder of the New York Irish enclave of "Corcoran's Roost" and Kip's Bay.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The best known from each town within 20 km of Balbriggan, with how many people each has.
PBDrogheda · 15 kmPierce Brosnan & 95 moreJGSkerries · 6 kmJim Glennon & 9 more
Rush · 11 kmIsibeal Atkinson & 5 moreGPLaytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 11 kmGeorgie Poynton & 3 more
Donabate · 14 kmBrendan Ryan & 3 more
Swords · 17 kmFrancis Taylor & 3 moreBMStamullen · 5 kmBen McKenna & 2 more
Lusk · 10 kmDerek Landy & 2 more
Rush · 11 kmIsibeal Atkinson & 5 moreGPLaytown-Bettystown-Mornington-Donacarney · 11 kmGeorgie Poynton & 3 moreDonabate · 14 kmBrendan Ryan & 3 moreSwords · 17 kmFrancis Taylor & 3 moreBMStamullen · 5 kmBen McKenna & 2 moreLusk · 10 kmDerek Landy & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Balbriggan
Who is the most famous person from Balbriggan?
Diane Caldwell (Irish soccer player) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 11 languages. Next come Charles W. Jones and Harry Reynolds.
How many famous people were born in Balbriggan?
12 people born in Balbriggan have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 15 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Balbriggan known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 5 of the 12. That is 42% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Balbriggan?
Jimmy Corcoran, born in 1819. The youngest on the list was born in 2000.
Who counts as from Balbriggan?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Balbriggan’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 (6)
- Harry Reynolds: Agence Rol, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Myles O'Reilly: Sahaal 17, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isibeal Atkinson: Ryan Asman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Brendan Ryan: Labour Youth, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Taylor: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Landy: Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, CC BY-SA 3.0, 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).