#1Politics & Law
Garret FitzGerald
1926–2011Irish politician and prime minister (1926–2011)
36 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ballsbridge, Dublin
4 famous people come from Ballsbridge, Garret FitzGerald the best known
Articles in 36 languages make the Irish politician and prime minister Garret FitzGerald the best known. Second and third on the list are Niamh McCormack and Rita Childers. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 3.1, close to the 2.2 of the typical Co. Dublin town. Performers make up the largest group, 2 of them.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Garret FitzGerald
36 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1915
Rita Childers
Youngest
2001
Niamh McCormack
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Ballsbridge
Three names lead: Garret FitzGerald (36 languages), Niamh McCormack (6) and Rita Childers (2).
#1NM#2
Film, TV & Stage
Niamh McCormack
born 2001Irish actress
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
RC#3
Notable
Rita Childers
1915–2010Wife of the 4th President of Ireland (1915–2010)
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Ballsbridge’s famous people were born
The 1920s alone account for 1 of the births charted here.
Film, TV & StagePolitics & LawNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ballsbridge is known for
2 of them work in Film, TV & Stage, the biggest field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ballsbridge
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Of the towns around it, Sandymount has the most on record: 25.
Sandymount · 1 kmWilliam Butler Yeats & 24 moreAHRathmines West · 3 kmAndrew Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope & 17 more
Rathmines East · 2 kmMaureen O'Hara & 9 more
St Stephen's Green · 1 kmDunbar Barton & 5 more
East Wall · 2 kmLiam Cunningham & 5 more
Temple Bar · 2 kmGeorge Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence & 3 more
Portobello · 2 kmArthur Shields & 1 morePGO'Connell Street · 2 kmPhilip GreeneQuestions about famous people from Ballsbridge
Who is the most famous person from Ballsbridge?
Garret FitzGerald (Irish politician and prime minister (1926–2011)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 36 languages. Next come Niamh McCormack and Rita Childers.
How many famous people were born in Ballsbridge?
4 people born in Ballsbridge have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 5 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ballsbridge known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballsbridge?
Rita Childers, born in 1915. The youngest on the list was born in 2001.
Who counts as from Ballsbridge?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballsbridge’s neighbourhood (its Census 2022 Small Areas), 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. In Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford a birth recorded only as the city stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only people recorded as born in it.
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 (7)
- Garret FitzGerald: Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- William Butler Yeats: George Charles Beresford, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maureen O'Hara: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dunbar Barton: Leslie Ward, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Cunningham: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence: Lucas Cornelisz de Kock (1495-1552), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Shields: film screenshot, 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).