#1Sports
Damien Duff
born 1979Irish footballer and manager (born 1979)
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ballyboden, Dublin
Damien Duff is the only name on the Ballyboden list
Damien Duff, the Irish footballer and manager, was born in 1979. Readers can find them written up in 45 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Rathfarnham, 2 km away: 11, led by John Millington Synge. 81 towns in Co. Dublin have at least one famous person on record.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Damien Duff
45 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1979
Damien Duff
Most common field
Sports
1 person
What stands out about Ballyboden’s famous people
★ What stands out · The best known
Born in Ballyboden
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Famous people from the towns next door
Rathfarnham leads the towns around it, with 11 names.
JSRathfarnham · 2 kmJohn Millington Synge & 10 moreLDRathgar · 4 kmLaura Delany & 8 moreEWTempleogue · 2 kmEllen Walshe & 4 moreAMKnocklyon · 1 kmAndrew Moran & 2 moreDKChurchtown · 3 kmDervla Kirwan & 2 moreEBTerenure · 4 kmEdmund Charles Beard & 2 more
Firhouse · 2 kmDave Allen & 1 more
Ballinteer · 3 kmNeale Richmond
Firhouse · 2 kmDave Allen & 1 moreBallinteer · 3 kmNeale RichmondQuestions about famous people from Ballyboden
Who is the most famous person from Ballyboden?
Damien Duff (Irish footballer and manager (born 1979)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 45 languages.
How many famous people were born in Ballyboden?
1 people born in Ballyboden have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Ballyboden known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Ballyboden?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyboden’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 (3)
- Damien Duff: Mikhail Slain, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Allen: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Neale Richmond: EPP Group in the CoR, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
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