SL#1
Politics & Law
Seán Lemass
1899–1971Irish politician (1899-1971)
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ballybrack, Dublin
Ballybrack counts 2 famous people, first among them Seán Lemass
Articles in 25 languages make the Irish politician Seán Lemass the best known. The only other name is the Irish anatomy professor and ornithologist Charles Joseph Patten. Dún Laoghaire, 3 km away, has 37 on its list, the best known Bob Geldof. Over 29 years of births, the list goes from Charles Joseph Patten (1870) to Seán Lemass (1899).
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Seán Lemass
25 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1870
Charles Joseph Patten
Youngest
1899
Seán Lemass
Most common field
Politics & Law
1 person
The best known
Born in Ballybrack
#2Science & Medicine
Charles Joseph Patten
1870–1948Irish anatomy professor and ornithologist
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Ballybrack is known for
Leaders 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
The most names next door are in Dún Laoghaire: 37.
Dún Laoghaire · 3 kmBob Geldof & 36 more
Dalkey · 2 kmMaeve Binchy & 26 moreALKilliney · 1 kmAllen Leech & 11 moreWOStillorgan · 6 kmWilliam Orpen & 8 more
Shankill · 3 kmCiarán Cuffe & 5 moreDBMonkstown · 4 kmDerek John Christopher Byrne & 4 moreENStepaside · 5 kmEdward Max Nicholson & 4 moreGCCabinteely · 1 kmGiles Cooper & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Ballybrack
Who is the most famous person from Ballybrack?
Seán Lemass (Irish politician (1899-1971)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 25 languages. Next come Charles Joseph Patten.
How many famous people were born in Ballybrack?
2 people born in Ballybrack have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 3 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Ballybrack known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballybrack?
Charles Joseph Patten, born in 1870. The youngest on the list was born in 1899.
Who counts as from Ballybrack?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballybrack’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 (4)
- Charles Joseph Patten: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Geldof: International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maeve Binchy: The original uploader was Jon Kay at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ciarán Cuffe: Claire Behan, CC BY-SA 4.0, 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).