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Music
Mary Byrne
born 1959Irish singer-songwriter b 1959
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Ballyfermot, Dublin
4 famous people call Ballyfermot their birthplace
Best known of all is Mary Byrne, written about in 7 languages. The Irish politician Derek Keating ranks second, ahead of Karen Byrne. 2 of them are leaders, more than in any other field. Per head, the list is long: 11 for every 10,000 residents, where the typical town in Co. Dublin has 2.2.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Mary Byrne
7 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1952
Tom Hyland
Youngest
1992
Karen Byrne
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Ballyfermot
Three names lead: Mary Byrne (7 languages), Derek Keating (4) and Karen Byrne (2).
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Film, TV & Stage
Karen Byrne
born 1992Irish dancer and choreographer
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Ballyfermot’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1950s, with 3 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawMusicFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Ballyfermot is known for
Share of Ballyfermot’s famous people in each field.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Ballyfermot
1 more, best known first.
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Clondalkin has the longest list next door: 12.
Questions about famous people from Ballyfermot
Who is the most famous person from Ballyfermot?
Mary Byrne (Irish singer-songwriter b 1959) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 7 languages. Next come Derek Keating and Karen Byrne.
How many famous people were born in Ballyfermot?
4 people born in Ballyfermot 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 Ballyfermot known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Ballyfermot?
Tom Hyland, born in 1952. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Ballyfermot?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Ballyfermot’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)
- Derek Keating: Trocaire, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graham Norton: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Doran: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Boyle: Вячеслав Евдокимов, 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).