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Graham Carey
born 1989Irish footballer (born 1989)
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Famous people · Blanchardstown, Dublin
Athletes stand out among the 7 famous people born in Blanchardstown
Articles in 10 languages make the Irish footballer Graham Carey the best known. Second and third on the list are Alex O'Hanlon and Mark Ferguson. Since 1970, 5 were born, the most of any period. William Mooney (1890) and Robyn Byrne (1997) mark the two ends of the list.
Born here
7
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Graham Carey
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1890
William Mooney
Youngest
1997
Robyn Byrne
Most common field
Sports
4 people
What stands out about Blanchardstown’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Blanchardstown’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1990s, with 3 people born in that decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Blanchardstown is known for
Compared with the usual town, athletes are the most over-represented field, at 1.8 times.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Blanchardstown
Ranked by languages covered: Graham Carey with 10, then Alex O'Hanlon with 3 and Mark Ferguson with 2.
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Sports
Alex O'Hanlon
born 1996Irish association football player
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Everyone else born in Blanchardstown
4 more, from 1890 to 1997.
Brian Redmond
born 1977Dance and business professional, with various appearances on television as well as performative venues.
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Famous people from the towns next door
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Questions about famous people from Blanchardstown
Who is the most famous person from Blanchardstown?
Graham Carey (Irish footballer (born 1989)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Alex O'Hanlon and Mark Ferguson.
How many famous people were born in Blanchardstown?
7 people born in Blanchardstown have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 8 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Blanchardstown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 4 of the 7. That is 57% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Blanchardstown?
William Mooney, born in 1890. The youngest on the list was born in 1997.
Who counts as from Blanchardstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Blanchardstown’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 (5)
- Graham Carey: Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Ferguson: Mark Ferguson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Colin Farrell: Quejaytee, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Andy Boyle: Вячеслав Евдокимов, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roderic O'Gorman: Roderic O'Gorman, 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).