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Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Booterstown, Dublin
2 famous people call Booterstown their birthplace
At the top of the list is the Irish cricketer Kenny Carroll, covered in 5 languages. The list has one more: the Irish architect Brian Hogan. Go 3 km to Sandymount and the list grows to 25, with William Butler Yeats at the top. The earliest on the list is Brian Hogan, born in 1928, and the youngest Kenny Carroll, born in 1983.
Born here
2
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Kenny Carroll
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1928
Brian Hogan
Youngest
1983
Kenny Carroll
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Booterstown
BH#2
Writing & Arts
Brian Hogan
1928–2020Irish architect (1928 - 2020)
1 Wikipedia or sister-site articleWikipedia ↗
Known for
What Booterstown is known for
The largest field is Sports, with 1 people.
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 longest list nearby is Sandymount’s, with 25.
Sandymount · 3 kmWilliam Butler Yeats & 24 more
Rathmines East · 4 kmMaureen O'Hara & 9 moreWOStillorgan · 2 kmWilliam Orpen & 8 moreLDRathgar · 4 kmLaura Delany & 8 more
Dundrum · 4 kmStephen Roche & 6 moreDBMonkstown · 3 kmDerek John Christopher Byrne & 4 more
Ballsbridge · 4 kmGarret FitzGerald & 3 moreDKChurchtown · 4 kmDervla Kirwan & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Booterstown
Who is the most famous person from Booterstown?
Kenny Carroll (Irish cricketer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Brian Hogan.
How many famous people were born in Booterstown?
2 people born in Booterstown 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 Booterstown known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 2. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 32% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Booterstown?
Brian Hogan, born in 1928. The youngest on the list was born in 1983.
Who counts as from Booterstown?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Booterstown’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)
- William Butler Yeats: George Charles Beresford, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Maureen O'Hara: USMC Archives from Quantico, USA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Stephen Roche: Eric HOUDAS, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Garret FitzGerald: Christian Lambiotte, CC BY 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).