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Photo: Sarah777 at English Wikipedia · Public domainFamous people · Brittas, Co. Dublin
Brittas, birthplace of the Irish businessman Jim Mansfield
In 1939, the Irish businessman Jim Mansfield was born. Their birth falls between 1922 and 1969. Articles about them exist in 2 languages. The neighbour with the longest list is Tallaght, 8 km away: 21, led by Robbie Keane.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Jim Mansfield
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1939
Jim Mansfield
Most common field
Business
1 person
The best known
Born in Brittas
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Tallaght leads the towns around it, with 21 names.
Questions about famous people from Brittas
Who is the most famous person from Brittas?
Jim Mansfield (Irish businessman) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 2 languages.
How many famous people were born in Brittas?
1 people born in Brittas have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Brittas known for?
Among its famous people, business people: 1 of the 1. That is 100% of the town’s list, against 2% across Irish towns.
Who counts as from Brittas?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Brittas’ urban area (the CSO’s 2022 urban area), 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.
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)
- Robbie Keane: Michael Kranewitter, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam O'Flynn: Ganainm, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ninette de Valois: Rob Croes for Anefo, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Dave Allen: CBS Television, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Byrne: Mattythewhite, 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).