MP#1
Film, TV & Stage
Maureen Potter
1925–2004Irish actress (1925-2004)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Photo: Darrin Antrobus · CC BY-SA 2.0Famous people · Clontarf West, Dublin
4 famous people were born in Clontarf West
The best known is the Irish actress Maureen Potter, with articles in 3 languages. The Irish actress Maureen Toal ranks second, ahead of Fred O'Donovan. From Maureen Potter in 1925 to Úna O'Connor in 1938, the births cover 13 years. The list comes to 2.6 for every 10,000 residents, about the same as the typical town in Co. Dublin, at 2.2.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Maureen Potter
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1925
Maureen Potter
Youngest
1938
Úna O'Connor
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
2 people
The best known
Born in Clontarf West
Maureen Potter leads with articles in 3 languages, ahead of Maureen Toal (3) and Fred O'Donovan (2).
MT#2
Film, TV & Stage
Maureen Toal
1930–2012Irish actress (1930-2012)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
FO#3
Through the years
When Clontarf West’s famous people were born
More were born in the 1930s than in any other decade: 3.
Film, TV & StageBusinessSports
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Clontarf West is known for
The largest field is Film, TV & Stage, with 2 people.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Clontarf West
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Clontarf East has the longest list next door: 25.
Clontarf East · 2 kmBram Stoker & 24 more
Drumcondra · 2 kmBertie Ahern & 12 moreFMGlasnevin · 3 kmFrederick Moore & 8 more
Beaumont · 2 kmBarney McKenna & 6 more
East Wall · 2 kmLiam Cunningham & 5 more
Harmonstown · 2 kmDenise Mitchell & 3 more
Marino · 1 kmAlex White & 1 more
Whitehall · 3 kmDon Baker & 1 moreQuestions about famous people from Clontarf West
Who is the most famous person from Clontarf West?
Maureen Potter (Irish actress (1925-2004)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 3 languages. Next come Maureen Toal and Fred O'Donovan.
How many famous people were born in Clontarf West?
4 people born in Clontarf West have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 6 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Clontarf West known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Clontarf West?
Maureen Potter, born in 1925. The youngest on the list was born in 1938.
Who counts as from Clontarf West?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Clontarf West’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 (7)
- Bram Stoker: unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bertie Ahern: ProhibitOnions at English Wikipedia, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Barney McKenna: Original uploader was Aloys Soullie at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Liam Cunningham: Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denise Mitchell: Houses of the Oireachtas, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Alex White: Department of Health, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Don Baker: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, 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).