#1Famous people · Dalkey, Dublin
27 famous people were born in Dalkey, more of them performers than in most towns
At the top of the list is the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, covered in 42 languages. Close behind are Sinéad Cusack and Niamh Cusack. Among the 81 towns in Co. Dublin with famous people on record, the town ranks 3rd. More than half were born between 1922 and 1969, 15 in all.
Born here
27
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Maeve Binchy
42 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1833
William Leet
Youngest
1992
Seán Moran
Most common field
Film, TV & Stage
7 people
What stands out about Dalkey’s famous people
★ What stands out · Known for
What Dalkey is known for
Set against the usual town, performers come out 4.1 times as common.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
The best known
Born in Dalkey
By how many languages cover them, Maeve Binchy comes first (42), then Sinéad Cusack (18) and Niamh Cusack (16).
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#2Film, TV & Stage
Sinéad Cusack
born 1948Irish stage, television and film actress
18 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
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Through the years
When Dalkey’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1940s come out on top, with 5 births.
Film, TV & StagePolitics & LawWriting & ArtsSportsMilitaryScience & MedicineFaithBusinessNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Dalkey
Another 24, 7 of them leaders.
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Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Dún Laoghaire has the longest list next door: 37.
Dún Laoghaire · 2 kmBob Geldof & 36 moreALKilliney · 3 kmAllen Leech & 11 moreWOStillorgan · 6 kmWilliam Orpen & 8 more
Shankill · 5 kmCiarán Cuffe & 5 moreDBMonkstown · 4 kmDerek John Christopher Byrne & 4 moreENStepaside · 7 kmEdward Max Nicholson & 4 moreGCCabinteely · 3 kmGiles Cooper & 2 more
Foxrock · 4 kmSamuel Beckett & 2 moreQuestions about famous people from Dalkey
Who is the most famous person from Dalkey?
Maeve Binchy (Irish novelist) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 42 languages. Next come Sinéad Cusack and Niamh Cusack.
How many famous people were born in Dalkey?
27 people born in Dalkey have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace. Wikidata places 32 people here; the rest aren’t listed because their article names somewhere else, or no town.
What is Dalkey known for?
Among its famous people, performers: 7 of the 27. That is 26% of the town’s list, against 6% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dalkey?
William Leet, born in 1833. The youngest on the list was born in 1992.
Who counts as from Dalkey?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dalkey’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 (10)
- Maeve Binchy: The original uploader was Jon Kay at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Sinéad Cusack: The British Library, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Carmel Snow: Zymurgy, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Maria Bailey: House of the Oireachtas, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Willie Doyle: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Iseult O'Malley: Office of the President of Ireland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- William Leet: Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Bob Geldof: International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Ciarán Cuffe: Claire Behan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Samuel Beckett: Roger Pic, Public domain, 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).