GB#1
Film, TV & Stage
Gay Byrne
1934–2019Irish television and radio presenter (1934-2019)
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Dolphins Barn, Dublin
4 famous people come from Dolphins Barn, Gay Byrne the best known
Most widely known is Gay Byrne, the Irish television and radio presenter, with articles in 10 languages. Brendan Halligan, the Irish politician, comes second, with Rebecca Moynihan third. Per 10,000 residents, the town has 2.1, close to the 2.2 of the typical Co. Dublin town. The oldest name on the list belongs to Sylvester Muldowney, born in 1908, the newest to Rebecca Moynihan, born in 1981.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Gay Byrne
10 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1908
Sylvester Muldowney
Youngest
1981
Rebecca Moynihan
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Dolphins Barn
Ranked by languages covered: Gay Byrne with 10, then Brendan Halligan with 8 and Rebecca Moynihan with 2.
BH#2
Politics & Law
Brendan Halligan
1936–2020Irish politician
8 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
#3Politics & Law
Rebecca Moynihan
born 1981Irish Labour Party politician
2 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Dolphins Barn’s famous people were born
Births peak in the 1930s, with 2 people born in that decade.
Politics & LawFilm, TV & StageNotable
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Dolphins Barn is known for
Politics & Law leads the fields, 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 Dolphins Barn
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Around it, Crumlin has the most people on record, 16 of them.
Crumlin · 2 kmRoberto Lopes & 15 more
Inchicore · 2 kmAaron Doran & 7 morePDPhibsborough · 3 kmPaschal Donohoe & 5 more
The Liberties · 1 kmMáire Devine & 3 more
Temple Bar · 2 kmGeorge Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence & 3 moreJDStoneybatter · 2 kmJane Dowdall & 2 more
Portobello · 2 kmArthur Shields & 1 morePGO'Connell Street · 2 kmPhilip GreeneQuestions about famous people from Dolphins Barn
Who is the most famous person from Dolphins Barn?
Gay Byrne (Irish television and radio presenter (1934-2019)) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 10 languages. Next come Brendan Halligan and Rebecca Moynihan.
How many famous people were born in Dolphins Barn?
4 people born in Dolphins Barn have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Dolphins Barn known for?
Among its famous people, leaders: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 16% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Dolphins Barn?
Sylvester Muldowney, born in 1908. The youngest on the list was born in 1981.
Who counts as from Dolphins Barn?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Dolphins Barn’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 (6)
- Rebecca Moynihan: https://www.flickr.com/people/oireachtas/, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Roberto Lopes: Office of the President of Ireland, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Aaron Doran: Alasdair Middleton from Rothesay, Scotland, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Máire Devine: Sinn Féin, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence: Lucas Cornelisz de Kock (1495-1552), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Arthur Shields: film screenshot, 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).