#1Politics & Law
Brendan Ryan
born 1953Irish Labour Party politician
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Donabate, Co. Dublin
4 famous people were born in Donabate from 1686 to 1953
Most widely known is Brendan Ryan, the Irish Labour Party politician, with articles in 5 languages. Close behind are Charles Cobbe and Denis Cullen. Leaders make up the largest group, 2 of them. The list comes to 4.1 for every 10,000 residents, against 2.2 in the typical town in Co. Dublin.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Brendan Ryan
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1686
Charles Cobbe
Youngest
1953
Brendan Ryan
Most common field
Politics & Law
2 people
The best known
Born in Donabate
Leaders take two of the three places.
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Through the years
When Donabate’s famous people were born
The 1950s top the chart, with 1 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Donabate is known for
The largest field is Politics & Law, 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 Donabate
1 more, best known first.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
Malahide leads the towns around it, with 13 names.
Questions about famous people from Donabate
Who is the most famous person from Donabate?
Brendan Ryan (Irish Labour Party politician) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 5 languages. Next come Charles Cobbe and Denis Cullen.
How many famous people were born in Donabate?
4 people born in Donabate have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Donabate 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 Donabate?
Charles Cobbe, born in 1686. The youngest on the list was born in 1953.
Who counts as from Donabate?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Donabate’s 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 (4)
- Brendan Ryan: Labour Youth, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Isibeal Atkinson: Ryan Asman, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Francis Taylor: psyberartist, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Derek Landy: Hpschaefer www.reserv-art.de, 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).