#1Music
Keith Duffy
born 1974Irish singer, actor, radio and television presenter and drummer
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Famous people · Donaghmede, Dublin
Donaghmede is the birthplace of 4 famous people
Keith Duffy is the best known, with articles in 13 languages. Second place goes to the Irish association football player Lee Desmond, third to Beverley O'Sullivan. From Keith Duffy in 1974 to Lee Desmond in 1995, the births cover 21 years. More are musicians than anything else, 2 in all.
Born here
4
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Keith Duffy
13 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1974
Keith Duffy
Youngest
1995
Lee Desmond
Most common field
Music
2 people
The best known
Born in Donaghmede
Keith Duffy leads with articles in 13 languages, ahead of Lee Desmond (6) and Beverley O'Sullivan (3).
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#2Sports
Lee Desmond
born 1995Irish association football player
6 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
BO#3
Music
Beverley O'Sullivan
1981–2009Irish singer (1981–2009)
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articlesWikipedia ↗
Through the years
When Donaghmede’s famous people were born
Count by decade and the 1980s come out on top, with 2 births.
MusicSportsFilm, TV & Stage
Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
Known for
What Donaghmede is known for
Musicians are the most numerous, 2 of them.
The usual town: the share across everyone listed in Irish towns. Tap a field to see its people.
Everyone
Everyone else born in Donaghmede
1 more, best known first.
Hazel Hayes
born 1985Irish YouTube personality, filmmaker, author, and presenter
Film, TV & StageWikipedia ↗
No one matches both filters.
Next door
Famous people from the towns next door
The longest list nearby is Clontarf East’s, with 25.
Questions about famous people from Donaghmede
Who is the most famous person from Donaghmede?
Keith Duffy (Irish singer, actor, radio and television presenter and drummer) is the best known by our measure: Wikipedia has an article about them in 13 languages. Next come Lee Desmond and Beverley O'Sullivan.
How many famous people were born in Donaghmede?
4 people born in Donaghmede have an English Wikipedia article that confirms the town as their birthplace.
What is Donaghmede known for?
Among its famous people, musicians: 2 of the 4. That is 50% of the town’s list, against 4% across Irish towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Donaghmede?
Keith Duffy, born in 1974. The youngest on the list was born in 1995.
Who counts as from Donaghmede?
People Wikidata records as born in a place inside Donaghmede’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)
- Keith Duffy: Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lee Desmond: Seaninryan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Bram Stoker: unidentified photographer, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Seán Haughey: Xavier Lejeune, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Barney McKenna: Original uploader was Aloys Soullie at nl.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Denise Mitchell: Houses of the Oireachtas, 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).